Sarilka

It depends on the context. If I'm in a large group of people I don't know, I tend to be somewhat withdrawn - I'm generally the person in the corner looking over the books. However, if it's one-on-one, or if I'm with a smaller group of people, I'm the life of the party.

I grew up on the Internet, so I would say "Connectedness" and "Some device with which to connect."

I moved to Chicago essentially on a whim. I had lost my job, and Chicago had called to me - so I packed up the dog, and moved here on faith.

Storytelling. It's my life's passion, and is a shared intimacy with other people.

"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"'Love' is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
-Jubal Harshaw, Stranger in a Strange Land

"All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics."
- Brian Greene