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About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Student
Occupation	Nursing Home Administration
Location	Lenexa, Kansas, United States
Introduction	I'm just a chick from Kansas with a huge love of Chicago and travel. I consider myself to be an adventurous, nerdy, insightful, goofy, loyal, fun-loving, sarcastic, optimistic pain in the butt with an insatiable appetite for learning currently trekking through the maze that is life. Someday soon - as in about 5 years from now - I see myself graduating from a master's program to become a clinical psychologist and moving on to my doctorate. Afterward I may consider relinquishing my player card (haha), settling down, having a couple munchkins, all that jazz... minus that ugly white picket fence of course.
Interests	Baking, psychology, travel, tattoos, art, kisses, life, dry humor, hugs not drugs, sarcasm, music, movies, dancing, reading, writing, theatre, debate, cuddles, concerts, hookah bar, bar hopping, nerding it up, meditation, yoga, nature walks, camping, hiking, observing, wine tastings, softball, taking my children to the park (they are dogs), picnics, savoring the details in life
Favorite movies	My Favorite Wife, Stranger than Fiction, Amelie, V for Vendetta, The Awful Truth, Magnolia, The Breakfast Club, Whip It, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mary Poppins, Sherlock Holmes, Inception, Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail, The Dead Poets Society, Rent, Shaun of the Dead, Edward Scissorhands, 500 Days of Summer, P.S. I Love You, Avatar, It Happened One Night, As Good as It Gets, For Me and My Gal, Shakespeare in Love, The Philadelphia Story, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Say Anything, It's a Wonderful Life, I Love You Again, The Producers, City of Angels, Bringing Up Baby,I Heart Huckabees, The Goonies, Religulous, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Departed, Good Will Hunting, Bicentennial Man, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Dirty Dancing, The Princess Bride, West Side Story, The King & I, High Fidelity, Once, Where the Wild Things Are, Cold Mountain, Lost in Translation,(I could go on for days)
Favorite music	My music collection is a relatively eclectic mix of alternative, folk, indie, jazz, punk, big band, and old school rock with the definite exclusions of rap and country. Frank Sinatra is my soul mate, but I've cheated on him with the likes of Bob Dylan, Elton John, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Stevie Nicks, John Lennon, Billie Holliday, Johnny Cash, Nick Drake, Nat King Cole, Linda Thompson, and others. The more current artists I've been listening to include Nicolette Paige, Anna Ternheim, Sufjan Stevens, Mumford & Sons, She & Him, Florence + The Machine, Marc Cogman, Fleet Foxes, Edward Sharp & the Magnetic Zeros, Iron & Wine, Bon Iver, Ingrid Michaelson, Monsters of Folk, Regina Spektor, Damien Rice, The Swell Season, The Frames,The Decemberists, Fionn Regan, Flogging Molly, Lauren Hoffman, Mazzy Star, Missy Higgins, Norah Jones, Clare Bowditch, Kimya Dawson, The White Stripes, Ray Lamontagne, William Fitzsimmons, Ben Folds, Ben Kweller, Augustana, Airborne Toxic Event, Greg Laswell, A Fine Frenzy, Death Cab For Cutie, The View, The Fratellis, Dave Matthews Band, Feist, The Lonely Forest, Ryan Bingham, Alexi Murdoch, Julie Roberts, First Aid Kit, Josh Ritter, Peggy Sue, Sara Bareilles, and many more. I also have a huge affinity for MUSICAL THEATRE...
Favorite books	I love and hate books of all kinds. I will say that I was a huge fan of Elizabeth Gilbert's before "Eat, Pray, Love" became a movie starring Julia Roberts as said awesome author... and classic literature is a discussion in and of itself for me. Emerson: "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.This is to have succeeded!"