Amanda Caskey

Ohlone School for Herbal Studies, Philo School of Herbal Energetics, Heart and Hands Midwifery, Sequoia Elementary, Bret Harte Junior High, Skyline High, UC Santa Cruz, University of Oregon, University of the West Indies, Kingston, JA

University of California - Santa Cruz, Attended - , Class of , Other

doula, student midwife, herbalist, waitress

California Association of Midwives, MoveOn, La Leche League, Koinonea, the Chickenhut

midwifery, revolution, debauchery, finishing the thesis I started, umm...7 years ago, my cat (Mona) and my new baby kitten (Pearl Monkey Crystal Danger-AKA "Monster"), kissing, dancing my ass off, the ocean, love, my amazing, incredibly hot girlfriend, smart people and fabulous conversation, friends and family, communication, tamales, dark chocolate, chipotle.

books about herbs, books about birth...

LOTR, All About My Mother, Odd Ones Out, Sordid Lives, Napoleon Dynamite, Matrix, Donnie Darko, The Princess Bride, So I Married an Ax Murderer, High Fidelity, Hedwig, The Royal Tennenbaums, Grease, Big Fish, Eternal Sunshine, Garden State

anything that plays on my ipod...hieroglyphics, chavela vargas, jurassic 5, flaming lips, sigur ross, ella fitzgerald & louis armstrong, postal service, etta james, zero 7, amon tobin, tori, the beatles, bjork, emiliana torrini, thievery corporation, mr. bungle, sarah maclachlan, tom waits, van morrison, shpongle, portishead, radiohead, the roots, gotan project, joni mitchell, lamb, hedwig and the angry inch, ida, bowery electric, po' girl, moloko, Loop!Station

Since I don't watch TV, I'll use this section to say that I have the hottest friends in the whole world and I am in love with every single one of them. I am a lucky lucky girl.

Aquarius

feminist, smart-ass, revolutionary, visionary, tree-hugging organic-eatin' hippie, fire dragon/serpent cusp, balanced, free, dorky. Loving, insolent, kiss-happy, goddess worshipping witch. I draw, craft, knit, paint, write, and sing bits of warbly and creatively reworded tunes to those lucky enough to bear it. I love to take care of my loves and I like to be spoiled. I love practicing my herbalism on any willing victims...er, people. I have the most amazing life, I'm in love with my girlfriend, I have a beautiful home and the cutest cats in the world (except for the toe-biting, and even then...). I wish friendster were more genderqueer friendly. I discovered once when I was on mushrooms when I was 19 that "cusp" and "onomatopoeia" are my two favorite words to say, but until I tried to write the latter down for this profile, I thought it was "onomaNopoeia"--a revelation that is somewhat life altering to me--seeing as how it was my favorite word to say and all and now I find out that I've been saying it wrong this whole time, and I'm not even sure that it's my favorite word anymore. Oh, and also, I don't hate many things, but I do hate it when people put up signs or write notes or emails or whatever with quotation marks used unnecessarily, like "the bathroom is down the hall". I also hate it when people rub my elbows. I mean it, it's not a funny thing, it's like a real thing for me. I strongly discourage you from ever touching my elbows. It's kind of like a full moon and I'm a really nice person who also happens to be a werewolf. My elbows are like my werewolf trigger, and I'm not kidding, if you rub my elbows, you will get the smack down, and I won't even mean to do it...so don't even try...and don't say I didn't warn you.

My favorite button I saw at dyke march this year was worn by my friend Aodhan:
"I happen to have a very large cock, however, I don't have it with me.

(this is an ok usage of quotation marks)
(and I am working on the elbow thing)

lovers, smoochers, gropers, fighters, dancers, dreamers, ancestors, bikers, hikers, photographers, talkers, listeners, hand-holders, ass-kickers, pornographers, queers, goddesses, deities, icons, the mists.