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I think the most pervasive thing about me is that I am well-adjusted and happy. I'm content with my life, optimistic, and cheerful; it takes a lot to get me down and keep me down, and hardly takes anything at all to get me back up.

I'm fairly easily, and sometimes profoundly, pleased by small, simple things. I experience music viscerally, I love food, and I fall in love a little bit with anyone who plays with my hair.

I've grown up a lot since the middle of high school; my ideological leanings have become a lot more liberal, and I've learned a lot of things about myself and how I view the world, so I'm a pretty self-aware person. I generally know why I feel the way I do about things/people, and I'd rather talk something out, no matter how awkward, than to let it fester. I recently took the real, official, professor-bought-it-for-my-class Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test, and I'm an ENFJ (strong EN, slight FJ) for those of you who care about that sort of thing. Pretty damn accurate.

I'm very close to my family, and have a moderate number of friends, some of whom I keep very close. I lived in the same town all my life until college, so I like having roots.

I'm a little bit geeky, or at least I was in high school. I love to learn, and I'm pretty intelligent. I was in my high school's marching band and speech/debate team (more speech than debate, for me), and I dabbled in theater, mostly backstage/pit orchestra.

I procrastinate, I can sometimes be timid and too complacent, and I can't cook. Sometimes I get wrapped up in being truthful and completely understood, and I say things that are unintentionally hurtful. I'm still fiercely competitive about some things (way less than I used to be), so if you beat me at something I really care about, I might be quite unhappy about it.

I graduated from Pitt in 2006 with bachelor's degrees in psychology and English literature. I moved to Orlando in August 2007 to get a Master's in Marriage and Family Therapy at UCF,and have a part-time graduate assistantship through the National Writing Project.

Writing, giving advice, remembering who was in what movie even if I didn't see it, communicating through nonverbal sounds, keeping secrets, getting a stray eyelash off my eyeball without even (pardon the pun) batting an eye, and, I'm told, kissing. My tai chi teacher said I was good enough to teach beginners, but I shamefully got behind on it.

I have abnormally rosy cheeks. And paradoxically, people who meet me guess I'm taller than 5 feet, but people who know I'm 5 feet tall before they meet me say, upon meeting, that I'm smaller than they thought I'd be. It seems I have a "presence."

Books: Stephen King's Dark Tower series, Replay, Orlando, The Stand, Many Waters, Middlemarch, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Movies: Lord of the Rings trilogy, but especially Return of the King, Big Fish, Dead Poets Society, American History X, Sleeping Beauty, Shawshank Redemption, Batman Begins, El Laberinto del Fauno

Music: Guster, Dave Matthews Band, Barenaked Ladies, Rufus Wainwright, Marc Broussard, Jason Mraz, Maroon 5, classic rock (especially Led Zeppelin and The Who), Muse, KT Tunstall

Food: seafood, chocolate, potatoes, GARLIC, Indian, Italian, Mexican

TV: Grey's Anatomy, Mythbusters, MASH, and my guilty pleasures, America's Next Top Model and Beauty and the Geek

Teams: Pittsburgh Penguins and Steelers, Pitt Panthers. I want to have Sidney Crosby's babies. Or, well, NOT have his babies, cause I'm definitely not ready for kids. :)

Love, family and friends, being touched, chocolate, music and books, lip balm.

prospective futures. I'm a daydreaming junkie; I seriously don't know what people think about all day if they don't daydream. I think about relationships, and cool things I want to do with my life, and sometimes real issues like personal faith, and political things.

Most definitely out with friends (always looking for more!) or my boyfriend nix24. I hadn't had REAL weekends in years (that's what a retail job does to you), so I'm savoring them.

I stutter, and sometimes when I freeze up I have various facial tics. Strangers' reactions vary from nervous laughter to saying "Bless you" because they think I'm sneezing and a number of other things. Usually I take a breath, politely correct them "Oh, thank you, I'm fine, I just stutter," and then they feel really bad.

So here's the private thing: the worse/more embarrassed they appear to feel, the happier and more satisfied I am. I feel guilty about this, because they didn't know, but it's true.

You're in/near Orlando and looking for a new friend, particularly if you have two X chromosomes. You'd think that being in a program with such a heavy female population would give me an abundance of girl friends, but it hasn't yet. Guys are encouraged to chat me up for friendship too; it's so much easier for me to make friends with guys, and who doesn't want more friends?

Warning: Messages heavy with internet shorthand and showing blatant disregard for basic spelling and grammar run the risk of being completely ignored. Call me a language snob, I don't care. And whether I'm available or not, messages that have nothing more to say than "hey cutie" or "ur hot" or "you're smile is beautiful wanna chat" WILL be instantly deleted.