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About Me

I live my life like a French movie.

I've got big, big plans.

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My Interests

sailing, photography, rock and roll, bamboo plants, road trips, board games, sleepovers, stargazing, lomography, horror movies, thai town, stenciling, playdough, carmex, reading, ferris wheels, bonfires

I'd like to meet:

those with extensive vocabularies (and impeccable grammar), minimal drama, eclectic interests, and unusual idiosyncracies.

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." -Anais Nin

Music:

Movies:

noi, me and you and everyone we know, better off dead, me without you, whas, jesus' son

Books:

[currently:] Anna Karenina, Pictures and Tears, Chronophobia, this new book about Goya I'm totally stoked on.

Heroes:

Cy Twombly, Jenny Saville, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jesus...You know, the usge.

My Blog

04.06.07 - Poetry vs. Kickball

Because I really do admire Lego Maniac's (see earlier blog) ever-expanding imagination and ability to excape the world fully through the essemblage of various "colorful interlocking plastic bricks" (...
Posted by kristin on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 07:49:00 PST

03.07.07 - Power of Legos

About a month ago we implemented a new rule at my program: If there are any Legos left on the floor or table at the end of the day, they won't be coming out for the rest of the week. Well, it started ...
Posted by kristin on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:46:00 PST

02.11.07 - Friends

It's easy to forget how simple it is to be a friend. First and second graders express their friendships so primitively, yet they couldn't be more honest about what makes a friend. Earlier this semeste...
Posted by kristin on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:00:00 PST

02.06.07 - for reals.

There's this thoroughly adorable 6-yr old at work who often acts much older than her age. But then she covets her toys she purchased at Girl Scouts or demands her friends only play her version of thei...
Posted by kristin on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:08:00 PST

02.03.07 - Wordgames

Remember those wordgames you'd play in elementary (or maybe even middle) school? For example: spell I CUP. "I C-U-P." haha. "I see you pee." It's terribly hilarious for most 7-12 year olds, I understa...
Posted by kristin on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:50:00 PST

01.30.07- Holy crap, that's a huge water bottle!

I'm not really sure why, but I've been beyond dehydrated this week. No matter how much water I drink, it's just not enough. And anyone who really knows me knows I drink a lot of water in the first pla...
Posted by kristin on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:08:00 PST

01.23.07 - Singing as I turn in slow circles

I had to write my second behavior report to be sent home to parents today. I really don't like writing these because it means the kid is one step closer to being removed from the program. Even though ...
Posted by kristin on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:39:00 PST

01.18.07 - "It's his teeth."

First graders are the best. They have these amazing budding personalities yet remain simple and idealistic, telling it like it is. Case in point:Some boys from the local high school lacrosse team like...
Posted by kristin on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:25:00 PST

01.08.07 - Love Rock

The art project for today was painting rocks to use as paperweights. Originally when this giant bag of rocks came into my possession I had planned on having the kids create Pet Rocks with them. Not ex...
Posted by kristin on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:23:00 PST

Because otherwise it wouldn't be today

Let me start by saying Wolfgang Tillmans has become one of the most viscerally charged artists I've seen in a long time. Of course, I'm only talking about his recent abstract photographs (Freischwimme...
Posted by kristin on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 07:13:00 PST