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My self-summary Propose an edit

BASIC STATS: Female. Gay. 26 years old. Catholic. Resident of NE Portland.

LIKES: Board games. "The West Wing." Any cookbook by Nigella Lawson. Fresh flowers. Apple martinis. The New York Times. Girly bath stuff. Books about Watergate. Shopping. Museums. Traveling. Big sparkly jewelry. People who will argue politics with me. Anything pink.

DISLIKES: Killing spiders. Lifting heavy things. Black licorice. "The DaVinci Code."

What I'm doing with my life Propose an edit

I'm a freelance grantwriter working mostly in the fields of art and education, and I love my job like nothing on earth. In what spare time I have, I teach a Shakespeare class for 8th graders, sing, write plays, and work in youth ministry at my church.

I'm really good at Propose an edit

Singing, "Guitar Hero," making people laugh, cooking, poker, writing, Apples to Apples, Taboo, and making the world prettier and more sparkly. I read really fast. I also dress very well.

The first thing(s) people usually notice about me Propose an edit

I like to talk.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food Propose an edit

FAVORITE BOOKS: Anything by A.S. Byatt (especially Possession), Erica Jong, Margaret Atwood, Paulo Coelho (especially The Zahir), Martha Grimes, Margery Allingham, Jasper Fforde, Agatha Christie, or Tony Kushner. 19th-century English boys' adventure novels (King Solomon's Mines, Treasure Island, Mutiny on the Bounty, etc.) Also All the President's Men, The Wars of Watergate, America - The Book, Angels In America, Arcadia, Archangel, The Cloister Walk, Cupid and Diana, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, For the Time Being, If On A Winter's Night a Traveler, Juno and Juliet, The Laramie Project, A Man For All Seasons, Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil, The Orchid Thief, Reading Lolita in Tehran, She Came To Stay, The Solace of Leaving Early, To Say Nothing Of the Dog, The Turn of the Screw

FAVORITE MOVIES: Any James Bond movie. Seriously, for reals. Also 8 Women, Angels In America, Bend It Like Beckham, The Contender, The Count of Monte Cristo, Dial M for Murder, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, The Forsyte Saga, Good Night & Good Luck, Gosford Park, Iron-Jawed Angels, Josie and the Pussycats, A Knight's Tale, The Laramie Project, Laurel Canyon, Legally Blonde, Matilda, Much Ado About Nothing, Notting Hill, Ocean's Eleven, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pride & Prejudice, The Princess Diaries, Robin Hood, Sleepy Hollow, Smilla's Sense of Snow, The Spanish Prisoner, Spinning Boris, Stigmata, The Thin Man, Thirteen Going on Thirty, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Two Weeks' Notice, The Usual Suspects, Vertigo, The Wedding Crashers, The Winslow Boy

FAVORITE MUSIC: The Beach Boys, the Beatles, Tom Booth, Bowling for Soup, Leonard Cohen, Melissa Etheridge, Ella Fitzgerald, Indigo Girls, Billy Joel, Mark Knopfler & Dire Straits, kd lang, Lyle Lovett, Samara Lubelski, Matt Maher, the Monkees, Rich Mullin and the Ragamuffins, Tom Petty, Poison, Cole Porter, Relient K, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Suzanne Vega, Westlife

FAVORITE FOODS: any kind of thin-crust pizza, anything with pesto, General Tso's Chicken, biscuits and gravy, strawberries, the Cowboy Coffee at the Doug Fir, the Albert's Eggless at the Cadillac Cafe, macaroni and cheese, potstickers, anything with peanut sauce, Rasperry Ice Crystal Light, Diet Dr. Pepper, bagel chips, Kettle Salt and Fresh Black Pepper potato chips, any kind of turkey sandwich, tiramisu.

The six things I could never do without Propose an edit

1) Family Game Night with my brothers and sister.

2) Jim and Patty's Coffee . . . oh Soviet Mocha, how did I live without you?

3) My big jeweled medallion necklace my parents bought me in Jerusalem.

4) Photos of my family and friends--on bulletin boards, in frames, on walls, sitting in stacks on my coffee table.

5) Tri-Met.

6) Friends that make me laugh.

I spend a lot of time thinking about Propose an edit

My family. My job. My friends. Clothes. Shakespeare. Watergate. The handful of TV shows I devotedly follow (mostly "Gilmore Girls," "Studio 60" and reality TV shows about fashion). God. Whether people think I'm funny or just annoying. Whatever book I'm currently reading. Memories from college. What kind of aunt I will be when my siblings have kids. How much I hate "The DaVinci Code."

On a typical Friday night I am Propose an edit

Seeing a movie at the Laurelhurst, out at dinner with friends, at an Artists Rep afterparty at Cassidy's, watching TV in bed in my jammies (if the week was stressful), or chasing kids around while drinking a Mike's at the crazy Friday night block parties on my parents' street.

The most private thing I'm willing to admit here Propose an edit

I would totally turn straight for Gabriel Byrne.

You should message me if Propose an edit

You're funny and smart.

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