Such Strange Beauty

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Melissa (most of the time)
2. Momar (in the co-op)  (or Melmar or Big Momar Africa...the list grows on)
3. Mel

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1. mellesque
2.
3.

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. My super long legs
2. My super long and musically inclined fingers
3. Ummm...my fairly thin torso

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. my thighs
2. my round face
3. my ratty pancreas

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. Japanese
2. Dutch
3. Seminole

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. being alone for the rest of my grown-up life
2. leading a life without a larger purpose or meaning
3. being without health insurance

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. blood sugar meter!
2. fresh air
3. glasses
(either I'm boring or I just don't keep many things with me...)

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. jeans (normal)
2. black tanktop (normal)
3. dad's old blue slippers (abnormal - it's cold in this house)

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS OR MUSICAL ARTISTS:
1. Iron and Wine
2. Sufjan Stevens
3. Daisy May

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS:
1. Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan
2. New Slang - The Shins
3. Trapeze Swinger - Iron and Wine

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP:
1. Laughter
2. Honesty
3. Faithfulness

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE PREFERRED SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. Tall
2. Thin
3. Back muscles

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. playing the guitar
2. backpacking
3. writing (poetry mostly)

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. go sledding
2. watch the season 2 LOST finale once kelli gets home safe
3. hit the clubs in kzoo with my old friends

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
1. being a teacher at the OE
2. being some other weird hippie environment literature prof
3. ummm, quitting grad school and going back to teach outdoor science, survival, and high adventure at camp henry 4-eva

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1. Ireland (again. Especially the Aran Islands)
2. Alaska
3. New Zealand

THREE KID'S NAMES YOU LIKE:
1. Luke
2. Christopher
3. Matthew
(Yeah, yeah, Xian boy names).

1.  Lydia
2. Autumn (I know - I'm a hippie!)
3. Sylvie

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1.  Be in a band
2.  Spend two weeks straight on the AT, if not more
3.  Climb real rock outdoors

THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A BOY:
1.   I pride myself on how much pain I can take and how much I can do without.
2.  I am an assertive arguer in the classroom; I'm loud and when I'm right, you'll know it.
3. I'd rather kick back with a microbrew and a brat and a guitar around the fire then go out in fancy clothes for fancy wine and fancy food and fancy music  (maybe just the fact that the word "fancy" makes me curl my lip a little).

THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A CHICK:
1. I think eyeliner and mascara are a great game.
2. I'm sensitive about my own emotions and fairly intuitive about others'.
3. I love to dance.

THREE CELEB CRUSHES:  I don't do Celeb crushes - I do character crushes:
1. I'm still not over that guy, Neil, from "Dead Poet's Society."
2. Or Faulkner's Quentin Compson from Absalom, Absalom and The Sound and the Fury
3. Not gonna lie - I loved Luke Skywalker in high school (though not Mark Hamill - do distinguish)