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Annie

Research and Destroy!

About Me

"I have something to tell you, a matter to recount to you: Words regarding wood, whisperings regarding stone, conversings of heaven with earth, of the deep with the stars; I understand lightning which not even the heavens know, a matter which men do not know, which the hordes of the earth do not understand. Come and I will explain it for you..." The Ba'lu Myth of Ugarit..........I am in an 8 year PhD program. I am a nerd. I am crazy. What have I done?? I want to teach. (And when I say 'teach', I mean honestly... for the love of knowledge and experience, along with every diverse way of interpreting information, and not to mentally masterbate or produce clones of myself.) I am training to be an archaeologist. I am very interested in ethics, structure, theory, and methodology. I have worked in Micronesia, the Caribbean, and Middle East, but will work primarily in the Levant. For the next few years, I will be working in south central Turkey each summer. If you call what I do 'biblical archaeology', i will karate chop you-- right in the neck. If you don't know why, I will karate chop you once more, for good measure. I hope to fight Nazis, womanize, and find the ark of the covenant like Indiana Jones. Well, I'd settle for one out of three... // I am fond of the cost effectiveness of 40 oz. Pabsts. You will not shame me, Pabst tastes like home. // I can kick it high brow or low brow. I usually overdress for any occasion. // Sometimes I accept the universe. Often, I do not. I want a revolution. // I may have A.D.D. When I drink coffee, I get spider senses. // I will give you anything you need, but I will not waste my time on anything I deem superfluous. I love without fear. I will change the world. // I have a knack for exposing myself in public unintentionally. // I think George Bush is a criminal. // I spend time planning my outfits and coordinating jewelry. // My feelers get hurt easily. I cannot keep secrets. I try to crawl inside everyone's head. I am very analytical and intuitive. // I will remember what sign you are. // Reading the news makes me cry. // I think about how to be happy every day. // I figure things out through talking. I could discuss literature/lyrics/art/philosophy/film for hours. // I do not identify with what is light, but what is heavy. Honesty is often devastating, but I demand it from myself and others. It is the only way to be free. // I love to create. I love to cook. I drink pickle juice. I will put anything in a salad. I am a goat. // Other perspectives are some of the most important things to understand in life. But start with understanding yourself. // I find infatuation to be insulting. // I wish I didn't take everything so seriously. // I translate dead languages for fun. Hebrew makes me very happy. Akkadian mades me angry. Aramaic is alright. I guess. German is the bane of my existence. If you even say 'Gesundheit!' to me, I will spit on you like a llama. // I break out into song often. I recite poetry and lyrics in my head. // I am too judgmental. // I age backwards. // I constantly think I am the first person to invent things that have been invented ages ago. // I fall in love with fallen leaves. // I will force myself to buy a plane ticket out of the country at least once a year, where I live out of an alice pack and hitchhike around. // I dance like a rockstar. Or at least I'd like to think so. // Double negatives confuse me. // I don't believe in good or bad guys, or what sides they may be on. // I scoff at hipsters, but only because I think I'm hipper. Does that make me a hipster? // I hold on tightly and let go lightly. I don't give up on people even when I should. // I don't trust easy answers. Dare to be scared in the face of the unexplained, instead of using your safe formulas. The universe is a beautiful entropy, and your religion won't change a damn thing. Accept it if you can. // Sometimes I struggle with the hedonistic nature of my existence. I may run away to the peace corp. // I say "SHAZZAM!" or "JUDO CHOP!" when doing everyday activities. // I am passionate. I have a penchant for organization. // I hate going with the flow. I must be on the move, at least dynamic with own self. // I giggle profusely, usually at my own lame jokes, which may or may not involve putting chopsticks in my mouth and barking like a walrus. ""may my heart always be open to little/ birds who are the secrets of living/ whatever they sing is better than to know/ and if men should not hear them men are old/ may my mind stroll about hungry/ and fearless and thirsty and supple/ and even if its sunday may i be wrong/ for whenever men are right they are not young/ and may myself do nothing usefully/ and love yourself so more than truly/ there's never been quite such a fool who could fail/ pulling all the sky over him with one smile"" e.e. cummings
Your Birthdate: January 11
Your birth on the 11th day of the month makes you something of a dreamer and an idealist.You work well with people because you know how to use persuasion rather than force.There is a strong spiritual side to your nature, and you may have intuitive qualities inherent in your make up, too.You are very aware and sensitive, though often temperamental.Although you have a good mind and you are very analytical, you may not be comfortable in the business world.You are definitely creative and this influence tends to make you more of a dreamer than a doer. What Does Your Birth Date Mean?According to the "Which Big Lebowski character are you?" quiz:
Why don't you check it out? Or we cut off your Johnson!
You are...the brat prince. The rock star. The vain one.
My score on The Quick and Dirty Personality Test :
ENFJ- The Teacher
(Your Type is 100% Extroverted, 25% Observant, 0% Logical and 81% Structured)
Your type is known as the teacher, or the educating mentor. You also belong to the larger group, called idealists. You tend to bring out the best in other people. You lead without seeming to do so. People are naturally drawn to you. You expect the very best from people which takes the form of enthusiastic encouragement which is so charming that people try their best not to disappoint you. You share your personality type with 3% of the population. You need to feel a deep and meaningful connection to your romantic partners, and go to great lengths to understand and please your mate. Harmony is vitally important to you, and you often put others' needs before your own. You have a pretty thin skin and are easily hurt. Although you strive for harmony, when your values or ethics are violated, you can be very emotional, confrontational, and even punishing. However, you are very insightful about the underlying cause of conflicts, and an excellent communicator, so you have the tools to bring about a quick and peaceful resolution as long as you can keep control of your facilities. You want to be appreciated for your thoughtfulness and compassion. You need your partner to make a real effort to get to know you. Above all, you need to be able to express your feelings and have them taken seriously. Your group summary: idealists (NF) Your type summary: ENFJvincex's shorter version of this test. My longer version of this same test. The real deal.
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My Interests

Watching the sky, abstracting, sideballing, schematizing. Fighting my nature, fighting your nature, finding beauty. Allowing waves to beat my body as I move with this tide.

I'd like to meet:

Someone to play connect the dots with my beauty marks... Those who do not put a time limit on love. Philosophers, poets, idealists, sweethearts, cynics, deconstructionists. People who are strong enough to claim ignorance, innovators, those who dance on tables... people who do what they love, and do it well, with contagious passion, hillarity, dignity, grace, kindness, and SINCERITY. I like a friend to challenge my way of thinking, to be my daemon.

Music:

Bob Dylan, Elliot Smith, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pavement, Metric, New Order, Leonard Cohen, Philip Glass, Bach, Sage Francis, Fiona Apple, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Aimee Mann, The Clash, Beatles, Lucinda Williams, Candi Station, Brand New, Lyle Lovett, Bowie, Mum, Jeff Buckley, Billy Holiday, Ani Difranco, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, k.d. Lang, Andrew Bird, Townes van Zandt, Girlyman, Wilco, Muse, Badly Drawn Boy, Cat Power, Modest Mouse, Taj Mahal, Michelle Malone, Over the Rhine, Belle and Sebastian, Radiohead, Indigo Girls, Jack Johnson, Aesop Rock, Mazzy Star, Emmylou Harris, Rufus Wainwright, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, David Gray, Atmosphere, Gillian Welch, Jurassic 5, Lauryn Hill, Liz Phair, Norah Jones, Coldplay, Van Morrison, Tribe Called Quest, Paul Simon, Julie Miller, Nick Drake, Weezer, Joan Baez, Outkast, Quick and Easy Boys, The Shins, Duke Ellington, Depeche Mode, Detroit Cobras, James Taylor, Mark Mothersbaugh, Five O'Clock People, Beck....... width="425" height="350" .. .. width="425" height="350" ..

Movies:

Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Big Labowski, The Royal Tenenbaums, Talk to Her, Adaptation, Clue, Closer, Raising Arizona, Kill Bill series, Il Postino, Desperately Seeking Susan, Life Aquatic, Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind, Frida, The Incredibles, Casablanca, Roman Holiday, Little Shop of Horrors, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Napoleon Dynamite, The Gods Must Be Crazy I and II, Team America, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Love Actually, The English Patient, Sabrina, The Sandlot, Eegah, Fargo, Old School, War of the Roses, Closer, Spaceballs, The Godfather, Snatch, Star Wars, Domino, Three Kings, American Beauty, Almost Famous, Blazing Saddles, Scent of a Woman, Waiting, Super Troopers, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Beetlejuice, The Motorcycle Diaries, Fight Club, Much Ado About Nothing, Return to Me, Little Women, The Emperor's New Groove, Rushmore, Life as a House, Stargate, Wayne's World, Reality Bites, Babe the Gallant Pig, The Constant Gardener, Moonstruck, Sense and Sensibility, Anchorman, Lady and the Tramp, I Heart Huckabees, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Zoolander, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, LA Confidential, High Fidelity, Momento, Chicago, Vanilla Sky, Wonderboys, The Mummy movies, Wedding Crashers, The Breakfast Club, Home for the Holidays, Adventures in Babysitting, Stand by Me, The Princess Bride, Best in Show, Milo and Otis, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Coming to America, Life is Beautiful, The Meaning of Life, The Usual Suspects, Lost in Translation, any movie with a three word title... .. width="425" height="350" ..

Television:

The L Word, The X Files, Arrested Development, The Simpsons, Sex in the City, Dave Chappelle Show, C.S.I., Sea Lab, Aquateen Hunger Force, Space Ghost, Reno 911, S.N.L., Law and Order SVU .. width="425" height="350" .. This profile was edited with Thomas' myspace editor™ V2.

Books:

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Joke, The Tao of Pooh, The Te of Piglet, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The English Patient, The Orchid Thief, The Future of Biblical Archaeology, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, You Shall Know Our Velocity, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Wrinkle in Time, The Brothers Karamazov, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Fury, the Dune series, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Paradise Lost, Mila 18, Toot and Puddle, The Iliad, Beloved, Paradise, Song of Solomon, Dante's Inferno, Frankenstein, The Master and Margarita, Tale of Two Cities, The Code of Hammurabi, The World of Christopher Robin, Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, The Histories, Exodus, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Aeneid, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Invisible Monsters, Choke, The Sirens of Titan, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Bible, all Apocrypha, The Motorcycle Diaries, Different Seasons, High Fidelity, The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map, Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, QB VII, Troilus and Cressida, Wild Sheep Chase, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, James and the Giant Peach, Swan Song, Boy's Life, Walden, The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Skinny Legs and All, (as a tribute to my childhood: The Naria Series, and every single book by Anne Rice, Robert McCammon, and Michael Crichton)...

Heroes:

Edward Said, William Foxwell Albright, Audrey Hepburn, Dian Fossey, Salman Rushdie, Fyodor Dosteovsky, Charlie Kaufman, Che, Bob Dylan, Pablo Neruda, E.E. Cummings, Banksy, Wislawa Szymborska, A.A. Milne, Stephen Colbert, Bruce Campbell, Noam Chomsky, David Shipler, Frida Kahlo, Anne Rice, Conan O'Brian, GW's dead body, Joan Baez, Joel and Ethan Coen, Will Ferrell, my mom, your mom... "Dostoevsky, in Notes from the Underground, said: ' Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deduction that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally; he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses in order to justify his logic.' We must look inside ourselves, approach archaeology with humility and not with arrogance, and be constantly alert to our own subjectivity." Thomas W. Davis from "Theory and Method in Biblical Archaeology"

My Blog

downtown-south side taxi cab emotions

3.05 just get me home4.85 i don't like doing this alone8.65 i remember when these rides where fun9.45 (is it tacky we kissed the whole way home?)11.85 i won't think about it anymore14.65 i'm almost th...
Posted by Kiddo on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:39:00 PST

late night sex and drugs

we carry on as usualand jack ourselves at nightpretend we're getting offfrom whatever the hell that wasthe only difference isi no longer think of youexcept between the linesare you deep enough for met...
Posted by Kiddo on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:00:00 PST

you too

deliberately disjunctive discourseis what we call it in the Industry:i neither said hi or byei never met your gazeor pried at your aloofor plied you with my bestthe radio said those corny lines'i can'...
Posted by Kiddo on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:16:00 PST

can i borrow a pen?

i wish i had been the onewho lied to youjust to see your stupid grin your edible eyelashes fluttering for me.i add you to my daily doseof what i take to make itcomeit overcomes me.no one's writin hom...
Posted by Kiddo on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:07:00 PST

grad school

the building is kept cold and quiet. i've seen the same faces for over a year, and they are still strangers. everytime i become happy, something changes for the worse. i wonder if this is my life or n...
Posted by Kiddo on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 02:35:00 PST

how can you even ask me

it's 20 degress colder in your shadow.you can smoke or drink or fuck away your painslinking from addiction to addictionbut you're taking this cowardice with you.my stigmata bleeds for you, my dear.i h...
Posted by Kiddo on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:39:00 PST

more

they say it can't be realthat you exposed yourself for nothinsomethinsomethin i could only giveand i said noyou don't understandit's neededi can't see past my own nose sometimesor body, face. whatever...
Posted by Kiddo on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:41:00 PST

drunk as drunk on turpentine from your open kisses,

i hide my humanity because you're hiding yoursi hedge around the past and never get anywhereit would be easier, if you loved meand i loved youat least for this momentbut i have no ideaexcept a good on...
Posted by Kiddo on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:18:00 PST

cleaning out my pockets/ getting rid of evidence

i am collecting endangered species...................you are an archeri ask you to shed yourskin like a lionbecause i would like to see you..................i will sip my coffee by the spoonful and le...
Posted by Kiddo on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:00:00 PST

ode to your absence

i wipe my hands on thistles and lay bare upon the rocks i'd rather return with cuts and bruises than stay to deal with you   i am not work for your idle hands   i know you'll ask me why some...
Posted by Kiddo on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:44:00 PST