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I've just mailed out a giant box of packages. You should all be getting your swaps in the mail. I think I'm going to lay off of the swapping for a bit.

Thank you for not sending me hate mail. ;o;

Hi!

I'm a Human Development major, which pretty much means that I study people and all the things they do. I love poetry, art, or anything that records or chronicles personal experience. I'm also a French minor and am pursuing a certificate in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution.

I enjoy the little things in life. I doodle constantly. I play with words. I point out the obvious. I wear Doc Martens. I love learning new languages and new things. I love science-fiction. I love cuddly, pillowy things. I sew. I paint. I recycle.

I am an activist. I am a feminist. I am a vegan. I am a student. I am a writer. I am an environmentalist.

I like making lists.

28 Days Later, 50 First Dates, Amadeus, Amélie, American Beauty, Batman Returns, The Butterfly Effect, Cashback, The Crow, Donnie Darko, Edward Scissorhands, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fight Club, Garden State, History of the World Part I, Kill Bill, Mall Rats, Mí Familia, Moulin Rouge, Natural Born Killers, Pan's Labyrinth, Pi, V for Vendetta, Young Frankenstein

Kobo Abe, Ray Bradbury, Anthony Burgess, Sandra Cisneros, Robert Cormier, T.S. Eliot, Laura Esquivel, Bell Hooks, Lois Lowry, Gabriel García Marquéz, Christopher Marlowe, Toni Morrison, Vladimir Nabokov, Edgar Allan Poe, Alice Walker, Saul Williams, Virginia Woolf

I generally avoid television, but I have made exceptions for:

Star Trek: Voyager; The History Channel; Classic Arts Showcase; Ed, Edd, and Eddy; Courage the Cowardly Dog

I like gamelan music and accordions. I'm also partial to instrumental music. I'm a huge fan of Nine Inch Nails, Rasputina and Tiger Lilies. Any Industrial, noise, progressive music is welcome. Any world music with interesting scales and time signatures are welcome as well. I love music with great percussion parts and anything in other languages. I also love string quartets, and anything in a minor or diminished key.

• Intricate patterns
• Trees, vines
• Collage & Mixed Media
• Victorian imagery
• Calligraphy
• Floral and Herbal infusions/tea
• Strange/quirky/pretty dangly earrings
• Mix-tapes & CD-mixes
• Skulls and the like
• Recycled crafts
• pocket dictionaries in other languages for tourists
• Religious imagery and icons
• Quantum Physics
• History, and the past
• Androgyny
• Black, Grey, Purple, Deep Red, Green in any shade
• Objects with interesting textures
• 'Zines
• Frida Kahlo, Gustav Klimt, Joel Peter Witkin, Floria Sigismondi
• ATCs
• Nerdy jokes
• Any junk-like/broken things that can be re-used as craft material [old magazines/postcards/tags, ribbon/fabric scraps, office supplies, etc.]
• Surprises :)

• Super-processed products
• Kawaii, but I could just give it to my little sisters
• Caffeine
• no-sends/flakes :'[
• Candy/foods that contain: gelatin, sucralose, or aspartame
• OMGmyheadisgoingtoexplode cutesy things [kittens, ducklings, pandas, etc.]

...any of the following that can be made from recycled fabric:

• Pillows - simple, comfy, awesome
• Aprons/half-aprons - I cook/clean a lot. I hate stains on my clothes. >:[
• Place mats - There are six people in my family, and fabric place mats would be much appreciated. ^^;
• funny hats - my head is pretty average sized.
• patches or iron-ons - self-explanatory
• gloves - fingerless or otherwise
• legwarmers, armwarmers - I live in a warm area, but they're cute anyway
• scarves - always nice
• messenger/tote bags - useful and awesome
• Anything strange/funky/different, really

I don't mind if your swap is late. Just let me know, so that I won't suspect that my mail's been stolen by my kid neighbors. It's happened before.

I re-use packaging whenever I can. If you can manage to do so, go for it! :D If you want to send me any junk-like/broken things that can be re-used as craft material [old magazines/postcards/tags, ribbon/fabric scraps, office supplies, etc.] as extras, that could work too!

I like to think I'm pretty open-minded. I don't mind swearing, bawdy/risqué humor, or double-entendres. I'm cool with kinky/strange/alternative or overall unique items. I'm not usually offended, unless something is straight-out bigoted, but I think that goes without saying.