Amy Schmidt

Antioch College R.I.P.

fu.cking camp counselor

I belong to no one but myself

leaving places, people and things behind me, clay, yarn, snow angels, music making and listening, wasting time on Friendster

Once upon a time, I loved Dr. Suess, Judy Blume, Cynthia Voight, the Giver.. More recently, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Finding Fisher stick out. Currently, I'm reading a series of essays by Erving Goffman on total institutions. yes, for fun.

Fight Club, yeah the first time someone went down on me we were watching that. I like a bunch of other movies too, but ya know, that one sticks out in my mind the most

from Ani to Flogging Molly, Modest Mouse to the Dead. Counting Crows, all that indie rock my friends introduce me to. Lately, I've been singly along softy to the Lemonheads a lot.

If I had a TV I would watch the Simpsons

Cancer

I'm gonna be a grown up soon, with a college edumacation. This means now I'm learning to enjoy olives, fetta cheese, and drinking my wine from a glass and not a bottle. Soon my clothes will match and I will get up before noon every day of the week. There is a good chance that I may someday live somewhere for more than four months as well. Perhaps I will also become better at giving an accurate yet pleasing description of myself that will appeal to people.


Here are the places I have been in the past year: New York, New Jersey, Philidelphia, Chicago, New Orleans (doing Katrina relief work) San Fransisco, Berkeley and Oakland, a good portion of Mexico, and countless random towns throughout Ohio. My goal is to visit at least the 48 continental US states, and as much of Europe as possible. I have a pretty good start thus far..

I do NOT want to meet anyone who refers to themselves in the third person or thinks that buying me a drink means that they can touch me. And I especially do not want to hear from anyone who thinks that Friendster is a form of communication that can substitute direct interaction... I don't want to meet any more insincere or superficial people, either.

Oh, how wonderful it would be to meet someone who will respect me in a deep and meaningful way. Someone who wants to run away on spontaneous adventures would be cool, too. I am not going to name any famous people, celebrity worship is rather pointless.