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Adina

About Me

"You are poised, once more, on the razor-edge of fate" -Tiresias"Amid the chaos of that day, when all I could hear was the thunder of gunshots, and all I could smell was the violence in the air, I look back and am amazed that my thoughts were so clear and true, those three words went through my mind endlessly, repeating themselves like a broken record: you're so cool, you're so cool, you're so cool." You ARE so coolFuck feminism and emancipation from slavery. I want to meet someone that is going to compel me to feel this..."For I should adore to serve, to walk behind you even barefoot, even through deep snowdrifts. I am your captive and captivated, live only to demonstrate total devotion. Bid me walk through flames and I shall go most gaily into the fire. Send me into battle and I shall be happy to offer my breast to the naked sword of your foes. Only express a wish and I shall obey" -Phaedra

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Whoever can get me a job as a writer on Jeopardy...no, no forget writing. I want to be that blonde chick that travels to Prague and Kennedy Spacestation and reads a thirty second clue for the Video Jeopardy. I want to meet whoever can make me into that girl.

Music:

Madonna, Prince, Nine Inch Nails, Postal Service, Fiona Apple, Beth Orton, Aerosmith, Bob Dylan, Smashing Pumpkins, Bright Eyes, Metric

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...Oh, I forgot The Ladykillers. If you liked that movie, I like you.

Television:

Jeopardy, Intervention, America's Next Top Model

Books:

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Fifth Business, Everything is Illuminated, Survival in Auschwitz, 1984, A Clockwork Orange, Utopia, The Little Prince, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Medea(it counts as a book in its magnitude), Boy Crazy Stacey

Heroes:

I'd say my mom is pretty rad and of course, Martin Luther King Jr. and Winston Churchill. Brenda Walsh did it for me as an adolescent and now that it's on TVtropolis all those feelings are coming back.

My Blog

I'm a Postmodern Mother Teresa

     Tell me if this happens to you.  You encounter a life altering word.  One that fits perfectly into your life.  That articulates everything you stand for.  ...
Posted by Adina on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:15:00 PST

Green Eyes: An Insight into the Future

        I once heard this photographer say, "Hands are the ambassador to the soul".  This man has made a living by taking pictures of people's hands because he ...
Posted by Adina on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:19:00 PST

A Liberal Left Landscape

     Women have the right to vote.  African Americans have received emancipation from slavery and same sex marriages are legal.  Society has been erasing the contrasts be...
Posted by Adina on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:06:00 PST

Between the Covers: Undressing the Novel

     You hold a book in your hand and you hold a universe.  It may weight three pounds but you are endowed with thousands of miles, millions of years and countless heights ami...
Posted by Adina on Fri, 04 May 2007 11:04:00 PST

Bigot Bagels: Buttery and Belligerent

Friends, Canadians, countrymen, lend me your opinion.  I have come seeking advice and truth to the moral dilemma set before me.  How lucky Alexander and Solomon were with questions that coul...
Posted by Adina on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:12:00 PST

The Writings on the Wall and By Writing I Mean Attitude

     Being the dedicated graduate student that I am, I spend a lot of time in the social centre that York University calls Scott Library.  Due to my pansy of a bladder, I also...
Posted by Adina on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:29:00 PST

They've OD'ed on PhD

September was a month of new beginnings.  The most important of which was my enrolment in the Humanities Masters program at York University.  I was aglow with curiosity and wonder as I retur...
Posted by Adina on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:27:00 PST

Ode to my Skanky Best Friend, Tess

The following quotes and bits of conversation have been recorded in an effort to deify my goddess of nocturnal prowess, Tess A. or once upon a time, Alex Orr (yes, that's right.  Bobby Orr's niec...
Posted by Adina on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 08:55:00 PST

Girl, Interrupted from Her Tedious Studying by Inane Observations

I spent the longer part of my day today at Scott Library located on the York University campus.  I have been inundated with numerous 20-page papers as of late, causing me to sever any ties with s...
Posted by Adina on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:35:00 PST

I Heart the Homeless

Now perhaps this is an error in judgement, being on the verge of posting something on myspace that I am sure will incite people to think I'm crazy but then I think about all the other things I do and ...
Posted by Adina on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:53:00 PST