Amy

Medfield High School, Brandeis University

Brandeis University, Attended 1996 - 2000, Class of 2000, Bachelor's Degree, English/Italian

Publishing, Senior Administrative Assistant

NOLOSE, NELA

writing, reading, crafting, playing board games (scrabble in particular), watching movies, sending letters and postcards, walking, fat activism, trans-inclusive feminism, politics and voting, being a big sister, cooking, sunday brunches, singing off-key, being kind to animals, daydreaming, napping, mini-golf, bowling, museums, traveling

Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, Toni Morrison, Fannie Flagg, Harlan Ellison, George Orwell, Amy Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Pat Califia, Thich Nhat Hanh, bell hooks

all John Hughes movies, Princess Bride, Fight Club, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, About a Boy, Thomas Crown Affair, Ed Wood, Ocean's 11, American Splendor, American Beauty, Memento, Magnolia, Napoleon Dynamite, Willy Wonka & the Cholocate Factory

David Byrne, Talking Heads, Great Big Sea, Modest Mouse, Travis, Queen, Grandmaster Flash, Dolly Parton, Bruce Springsteen, George Harrison, Beatles, Lisa Jackson & Girl Friday, Dar Williams, everything Motown, Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Johnny Mathis, Gregory Douglass, Fiona Apple, John Cale, Etta James, Sharon Jones

Project Runway, America's Next Top Model, Survivor, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Law & Order, Little People Big World, Animal Cops, Firefly, The Sopranos, Star Trek

Capricorn

"Tonight, I say we must move forward, not backward; upward,
not forward; and always twirling, whirling, twirling towards freedom!" - Kodos

"We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of
dreams." - Willy Wonka

Seriously folks, I'm working day in and day out at the same job I've had for six plus years now. It's comfortable and stable which is something, but boring. Lately I spend my time on the train thinking about other wild careers I'd like to have: homicide detective, FBI profiler, owning a restaurant, carpenter, professional lobbyist. It all *sounds* interesting enough.

What will I end up doing? Right now I am working toward applying to a tasty-looking graduate program in urban elementary education which would qualify me to give some learning and maybe hope/inspiration to kids who need it. I like to be needed.

I'm currently moving. Moving in a lot of ways. Moving away from and out of a relationship that wasn't working. Moving toward being better to myself and taking better care of myself. Moving toward furthering my education. And hey -- actually moving back to Davis Square, Somerville to start over in the company of friends and familiar places.

I watch too many James Bond movies and too much reality television. I read too many books. I am fluent in too many nerd languages and have too many stamps on my United States of Nerds passport (though my VISA for unrestricted travel was recently extended). I work hard on living, loving and thinking less about material stuffs.

I also work hard on opening the cans of cat food for the inimitable Mr. Schneebly, a feisty little tuxedo cat whose main job entails batting the glittery sparkly things he finds on the floor.

Myself.

Hokey, but true.

I am interested in finding out who I am without a partner, who I am to myself, what I want, what I need and who I want to be. It's been a long introduction to what I hope will be a successful courtship.

I am not on the make for a rebound relationship or so afraid of being alone that I am seeking immediate replacement.

However, I will not turn down cups of coffee, movie dates, Scrabble games, hugs or kisses on the cheek. For the immediate future, I may bit a bit heartbroken but my heart is not broken. You know?

So, are you not in a hurry? Good, because I'm not in a hurry.