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I wrote the following when I was 22. I guess it means something that it all still applies.


"Check out some of the stuff I love:
--Simon and Garfunkel!!!!!
--Bob Dylan too (but not nearly as much as my beloved S and G)
--softball in the summer
--basketball whenever
--fuzzy hooded sweatshirts
--Birkenstocks
--Morgantown, my lovely home city :) (yes, I really do)
--umlauts
--sunrise walks along beaches collecting shells
--dancing barefoot in the grass at concerts
--pina coladas, Bailey's, and strawberry daiquiris
--playing Billy Joel, Elton John, and Beatles songs on the piano
--thunder and lightning
--West Virginia trees in the fall
--Arizona sunrises
--Bavarian beer and pretzels
--spending really rainy days inside at malls, window shopping or seeing a movie
--ducks
--the German language, culture, and history
--"American Beauty"
--random smileys
--looking at constellations on the side of a lonely highway in the middle of the night
--travelling, here there and everywhere; and on that note, ROAD TRIPS!
--the smell of vanilla
--strip poker
--the Blaue Reiter art movement: Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc
--hiking in the peaceful, near-silent stillness of Coopers Rock
--hot air balloons
--the book "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn
--tolerance, peace, respect, passion, and LOVE"


.... huh. To this I would add: beer with cherries. "Donnie Darko." Polish language and history. The TV shows "Arrested Development," "Weeds," and "Once and Again." Friedrichshain in Berlin. Pretty boys and pretty girls, both. Taking pictures of people who aren't aware of it. The books "Middlesex," "Der Vorleser," and "The Hotel New Hampshire." Having taught 4 semesters of German at UMass. Cooking all sorts of everything (curries, stir fries, cookies, stuffed peppers, salmons, mexican) with my amazing Bloomington girlfriends. Purple toenail polish. Iced coffee. Acceptance.

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