Friends, Activity Partners

Dec 2004

Ossining, NY

Horace Mann Elementary

http://profiles.friendster.com/14669924

American School in Japan, Ossining High School, Hamilton College, George Mason University

Hamilton College, Attended 1999 - 2003, Class of 2003, Bachelor's Degree, Anthropology

Teacher

NJG-DC (Jewbians), DCDD, Going out Gurus Fan Club

Rambling walks and conversation, hiking, watching and following women's soccer, cooking, yoga, thinking, reading, bumming around used bookstores and farmers markets, finding new places to listen to fun acoustic music, sharing stories, New Mexico, bright colors, Sunday morning with the paper and Meet the Press, Playing tour guide/Being a know-it-all, Wine, holding hands, semolina bread, planning my next trip (and the one after that), peace, Reading transcripts of the Washington Post Live Chats (Sietsema, GOG, etc), learning things, finding old things, Squarefoot gardening, organic gardening, compost, making clay turn to rich soil (you get the idea), planning next years gardens, school gardening, lessening my carbon foot print, reading too many queer mommy and daddy blogs

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Amazing Adventures of Kavlier and Clay, I Know this Much is True, The Red Tent, The All-True Adventures of Liddie Newton, The Blind Assassin, Fingersmith, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Mila 18, Bingo, Poisonwood Bible, Donorboy, The Girls, Like Water for Chocolate, Human Comedy, Carmella, In the Time of Butterflies, Light a Penny Candle, Out of the Closet and Nothing to Wear, The Kid, The Commitment, Child of a Rainless Year, The Kite Runner, The Omnivores Dilemna, The Organic Gardening Encyclopedia, Many, many thousands of kids/YA books

Fried Green Tomatoes, Annie Hall, The Circle, Dangerous Beauty, Bend it Like Beckham, Best in Show, Office Space, Frida, The Terminal, Saved!, Como Aqua Para Chocolate, The Family Man; West Side Story, Mr. Holland's Opus, Monsoon Wedding, The Crucible, The Shawshank Redemption, Europa Europa, The Borne Identity Series (ok, I have to admit, I have a "thing" for Matt Damon)

Girlyman, Edie Carey, Curtis, Dar Williams, Sam Shaber, Kris Delmhorst, Ellis Paul; Jazz makes me smile; Bluegrass and Newgrass, music that makes me wanna dance, That drummer who hangs out on the mall and plays the buckets and garbage cans, Anything they play on WFUV, almost anything outside under the starts, Classical, Cellos, Anything my students are NOT singing (and therefore permenently stuck in my head)

US Women's Soccer matches, Anything on TLC, Iron Chef, Will and Grace Reruns

Aries

Finally, an updated profile : )

I live in the best neighborhood in DC, Brightwood, right south of Walter Reed Hospital. I spend hours in my mini-gardens and love making friends with my neighbors. "Living Locally" as friendster would say (like the other side of the bed), is Naomi, who's like the smell of rain, mint chocolate chip ice cream on a hothotDCday, suprise cherry blossoms in February and the dancing in the first snow flurry of the year all wrapped up into one amazing package. She goes along with all my dopey, hair-brained ideas and makes me feel lucky to be me.
We share our life with the cats (Rosie and Guildy) and guinea pig (Eloise).

I'm always up for an adventure- either here at home or elsewhere. I love the smell of libraries, sun on the dashboard of a car, rain, new textbooks, Californian trees and the ocean.

I'm an ESOL teacher at a great public elementary school here in DC. Most of the time I get paid on time. Teaching is stressful but really the most creative work I've ever done. I'm lucky to have found a place for myself professionally for the moment.


"JT, what's with this Jewbian thing you keep refering to in your photos??"
Look here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NJG_DC/

Without much "tada" (TADA!!!!! ok, maybe a little tada) here is my blog. Probably will be filled with political rants and linguistic raves. But I'm just guessing http://adventures-in.blogspot.com/

I'd like to meet anybody nice and smart and silly and not snobby or fake. Old friends and other Nice Jewish Girls... Girls who want to show me their tattoos. (please take that anyway you want to, thanks)

Also, cool teachers, queer mommies and daddies, small children and friendly dogs.