Mikhail

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Gender Female
Industry Banking
Occupation Underwriter
Location Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Introduction I am a Financial Underwriter for a major bank, a volunteer crisis counselor for a suicide hotline at night and sometimes I fight crime! As a radical homemaker who is striving to live a more sustainable and green lifestyle, I also collect things that are sharp or require bullets. I am very committed to the things I have a passion for such as my husband (the love of my life), my family, my friends, my pets and my home. My life is constantly in motion and I am always up to something to keep myself busy. A favorite phrase of mine is to stop telling me that I am burning the candle at both ends but instead tell me where I can get more wax! My life has often been described as organized chaos which I not only believe as accurate but I accept and embrace.
Interests Remodeling my house, gardening, growing herbs, crafts, restoring old British cars, Japanese watercolor, pottery, throwing knives, shinai, writing, wine tasting, recycling, power tools, cats, seafood, candles, wine, Egyptian art, dancing, making lists, backgammon, croquet, badmitton, reading, rapier fencing, painting, drawing, foreign movies, camping, rafting, karaoke, hiking, cooking, hanging out with people that are not batshit crazy, and fudgesicles.
Favorite Movies Breakfast at Tiffanies, Some Like It Hot, Le Dernier Combat, La Femme Nikita, Harold and Maude, A Cook A Thief His Wife Her Lover, Freeway, BioZombie, Wild Zero, GoJoe, Zatoichi, Indiana Jones, Godzilla versus Mothra, Equilibrium, American Psycho, Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl, Battle Royale, Ichi The Killer, Zombie Strippers, Serenity, Scarface, The Godfather, Brazil, The Pillow Book, Belle Du Jour, Boxing Helena, Star Wars, Cecil B Demented, Great Expectations, American Beauty, Meet Joe Black, Trois couleurs: Bleu, Once Upon a Time in China, Hero, Immortelle, Fallen Angels, 2046, Chung King Express, Sex Lies and Videotape, Secretary, Full Metal Jacket, Flight of the Dead, Fido, Cashern and The Red Violin.
Favorite Music Helium Voila, And One, Assemblage 23, Bjork, Blut Engel, Charles Aznavour, Coil, Emilie Simon, Written In Ashes, The Prids, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Storm Large, Origa, Peaches, Pink Martini, Frank Sinatra, Bobbie Darin, David Bowie, Gary Newman, Two Ton Boa, Panic on the Titanic, Diary of Dreams, Android Lust, Eminem, The Expolited, Cuizinier, Guitar Wolf, Genitortures, Harry Connick Jr, Sting, Rachmaninoff, Haujobb, Lamb, Massive Attack, Nina Simone, Combichrist, Stromkern, The Pixies, Madonna, Pucini, Dead Kennedys, Love and Rockets, Portishead, Qntal, Depeche Mode, Lady Gaga, Yelle, Helmut Fritz, Gotan Project, Sting, Portishead, Benny Goodman, Eminem, Florence and the Machine, Placebo and Tristesse De La Lune.
Favorite Books Fingerprints of the Gods, Great Expectations, Hamlet, To Kill a Mockingbird, This Coming Plague, Book of the Dead, A Woman of Substance, The Art of War, In the Arms of Morpheus, Byron, Poe, Constelations of Philosophy, Hayne's Guide to the MG Midget, Book of Five Rings, Geisha: A Life, Tale of Murasaki, The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Hunger, Good Omens, The Man Who Became Cabavaggio, Gulag, Night Watch, World War Z, Zombie Survival Guide, The Field Guide to Demons, The Iliad, The Divine Comedy, Hannibal Rising, Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, Hagakure, Violin, Good Omens, Cloud of Sparrows and Autumn Bridge. I mostly read non-fiction but do find my way through a fictional story now and again...

Your pajamas have duckies on them. Why did you switch from choo-choos?

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