ABOUT

My name is Katie, and I'm 23 years old. I currently live in Portland, OR where I work as a web author, however, I was born and raised in Texas. I have a B.S. ('05) and M.A. ('07) in radio-television-film from the University of Texas at Austin. Although I can't operate a camera, I can tell you an awful lot about popular Hindi cinema. I like to travel, take pictures of things, read, write, watch movies, and cook/eat delicious foods. I'm up for trying pretty much anything new, and there is very little that, upon trying, I don't like or enjoy. For right now, my main goal is simply to get furniture for my brand new apartment (I currently have none) and someday (soon-ish) to unpack all of my boxes.
I still think a lot about what I would like to be when I grow up. I currently work in a cubicle-ridden corporate environment that I'm not so much fond of (my cube blog) and I'm looking forward to someday being able to change careers to something more edifying. My ideal careers include: 1) world travel journalist, 2) world travel television show host, 3) UN translator who lives in Geneva, but travels from one continent to another in the event of major crises -- despite not speaking any other languages, 4) actress/heiress who is equal parts world traveler and world saver -- despite being neither an actress or heiress. I realize these goals are pretty unlikely, so my realist career goals include: 1) self-employed web designer, doing sites primarily for small local businesses and non-profit organizations, 2) teaching film history and theory at a small college or junior college (non-research institution), 3) possibly starting an outreach program for middle and high school students to teach web design, or possibly even film. I also would like to go back to school for both my Ph.D. in film and for a degree in engineering, probably electrical or aerospace. Who knows when/if those will happen though.
I have a pretty long list of lifetime goals that all fit under the umbrella goal "To See/Do Everything." I've listed most of those here, so you're welcome to peruse.

Go to India (all over -- I would also like to do more research there, maybe for a dissertation?)
Go to Scotland (and eat at Kellen's uncle/aunt's restaurant?)
Go to Italy (Rome, Venice, Tuscany?)
Go to France (mostly just Paris)
Go to Spain (Barcelona and Granada especially, but also Madrid)
Go to Switzerland (I've watched too many Hindi films)
Go to Japan
See more of Mexico
See more of Alaska
Go somewhere, anywhere in South America, although preferably somewhere that speaks Spanish (i.e. not Brazil)
Build a computer
Write a book and have it published
Write a song (which I will only play/sing for Kellen)
Get married and have lots of babies with the love of my life
Get my pilot's license
Finish: Anna Karenina, Wuthering Heights, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and a host of other books that I have started, never to finish (mostly classics that start out painfully slow...or become dreadfully boring)
Go to the Met, the Louvre, the MOMA (been to the Smithsonian, but I'd like to go back and see more?)
See a Broadway play...on Broadway
Go to New York
Go to California (not LA)
Take a tour of wine country!
Go to Tillamook and try the squeaky cheese (what?! it's a place I've never been!)
Go to Powell's, which I've heard is the book lover's Mecca
Go to Mecca?
Go to New Zealand
Go to Morocco
Become fluent in Spanish
Become fluent in Hindi
Become fluent in French
Swim in the Mediterranean
Put my feet in the Atlantic (not sure if I want to swim in it...)
See the Himalayas
See the Andes
See the Alps
See the Nile
See the Amazon
See the Rheine
Go ice skating on an actual frozen lake
See at least one of the five Great Lakes
Ride in a hot air balloon
Have a photo published/purchased
Go to REAL Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Go to SXSW in Austin at least once!
Do the Bigfoot Festival in WA at least once (maybe this year?)

I am sure there are others, so if you have any suggestions, you should probably e-mail them to me.