Name: Karen Lynn
Nicknames: Raaa, Kare, Shin, Kirin, The Biggest Indigo Girls Bitch of Japan
AOL IM: None any more
Date of Birth: 20 August 1977
Sex: Female (thank goddess...)
Gender: Female (why fuck around with perfection?)
Marital Status: Not married. Never want to be married. Do not ask me out. I do not use the internet as a tool to get a date.
Location(s): Evanston, IL. Berkeley, CA. Springfield, OH. (but I am out of there, thank goddess), Paris, France. Tokyo, Japan. Osaka, Japan.
Languages: English, Japanese, French (but I suck), Spanish (but I suck even worse), Italian (I can only understand). Hoping to learn Korean and conversational Danish.
Family: Mother, a cat, a dog.
Appearance: 5 ft 0 inches. Blue eyes. Wavy brown hair. Not a waif. Not overweight.
Problems: Allergies, Asthma
Car: A 1990 Light Blue (Bumpersticker covered) Honda Accord named Clint
Likes: Indigo Girls, liberals, Japanese, feminism, travel, road trips, e-mail, academia, cheese, chocolate, my car, my mother, my friends, my dog (rest in peace, Shanghai), my cat.
Dislikes: Sexism, racism, homophobia, capital punishment, conservatives, anti-choice people, people who do not respect the liberal arts, standardized tests, teenie bop bands, the radio (except for NPR and college radio), random fuckers who use AOL to IM women looking for a hookup, the army, the navy, the marines, meat, MILITARY PEOPLE STATIONED IN JAPAN.
Favorite Color: Indigo (duh)
Favorite Animals: Saltwater Crocodiles (Salties) and Lobsters
Favorite Foods: Bagels, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Cheese, Nachos, Pineapple
Favorite Drinks: Diet Coke, Pina Coladas, Kirin Beer, Hairy Buffalo, Orange Juice, Absolut Vodka
Favorite TV Channels: Travel Channel, Weather Channel, CNN
Favorite TV Shows: Real World, Lonely Planet, Who Wants to be a Millionaire
Favorite Movies: The Last Supper, Shall We Dance, Boys Don't Cry
Favorite Music: Go here Favorite Reads: Go here Favorite Artists: Frida Kahlo, Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Georgia O'Keefe
Favorite Word: Fuck
Favorite Japanese Kanji: Shinkansen
Favorite Disney Movie: Robin Hood
Favorite Sanrio Character(s): The brand new Shinkansen and We Are Dinosaurs
Favorite Classes: High School: US History. College: Japanese (but only w/ Christiansen).
Favorite Teachers: High School: Malykke Bacon and Rodney Lowe. College: Amy Christiansen and Kurt Miyazaki
Favorite Online Gangs:[email protected], IGbooters, Pro-Choice Webring, Feminist Webring
Favorite Shops: Borders Books and Music, The Body Shop, J Crew, The Gap, Ameoba Music (Berkeley, CA), Cody's Books (Berkeley, CA), Women and Children First (Chicago, IL), A Room of One's Own (Madison, WI), Moe's Books (Berkeley, CA) Mitsuwa Market (Arlington Heights, IL), Sam and Eddy's Open Books (Yellow Springs, OH)
Favorite Towns (East): Washington, DC. Chapel Hill, NC. Northampton, MA. Ithaca, NY.
Favorite Towns (Midwest): Madison, WI. Yellow Springs, OH. Iowa City, IA.
Favorite Towns (South): Atlanta, GA. Tusculoosa, AL
Favorite Towns (West): Berkeley, CA. Eugene, OR. Muir Woods, CA. Missoula, MT.
Favorite Towns (Non-USA): Hiroshima, Japan. Paris, France. Cairns, Australia. Newtown, Australia. Tokyo, Japan. Kyoto, Japan. Etratat, France.
Now that you know more about me than you probably should, why don't you go home?
