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Always: absinthe, activism, animal rights, burlesque (vintage, live shows, watching them and performing in them) belly dancing, bookbinding, the body of Christ, biting, costumes on off days, the Cold War, canoes, crossword puzzles, community learning, cooking, darkroom manipulation, dark forests, deformities, dumpstering, entomology, entrails, effecting social change, fire escapes, girls and boys who wear glasses, gaiters, gore, guerilla journalism, harpischords, history, home taxidermy, hearses, hourglass figures, kabuki, language lessons, living drug-free, lowbrow art, libraries, memoirs, morbidity, mai tais, monocles, making out, needle play, Noh theater, poisons and antidotes, pingpong, pinking up my hair, riding my bike, sewing machines, sewing by hand, syringes, surgeries, sarcasm, scary dolls, silent films, Southern Gothic literature, thaumaturgy, Treacher Collin's Syndrome, trespassing, taking the train, transsexual porn, ukuleles, vegetable gardens, Victorian furniture, woodcuts, Wednesday Addams, yoga, zoology.