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Gretchen

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My Interests

Music:

THE DECEMBERISTS!! Flight of the Conchords, Portis Head, Wilco, Beck, Citizen Cope, Jayhawks, Al Green, Jim Croce, Neil Young, My Morning Jacket, Jack Johnson, Tori Amos, Hall & Oates (hell yeah!), America, Tenacious D, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, I can also get into some Beyonce, Jay-Z, Outkast, Black Eyed Peas, NWA, Cypress Hill, TLC, Beastie Boys and the Carpenters.

Movies:

Magnolia, Quills, Almost Famous, Maria Full Of Grace, Napoleon Dynamite,Virgin Suicides, Requiem for a Dream, Office Space, Contact, What the Bleep Do We Know, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Walk the Line, Mind the Gap, Best in Show, Lost in Translation, Garden State, anything with Jack Black... the list goes on and on.

Television:

Flight of the Conchords, Six Feet Under, Sex and the City, Sopranos, Big Love, Scrubs, My Name is Earl, The Office, The Brak Show, Home Movies, The Andy Milonakis Show, Sifl & Ollie, Wonder Showzen, House, Huff, Weeds... etc etc Also, my all time favorite, the long lost: THE STATE!

Books:

I've done a bit of summer reading: In Cold Blood, The Alchemist, Little Children, The Reader, and right now Crime and Punishment (What am I, nuts?) Otherwise, Running with Scissors, Magical Thinking, Me Talk Pretty One Day, and anything else written by David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs or Garrison Keillor.

Heroes:

My wonderful friends and my new boss!!!

My Blog

I Heart Finals

Wow... Have you missed me?  I miss me!  My semester is about to come to a close, but not before the pressure gets so great that that I lose my sight in a rare condition called "Stress Blindn...
Posted by Gretchen on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:07:00 PST

Lacking Inspirado

I haven't posted a blog in months.  Mostly because I have been uninspired or maybe lazy is the more appropriate word.  I'm home for the summer with the kiddos, so we pretty much hang out at ...
Posted by Gretchen on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:44:00 PST

In a Rut

I'm having some trouble getting out of my almost-getting-to-the-money rut that I've been experiencing recently in tournaments.  I have almost won money regularly, but you know what they...
Posted by Gretchen on Mon, 22 May 2006 08:23:00 PST

Good News (Too late) for Liberals

WASHINGTON - Angry conservatives are driving the approval ratings of President Bush and the GOP-led Congress to dismal new lows, according to an AP-Ipsos poll that underscores why Republicans fear an ...
Posted by Gretchen on Fri, 05 May 2006 08:17:00 PST

Tournament tomorrow

Good day, all!  I am busily preparing for a tournament tomorrow at Penbrook.  After I do my morning meditations and daily affirmations ("I am a lucky person... A force of good fort...
Posted by Gretchen on Thu, 04 May 2006 11:03:00 PST