i like: traveling, words, music, birds (flightless, especially), white space, sleeping in, tea, lines, waking up early sometimes, family, maps, brunch, pens, walking, music, toolboxes, bicycles, shadows, diagrams, photographs, stringed instruments, pianos, contrast, clean laundry, bad jokes, birthday cake, the pacific ocean, other languages, windy days, paper, music, reading, syntax, alphabets, crossword puzzles, glossy magazines, documentaries, diatoms, collages, typography, coincidences, fog, dogs, buttons, stoops, books, alpacas, my ipod, mountains, keys, green beans, swings, minor chords, punctuation, christmas lights, hedgehogs, velour (apparently), snow, handwriting, hands, chewing gum, text, helvetica, books, national geographic, nice gestures, laughing, knee socks, wrenches, presents for no reason, bill viola, calla lilies, boxes, light/dark, hugs, vladimir nabokov, arctic foxes, puffins, strings, semicolons, david attenborough (!), ponies, nostalgia, symmetry, asymmetry, compasses, the word "awkward," dictionaries...

i don't particularly like: soggy bath mats, wide-wale corduroy, nuts in ice cream, sewer smells, the 2nd avenue subway station, mosquitoes, people who don't pick up their dogs' poop, dogs that fit in handbags, misunderstandings, misspellings, bad moods, memoirs by twenty-somethings, disrespectfulness, rude elderly people who talk about how kids these days don't have any manners, name dropping, "clown" fonts, snootiness, immaturity, close-mindedness, cologne, renaissance faires, homesickness, junk mail, mail addressed to "or current resident," humidity, nickels, crumbs, short tempers, faeries, calling the cable company, pretension, cowards, the current administration, losing touch, regret, insincerity, thoughtlessness...

i am: from california, in new york, not always as serious as i think i'm being, as you think i'm being, unrealistic sometimes but pragmatic, on your side (unless i'm not), well-mannered, fickle, transplanted, opinionated, idealistic, reserved, self-conscious, tired, hopeful, cautious, honest, patient.

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