When I'm not on campus, I'm often found at the local library, Barnes & Noble (my beloved), or on aimless drives with my father around the state and beyond. I spend most weekends with family and would rather watch a movie at home than sit in a cold theatre with strangers. I like The Half Door, country fairs and farmers' markets, and eating cold poutine in diners at 3 in the morning.

I travel a lot. I've been to thirty-four American states, the District of Columbia, Ontario and Québec, Sonora and Baja California, and many of the islands of the Bahamas. In 2006 and 2007, I logged close to 20,000 flight miles, something I'll have to offset somehow. I don't actually care for flying, however, having been raised with the fine American tradition of family road trips. I started logging the counties I've visited a few years back – why do you think they call them "counties" after all? – and just based on the ones I've marked so far, I've been to about a quarter of all in the U.S. And I'm still going.

Like anyone else, I have hobbies. I enjoy genealogical research and have definitively traced a line through my father back to 11th C. England. (My heritage is Bahamian, Irish, Danish, Welsh, Scottish, English, German, and French...at least in recent generations.) I collect interesting used and rare books and am often found digging around library and church rummage sales. I am learning manuscript illumination and getting much better at it.

I have a self-built darkroom in my basement that I once used for mainly black-and-white photography, but which has sat sadly neglected these past few years; I hope to revive it soon. I maintain an organic garden and do my own composting. I do a lot of writing, newsletter editing, clerical work, and web design for a variety of organizations, all volunteer. I am watching more DVDs lately than I normally get to. I keep busy.

My favorite activity is falling asleep with a good book. Thankfully, I get to do it almost every night.