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andrea

About Me

I like watching my computer defrag.

My Interests

scribbling words, riding bikes, suduko, making/taking pretty pictures/objects, speed reading, music, babbling at bars, cartwheeling around the house, word dojo...

I'd like to meet:

More awesome people.

Music:

deer tick, Cranes, blonde redhead, Kinks, Elliott Smith, The Smiths, Cat Stevens, The Flaming Lips, the gentle waves, Le Tigre, JJ Fad, the white stripes, Gene Vincent, Bowie, The Sounds, Iggy Pop, Destroyer, joy divison, Blanche, the hotel alexis, DK, Brian Eno, the zombies, Modest Mouse, catalonia, Johnny Cash, Neutral Milk Hotel, bloc party, Leonard Cohen, portishead, Elvis Costello, radiohead, Pixes, belle and sebastian, Salt n Pepa, Of Montreal, Saturday looks good to me, Led Zeppelin, The Shins, Tom Waits, yeah, yeah, yeahs.

Movies:

charlie kaufman, jean-pierre jeunet, tim burton, michael moore, john hughes, christopher guest, quentin tarantino, wes anderson.

Books:

daniel quinn, douglas coupland, augusten burroughs, dave eggers, tom robbins, vonnegut, hesse, milan kundera, chuck p, niccolo ammaniti, dystopian novels, steven pinker, howard bloom, jared diamond, leonard shlain.

My Blog

I finally have a job!

I've been working for about three weeks at an IT staffing company, writing resumes and job descriptions and the like. It seems to be a pretty good fit for me. I don't have to sell anything, provide c...
Posted by andrea on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 07:26:00 PST

Ancient Indian pick up lines

During the second century C.E. in India, the ultimate compliment to give a woman was "your breasts are like the sinus lobes on an elephant's forehead." Also, if a man wanted to really impress a girl, ...
Posted by andrea on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:45:00 PST

Why I'm not a cartographer

I was looking at my myspace profile map today, and noticed that it now has a google maps format. What was meant to be a quick look turned into an ADD distraction. I started looking at all the places I...
Posted by andrea on Sat, 12 May 2007 02:07:00 PST

I'm very happy right now...

James isn't dead! 
Posted by andrea on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:09:00 PST

second most awesome-est act of the day

I broke the vacuum cleaner. I accidentally sucked up a dime, which bent in half and broke a panel in the back of the vacuum. Now everything that it picks up comes shooting out the back. Mopping a hous...
Posted by andrea on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:33:00 PST

I keep amazing myself with my intelligence

I succeeded in super gluing my thumb and index finger together. It took a mixture of neosporin, soap, lotion, and hot water to separate the fingers completely. I'm sure I could have come up with an ea...
Posted by andrea on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:44:00 PST

bitchin'

My jaw hurts. I have a mysterious rash all over my face and neck which prevented me from going out last night. I upset a friend, but I'm not sure why or how, and I feel terrible about it. My bed is br...
Posted by andrea on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 02:16:00 PST

One year...

Yes, I've been living in Fl for a year now. Time flies, blah blah, etc. (Don't make me go off on a tangent on the intangible and subjective perception of time).(Smart sounding words are fun) Yep. ...
Posted by andrea on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:47:00 PST

A survey for my amusement, and possibly yours as well

What was the first thing you thought this morningI can't believe the bed broke last night. What side of the bed do you sleep on?RightDo you stay friends with your exes? I used to, but they don't ...
Posted by andrea on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:15:00 PST

So this is what it feels like to be an optimist...

It's new year's day, and I'm really looking forward to the upcoming year. My life has been great since I came down here in march, and I'm confident that this year will be just as good.I just read my b...
Posted by andrea on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:57:00 PST