MEMBER SINCE: December 2006

i lost my virginity: while my grandparents were in the next room

heroes: MLK, Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh,

crush: bi-athletes. Any girl who can ski and shoot... well, damn.

into: smart girls, conversationalists, crossing borders, sunday laziness, the warm summer evening wind in the midwest, linguistics, that space under the ear and behind the jaw of a beautiful woman, aikido, the idioms of other languages

most humbling moment: when a vietnamese war veteran held my hand and told me that he knows that people don't start wars -- governments do