Reading, Writing, Running, Cycling, Cooking, Baking, learning to Crochet, Photography, Printmaking, Woodburning

Thao with the Get Down Stay Down, Cake, Camille, The Ditty Bops, Bright Eyes, Emily Wells, Gogol Bordello, Gorillaz, The Clash, The Airborne Toxic Event, Metric, the morning benders, Muse, Passion Pit, The Spinto Band, Two Door Cinema Club, Vampire Weekend, We Are Scientists, El Guincho, Faded Paper Figurres, LCD SOundsystem, Blur

Anything by: David Foster Wallace, Aimee Bender, Raymond Carver, Jonathan Safran Foer, Ursula K. LeGuin, Dave Eggers, Fitzgerald, Gogol, Hemingway, Don DeLillo, Flannery O'Connor, Kafka, Zadie Smith, Salinger