on the off chance that y'all wanna know more about me, please refer to this here handy quick-reference guide.

• sex: xx
• birthday: 6 july 1975
• place of birth: fairfax, virginia
• current residence: west philly, pennsylvania
• current occupation: ph.d. student in psycholinguistics. if you want to know what that is, read the language instinct by steven pinker.
• relationship status: married to karl (see a photo of him, with bleached out hair, here)
• representation of me (and karl): click here
• parental occupations: mom=pediatric nurse, dad=commercial airline pilot
• hair: long / short, and blonde & purple / orange-y red / orange / blonde
• eyes: green
• glasses: no
• contacts: sorta (it's a long story)
• alma mater: university of virginia
• languages i've studied: english, russian, french, german, ASL
• languages i can hold a conversation in: english, russian
  
• no. of tattoos: 1
• no. of piercings: 12 (see some of them here)
• no. of years spent in school: 20 and counting
• no. of us states visited: 38
• no. of guinea pigs: 0 (see a picture of dear departed fuzzies here)
• no. of musical instruments currently played: 2
• no. of bonsai trees killed: 3
  
• favorite color: red
• favorite food: tuna
• favorite starbucks beverage: venti iced americano
• favorite band in high school: depeche mode
• favorite unit of measurement in high school: pica
• favorite philly restaurant: the white dog cafe (34th and sansom)
• favorite philly bar: la terrasse (34 & sansom)
• favorite philly piercing parlor: infinite (4th and bainbridge)
• religion: devout athiest
• favorite books: click here
• theme song: i take my chances
• my pirate name: bloody mary bonney: every pirate lives for something different. for some, it's the open sea. for others (the masochists), it's the food. For you, it's definitely the fighting. you can be a little bit unpredictable, but a pirate's life is far from full of certainties, so that fits in pretty well. arr!
  
• on sadie's death: click here
• on wuza's death: click here
• on fergie's death: click here
• travel adventures: road-tripping around america, greece, king range mountains california, england

a misleading map of the places i have visited (that huuuuge expanse of russia implies way more bits of land visited than the significantly smaller bits west of the urals that i actually *have* visited). sad that there's no bits of asia, the middle east, or any of the southern hemisphere highlighed. must remedy that.

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closeup of the european countries i have visited:

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map of the US states i have visited or at least driven through:

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