Now Voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find

Femme vagabond, professional marketer, and expert snacker who walks fast, runs slowly, cycles cautiously, 'grams too often, dances, and doodles.

Lifelong Chicagoan, intermittent Hongkonger, transplant Washingtonian. Conquerer of public transit. Frequently on a plane.

I read romance novels, photograph my food, listen to records, watch movies, mix, mingle, make lists, check 'em twice, dream big, change my hair color often, and am always in the process of dreaming up my next adventure.

Interests

Exploring my city, exploring your city, foreign policy, cooking, cycling, choreography videos, playlisting, tinkering in Photoshop, travel and technology magazines, good design, dark chocolate, pop art, pop punk, tattoos, tennis, music journalism, krav maga, drawing, stand-up comedy, eBay, adventures, tacos, live music, riding bicycles, people-watching, laughing, taking the scenic route, listening to stories, and getting to know you.

• arts
• books
• design
• tattoos
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• walking
• drinking
• politics
• movies
• traveling
• drawing
• live music
• cycling

Music, Movies, and Books

I listen to: Hip-hop. Ye-ye. Salsa. Cumbia. Blues. Dance pop.

I watch: Arrested Development, Breaking Bad, Archer, Almodovar films, Takashi Miike films, Accepted, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Superbad, Trainspotting, anything Quentin Tarantino, Best in Show, Clueless, Thank You For Smoking, A Clockwork Orange, anything Wes Anderson, Fight Club, Wall-E, Perfect Blue, Lost in Translation, American Beauty, Dogtown and Z-Boys, Cidade de Deus.

I read: Douglas Coupland, John Green, Plautus, Dave Eggers, William Shakespeare, Anthony Bourdain, Ryu Murakami, Chuck Klosterman, Ernest Hemingway, Chuck Palahnuik, Hawksley Workman, TS Eliot, Pablo Neruda, smut, comics, and Foreign Policy Magazine.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Quit my wild advertising job in Hong Kong to travel across Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam for two months.

Runners up? Scuba diving a flooded quarry in rural Illinois, Cuban cigars and lahmacun at 3AM in Istanbul, Frenchmen St. on a muggy evening, a Hawaiian sunset, couples slow-dancing to blues on a snowy fire escape, sweaty, intimate late-night house shows in a small Florida college town, jumping out of an airplane in Oregon, drinking with new friends in the streets of Caribbean Cartagena, and watching a punk show from a tilt-a-whirl.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can cook a killer meal (or, okay, maybe make decent omelet) out of leftovers, talk for ages about movies, transition politics, and fiction, show you some silly YouTube clips, pick delicious produce, help you plan your next vacation, dance the night away, solve Rubik's Cubes, draw a caricature, edit your novel, and maneuver around public transport like a champ. Oh, and I know an amazingly quick method for tying shoes -- ask me about it.

I like people with interesting stories and experiences.

I really want to learn how to salsa dance, be a better scuba diver, bake, run with decent form, dye my own hair, use Adobe Illustrator properly, and screen print.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, France, Hong Kong, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Myanmar, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Viet Nam, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Hong Kong, United States