Astrological Sign: SCORPIO

Chinese Zodiac: (Fire) Dragon

Spirit Animal: Manatee (and Pinkie Pie from My Little Pony)

Personality Type: ENFP

Politics: Very Liberal

If I were a fictional character: Miss Piggy. Smart and sassy. Nerdy, cute and chubby. Independent, but likes to be pampered.

I am passionate about just about everything I do. I am “all or nothing.” I am never lukewarm.

I am full of contradictions. I am a jaded old soul with an innocent heart. A gregarious introvert, or a socially anxious and awkward extravert. Down-to-earth but a bit of a diva, optimistic but depressed, smart but silly. Confident but insecure.

I am open-minded, but can be quick to judge.

"Champagne tastes on a beer budget."

I laugh too loud, I cry too easy, I talk too much, I drive too fast, I love too hard. Some people may think I am too intense, too loud, too much. I would not change any of these things.

I have my fair share of opinions and tend to share them. Life is too short to bite your tongue when you really need to use your voice.

WHAT I DO

I am a (mostly) Stay at Home mom - but that does not mean I do not work. I have plenty of jobs, projects and activities.

I Read and Write. Poetry. Essays. I also have several incomplete and currently stalled book projects - fiction, erotica, non-fiction, and memoir/confessional.

I Dance

I enjoy dancing of almost all kinds, but as a hobby and form of expression, I am a burlesque dancer.

I “Model”

I enjoy working with photographers to make art.

I have fun with it - it's like playing dress-up as an adult.

I Travel

I have been to France, Ireland, England, Singapore, St. Lucia, Bahamas, Canada and Australia.

I have not been to Mexico yet, despite my current proximity to it.

I Drink

A variety of brewed beverages: tea, coffee, beer.

And wine. I know wine is not brewed, but still.

And when I absolutely need it, I drink a Red Bull here and there.

WHAT PEOPLE USUALLY NOTICE ABOUT ME

My laugh

It is very loud and unique. It has made performers drop their lines and has been used to locate me in a crowded amusement park.

My vocabulary

I absolutely love words, wordplay, and the history and lives of words and phrases.

My height or lack thereof.

My boobs. Or my butt. It depends which of them knocks your drink over first.

WHAT I AM VERY GOOD AT:

napping - I am an EXCELLENT napper

hugging - I give great ones.

singing alone in my car or in the shower.

laughing loudly

being very clumsy - so NOT running or biking or climbing. I only run if someone with a weapon or an animal with big sharp teeth is chasing me. And even then...meh. I like to bike, but have a tendency to fall.

"I'm an excellent scathing letter-writer."

FAVORITE READS

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Buddha of Suburbia, Madame Bovary, The Awakening, Feed, A Wrinkle in Time, American Gods, Revolutionary Road, Einstein's Dreams, The Harry Potter Series, The Lemony Snicket Series, The Spiderwick Chronicles series, She’s Come Undone, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Fables, Love & Rockets, Sandman, erotica and erotic comics.

FAVORITE TUNES

Wild Flag, Dum Dum Girls, Girl in a Coma, Alabama Shakes, Zola Jesus, Ani DiFranco, Indigo Girls, Tori Amos, Melissa Ethridge, The Breeders, Dar Williams, Nina Simone, Joan Armatrading, KT Tunstall, Kate Nash, Regina Spektor, Tegan and Sara, Erin McKeown, Katie Melua, Norah Jones (and The Little Willies), Eva Cassidy, Joss Stone, Miss Li, Poe, Antje Duvekot, A Fine Frenzy, Erin McCarley, Ingrid Michaelson, Kat Edmonson, Rachael Sage, Cat Power, Florence + the Machine, Brandi Carlisle, Lykke Li, Robyn, Adele, Lily Allen, Eliza Doolittle,

And yes, I do happen to like some male musicians as well:

Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon, Barenaked Ladies, Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, City and Colour, Queen, Prince, Talking Heads

FAVORITE TV

TV SHOWS (in no special order)

The entire Whedon and Whedon-inspired oeuvre (The Guild is awesome), Sherlock (BBC), Portlandia, Archer, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Raising Hope, Downton Abbey, I, Game of Thrones, The United States of Tara, How I Met Your Mother, Arrested Development, The Office, The Office (British Version), My Name is Earl, Lost, Scrubs, West Wing, Friends, House

I watch I, Claudius at least once a year.

FAVORITE GAMES

Fluxx, Munchkin, Apples to Apples, Cranium, TransAmerica, Yahtzee, Uno, Wii Sports, Animal Crossing, World of Warcraft, and your good old bouts of Truth or Dare.

FAVORITE WORDS

(that’s right, I have favorite words. Lots of them. Some of them because of their meaning, and some because I just like the word.)

sanctimonious, gregarious, lexicon, sardonic, prone, incendiary, oubliette, incongruous, bifurcate, formidable, fickle, intellectual, halcyon, cock, myriad, pomegranate, dogma, enigma, dire, excruciating, decorum, caustic, cornucopia, flirtatious, pontificate, grimace, karma, slumber, sanguine, genuine, spank, nostalgia, infiltrate, curious, souvenir, euphoria, oxymoron, prosaic, poetic, erotic, soul, transient, transfix, vulnerable, cryptic, indelible, capricious, termagant, diaphanous, sartorial, melancholy