Kristina is - a 23-year-old grad student with mad ideas about urban life, international culture, transnationalism, and Italian and Lusophone literature and poetry;
who wants - to get a Ph.D. in Italian Literature, read, study, learn, transform her humanities studies into actions, and tell everyone about it;
who blogs - with a 12-inch Powerbook G4 that's getting slower and a Nikon D50 with no filter from an ancient apartment in West Hollywood where the window over the kitchen sink faces the sunset from her dad's house on the Peninsula, because she spends all of her money on airline tickets to Virginia, Portugal, Italy, and Brazil;
and who likes - English grammar, Pad Thai and mangos with coconut rice, wearing glasses sometimes, trying to communicate empathically with people, making memories with smell, increasing her knowledge of opera and her vocabulary, and dreaming about being attacked by words.
