Bio

Just moved to SLC March 2010 looking to gain personal independence and inner strength while getting better grounded in 'the real world' outside of my comfort zone.

I am a lifelong Baltimorean with a fresh and shiny BA in Biology from Saint Marys College of Maryland, whatever that ACTually means. I think of myself as an eternal student, unfortunately that doesnt mean I get to differ my loans indefinitely, so I need a real job to pay that off until I can find my place in a largely self-sufficient, intentional community.

I generally find summing up myself and my interests and skills and favorites to be strange, artificial, and difficult.

Skills and talents

Hmm I play well with others, am a pretty good arbitrator and conflict resolver. I can express myself pretty adequately in words, both written and spoken. I am very good at finding new things to be interested in all the time. I'm pretty proficient with my hands, learn quick, and can teach others what I know and how to figure out what neither of us know. Currently way too good at spreading my attention too thin, so there are a lot of scarcely developed skills I would love to include, but would feel a little like I was lying so I wont. Recently delving deeply into digital photography.

Interests

(co)creation, balance, Beauty, consciousness, fitness and evolution, personal and mass growth, Truth, visionary art, Yoga

What I'm Reading

Derrick Jensen - How Shall I Live My Life?, Early Talks of G.I. Gurdjieff, ,Carlos Castanada,Vivekananda's Raja Yoga,P. D. Ouspensky, Bruce Lee

What I'm Listening To

65 Days of Static,Battles,Royksopp,Air,The Album Leaf,Death from Above 1979,Fintroll,The Flaming Lips,Mark Mothersbaugh,Mogwai,Muse,The Postal Service,Ratatat,The Section Quartet,The Tallywood String Quartet,System of a Down,This Will Destroy You

Movies I've Seen Recently

The Day the Earth Stood Still - new and old (both good in their own rights IMO),Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring,The new Star Trek,Wall-E,The Century of Self,Robocop

Education

High school

Calvert Hall College HS

College

Saint Mary's College of Maryland

Graduate school

not yet, but soon...

Additional study

nothing formal, much personal reading, reflection, discussion