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About Me

About Me: I prefer to wear my designer sunglasses in stores not to feel snobby, but because I really don't want the people who don't immediately recognize me to feel like they can talk to me. The truth of it is, I prefer dead English writers to my living American peers.

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Music

Favorite Albums: Dear Catastrophe Waitress (Belle and Sebastian), Louder Than Bombs; The Queen Is Dead (The Smiths), Revolver (The Beatles)
Favorite Genre: Indie, Classic Rock, Classical, Swing, Blues, Southern Rock, Doo-wop, Cabaret
Favorite Songs: Color In The Lines (little red string), Such Great Heights (the postal service), Piazza, New York Catcher (belle and sebastian), House of the Rising Sun (the animals), Only You (And You Alone) (the platters), Burning Love (Elvis Presley), Australia (the shins), Summersong (The Decemberists), Panic (The Smiths), and I'd be lying if I said I didn't absolutely love everything else by The Smiths and Weezer and The Beatles...
Favorite Lyrics: "Hopes may rise in Grasmere, but honeypie, you're not safe here, so you run down, to the safety of the town..." (Panic- The Smiths)
Songs for Roadtrips: Australia (the shins), Island in the Sun, Holiday (Weezer), Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd), Piazza, New York Catcher (belle and sebastian), Such Great Heights (the postal service)
Songs I hate: anything where the vocals are too nasal or the whole point of the song seems to be just to add to the growing canon of crappy songs about being depressed, guns, cutting yourself, or being senselessly angry with the world for no reason at all (I'm talking to YOU, scene kids...)
Guilty Pleasure: Dancing to the music in grocery stores, downloading music from all those local bands on facebook, and loving those bands more than the mainstream ones.
Songs I repeat the most: According to iTunes, I've repeated Blydenburgh Park (Robert Keenan) 106 times, Love (John Lennon) 97 times, Imagine (John Lennon) 74 times, Australia (The Shins) 55 times, and Broken Wings (Glow) and Don't Cry Out (Shiny Toy Guns) both 49 times... so there you have it, my top 6.
Band I wish I was in: I'm gonna be geeky and say I just miss being in Symphonic Band with my lesbian love.

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Style

Where I shop: Thrift Stores, Vintage Shops, Victoria's Secret, Free People, Soul Flower, Anthropologie, UO and anywhere that I can get cloths made of organic cotton.
Brands I love: Moth, Alternative Solutions,
I like to wear: A solid colored t shirt with broken in jeans, a crazy belt from the thrift store, a taylored jacket, argyle socks, and my beloved black chuck taylors.
Can't live without: My handknitted scarves, those black chucks, the few rare pairs of jeans I've been able to find in a long enough inseam, and all those weird little baubles that I've collected that hold so many memories.
Prized Possessions: The necklace Kirby gave me
Guilty Pleasure: $500 designer glasses. You only get one pair, to wear every day... why not spend a ridiculous amount on them and have them be something you feel damn classy in? There's just something about having Dior or Prada or Ralph Lauren (like mine) printed in tiny gold letters along the side of the frame that makes wearing them so much more tolerable.

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Food

Favorite Cuisine: Vegetarian!
Favorite Dishes: Pasta, Salad, Raw Fruits, Weird Healthy Stuff, Anything Involving Homegrown Tomatoes, Fresh Picked Corn on the Cob and Blueberries out of the bowl when you're supposed to be harvesting them (what can I say, I'm from the country)
Favorite Desserts: Shit Cake, Phish Food, Blackberry Sorbet, Dublin Mudslide, Moose Tracks, Jew Star Cookies...
Favorite Drinks: Tea of all sorts and varieties, except for that insufferable Lipton crap and the instant mixes. Perhaps I should rephrase this. Brewed tea of all sorts and varieties, Pomegranate juice, Basically any kind of organic fruit juice, And I must shake my fist at Arizona for not making my two favorite teas anymore, Blueberry Green and Plum Green, wtf is with that?
Favorite Junk Foods: I must admit, I am a sucker for pizza hut. And yes, America, it is junk food.
Best meal ever: The first time I went out to dinner with Kirby at Noodles, because it was the first time I ever really enjoyed going on a dinner date with someone, plus we found out we both always get macaroni, so I knew we were meant for each other ;-)
My Original Recipes: I haven't really invented anything, but I make a rockin' Chocolate Mousse, and I actually know how to cook with like, cookbooks raw ingredients straight from my garden and stuff... it's sad how that's a waning trend...
Favorite Restaurants: Noodles & Co, Chipotle, and all those weird little italian pizza places in New Jersey that you just know are run by the mob, and also I like tea houses, especially The Royal Tea Room, where I elegantly hosted my 17th birthday tea party. Anywhere with soul, really.
Foods I hate: Cow's Milk disgusts me utterly (haha pun), Boiled Eggs smell horrible, Sour Kraut is simply insufferable, as is Potato Salad, by and large, and as a vegetarian, I find meat of all sorts repulsive. And, sad to say, I do not like Curry at all.

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Books

Favorite Books: Everything Is Illuminated, Summer, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Awakening
Favorite Authors: Johnathen Safran Foer, Edith Wharton, Goethe, Bram Stoker, Thomas Hardy, Kundera
Favorite Genres: Classical Literature and Modern Literature written in that style
Favorite Characters: Charity Royale, Edna Pontellier, Young Werther, Ethan Fromme, Heathcliffe, Renfield
Recent Reads: The Sorrows of Young Werther

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High School

School Name: La Plata High School
Status: Alumni
Class of: 2007
Attended: 2003 - 2007
Sports: Judy's Studio of Dance- Ballet, Modern, and Belly Dancing
Organizations: Symphonic Band Geek, Knitting Club (President and Founding Member)