Sylvie

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Environment
Occupation Government employee
Location California, United States
Interests Nature, natural history, environment, biodiversity, birding, birdwatching, etymology, crafts, embroidery, baseball, Humanism, science
Favorite Movies Annie Hall, Bagdad Cafe, Best in Show, Broadway Danny Rose, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Flirting, Ghost World, Henry Fool, Maurice, My Life as a Dog, Slums of Beverly Hills, Waiting for Guffman, Party Girl (starring Parker Posey)
Favorite Music The Clash, The Ramones, Sarah Records artists, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Chumbawamba, U2, Heavenly, Aimee Mann, They Might Be Giants, The Smiths, Poi Dog Pondering, Screeching Weasel, The Killers
Favorite Books Dictionaries, encyclopedias, nature identification and guide books, stuff by Daniel Pinkwater, David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell, The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester, Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger, The Woman Who Was Not All There by Paula Sharp, Maurice by E.M. Forster, From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg, What's Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges, Nobody's Family is Going to Change by Louise Fitzhugh, Ordinary Jack by Helen Cresswell, The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain translated by Red Pine, The Joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten, The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs, The World in a Phrase: A History of Aphorisms, Howl, The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass

In the dream where you show up to school naked, why do you never go swimming?

I can't swim.