who the hell am I, anyways??

(a bit about the real person behind the crazy fic-writer)

occupation: student (first here [link to http://www.caltech.edu] and now here [link to http://www.georgetown.edu]); studying cognitive science and theatre. planning on grad school in… something.

causes: global HIV/AIDS, and free software. random, i know.

ethnicity: cubano-irish

hobbies: cooking, sleeping, driving; when there’s time, reading.

life goals: save the world, be a badass while doing so, and drive a Porsche carrera gt at full speed, just once.

movies: crouching tiger hidden dragon, fight club, the matrix (the first one), playing by heart, real genius, the history of white people in america, ghostbusters, moulin rouge

music: foo fighters are an all-time fave; bright eyes, pavement, k’s choice, yo la tengo, hooverphonic, old-school liz phair, rainer maria, stone roses, stephen malkmus, muse, jude, guided by voices, doves, flaming lips, built to spill, black rebel motorcycle club, red hot chili peppers, early madonna, coldplay, cake, radiohead, rolling stones, supreme beings of leisure, lauryn hill, anything from death row records, and the coolest man ever, jimi hendrix. and my boy mahler.

tv: nothing will ever be like xf, but now I’m watching queer eye, the o.c., law & order: svu, and of course, the daily show with jon stewart.

crushes: viggo mortenson!, jon stewart, dave grohl, ewan mcgregor, beck. and, shamefully, richard belzer. don’t ask.

indulgences: art. i can’t handle living somewhere unless there’s art.

books: tender is the night (fitzgerald), the house of the spirits (allende), naked pictures of famous people (jon stewart), any & all thich nhat hahn or dalai lama

politics: too much of an idealist to conform to any partisan agenda.

talents: damn good bartender, a fair figure skater, and very flexible.

quirks: obsessively, anally neat/organized. have a thing for penguins and am always, always chewing orbit spearmint gum. best workout is with the punching bag. exceedingly foul-mouthed.