Maria
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Occupation | freelance writer, honors academy student, phone sex operator, 9-5 paper pusher, medical school consultant, dominatrix, jane of all trades |
| Location | Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a twenty-something New Yorker who, when wilder and less sophisticated, broke every rule I came across. Now I'm reconciling with my sordid past, making the most of my present, and staking claim on my future. The old me didn't know what boundaries were; the present-me knows all about boundaries and isn't afraid to push them. Hard.
Part philosopher, part poet, part scientist, and full of thought-provoking stories and ideas, I am working towards a more brilliant tomorrow. And, as always, I work around the clock to support my writing habit. |
| Interests | concerts, culture, cooking, travel, tea, tarot cards, media-corporate relations, music & musical instruments, museums, idealism, illustrated children's books, independence, literature, laughter, languages, family/friends, fashion, food, sex, science, sewing, poetry, politics, port wine, couch surfing, Coachella, closure/resolve, philosophy, the Philippines, Phineus Gage, Burning Man, borrowed time, beauty, queer theory, quantum physics, quenching the curiosity of children, activism, art, aliens, history, psychology, feminism, epistemology, epiphanies, ethics, marginalized people, mainstream/popular concepts and how they got that way, mathematics, rum & coke, health & fitness, reading & writing every genre and form of the written word, self-expression, religion, gardening, 3 a.m. talks with people who live half a world away, six-hour telephone conversations that never have a dull or awkward moment, twelve-hour walks where we wander without a destination, knowing unequivocally that I'm a good person, sharing my life with people who deserve the privilege of knowing me, living well, finding meaning in the randomness of everything, hope |
| Favorite movies | Wristcutters: A Love Story, Almost Famous, The Craft, No Country for Old Men, The Big Lebowski, Being John Malkovich, Unbought & Unbossed: The Shirley Chisholm Story, Dedication |
| Favorite music | 90s dance, pop, hip hop, rap and R&B, techno/experimental/alternative music of the Bjork, Ani DiFranco, and TV on the Radio kind, The Rat Pack, Motown, rock n roll/country of the Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash ilk, 80s girl bands, reggae & soca, rock n roll of the Woodstock variety, socially-conscious underground rap and hip-hop, classical orchestras |
| Favorite books | Franny & Zooey by J.D. Salinger, Short Stories by Roald Dahl, Smoke & Mirrors by Neil Gaiman, On The Road by Jack Kerouac, anything written by the Beat Poets, Troublemaker and Other Saints by Christine Chiu, The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, Anthropology of an American Girl by H.T. Hamann, Selected Essays by June Jordan, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, anything written by Albert Camus, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, anything written by Socrates, Plato or Aristotle, Ariel by Sylvia Plath |