redcatblackcat
| Industry | Science |
|---|---|
| Occupation | documentary linguist |
| Location | Portland, Maine, United States |
| Introduction | Hmm. Like to talk. A bit too much. Rarely terse. Fond of fun. Like to run. Grumpy when unfed, unrested. Like green things, to be around and to eat. Like languages, to be around and to eat. Am stretchy. Mostly in the hip and shoulder joints, but especially with that whole "being on time" thing. More later, I promise. |
| Interests | sleeping, eating things I cook, foraging, minimal-effort gardening, composing bad poetry once every few months, spending all my money on movies and used books, string, being in cars as little as possible, keeping plants alive, thinking about cats, involving olive oil in everything I eat, learning to hold back the reflex to share the joy of linguistic factoids with every single human being (and a few non-sentient beings to boot) on earth, eating more things, learning new alphabets, creating new writing systems, learning to relax about work, blithering |
| Favorite Movies | Black Cat White Cat, Three Seasons, Amelie, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Cinema Paradiso, the Princess Bride, Clash of the Titans, puppet bike (actually goes under favorite puppet shows) |
| Favorite Music | Souad Massi, more Souad Massi, even more Souad Massi, Sunda pop music, Lughnasa, Peter Gabriel, U2, Youssou N'Dour, the Jayhawks, Nelly Furtado, Tinariwen, Kiran Ahluwalia, Tian Zhen, the Chieftains, Sevara Nazarkhan, the Big Chill soundtrack, bhangra anything |
| Favorite Books | An Duanaire: Poems of the Dispossessed, the Kalevala, Calvin and Hobbes, D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths, Arctic Dreams, Nicolar's *The Life and Traditions of the Red Man*, Samurai Cat (etc.), Learning Irish, Supernova, this new Sunda-Indonesia conversation book I have, Pliny's Natural History, Stalking the Wild Asparagus, Native Writings in Massachusett, Séamus Heaney's *Field Work*, anything by Mary Oliver, redactions of Mongolian Jataka (sp?) stories, and some other books that I forget but still like |