”I hope you are holding on to your hat and socks, because I will now knock them off in a wild ride of viewing pleasure.” – Robokopf

I'm a Renaissance mixture of savory goodness, an energetic weirdo with a zesty appreciation for life and love. As the product of a Japanese father and Swedish mother, I often sublimate my warlike imperialist tendencies via athletics, though (being a wide-eyed romantic poetry-type not so far beneath the surface) I'm as mushy and tender as they come.

alias:Erica

birthday:July 3rd

pets:1) Hummer, deranged mental-patient-type cat, 2) Mars, similarly insane kitty

car:1979 Plymouth Volare', blue. (It wasn't even a cool car in 1979.)

childhood toy: Pengwee the Penguin

places i've been:New York, Portland, Anaheim, Palo Alto, Monterey, San Fransisco, Berkeley, Philidelphia, Washington DC, Hawaii, New Orleans, Vancouver, Queen Charlottes, Missoula

things that peeve me:
Normandy Park (especially the insane soccer moms and their crazed offspring)
excessive packaging
Tara Reid and her eyemakeup from hell
Jerri curls
couscous
when I’m driving: everything
cranky hippies
holiday-themed stores

distractions:
drawing
writing
reading
singing
scenic driving
athletics (check “activities”)
getting jiggy with it
getting shwill with my homies

writers:Margaret Atwood, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., C.D. Payne, Janet Fitch, Anne Rice, Fransesca Lia Block, John Irving, Marty Beckerman, Ron Koertge, Madeleine L'Engle, Laura Esquivol, (vintage) Michael Crichton, Franz Kafka, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Katherine Dunn, John Fowles,

notches on my lipstick case:
a bagpipe player
an ex-convict
a drug dealer
a dude nicknamed “Buffalo”
a dude with a kid
an exhibitionist

(for good measure, I might as well hunt down a rodeo clown, oil tycoon, 80 y/o +, or someone missing their intestines)

largescale traumas:
getting ran over by a car
kneeing myself in the face
being unable to leave Montana
being hunted down by a spider version of Attila the Hun
being informed by my research group that my quarter project would be done on the “psychosexual inability to have an orgasm”
exploding a canister of whipped cream all over myself and the inside of an espresso drive-thru
fainting and falling off the examination table after a nurse went hunting for the vein

activities:
ballet (age 5)
swimming (age 5)
improv acting (age 11)
volleyball (age 12-18)
gymnastics (age 12-14)
wrestling (15-18*)
track** (12-18)
kendo (age 16)
rugby (age 18)
kung fu (age 19)

*19 if you count Jäger Wrasslin’
**9th place holder in Washington State 3A 2002!!!

fetishes:
office supplies
soccer socks
bubble wrap
Angelina Jolie
shrimp chips

movies:Waking Life, Pumpkin, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Hannibal, The Royal Tenebaums, Whale Rider, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Alice in Wonderland, Traffic, Snatch, Run Lola Run, Party Girl, Pecker, Bridget Jones' Diary, Groove, Sleepy Hollow, Dead Poets Society, Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, American History X, American Beauty, the Virgin Suicides

foods: sushi, udon, persimmons, lychees, cheese, fried rice, pot stickers, Leche et Dulce ice cream, mangoes, lavender ice cream, flan, artichokes and melted butter, crazy Japanese candy, crustaceans, spanakopita