Jesus, coffee, fair trade, Equal Exchange (coffee + fair trade = happy), superheroes, hockey, knitting (shut it - it's addicting - you don't even know), reading, running, sunrises, writing, dancing, cover bands, good beer and wine, nerdy guys, rain, shoes. And Jason Statham ... because, um, hot.
Music
Fiona Apple, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Portishead, Esthero, Weezer, Ani DiFranco, Bob Schneider, Phoebe Kreutz, Jenn Lindsay, Tom Waits, Dead Can Dance, Poe, Moby, McFly, Chloe Day, David Crowder Band, Tori Amos, Nickel Creek, Sneaker Pimps, Old 97s, Bjork, Lou Hickey, Shivaree, Emily Haines. Most cover bands, most industrial, most house, most drum and bass, and salsa - anything I can dance to.
Movies
The Hudsucker Proxy, Love Actually, Hitch, Life of Brian, Into the Woods, The Whole Nine Yards, Pirates of the Caribbean, Dogma, Clerks, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, The Sting, The Usual Suspects, The Royal Tenenbaums, A Christmas Story, White Christmas, Breakfast at Tiffany's, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Chocolat, Serial Mom, Ocean's Eleven, Snatch, Poolhall Junkies, Drop Dead Gorgeous, and any Monty Python show.
Television
Pushing Daisies, Smallville (mmm...Lex), Studio 60, Heroes, Gilmore Girls, House MD, Good Eats, The Vicar of Dibley, So You Think You Can Dance, Chuck, The Office, Family Guy. Oh...and Matlock (I blame my mom).
Books
The Irresistible Revolution, Why Girls are Weird, Crime and Punishment, Blue Like Jazz, House of Leaves, The Once and Future King, The Pleasure of My Company, and anything by C. S. Lewis, Anne Lamott, Laurie Notaro, Christopher Moore, Watchman Nee, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Sue Monk Kidd or Douglas Coupland. Reading right now - A Good Man is Hard to Find (O'Connor), The Great Hunt (Jordan), The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted (Berg), The Normal Christian Life (Nee).
Heroes
Simone Weil, Emma Goldman, Dorothy Parker, Anne Lamott, Rosa Parks, Audrey Hepburn, Eve Ensler, Gilda Radner, etc. In short, revolutionaries and difficult women, between whom the distinction is often blurred. Also, people who know where my headlines come from.
About me: I teach that gloriously popular speech course at a local community college, and I work the graveyard shift at a dorm. Translation: I've got some free time. Hence the livejournal (coffeesnob, for those of us who have crossed over or are riding the fence), facebook and myspace accounts. But enough about what I do. This is supposed to be about who I am.
I am introspective. I have a short attention span. I am easily amused. I love to laugh. My myspace is boring. I have a thing for bald guys. I loathe injustice. I love good coffee. I'm really bad at monitoring what I say. I am fond of the absurd. I am interested in many different things and people, so I sometimes appear fickle. But it doesn't take long for me to decide that I like someone, and once that decision is made, it's hard to change my mind. I am a million little contradictions; I think most people are. Brennan Manning said it well - "Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer." But at the core of who I am is the one whom I love. Jesus is my superhero; he's saved me more times than I can count.
You Are Socks!
Cozy and warm... but easily lost.
You make a good puppet.
You enjoy living a slow, fulfilling life. You enjoy living every moment, no matter how ordinary.
You are a person of reflection and meditation. You start and end every day by looking inward.
Caring and giving, you enjoy making people happy. You're often cooking for friends or buying them gifts.
All in all, you know how to love life for what it is - not for how it should be.
Who I'd like to meet: People. I like people. People are fun.
Just send me a message along with the friend request, especially if I don't know who you are (assume nothing).
