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Lara

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About Me


My Interests

ESTJ - or - ESFJ (depending). busy. night owl. social. chameleon. independent. one half good southern manners. one half passionate eastern european. not the religious, marrying or child bearing type. multi-tasker. jane of all trades. interested in interesting things. goofy. serious. not serious. not into sports. really into music. green thumb. will not argue for the sake of a fight. well-read. could eat rare steak fromage with walnuts every day. dresses for the occassion. loves children as long as I can give them back. uber responsible and impulsive at the same time. a good friend. never want to stop taking classes of some sort. anti-war/pro soldier. really glad I bailed out of nursing school. online way too much. retired Richmond scenester. generally, the hotness.

I'd like to meet:


Anyone! YOU!

Music:

yes please

Movies:

I rarely watch movies twice but I wouldn't mind seeing these again: Amelie, Pan's Labyrinth, Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Motorcycle Diaries, Rushmore, SICKO, Vanilla Sky, Little Children, The Good Shepherd, The Idiots, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Kinsey, Best in Show, Metropolis (1927), The Boys of Baraka, Annie Hall, Fantastic Planet, Transamerica, Babel, The Royal Tenenbaums, I Heart Huckabees, Requiem for a Dream, The Departed, Munich, Reservoir Dogs, Thank You for Smoking, Fracture, Hannibal Rising, The Corporation, Jesus Camp, Grizzly Man, The Last King of Scotland, Little Miss Sunshine, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Baraka, Delicatessen, Spirited Away, Napoleon Dynamite, Borat, The Cell, Monster's Ball, The Machinist, Pi, Proof, Apocalypto, Traffic, Shopgirl, Casino, Bowling for Columbine, Letters From Iwo Jima, Jarhead, Three Kings, American Splendor, Fahrenheit 911, The Bicycle Theif, Casablanca, Doctor Zhivago, A Streetcar Named Desire, Les Girls, Gone with the Wind, Singing in the Rain, the Saw movies, R Kelly's Trapped in the Closet

Television:

LOST, Jeopardy, BBC World News, Wired Science, Frontline, Independent Lens, a wee bit of trash here and there

Books:

God is Not Great, Freakonomics, Neurosis and Human Growth, East of Eden, The Feminine Mystique, The Second Sex, Night, Exodus, The Breadgivers, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, She Came to Stay, The Mandarins, The Fountainhead, Woman Hollering Creek, Loose Woman, See a Grown Man Cry, Last Night of the Earth Poems, The Little Prince (if you laugh, I will hate you, seriously)

My Blog

sewing and stuff

So... I'm sewing again... or at least trying to. When I was in high school, before Need Supply was just Need, it was Blues and it was a tiny shop in "Oregon Heights" on Cary St. I used to make little...
Posted by Lara on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:11:00 PST

current whatevers

- My sinuses feel like they're full of concrete. I am soooo over this cold! - Tasha and I need to seriously talk about a book... seriously - I would've never gone out last night if I hadn't received t...
Posted by Lara on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:32:00 PST

feeling bloggy

Had quite the nice time out last night with Tasha... ran into Tricia... she's so great... Waiting for my 1st Spanish exam grade to be posted... so curious! It didn't seem that difficult. Just got bac...
Posted by Lara on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:10:00 PST

current annoyances/obsessions

annoyances: 1- my kitten's utter disregard for plant life and her unfettered determination to destroy in one week what took me a few years to grow in my house 2- men who talk a sweeeet game and then d...
Posted by Lara on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:59:00 PST

Did you think she would get spared?

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Posted by Lara on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 02:37:00 PST

nibbles

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Posted by Lara on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 05:03:00 PST

birds and snow!

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Posted by Lara on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:42:00 PST

current obsessions

1 - making my own smoothies 2 - resisting the urge to buy more shoes 3 - hating my spanish class 4 - not putting things off until tomorrow 5 - not caring what other people think 6 - desperately wantin...
Posted by Lara on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:28:00 PST

2006

2006 has been good to me. I was thinking about all the holidays in a year today and I can happily say I spent each one surrounded by friends and family. I only dated one person seriously (putting my...
Posted by Lara on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 06:45:00 PST

New Years Resolutions

1) I've already given up fast food but, I plan on continuing that habit. 2) getting rid of A LOT of my belongings on eBay that I no longer need. 3) paying off my car in 3 more months and my credit car...
Posted by Lara on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 08:32:00 PST