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maggie moon

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About Me

swing dancer , editor , reluctant blogger . here i am. no, over here !
whateverlife.com

My Interests

excellent writing utensils, artful tools in general, food, Food, health, pilates, projects, lindy hop, jazz music, tap dance, personal growth, financial solvency but not at the cost of social contribution, reading, writing, arithmetic, erasing hunger in america, sweet kicks, jumping, smoove, better organic standards, workplace wellness, slow food, eating local, using adverbs, languages, traveling, staying home, creating lists, etcetera ad nauseum.

I'd like to meet:

humble and brilliant fanatics

Music:

jake shimabukuro, somafm.com, we are scientists, jeff buckley, strokes, billie holiday, elliott smith, nick drake, kinks, shins, death cab for cutie, belle and sebastian, frames, coldplay, iron & wine, fruit bats, the arcade fire, django reinhardt, radiohead, the section quartet, eric clapton, schumann, revel, fiona apple, green day, jack johnson, aretha franklin, U2, of montreal, sigur ros, norah jones, oscar peterson, gene harris, fats waller, junior mance, rilo kiley, simon and garfunkel, they might be giants, the beatles, ella fitzgerald, any bands my friends are in

Movies:

I love a great film. I also love stupid action movies. and pirates.

Television:

DVDs

Books:

marquez, salinger, murakami, dahl

Heroes:

mom. dad. fred. rich taylor. paul wellstone. and that obesity researcher at harvard that works from his treadmill.

My Blog

my favorite new website

Woohoo!
Posted by maggie moon on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:49:00 PST

new rules for top whatever

A priori caveat: Whenever I decide on a policy for myself, I almost always abandon it soon after inception...but anyway, if I continue to waste time online, then I will regularly rotate my top friends...
Posted by maggie moon on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:51:00 PST

Found Time

  So, imagine you've planned a group dinner for 8-10 people (again) at some group-friendly, everyone-can-find-something, you're-way-too-familiar-with-citysearch kind of place. Now imagine that e...
Posted by maggie moon on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 03:02:00 PST

a generic account of my weekend in MN (ULHS)

I spent the weekend in Minneapolis, Minnesota at a Lindy Hop dance event. Just as I was settling into the constant crisis of graduate school (year 3), I put off reality for a long weekend with some ol...
Posted by maggie moon on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 02:03:00 PST

A new year, a new job

Tomorrow is, not only my 27th birthday, but my first official day of an  11-month formalized internship called the Dietetic Internship (DI). I'm excited to be working with Healthy Schools Healthy...
Posted by maggie moon on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:11:00 PST

It's good to be back in NYC

It's officially been a week since I got back into New York. After many meals and wine bars with friends I haven't seen in three months, an all night karaoke binge, and a couple classes for good measur...
Posted by maggie moon on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 11:09:00 PST

Pictures from the 2 weeks in SF

I'm guessing I was too busy to take many pictures, but here are a smattering of photos from my recent 2 weeks in SF as well as my earlier visit in June:http://flickr.com/photos/frockenmoone/sets/72157...
Posted by maggie moon on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 01:36:00 PST

2 weeks in SF

I worked hard. I played hard.   Im now sitting in my upper west side apartment in Manhattan, having touched down sometime on Sunday evening. Im only now beginning to re-adjust to the pace, res...
Posted by maggie moon on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 01:27:00 PST

Coffee or Tea?

I was in Shanghai for two days before it happened. I was visiting chic Xintiandi, a bit of old Shanghai architecture carefully preserved and reimagined as an entertainment plaza in the midst of modern...
Posted by maggie moon on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 05:21:00 PST

New Pictures

Pictures are up from: --Shanghai --Beijing --Selections from Christine's Pictures --Christine's set Take a look!...
Posted by maggie moon on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:40:00 PST