Likes: San Francisco, crossword puzzles, Montessori, ethnography, family history, Arabica coffee, period drama, lists, libraries, Adam Duritz, Adam Clayton, etymology, chicken salad, PBS, NPR, cotton, lavender, red and black, fluoxetine, London, the Cumberbatch, computer nerds, short story collections, giraffes, ladybugs, Sara Teasdale, Stephen Colbert...
Dislikes: stinkbugs, No Child Left Behind, anxiety, the series finale of Lost, ignorance,Twitter*, auto tuning in general - Glee and top 40 radio in particular, traffic, PMS, spiders, blackheads, drunk people, party politics, 92.7% of reality television, megachurches, Hummers, mean people, carb crashes, Nickelback...
*Amanda Firestone called me on it
"...for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric
acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have
been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life,
and rest in unvisited tombs."
Dislikes: stinkbugs, No Child Left Behind, anxiety, the series finale of Lost, ignorance,
*Amanda Firestone called me on it
"...for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric
acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have
been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life,
and rest in unvisited tombs." My Currently Reading Shelf:
