E. Gracious

Charlie's Angel

language, food & origins of culinary traditions, just plain eating, how the mind works, ultimate frisbee, 17th century in Eng &France, brain sci, Burning Man, the Tudor monarchy, evolutionary bio & psych, WW II, cream puffs, bicycling, travel abroad

The Moral Animal, Genome, Guns, Germs & Steel, No Ordinary Time, the Book of Laughter & Forgetting, the English Patient, 100 Yrs of Solitude

Casablanca, Bertolucci's 1900, the Philadelphia Story, the King of Comedy, Strangers on a Train, the first half of Lawrence of Arabia

Bob Dylan, anything Flamenco, the metal I never listened to in high school

the Simpsons, the American Experience

I am a vivacious introvert, a shy field marshal. I like now
just fine
but sometimes rue that I can't go on vaca to LA in the
1940's or
New Amsterdam in 1625, Current edible passions include
seaweed & sheepsmilk cheese. Perennial ones include maple,
sushi, grilled American cheese sandwiches. I like to wake
up w/
glitter in my hair and wish I had a job naming lipstick
colors. I try
to tread lightly, and occasionally communicate in haiku. I
love
bamboo and have been told that I speak in nonsequiturs.

I admire self-confidence and strong opinions and points of
view
that wouldn't occur to me. I like brilliant, quirky men
who talk with
their hands and strong, competent women out of synch with
their
time. People who can laugh at their spelling mistakes
tickle me.
People who know who they are delight me.