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Kirstin, one of Abundance House's many distinctive residents, has lived in Charlottesville on and off for many years. Once a UVA student, she identifies strongly with the radical environmental movement, especially Earth First! She's been to California a number of times to help save what remains of the old growth forest growing there. But she also has a fun-loving side. She does not, for example, feel that God blundered when He put marijuana in the Garden of Eden. Or when He made the chemicals combine in just the way they did in Albert Hoffman's test tubes back in 1943.Kirstin comes from Tennessee, and she speaks with an accent that is sort of a combination of the hippie California thing and an Appalachian drawal. It makes everything she says much more quotable, especially given the fact that she's usually pretty worked-up about anything she says. Among her famous quotes are:
"It's not gross, it's just dog sex!
She's gotten to the point where she uses such lines for rhetorical effect.
I won't go too far into discussing Kirstin's love life, but let's just say there was a time when she appeared to be doing stuff with Monster Boy, and more recently there was a thing with Johnny Two Boom, who more or less jerked her around in a manner that was at times painful to watch.