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About Me

im sue. i like shiny red things and jack daniels and cigarettes and long talks about religion and politics, and international borders, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Istanbul, Marseilles, Brighton, San Francisco and New Orleans and all new places, old churches, standardized tests, books, music, dancing, sunny afternoons, painting at three in the morning, the call to prayer at 4:30 am, being awake before everyone else, riding a bicycle at night, watching dusk happen, long car rides, trains and boats. I hate: men who think all women are stupid, people who fall for the load of crap that politicians feed them, people who don't question, easy answers, mosquitos, the Cairo metro, hijab, and condescension. also spelling.

My Interests

everything. except what's boring, which is whatever i was doing five minutes ago

I'd like to meet:

Smart people who disagree with me.

Music:

yes it is and thankfully there's lots of it.

Movies:

require sitting still for hours and hours though I really enjoyed jackass 2

Television:

west wing, law and order, csi, cnn ummm yup.

Books:

all of them. i have fantasies of being locked in the library of congress At the moment: The Tipping Point, Beneath the Wheel, Nobody Said Not to Go, Reading Lolita in Tehran, The Bookseller of Kabul, The Secret Life of Bees, This Side of the Sky, Atlas Shrugged, Murder on the Orient Express, A Moveable Feast,the Temple of my Familiar, the Master and Margarita, Kindred by Octavia Butler; When We Were Very Young, Milne; of Love and Other Demons, Marquez; The Djinn in the Nightengale's Eye, Bryatt; The Road to Marrakesh; The Alchemist ....

Heroes:

every woman in the Middle East who manages to stay creative, independant, and sane. everybody who's rebuilding in New Orleans East, along the lake, or in the Lower Ninth Ward.

My Blog

not dead

just so everybody knows, I'm not actually dead. I have been working a lot and it has been cold. I promise to come out more now that it's spring. It was nothing personal, and I don't ...
Posted by suzanne on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:01:00 PST

happy

Ever look up and realize that all things considered you were actually really really happy? I did that today, it was a little scary.
Posted by suzanne on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:33:00 PST

Dallas

Being sent to Dallas, for a week, locked onto a campground from 6pm to 6am each day in violation of my constitutional rights and international law. So if you hear tell of a big fire, or the FBI ...
Posted by suzanne on Fri, 12 May 2006 02:47:00 PST

home

my bus up St Charles this morning hed the front signy part set to say "help call police" For some reason that made me really happy.
Posted by suzanne on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:15:00 PST

get me the fuck out of here!!!!

Okay so the move to Charlotte was stupid. I'll admit it now. And the boy was an abusive and immature loser, and I knew that beforehand and still went for it, and that was stupid too. ...
Posted by suzanne on Fri, 06 Jan 2006 09:12:00 PST

shiny

Ive been awake for three days and everything is shiny Someone in one of my classes wrote a complaint email to our professor about me s/he claims ive been making faces when s/he talks in class i find i...
Posted by suzanne on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

shimmer and twinkle

So I realized last night that everywhere i go i built these substitute families like sandcastles and wait for time and tide to wash them away. im beginning to find that a little discouraging. okay mo...
Posted by suzanne on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

bluebooking

Somebody explain to me how my department can require me to use bluebook citation for my thesis and yet not have a copy of the blue book! theres only one copy in the library. its out. there's no cop...
Posted by suzanne on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

happy fun day

swear to god it took me three hours to file for graduation today. it also cost four hundred pounds and involved visiting six offices. then I got online and started looking for jobs in D.C. and New O...
Posted by suzanne on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

sigh

please god let them stop giving me busy work so I can actually get some real work done. real work like the hundred page paper due really really soon that I havent gotten to work on. had a bad phone ...
Posted by suzanne on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST