Interests

One of my first academic advisors described my interests thus: "an all-encompassing cloud of excitement."

Topics

• Design
  • architecture
  • urban planning
  • language
  • fashion & textiles
  • vexillography
  • education systems
  • society
  • ...of (other) everyday things…and not-so-everyday things
• Math & related things
  • Formal logic
  • Discrete math
  • Topology
  • Symbolic systems
  • Mathematical modeling
  • Mechanics
• Everyday life across time & place
• History of things, places, & peoples
• Geography & maps
• Survival
• Plant identification
• Bogs, bog bodies, & archaeology

(Favorite) Media

• Books
  • Ishmael
  • Anne of Green Gables
• Podcasts
  • 99% Invisible
• TV Shows
  • Anne With An E
  • The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
  • Doctor Who
• Movies
  • Captain Fantastic
  • Mully
  • Don’t Look Up
• Paintings
  • The Treachery of Images
  • those by Norman Rockwell

Hobbies

• Visual Arts & Crafts
  • sewing, crochet, embroidery, felting
  • painting (all kinds), chalk, drawing (all kinds)
  • woodworking, pottery, photography, various others
• Writing
  • poetry
  • essays
  • short stories
  • snail mail
  • journals
• Reading
• Physical Recreation
  • hiking, backpacking, camping, spelunking, snow-shoeing
  • biking, horseback-riding, ATVing
  • rock-climbing, tree-climbing, building-climbing (I love climbing)
  • ice-skating, roller-blading, zip-lining
  • social dancing, informal wrestling, sword-fighting
  • kayaking, SUPing, canoeing, boats of all kinds
  • swimming, diving, snorkeling, cliff-jumping (I love water)
• Board Games
  • 2-player: Chess, Mastermind, Mancala, Cribbage, Jenga, Pente, A Little Wordy
  • 2+ player: Bang! The Dice Game, Codenames, Dixit, Telestrations, Pictionary, Scattergories, Fluxx, Chronology, Up & Down the River, Pictures
  • 2+ player (board-dependent): Patchwork, Blokus, Scrabble, Clue, Life, Chinese Checkers

People

• Role Models
  • Wangari Maathai: rehabilitator of Kenyan ecology, activist, professor
  • John Muir: mountaineer, author, Scotsman, naturalist, protector of Earth’s bounty
  • Anne Shirley-Cuthbert: lover of life, friend to all
• Great Minds (that I vibe with)
  • John Donne
  • Aristotle
  • Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • Aaron Swartz
  • Cliff Stoll