Julie Armstrong

is a pre-nursing student in Austin, Texas, and a graduate of Rice University with a B.A. in English, hoping to attend the University of Texas at Austin for a master's in psychiatric nursing. She's fascinated with nutrition, holistic medicine, and the way mental and physical wellbeing intersect. Other interests include mood disorders, autism, ADHD, sexuality, motivation, identity, creativity, sleep, and death. So, everything.

Julie requires regular doses of art, performance, expression, and innovation. She digs film and music of many kinds, organic and residential architecture, street art, aerial arts, theater, dance, comedy, poetry, community radio, literary blogs, tattoos, consumer fashion, colorful visuals, and books with engaging first paragraphs. And XKCD, which is still the best webcomic ever.

Further preoccupations include Craigslist, sustainability, cabins in the middle of nowhere, local businesses, legal drugs, animals, weather, gender, science fiction, Eastern philosophy, road trips, people watching, jogging, acroyoga, kayaking, authentic relating, and making lists.