Why thank you very much - I did! :D

The same passion I have in work - sharing what I love and learn with others - carries on in my hobbies, too. I worked as a rock climbing instructor throughout graduate school and have taught many, many friends how to climb, snowboard, and photograph animals over the years. The high you get from introducing someone you care about to an activity you love - and then they also love it? Bliss.

I have two answers, the practical answer and the instinctual, heart's desire answer. My instinctual answer to this question is 'Shapeshifter'. Given my affinity for animals, it's really no surprise. The practical answer, the one I'd probably choose because the world is the way it is, is 'the ability to refill things'. Out of money? Refill your wallet. Out of gas? Refill your tank. Annoyed by someone? Refill their bladder. The ultimate power for a capitalist society.

Most of my family lives or has plans to retire to Florida or a desert somewhere. Hot, however, is my least favorite season and I'm the only family member that actively enjoys winter. My philosophy is that if winter only takes from you - your temperature of comfort, your activities, your cute clothes, your ability to even enjoy being outside - then yeah, you're going to hate winter. But winter gives me so much through photography and snowboarding that I can't help but look forward to it. I'm the black, woolly-wrapped sheep of the family.

Currently? Eh. I took a year and a half of German in undergrad, and three years Latin in high school. However, since leaving those courses I haven't had many opportunities to keep those skills razor-sharp. Not many people speak Latin conversationally these days, you know?

Half my family can roll their Rs (i.e. make the trilled-R sound common in romance languages) - guess which half I'm in?