Gender	Female
Occupation	Student, researcher, eavesdropper
Location	Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Introduction	NOVA via Ohio. Wannabe teacher - anthropologist at heart. Engaged. Some food issues. Let's see where this goes.
Interests	Anthropology, people, learning, crosswords, scrabble, feminism, awareness, recovery, wine, listening, health
Favorite movies	The Last of the Mohicans, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Amelie, Big Fish, Juno, Pan's Labyrinth, Leon: The Professional, and Disney films with singing animals.
Favorite music	Harry Chapin, Simon & Garfunkel, The Decemberists, Third Eye Blind, Billy Joel, The Shins, Modest Mouse, Rufus Wainwright, Cat Stevens
Favorite books	Ethnographies, anything by Madeleine L'Engle, Chaim Potok, Bill Bryson, or J.K. Rowling. Individual titles: Stargirl, Phoenix Rising, Jacob Have I Loved, Whale Talk, and Cold Mountain.

You moved the pot before the coffee stopped brewing. Do you smell the mountains or the burro?

I smell electrical fire.