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Casey

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About Me

I'm updating this, since the first "about me" was actually written by Robin, who created this page. This is actually Casey now. I know you're disappointed.If you don't know me, then this page won't tell you much other than I have a penchant for swing dancing, traveling, good TV comedies, and making fun of my friends. I also like bacon, but it isn't really a central piece of my personality.

My Interests

Dance: Anyone reading this already knows what dances I do.
Travel: I've been to Barbados, Belgium, China, France, Italy, India, the Netherlands, and Prague and Barcelona (but have yet to see the Czech Republic or Spain beyond those cities). Next, I'm thinking Australia. And I've traveled quite a bit through what I like to call "Upper Mexico".
Eating out: Eat Me, Seattle! I started a now almost defunct dining group, with the idea that we try restaurants that no one has been to be before. Mark and I also once attempted to eat at every restaurant on the Ave. about 4 years ago. Trust me on this - never order anything called "Rat Bastard".
Playing the piano: Self taught, I used to play for my high school choir, and now am relearning since I finally got it shipped to my place. I wish I were Fats Waller. Well, that I had his ability to play the piano. I don't really want to be a fat dude.
Anthropology & Historic Preservation: My graduate degree is in Applied Anthropology, with a focus on heritage resource management and tourism planning. I enjoy seeing, living and working in, and being surrounded by historic structures - they add a sense of depth and purpose to our built environment.
Wrapping up presents real pretty like: Why give a gift if it's going to look like ass?
Knitting: I've only started this a couple months ago, and I'm addicted. My best work yet - an iPhone cozy. :)
Quoting a limited number of television shows and movies (sub-interest: entertaining myself for hours on end).

I'd like to meet:

Jerry Seinfeld, John Krasinski (who I've met by proxy...read my blog), the Silver Belles, Ani Difranco, and someone who studies great white sharks, because I bet they've got some good stories.Oh yes, and funny people. Amuse me.

Music:

Of course, early jazz (through the 40s for the most part). Some pop, some alternative, no country, and no really loud headachy music.

Movies:

Silverado, Roadhouse, Field of Dreams, The Sound of Music, A Few Good Men, Lost in Translation, Contact, Wonder Boys, Die Hard and Leathal Weapon I

Television:

Seinfeld, The Office, Lost, Alias, Arrested Development, Jericho, and the original Law & Order, History Detectives, The Riches.

Books:

Fiction: Very few fiction works "stick" with me... A Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder Contact by Carl Sagan A Mozart Season (an old favorite from my tween years) Non Fiction: John Krakauer books...enjoyed all of them The Devil in the White City...books about serial killers The Devil's Teeth...books about great white sharks
Side bar... Me: Can you imagine a fifty foot shark? Unnamed friend: I can imagine a one hundred foot shark. I have a great imagination.
Currently Reading: The Gentle Axe

Heroes:

Hmmm...

My Blog

I wish I were meaner.

Thanks to Ryan Borkenhagen, I now know this:16 ...
Posted by Casey on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:15:00 PST

An auspicious year.

I have a good feeling about 2008.  Most of my friends are dating or at least getting laid.  Work is going well.  When I forgot my bus pass, I fortuitously didn't have to pay my fare.&nb...
Posted by Casey on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:32:00 PST

End of the year reminiscences.

Goodbye 2007.  Despite some of the ups and downs, you were a pretty good year.  I am quite excited for the prospects of 2008 - work, dance, travel, and becoming a really hot thirty-year-old....
Posted by Casey on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:40:00 PST

The likelihood that I have a tape worm?

I'm way too hungry all the time for a person of my size.  If I have a tape worm, how would I know?  Are there other parasites that I could have?  Mind you, I have no other symptoms besi...
Posted by Casey on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:54:00 PST

My John Krasinski encounters by proxy.

My co-worker IM'd me this morning to tell me that she met John Krasinski, the actor who plays Jim on The Office, at the Crocodile Cafe last night.  (Incidentally, Death Cab for Cutie were apparen...
Posted by Casey on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:14:00 PST

Remedies for a broken heart.

Please post your remedies for a broken heart.  I am especially open to those involving shopping and eating.
Posted by Casey on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:39:00 PST

Misty doesn't know what she's in for.

Misty and I just bought our tickets to Europe for June.  I'll be traveling for four weeks, while she takes on a heartier six week tour.  We bought tickets to London, with the plan to buy che...
Posted by Casey on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:43:00 PST

How I became Asian.

Fact: Asianess is a state of mind, not a state of skin.  About a year ago, I found myself awake in the wee hours of the day ("wee" meaning 4 a.m.) to take a cab to the airport.  My driver, ...
Posted by Casey on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:29:00 PST

I must be famous if Bob Vance is reading this.

"Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration."  Ahhh, music to my ears.  Especially when he tells me he can possibly lead me to my real father.  Or, maybe I can at least get a free trip down to The ...
Posted by Casey on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:45:00 PST

A strange turn of events

I won't bother to go into detail, since anyone who'd care already knows the situation, but I find it quite amusing that after a year of avoiding a particular person, we're now talking on a daily basis...
Posted by Casey on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:35:00 PST