This is me, in a bias (surely) and generalizing description.

I have finished my degree at the University of Waterloo in Rhetoric and Professional Writing, and am postponing applying to more schools or graduate programs until I’m hit with unbridled inspiration.

I’m the daughter of two brilliant parents: a chemical engineer and a poet. I’m the sister of two equally brilliant brothers. Michael is top of his engineering class and he makes robots. Andrew, who just started university, aces biology and chemistry midterms (and I’m sure will soon be top of his class). You will see very quickly that I’m the slacker of the family!

I get bored easily. But there are a few things that can get me excited. I love reading and writing, and poetry. I’m pretty passionate about making a difference in this often sad world we live in. (I’m always trying to do more about that…) I get excited thinking about everything I could do with my life, and I get excited when I stop postponing my life and go out and do something I never thought I would.

I love being around people who use their brains, people that question what their doing, and the world around them.

I try to make my faith a real part of my life, and I hope that if you know me, you’d know that. I’m probably pretty lousy at that a lot of the time, but along the way I’ve found people and places that have helped me to grow and understand more of what it means to be someone who follows Christ. I’ll be the first to admit that Christianity has been used and abused in our society, and that some people who call themselves Christians are downright lame. However, I happen to think Jesus Christ was the most revolutionary and inspiring figure in history, and therefore I don’t mind calling myself a Christian.

I don’t know where I’ll be in the next couple years, but in fifteen years if I live in an old house in the (a) country with a cultural-caravan of adopted children, I won’t complain.

A good movie is like a good story. Some of my all-time favourites would have to be Garden State, Little Miss Sunshine, Crash and O Brother Where Art Thou. However, as a general rule I love anything that’s a british adaption of a literary classic. (Pride and Prejudice, Daniel Deronda, Emma, Mansfield Park, Lorna Doone…)

I’m a faithful viewer of Lost and The Office, and a part time lover of Gilmore Girls, Scrubs and House.

Additionally I’m passionate about: sleeping in, letters, downtown shops, farms, old houses, dresses, real (big) dogs, photographs, stories, art, beaches, and blue.

I have a blog so that I can focus my thoughts and ramblings, and make myself write more. It’s my cyper soap box.