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Shannon

shananana85

About Me

I live in the Czech Republic now and I am plagued by grammar nightmares. I would trade my firstborn for a breakfast burrito. I revere the mullet. That about sums it up. And I love KNUT!

My Interests

Travelling, NPR, Fat Tire, good books by authors with impossible to pronounce names, coffee, witty banter, Fat Tire, cheese, snow, Christmas, sarcasm, tall sexy shoes, cabernet, singing in my car, singing on the metro, ambition, happy hour, knitting, mustaches, mullets, making lists and crossing things off, Fat Tire, politics, my cat, smazeny syr (ask me, PLEASE ask me), cobblestones, controversy, having two good knees, chocolate, naps, the piano and now the guitar, electricity, spring, flowery dresses on ME, the present perfect tense, sitting down in the shower, sleepwalking, those fuzzy little balls on my boots, Mexican food

I'd like to meet:

Marilyn Musgrave so I can kick her in the shins and run away.

Music:

Dixie Chicks, Norah Jones, Widespread Panic, Pink Floyd, the Beatles, DMB, Kanye West, Outkast, Patsy Cline, Radiohead, Coldplay, Chopin, Diana Krall, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Susan Tedeschi, Ben Harper, you name it

Movies:

If I say Anchorman, can I still convince you that I'm sophisticated?

Television:

no thanks

Books:

I love books!!! Favorite authors are Salman Rushdie, Tom Robbins, Milan Kundera, Isabel Allende, David Sedaris, Gunter Grass, Tim O'Brien, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Orhan Pamuk

Heroes:

Knut der kleine Eisbar and the guy in charge of the street-beggars union

My Blog

some moderately depressing thoughts on Africa

So I went to Africa for 16 days. A little country called Burkina Faso which is about the size of the Czech Republic and sandwiched between Ghana and Mali in the western part of Africa. ...
Posted by Shannon on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:02:00 PST

salsa

I just want to put everyone's mind at ease... There is in fact Mexican food in the Czech Republic. Last week I acquired (don't ask how) a can of pickled jalapenos, 3 avocados, tortilla chips, tortilla...
Posted by Shannon on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:23:00 PST

Saying goodbye (or, till we meet again)

The time has come that I have been simultaneously waiting for and dreading. I feel like the kid in the wee hours of Christmas morning who asked for something really great from Santa, but did...
Posted by Shannon on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:09:00 PST

I'm feeling moody?

Has anyone ever stopped to notice the "mood options" given by myspace for any new blog? It's like an unabridged thesaurus! Quixotic? Who feels quixotic enough to identify it as such? And how about rec...
Posted by Shannon on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:26:00 PST

The John Williams conspiracy theory

  I recently made a discovery. It's not a discovery that is necessarily relevant to anything at all, but for what it's worth, I'm quite stunned and I feel the need to share this with the world......
Posted by Shannon on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:12:00 PST