Who am I?

While we're on question titles, I figured "who" is probably a good one to tackle next!

I hope this post will put me a bit more in context, so you can understand where I'm coming from, and so that when I mention "home" and "mom" and "school" and "Deece" you know what those things mean.

Family
When I'm not at school, I live in beautiful Vermont with my dad, mom, older sister and two younger brothers.

This is them.  They clean up nice, don't they?

As far as LoGOFF, my mom is probably the person I'll talk about the most because she is the one who is really interested in LoGO (Local/Green/Organic) food.  She loves running the local farmers' market, cooking, gardening, learning about permaculture, eating and making compost in the dining room (the worms can't survive the cold Vermont winters, so they move inside....)

School

I'm a senior at Vassar College.  I'm majoring in psychology and focusing on child development.  After I graduate in the spring, I'll be back at Vassar for the fall semester to do my student teaching and finish up my elementary education certification.

This is our library...I'm blessed to get to study in such a beautiful place!

I'm really lucky that lots of Vassar students before me have worked hard to get LoGOFF food on campus.  The Deece (the main all-you-can-eat) dining hall serves local milk/eggs and many local veggies.  The Retreat (the pay-per-item dining area) also has local options for milk/yogurt/eggs and often for fruits and veggies as well.  And both the dining areas have fair trade coffee!  I'm not sure what UpC (late night coffee/smoothy place) has that would be LoGOFF, but that will be on my list of things to find out when I get back to school!

Hobbies
Dancing - I love swing, contra, waltz, ballet, modern, tap, jazz....you name it, I've probably dabbled in it.


Fiddling - I started playing violin when I was a kid, but switched to fiddling when I realized that violinists practice, and fiddlers play with other people..