About me

Gender	Female
Location	Long Beach, California, United States
Introduction	Married lesbian olive oil enthusiast with a critical case of wanderlust and a penchant for over-exaggeration. Corporate drone by day, master baker by night. Amateur photographer and unprofessional babbler. If you like that sort of thing, help yourselves to my blog!
Interests	acupuncture, amelie, andrea bocelli, beer, beignets, blogging, bodhisattvas, books, cleaning my fingernails, complaining, creole heritage, daimoku, dean martin, debate, discovery, doodling, erin daniels, exploring, falsomagro, foreign language, four part harmonies, frank sinatra, good causes, good television, human revolution, introspection, ipodding, italian heritage, kisses, laughter, love, making care packages, making lists, music, nichiren buddhism, nick hexum, photography, polynesian dance, polynesian anything, sicily, studying, tea, tosos, travel, walks, water, whining, writing.
Favorite movies	Anything Al Pacino's ever touched, also Marlon Brando, Dogma, Amelie, Life Is Beautiful, I Cento Passi, Tipping The Velvet, Cinema Paradiso, Help!, A Hard Day's Night, 12 Angry Men, Blues Brothers, Groundhog Day.
Favorite music	You name it, I have it and have probably spent 3 months obsessing over it.
Favorite books	The Human Revolution, The Buddha in Daily Life, The Complete Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, The Bluest Eye, The Last Best Hope (and everything else by Ed McBain, with the exception of Frumious Bandersnatch which thoroughly sucked), I Me Mine, Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants.