BRAIN FOOD
I recognize that this wall of delicious and nutritious brain food is a tad excessive.
But these are my favorite things and my enthusiasm is unbridled. So, if you’ve got the time, I invite you to scroll through and think about what feeds you.
If I weren’t in advertising I’d probably be:
A curator in a museum
A high school English teacher
A historian
An Art History professor
A speechwriter
A movie critic
A community organizer
An interior designer
Trips I want to take:
Road trip across the lower 48 states
See every country in the European union
See every spot from the photos that circle through when I leave my amazon fire on for too long.
Every restaurant from “Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives.”
Drive the Pan-American highway
Some things I’m trying to learn more about:
Science communications
How to write compelling female characters
Packaging/Recycling/Composting
Police Brutality
How to use the printing press
Alternate reality games
Digital privacy laws
LGBTQ+ history
Classes that changed me:
Scandinavian Literature: Text And Interpretation
English: Introduction to Environmental Literature
Advertising: The Creative Strategist
Art: Drawing III
English: Diversity in Teen and Children’s Literature
“I am just a dog inside a car with my head sticking out the window I know that we go fast and we go far, but I’ll never know how the engine works.”
“I want to turn this feeling of fire into sound.”
“I’d like to somehow make a difference in people’s lives.”
”And I –– I would like to buy them all a Coke.””
“Every destination’s waiting”
“There’s no thief like a bad book.”
“I’m not a snack at all, baby, I’m the whole damn meal.”
My drinks of choice:
Grapefruit Lacroix
Omission Pale Ale
Cold Brew with oat milk
Shot of Tequila
Diet Coke
“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”
Names I answer to:
Madeline (pronounced Mad-e-lyn)
Maddy (if you knew me in middle school)
Maddie (if you knew me in high school)
Merdlern (for that one week sophomore year that we got snowed in and everyone kind of lost it)
Merde (for when your friends find out that your existing nickname is eerily similar to the French word for shit)
Donna (an homage to Meryl's character in “Mama Mia”)
Mads (if you know me now)
Places where I’ve left my jacket:
The Atlanta Airport
The Portland Airport
The Denver Airport
The Salt Lake City Airport
Experiences that shaped me:
My reading bowl and academic bowl teams
My family’s road trips to many a national park
My time as an au pair
My decision to go 2,652 miles away for college
My six weeks studying abroad in Accra, Ghana
“A party without cake is just a meeting”
“I ain’t lookin’ for you to feel like me see like me or be like me. All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you.”
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time. ”
“People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.”
Some Potential Band Names:
Sweet Heat
Reckless Abandon
Hot Freaks
The Naughty Bits
Favorite foods include, but not limited to:
Yellow curry
Shrimp in any form
Thanksgiving dinner
Eggs over easy with toast
Mango
Movie theater popcorn
“Who is each of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read... Each life is an encyclopedia, a library.”
“Everything in moderation. Including moderation.”
“Never suppress a generous thought.”
If you’re into that sort of thing:
Sag sun, Scorpio moon, Libra rising
INFJ
Ravenclaw
2w3
“Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
“Either be groovy or leave, man.”
“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”
“Florals? For Spring? Groundbreaking.”
“You must allow yourself to outgrow and depart from certain eras of your life with a gentle sort of ruthlessness.”
Working Memoir Titles:
“'Why Does My Youtube Algorithm Know Me Better Than I Know Myself?' And Other Late Night Texts”
“Bi The Way: The Freedom In Duality and the Bisexual Philosophy”
Recovering Adolescent
“And she embraced the chaos as it painted her with purpose”
“I contradict myself.
I am large,
I contain multitudes.”
“Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.”
“You and I knew the strange corners of life.”
If I were stranded on an island, I’d bring:
A speaker
A sketchbook and pencils
A whole lot of beer
A hammock
All the books from my childhood bedroom
