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Emily

About Me

I like to create intricate metaphors and analogies to help people understand things they already understand. I like mexican beer, shuffleboard, and "airport outfits", but i hate flying. I like Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs. I like splitting aces. I also like redundant sentence structure.

My Interests

http://radio3.cbc.ca/Pedro, boating,crossword puzzles, the Wallstreet journal opinion section, blackjack, Tahoe, skiing, tennis, playing my piano, mexican beers, Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals, obsessed with iced tea, labradors, spelling, baked potatoes, turtlenecks, anatomy, The Crystal Bay club, wheel of fortune slots, psychology, philosophy, world politics, margaritas, houseboating on lake shasta, lake berryessa, avoiding planes, high blood pressure, scrabble, getting high blood pressure from scrabble, hypochondria, physical therapy, salt and vinegar chips, sub-center, ikedas samples, game theory, metaphysics, karaoke, and ping-pong. and freedom.

Music:

neil young "heart of gold", "when god made me" indie arie's cover of "heart of the matter" simon and garfunkel's "kathy's song" paul simon (diamonds on the soles of her shoes, graceland, you can call me al) rascall flatts "what hurts the most" ub40 "red red wine" tim buckley "song to the siren" jeff buckley "hallelujah" stars "one more night" roots "the seed" billy joel "for the longest time" maxwell "this woman's work" keane "somewhere only we know" fiona apple "never is a promise" bubba sparxxx "deliverance" boston "peace of mind" milli vanilli "girl you know it's true" Prince "little red corvette" The Stills "the house we live in" ELO "telephone line" tracy chapman "the promise"

Movies:

life as a house, meet joe black, beaches, the princess bride, the diane keaton movie with the applesauce, The dangerous lives of altar boys, you've got mail, the neverending story, labrynth, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Wit (i have yet to find one person who has seen this movie), All about Eve, American History X, The Usual Suspects, The Ref (all time favorite), sleepless in seattle, Little manhattan, to jillian on her 37th birthday, inventing the abbotts, annie hall

Television:

The Practice, Grey's Anatomy, the Colbert Report, House, rescue me, the Office, nip/tuck, South Park (esp. "go god, go" episode featuring the sea otters), Flight of the Conchords.

Books:

Anything Salinger (franny and zooey, nine stories, and catcher in the rye)Great Expectations, Memoirs of a Geisha, The End of the Affair, Lullaby (palahniuk)Also...oscar wilde, william blake, and John Donne

Heroes:

The person who makes me get up from the blackjack table when i'm up 400 dollars. Unfortunately, as of 7/16 at 8:30 PM, i had not met this person. I am a greedy little girl.And...Brave people with backbones!