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jess

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About Me

my life is changing. still.


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My Interests

rivers. mountains. trees. dirt. running, hiking, yoga, cooking, biking. climbing on rocks. hot baths. oatmeal and fresh fruit. expression - music, photography, ceramics, literature, language. planning. living. loving. learning.

I'd like to meet:

people . . .dreamers, philosophers, writers, readers, music makers, walkers, conversationalists, spiritual travellers.

Music:

radiohead. cursive, stevie ray vaughn, talkdemonic, dj shadow, pinback, miles davis, denali, bjork, tori amos, sublime, ben harper, bob marley, tahiti 80, starkid, jimi hendrix, andrew bird, prefuse 73, portishead, 311, the mars volta, muse, matt pond pa, alice in chains, calexico, fiona apple, bt, sasha, g love and special sauce, wyclef jean, the minus story, cake, incubus, neutral milk hotel, the gloria record, at the drive-in, elliot smith, weezer, outkast, the microphones, amos lee.

Movies:

waking life, little miss sunshine, true romance, rushmore, american beauty, dead poet's society, donnie darko, pulp fiction, army of darkness part two, clerks, best in show, nightmare before christmas, beauty and the beast, napoleon dynamite, dancer in the dark, anchorman.

Television:

definitely not a fan.

Books:

let's try authors: jack kerouac, gabriel garcia marquez, toni morrison, ray bradbury, jeanette winterson, isabel allende, walt whitman, john eldridge, henry david thoreau, douglas coupland, bill bryson, chuck palahniuk, augusten burroughs, mary oliver, alice walker, tom robbins, robert heinlein, russell banks, miki aihara, wally lamb, lian hearn, sue monk kidd, david sedaris, lorrie moore, orson scott card, jhumpa lahiri, vladimir nabakov, iris murdoch.

Heroes:

my dad.

My Blog

no one saw that the skin on my shoulders was golden

this is the heavy time of year. end of summer, beginning of autumn. this is the time of year that the best and worst events have occurred. i've fallen in love in this season, an unending beautiful str...
Posted by jess on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:10:00 PST

happened so fast

the trip was too short. i tried to lay low but ended up contacting my nearest and dearest to ask for a gathering. except for ron, because apparently his phone is out of comission again. alas. the new ...
Posted by jess on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:47:00 PST

burn the maps

it's beautiful outside, but i don't feel well. i've had an incredible tension(?) headache for the past week. it originates at the insertion of the trapezius and travels upward, wrapping around my neck...
Posted by jess on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:32:00 PST

under the water it glowed

when washing the dishes i wonder if the silverware actually gets clean from just soap and scrubbing. do food particles remain? if so, every time we eat with the silverware, we're not only eating the m...
Posted by jess on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:04:00 PST

sweet escape

it's the changing of the guard. i wake up at 4am and ride my bike on a bumpy brick road in the darkness before dawn. i work from 5am til 1.30pm or so, then ride back, bumpily. i make it in time to fin...
Posted by jess on Wed, 30 May 2007 01:39:00 PST

eternal life

Back in Missouri after a long weekend in Omaha. David has now graduated from highschool, and for all of my long-time friends, that means that we are indeed getting older.Life is so good. Lately I have...
Posted by jess on Wed, 30 May 2007 05:19:00 PST

steady as she goes

today is awesome, and i'll tell you why. a. scott and i drove two hours to st.louis and went to r.e.i. and whole foods. i ate a lunch comprised solely of food from whole foods' hot bar. i also had a p...
Posted by jess on Thu, 24 May 2007 06:04:00 PST

it's bad news, baby i'm bad news

i wrote a bunch of paragraphs of mindbleed. surface stuff. then i deleted it all. it was just surface.i didn't say what i really want to say. what i want to say can't be said. it's a residual feeling ...
Posted by jess on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:38:00 PST

let me take you where you'll let me

today i am skipping class to bake a cake. literally. a banana bundt cake is in the oven, and i am in my pajamas. i'm also listening to paolo nutini like a fiend, because i just found out about him yes...
Posted by jess on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 07:34:00 PST

nobody told me there'd be days like these

okay, the 18hr. school load seemed like a good idea at the time, but most things that are wrong seem like a good idea at the time. needless to say, my 18hr school load is more like an 18 wheeler runni...
Posted by jess on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:35:00 PST