Marie Wallas

middle school teacher

enjoying Seattle, listening to music, reading, short hikes, attempts at gardening

All I can think of right now are the novels that I teach--not very interesting. I do like to read Uncut magazine, which is Britain's answer to Spin or Rolling Stone, only WAY better and they always throw in a free CD

Goodfellas, Jane Eyre (the one with Olivia de Havilund and Orson Welles), The Thin Man series, and from here the list is constantly changing: Donnie Darko, Princess Bride, Pulp Fiction, Run Lola Run, Monty Python anything

afghan whigs, stone roses, classic rock, alt. country (thanks adam), bossa nova, be bop, baroque, anything by vivaldi. . .

TV is the opiate of the masses--but I'm always a sucker for PBS when our reception is good! Own all the Black Adder episodes on DVD

Recently married and loving it, enjoying the summer off--yet
feeling like a total slacker, I love to organize things and figure out
more efficient ways of doing things (sometimes a blessing, other
times a major personality flaw), I love living in Seattle and one day
will convince my family to move out here; every single one of them,
I have a somewhat lively garden that actually is growing food that
we will actually be able to eat. . . More about me, I try very hard to
be a happy person and agreeable to most situations, but when my
intense side creeps up--it becomes very obvious that I am a
Spaniard and an Irishwoman! I'm learning about myself and my
world daily--and I think that's a good philosophy to have because
both things are always changing. I think the best teachers are the
ones who know it's imperative to keep learning themselves and I
strive to do that. I love my job- as intense as it can be sometimes.
I can't wait to have a family and do lots of fun things with my own
children. . .

I think this is such a strange thing, I'm just curious to see who is in
my "network".