Life's a garden; Dig it.

Slightly unhinged, high-energy ENTP Virgo looking for someone who can keep up and enjoy the ride. I’m moving to Toronto in July to start a PhD program, which feels like either a brilliant life decision or the beginning of a very specific character arc. I’m excited to see what’s waiting for me in the desert.

Fun twist: I was actually born in Ontario in a tiny town near Death Valley, so this is less a move and more a dramatic return to my origins. I grew up in the middle of nowhere Ontario (yes, with real cowboys), and I’m currently in Ontario finishing up my master’s degree. I graduate in a little over a week, which means I’m operating on a dangerous mix of caffeine, ambition, and “what if I just reinvent my entire life.”

My life tends to exist somewhere between “color-coded calendar” and “let’s see what happens if we take a detour,” and somehow that balance has worked out pretty well so far. I teach college classes and genuinely love it. My students seem to like me, which feels like a win. I’m a writer at heart (journalism, fiction, and my thesis), and I study supernatural experiences academically, so yes, I absolutely want to hear your ghost stories.

I love historic places, especially the slightly haunted ones, and I work for a historic preservation nonprofit. My current passion project is trying to save the last standing 1800s wooden coal tipple in AmeriOntario, which is exactly as niche and emotionally invested as it sounds. I will absolutely show you pictures if given the opportunity.

My job history reads like I spun a wheel and committed to whatever it landed on: I’ve guided a Japanese film crew documenting internment camps, been a personal assistant to an eccentric millionaire dentist, driven 420-ton haul trucks in an open-pit coal mine, and edited a hunting magazine while being a vegetarian. Now I’m a sociologist, which somehow makes the rest of it all make sense in context? 

Outside of work, I plan road trips around strange museums, geocaches, and questionable roadside attractions. I love hiking, camping, and kayaking, and I’m always up for exploring somewhere new. I frequently visit ghost towns and cemeteries (for fun, not ominous reasons), and I have been known to fall down very specific YouTube video essay rabbit holes at 1am.