Hometown: The Roch, MI (aka. The Crotch, aka. Crotchscratcher, aka. Crotchmolester, aka. Rochester)
Currently Living: Clawson, MI
Height: 5'8
Weight: Ha ha, yeah right
Favorite Color: Blue (preferably navy)
Profession: Researcher
Favorite Nickname: Trick, Sloan
Favorite Drinks:Vodka Tonic, Guinness, Diet Dr. Pepper, Dirty Martinis, red wine
Favorite TV Show: Friends, Sex & The City, Project Runway, The Amazing Race, Iron Chef America
Least Favorite TV Show: A Baby Story, I Love Lucy, Martha Stewart, Everybody Loves Raymond, every hour long drama
Favorite Books: The History of Love, Beloved, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Fight Club, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The of Being, SurUnbearable Lightness vivor, Empire Falls, The Corrections, The Bell Jar
Favorite Movies: Little Miss Sunshine, Anchorman, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Wordplay, American Beauty, Life is Beautiful, Amelie, Breakfast Club, Singin In The Rain, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sleeping Beauty, Dancer in the Dark, Duets, The Virgin Suicides, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Austin Powers I, II & III, My Best Friends Wedding, Moulin Rouge, Tommy Boy, Billy Madison, The Shining, Gone With The Wind, Bridget Jones' Diary, Chicago, Love Actually
Guilty Pleasure Movies: Xanadu, Dirty Dancing, Overboard, Groundhog Day, Steel Magnolias, 10 Things I Hate About You, Bond movies, Footloose, Clue, Murder By Death, High Spirits, A Cinderella Story
What I Do Too Much: Check email, crossword puzzles, complain about my job to friends and family,
Obsessions: sushi, Indian food, ranch dressing, toenail polish, song lyrics, hands, awards shows, symmetry, avocados, maps, dreams, This American Life, the display in my car that tracks my MPG
Pet Peeves: loud eaters, slurping, gulping, arrogance, snoring, bad grammar, repetition, late mergers, ripping cardboard, the word "chunky", intolerance, couples in a restaurant sitting on the same side of a booth, pop-up ads, privacy manager, men that drive without shirts on, being foolish, unfairly jumping to conclusions, being made fun of, cat-calling, people who type too hard
Greatest Fear: crossing bridges
Relaxing Activites: late night drives to sing by myself, headstands, hot baths,
Wish I Was: Ansel Adams, Jenifer Aniston, in love, living alone
Prized Possessions: ring from my grandparents, flower pot of my Grandma's, electric blanket (temporarily broken), tongue scraper, my bed
Craziest Thing Ever Done: getting a tattoo, strip Jenga
Things I Eventually Want To Do: skydive, buy a guitar, learn how to play the aforementioned guitar, take flying lessons, travel to France, write a novel, learn how to play the harp, tap dancing lessons, run a marathon
Monday, December 20, 2004 I really must go, but baby it's cold outside....How can you not love the fact that the day my parents return from Florida to Michigan is clearly the coldest day of the season so far, by a long shot? I spoke to them yesterday when they were still making their way through Ohio, and my mom didn't want to say that she wasn't look forward to this visit, so as to not offend me, but it seeped through the conversation anyway. Or it could have been the straightforward response of "Yes and No," to the question, "Are you looking forward to the visit?" That may have betrayed her too.
My last exam is in roughly 4 hours. And although I made every effort to study until I could recite the assumptions for running MANOVAs in my sleep, there were two main reasons that I was not as productive as I had planned on being:
1. The exam is open note and book. So whenever I would get frustrated or bored or tired or distracted, the first words out of my mouth? "Well, I'm gonna be able to look it up anyway." Which may turn out to be a bad approach when blank stares at the page can't even guide me in the proper direction.
2. It's that good old time of year where the television is blissfully chock full of everything in countdown form. Which is one of my weaknesses. Anything numbered, listed, or with the words, "Best", "Most", "Worst", "Outrageous", "Littlest", or "Project Runway", in the title, I'm likely to sit down and watch from start to finish. And if you think I'm kidding, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that I have once watched the 25 Greatest Coaches countdown on ESPN before. I don't watch ESPN people! And I even made it a point to look up online the numbers that I had missed. And I think that all of the cable channels yesterday coordinated their schedules so I could just switch from channel to channel without a pause in my number-obsessive tv viewing pleasure. I'd hesitate to say that it was a waste of time. Oh no. Because now I know that God had a really good year, Kanye West was MTV's best vid of the year, and President Bush Sr. yarfing at a State dinner in Japan is certainly outrageous.
And in the spirit of yearly countdowns, here's Lisa's list of favorite CDs for the year ie. the ones that I've played the crap out of:
10. Jet, "Get Born" and Joss Stone, "Mind, Body and Soul"
9. The Shins, "Chutes too Narrow"
8. Wilco, "A Ghost is Born"
7. U2, "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb"
6. Jamie Cullum, "twentysomething"
5. Garden State Soundtrack
4. Toby Lightman, "Little Things"
3. Franz Ferdinand, "Franz Ferdinand"
2. Jem, "Finally Woken"
1. The Postal Service, "Give Up"
Honorable Mentions (mostly because I don't actually own them yet, which isn't entirely fair because some of the top 10 I don't own either, but sssshhhh, don't tell anyone that I may have downloaded some of the songs): The Killers, "Hot Fuss", Diana Krall, "The Girl in the Other Room," Keane, "Hopes and Fears," Elliot Smith, "from a basement on the hill," Rufus Wainwright, "Want Two," Norah Jones, "Feels Like Home."
Any disagreements to this list should not be directed to me. They should be held internally until you change your crappy taste in music and see the light. Then we can talk. Kisses. XOXOXO
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