In Search of America • I really want that sweater. But I can’t justify...

Kennifer, 26, B.A. in Anthropology with an emphasis in archaeology.

I'm an academic junkie. Some of the stuff I like are antique maps, Richard Feynman and Carl Sagan, graphic novel and comic book culture, and reading American historical nonfiction (especially about Lewis & Clark, the Civil War and early western pioneering life). Someday I'd like to have a motorcycle built from the ground up.

I'm an INTJ. Starcraft, beer, and whiskey take up a significant amount of my "free time" other than reading and dicking around on the internet. And cooking, I guess. I'm a big fan of Ina Garten.

C.C.G.F.

I really want that sweater. But I can’t justify spending that much on it when I know I’ll wear it, at most, five times to holiday parties (especially family parties).

It’s the least Cosby-ish sweater I’ve looked at in probably five years. The tradition is that I always wear a disgustingly campy sweater to every single holiday party I’m invited to. My family just expects it now. I can’t break the tradition! Must keep searching…