i am a full-time, unpaid intern at the Center for the Healing of Racism, in houston, texas. i am a master's candidate in psychology--graduate in may! i live with a pack of cats, a large and scary-looking dog, and my mother (it's ok, you can laugh). i choose to live with her for 2 reasons: 1) i have no car, and i needed to be able to get to and from my internship on a daily basis (if you know houston, you know what a sprawling behemoth she is, and the impossibility of getting around without a car...); 2) as i have been a student for quite a while, i cannot afford to assist my mother--financially--in any meaningful way unless we live under the same roof. god willing, a barrell of money will come into my life, and i will be able to help her, and live wherever the heck my whims take me--otherwise, pray my master's degree will bring me a sizeable salary. my ba is also psychology, and my minor was french. i did study abroad twice, at bourges, france. i also studied arabic for 2 years, and studied: the politics & government of the middle east, islam, cross-cultural communication, & etc. my favorite colors are (petal) pink and red, my favorite female singer is poe, my favorite male singer is jeff buckley, my favorite band is pearl jam, and i own around 900 books-a huge proportion of them are hard-bound. my favorite books include A Confederacy of Dunces, The Secret Life of Plants, Infinite Jest, all things Henry Miller, on and on, ad nauseum...