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i'm in a NYstate of mind

shortierockn

About Me

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My Interests

Public Health in the 3rd world, music, singing, dancing, drawing, figuring people out

I'd like to meet:

Pete Sampras to ask him how he kept doin the darn thang, Kofi to ask him how he got my job and whoever invented chocolate so I can nominate him/her for the nobel peace prize. I would also like to meet Ms. Barbara Bush so I know how not to raise my kids if I have any and I would ultimately like to meet Oprah and find out who does her make up, hair and get her lighting people to follow me around everywhere I go.

Music:

Michael Jackson, Jon B and D'angelo (my husbands), Etta James, Ottis Redding --talk about an amazing voice!!!! The Manhattans, Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Luther Vandross, Marvin Gaye- just classic soul/R

Movies:

Under the Tuscan Sun, Unfaithful, Walk on the Moon, My Cousin Vinny, West Side Story, Selena, Dead Presidents, Untamed Heart, Ever After, Coming to America, Pretty in Pink, Lean on Me, Remember the Titans, The Motorcycle Diaries, Sarafina,Tsotsi, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Deliver Us From Eva, Two Can Play that Game, Man on Fire, L'auberge Espangole, Les Invasion Barberes, Le Cage aux Feule, Mystic River, Beverly Hills Cop III...y mas

Books:

The Color of Water, the Da Vinci Code, Harrry Potter 1-6 though 4 is my favorite!

Heroes:

i need to be my own

My Blog

Lets all go and SAVE those poor african children

in general, africans and non-africans have a different view of africa. fine. no big deal, the big deal is precisely how different the views are. it's almost comical for they are at such extremes. ...
Posted by i'm in a NYstate of mind on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:20:00 PST

cape town

After a stressfull few months at work I is goin on a vacation! To cape town. I am too excited for words. hopefully i'll post a lotta pics : )
Posted by i'm in a NYstate of mind on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:34:00 PST

despite a lotta bs, my job is still amazing

I just got back from 3 weeks in the "field"...where my job was to supervise HIV counselors as they went village to village, house to house offering HIV testing and counseling. I had to make sure proto...
Posted by i'm in a NYstate of mind on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:39:00 PST

elaboration on ’corruption’

I was a bit vague on my last blog...but i will offer a bit of clarification. Let me put it like this, as long as there is HIV/AIDS, as long as people keep getting infected, there are people in this wo...
Posted by i'm in a NYstate of mind on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:11:00 PST

corruption

I used to think that things were often exaggerated when african govermnments and corruption was concerned. Umm. they are not. and my ass is in the thick of it. to the point where i am not going to ela...
Posted by i'm in a NYstate of mind on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:15:00 PST

I need a J.O.B.

Umm it's hard enough trying to find a job, but try looking for one in a different hemisphere! My heard hurts so Ima quit for today. Goodness. I was trying to reduce any future stress and start looking...
Posted by i'm in a NYstate of mind on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:15:00 PST

I got my ticket

So my plane ticket was delivered today and if it hadn't set in before it has certainly set it now. i am out. Aug 9th I will be in South Africa after an approximately 14 hour flight- I got a direct fli...
Posted by i'm in a NYstate of mind on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 01:51:00 PST

Zidane

Ok so if you care enough you have been keeping track of the he said/he said goings on between Zidane and Materazzi . The result of their mutterings at the World Cup final  last Sunday being Zidan...
Posted by i'm in a NYstate of mind on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:31:00 PST

I decided

Being that I am almost done with college, pending the submission of that hot mess they call senior project, I have had some time to think and thus made decisions on a few matters. Some are practical a...
Posted by i'm in a NYstate of mind on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:33:00 PST

Real Hip Hop

I've been thinking about a lot of random things lately. One thing is the whole real hip-hop issue. Exactly who determines what's real and what's not? And why does it seem that the definition of real c...
Posted by i'm in a NYstate of mind on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 05:50:00 PST