Friends, Activity Partners

Sep 2003

not applicable

Maybe you? (wink, wink)

http://profiles.friendster.com/2424130

I went to Simmons College where I majored in English Lit, Political Science, unabashed lesbianism, and developing a love of joyful vice--clearly a nanny and personal trainer/pilates instructor in the making

"baby whisperer" and I'll pump you up

Jaques on Tuesday nights, Tom, Summer St. Hill 'hood, Fort Rad, NASM, Stott Pilates, Healthworks Brookline, fine jeez Atwood's Tavern

karaoke blended with burlesque, NPR, bacon cheddar burgers, high-weight/low-rep functional training (I would LOVE to tell you, especially if you're a woman), visting all of my friends who conspired to move to NYC and leave me alone (I'm not bitter), the Pilates Reformer, film of the 70's, benevolent sarcasm, not cilantro, potluck night, dirty text messages, modern, green, sustainable design, heels, kissing, windsor knots, butches, dancing and dance parties, TV on DVD, blizzards, short shorts, the documentary section, surf culture, apprehending kairos, movie nights at home or on the big screen, JT, eschewing public transit for my bike, american studies, media studies, lingerie, diction, reusing, colors, magazines (The Economist, Dwell, Vanity Fair, NYT, and The MIT Tech Review), muscles, sparkling water, minimalist living

The Worst Hard Time, Deep Thoughts 1, 2 and 3_Handy, Fast Food Nation_ Schlosser, Understanding Power_Chomsky, Waterland_Swift, A Sport and a Pastime_Salter, Atlas Shrugged_Rand, Pride and Prejudice_Austen, Love in the Time of Cholera_Garcia Marquez, The Things They Carried_O'Brien, The Great Gatsby_Fitzgerald, The Sun Also Rises_Hemingway, Season of Migration to the North_Salih, Dickens, People's History of the United States_Zinn, Kundera, Sartre, The Awakening_Chopin, The Plague_Camus, Homer, Cry, the beloved country_Paton, Poisonwoord Bible_Kingsolver, The Lord of the Flies_Golding, The Chronicles of Narnia_Lewis, The Grapes of Wrath_Steinbeck...

Juno, Notes on a Scandal, The Graduate, Children of Men, Last King of Scotland, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Little Miss Sunshine, Brick, Talladega Nights, The Conversation, The Last Picture Show, Taxi Driver, Brokeback Mountian, Fahrenheit 451, The Big Sleep, The Corporation, Bad Education, Chinatown, Tommy Boy, The Future of Food, Raging Bull, The Woodsman, Hotel Rwanda, I Heart Huckabees, The Battle of Algiers, The Door in the Floor, Brazil, The Secret of NIMH, Star Wars Trilogy, Happiness, Wet Hot American Summer, Cinema Paradiso, The Princess Bride, Secretary, Boys Don't Cry, Cabaret, Bladerunner, Hero, The Last Unicorn, Room with A View, The Neverending Story, Dangerous Liasons, The Bourne Identity, LOTR, Dancer in the Dark, Amores Perros, BottleRocket, Rushmore, Velvet Goldmine, Harold and Maude, Apocolypse Now, Lost In Translation, Sense and Sensibility, Edward Scissorhands, Doctor Zhivago, Christopher Guest, Michael Moore, D. Lynch

David Bowie, Sufjan Stevens, Justin Timberlake, M.J., Peaches, Pixies, Neko Case, Throwing Muses, Kristin Hersh, Leonard Cohen, Franz Ferdinand (perfect pop!), Iron and Wine, Tom Petty, The White Stripes, Belle and Sebastian, Kings of Convenience, Weezer, Soul Coughing, Beatles, The Strokes ("Is This It?"), old U2, The Cure, Ben Harper, Nirvana, Counting Crows (first album), Interpol, Modest Mouse, Radiohead, Pulp, Justin Timberlake, Neutral Milk Hotel, Built To Spill, Lovage, Sade, Zeppelin, PJ Harvey, Bjork, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Elton John, Fiona Apple, Scissor Sisters, Elliot Smith, Joni Mitchell, Postal Service, NIN, Doughty, Sigur Ros, Cat Power, Portishead, Coldplay, Outkast, Carole King, Junior Senior, ANYTHING I can dance to, John R. Cash and Justin Timberlake

I haven't had a TV in months and it makes me feel so *healthy*. Still... Flight of the Conchords, Seinfeld, Arrested Development, Strangers With Candy, Lost, Family Guy, Chappelle's Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm (I'm profoundly attached to this show), The Daily Show, AQUA TEEN!

I enjoy being a very feminine girl. I read a lot--I'm a total information junkie and can't seem to settle on any one genre or media which makes me spastic but great at parties. I love my friends and organizing friend adventures. I'm a compulsive exerciser--not so bad as addictions go. I love to sing and dance...in skirts and heels. Words make me happy, as do people who are similarly thrilled by language. I adore sarcasm (nice-mean, not mean-mean) and folks who are adept at it are instant chums. I'm a walker (seriously, I never ditched this grade-school distinction as I have never had a license) and newly awakening to the joys of being a biker in Boston so long as one avoids death.

Life is such a huge unknown, which is both exhilarating and daunting. I try to be an adventurer, accepting of that titillating and inevitable dichotomy, but, sometimes I wish I had at least a loose script from which to improvise. I'm critical and analytical and rational, but also very emotionally driven. I think in dichotomies--try to accept life's complexities (global and personal) and soak up as much information as I can to help me understand and not avoid. Accepting cognitive dissonance and mining that inherent tension is how one learns...at least that's what I think :)

I've had terrifying experiences that early instilled a fear in me I've worked hard at exorcising. The last few years have been joyful and transformative. I look forward to future transformations with excitement and trepidation....and I also try to chill the fuck out and live in the moment...try. Because I'm only 28, YAY!

new girly-smart-friends, readers, movie-goers, dinner eaters, game players, story tellers, art makers, bike riders, adventure takers, fun lovers, life livers and intelligent leches

People who don't take themselves too seriously and don't take me too seriously either, for that matter

The 2 state solution. Howard Zinn, Erik Prince, Jimmy Carter and Jeff Bezos. Maybe at the same time? And Oh, My God, Chomsky.