what i do all day

cook

overthink

go the the farmer's market

go to the farm

read

have ideas

write

eat

take photos

struggle with the heaviness of life

try to find the lightness of being.

some of my interests

sliding. i particularly love the seward street slides, the times i went to kate sessions park in high school with my friends and we greased up the rocket slide (a place my grandfather took me as a child on saturdays. we spent every saturday together throughout my childhood.) with canola oil and rode down it on garbage bags, and slip n'slides. i also loved waterparks as a child. and the slide in codornices park isn't so bad. oh, and iceblocking was a big pastime for me back in san diego. there are some perfect hills for iceblocking in berkeley. maybe we should go soon.

photography. i love taking photos and looking at them. my dad is a photographer. so is one of my best friends. love photos.

jobs i've held:

kayaking instructor

busser

forager

office clerk

bicycle mechanic

montessori teacher's assistant

cook

cooking class instructor

food columnist

newspaper editor (a&e section)

professor's assistant

book writer

blurb writer

recipe writer

babysitter

catsitter

dogsitter

housesitter

caterer

some books i love:

new and selected poems, t. lux

leaves of grass, w. whitman

where the wild things are, m.sendak

middlesex, j. eugenides

everything is illuminated, j.s. foer

it must have been something i ate, j. steingarten

reading lolita in tehran, a. nafisi

ender's game, o.s. card

fanny at chez panisse, a. waters

straight man, richard russo

the lemony snicket books

east of eden, j. steinbeck

everything by j. d. salinger

the tipping point, m. gladwell

nine horses, b. collins

essential italian grammar, o. ragusa

a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, d. eggers

on food and cooking, h. mcgee

the tuscan year, e. romer

the animal family, r. jarrell

making your own days, k. koch

the palm at the end of the mind, w. stevens

the sun also rises, e. hemingway

foxfire, j.c. oates

the best american poetry 1999

praise, r. hass

a million little pieces, james frey

i miss:

cw

mmc

jc

nal

la baia

the ocean

sunny days

clothes dryers

my aunts and uncles

hash house runs

jerna simpson

coach

cp salads

chelo kare in tehran

cake-eh yasdi in chalus

fried baccala' in roma

tea at the orangerie in london

summer fruits and vegetables

tjy

juju

pearl and moustache in manhattan

bsb

i tend to:

hitch my wagon to a star. (r.w.e)

be a spaz

i wish:

i were more artistic

i were smarter

i could go to graduate school without having to worry about money

i were more generous

i were more patient

i were less judgemental

i am:

tired a lot

an idealist

a dilletante

a procrastinator

hungry a lot

silly

a worrier

crazy

a good friend

trying to become a better listener

relatively impatient

i like:

beagles

photographs & photography

marvis toothpaste

design & aesthetics

my pink hot water bottle

poetry (especially contemporary american poetry & old iranian stuff)

to read

movies

food

to write

my friends

pens and pencils

erasers

green glass

blood oranges

to dream

ice cream

i have:

curly hair

an orange coat

a cold

lotsa wool socks

to pee

lots of ideas

the biggest knitting needles anyone has ever seen

this is who i am