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I appear to be just your average young American. I'm trying to juggle my career and my social life, and I somehow managed to get myself out of debt as quickly as I got myself in it. I've traveled around the world a few times and back, I've been on one bad date after another, and I still sometimes forget how much wine is too much. I've watched rerun after rerun of 'Friends' and 'Sex and the City', and even though I know how both series ends, I still get teary when Carrie and Big or Rachel and Ross don't look like they're going to make it.

I love the arts: Music, painting, writing, drama, and especially photography. I enjoy being outdoors. I like to go mountain hiking, and I think my life would be incomplete if I couldn't spend my summers swimming. I seem to like to jump off of things, as well. I've been bungee jumping, cliff diving, etc. I live for wine tastings and fashion, and some have gone so far to even call me a 'shoe whore'. I enjoy traveling, and I hope to see as much of the world as possible before I die. At the rate I'm going, that shouldn't be too hard. Though I'm from a small town in Arkansas, I'm a big city girl at heart, and my recent move to the DC area is sure to bring out the beast in me.

I'm fascinated with the supernatural... ghosts, orbs, ectoplasm, EVP, telepathy, ESP, psychic phenomena, and the list goes on. Many people with unbelievable powers have been a part of my life. And unbeknownst to most of my family, I've studied the religion of Wicca for several years. I'm a horror movie fanatic, and I love cult-following TV shows. One of the most interesting books I've read (given to me by my brother who knows me oh, so well) was entitled "Where are they buried? How did they die?" Perhaps I have a bit of a morbid imagination...

I'm experimental. I'm sexual. I'm spontaneous. I don't believe in heaven and hell. I don't believe that we are expected to live a saintly life in the hopes of a perfect and rewarding afterlife. I believe that life should be lived to the fullest. I take advantage of all resources around me and of human nature itself. I make my own choices, I stand up for my choices, and I expect others to respect my choices. No apologies. No regrets. I just live.

"Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another." - Madonna, Justify My Love