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About Me

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Name: Adrienne
Birthday: Oct. 20
Birthplace: Pittsburgh, PA
Current Location: Brooklyn, NY
Eye Color: green
Hair Color: dark something
Height: 5'2''
Right Handed or Left Handed: lefty lefty LEFTY
Your Heritage: French-Canadian, Spanish, Danish
The Shoes You Wore Today: black Dansko clogs
Your Weakness: poetry and shoes
Your Fears: raunch culture
Your Perfect Pizza: cheese, straight up
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: learning more
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: I don't use AIM, it's a pain in the ass.
Thoughts First Waking Up: shit
Your Best Physical Feature: eyes?
Your Bedtime: 11pm-2am
Your Most Missed Memory: knitting with Lesley, coffee with Anna
Pepsi or Coke: pepsi
MacDonalds or Burger King: ew
Single or Group Dates: single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Lipton, especially the powdered stuff that comes in a huge can.
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: Coffee
Do you Smoke: no ma'am
Do you Swear: as often as possible
Do you Sing: yes yes yes
Do you Shower Daily: mostly
Have you Been in Love: can't say
Do you want to go to College: i already have
Do you want to get Married: not an option
Do you belive in yourself: yes
Do you get Motion Sickness: no
Do you think you are Attractive: eh...
Are you a Health Freak: as long as "health freak" means eating cheese and never working out
Do you get along with your Parents: tricky question
Do you like Thunderstorms: yes, as long as the power doesn't go out
Do you play an Instrument: yes
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: no
In the past month have you Smoked: no
In the past month have you been on Drugs: no
In the past month have you gone on a Date: yes
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: no
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: no
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: no
In the past month have you been on Stage: yes
In the past month have you been Dumped: yes
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: no
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: no
Ever been Drunk: yes
Ever been called a Tease: yes
Ever been Beaten up: yes
Ever Shoplifted: yes
How do you want to Die: quickly
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: a poet
What country would you most like to Visit: Greece and Israel again, Thailand
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: whatever
Favourite Hair Color: dark
Short or Long Hair: either
Height: not an issue
Weight: same
Best Clothing Style: laid-back
Number of Drugs I have taken: 3
Number of CDs I own: 300?
Number of Piercings: ears only
Number of Tattoos: 3
Number of things in my Past I Regret: ???
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My Interests

POETRY. Jewish Lit--all kinds. Rock 'n' roll. A Ph.D. in comparative literature. Exploring. Reading. Writing. (Shuckin', Jivin'.) Pushing boundaries. Community. Making people laugh hard. Traveling. Cooking. Sleeping.

I'd like to meet:

People who believe in the plight of women artists everywhere. And their cats.

Music:

Ani DiFranco (need you even ask?) Iron and Wine, Paul Simon, Toshi Reagon, Deb Talan, Patty Griffin, The Weepies, Indigo Girls, Neko Case, Patty Griffin, Basya Schechter, Pharaoh's Daughter.

Movies:

Blah.

Television:

Food Network. Discovery Channel. Any channel currently airing "Law & Order."

Books:

How about authors? Pearl Abraham, Mark Doty, Marie Howe, Michael Cunningham, Jeanette Winterson, Elizabeth Bishop, Jhumpa Lahiri, Anna Akhmatova, Dionne Brand, Tomas Transtromer, Rainer Maria Rilke, Chaim Potok, Adrienne Rich, Jean Valentine, Clint Benjamin, Lesley Dame, Dominga Rosalita Wilson-Moreno.

Heroes:

Stanley Kunitz. Devorah Zlochower. Bruriah. Audre Lorde. Susan Sontag. My teacher and mentor, Anna.

My Blog

Moving and losing.

I've moved from NYC to Florida and then to Pittsburgh. While driving non-stop can be fun for everyone, I was puzzled by my sudden weight loss and attributed it to stress. The real answer?&...
Posted by Adrienne on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:03:00 PST

1984

Baby, what did I tell youabout the house being bugged? They can hear us making breakfast,they can hear us making love. Now excuse me a minute,Big Brother's at the door. He's ready to partylike it's 19...
Posted by Adrienne on Wed, 09 May 2007 07:58:00 PST

You, too, can play...

Oregon fucking Trail!Seriously. Second grade came back in a huge rush. Though I distinctly remember this game being far more difficult back when......
Posted by Adrienne on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:38:00 PST

Everything

is grey here.Otherwise I'd stay here;But I'm looking for green,Just like every human being....
Posted by Adrienne on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 06:23:00 PST

Continuing to learn nothing from the past.

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the German and Italian bombing of the Basque city of Guernica, the first planned (and recorded) military attack on civilians. No major Spanish politicians att...
Posted by Adrienne on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 03:18:00 PST

How do I know I have the best neighbor ever?

Nevermind the adorable puppies, I come downstairs to a doorbell ring this afternoon. NeighborKaren has ordered food from Union Picnic. For whom did she, unrequested, order a chicken finger...
Posted by Adrienne on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:44:00 PST

Gah! Make it stop!

Karen, darling, I empathize with your situation. I hereby promise to be quiet as a mouse on our smelly steps.If my stupid fucking neighbors don't stop stomping up and down the stairs I'm going t...
Posted by Adrienne on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 03:31:00 PST

Carbomb!

Happy St. Patrick's Day, motherfuckers!I went to the East and West Villages today to do some drinking in honor of St. Patrick--the man famour for driving the "snakes," i.e. "non-Christians," out of Ir...
Posted by Adrienne on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 07:13:00 PST

She thinks of her voice again...

She thinks of her voice again when the first swirl of icy ocean water laps at her toes. Backing away quickly she gasps and hikes up the razor creases of her slacks. Behind her the thumping...
Posted by Adrienne on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:49:00 PST

Ah...The Sweet Smells of the Boroughs...

How did I know I'd arrived back in NYC after my visit to The Family last week?Tuesday, 2:30 pm:I got on the E at Archer/Sutphin to come home to Bklyn. At Union Turnpike a junkie gets on, carryin...
Posted by Adrienne on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:08:00 PST