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Wendy

tonight i can clearly recall every little bit.

About Me

Right now I'm trying to accomplish several incompatible goals: 1. finish my doctorate; 2. become better at dancing without going broke or flunking out of school; 3. cultivate/sustain relationships with people who actually live in the state of Michigan (again, without going broke or flunking out of school); 4. get the small number of people with whom I could probably exchange DNA with no noticable mismatch (i.e., the obies, jenni, and bass) to move to a city near me, without knowing exactly what city I'm going to be in in 18 months. I'll let you know how all that goes.I like being just inappropriate enough. I appreciate the challenge and thrill of sustained eye contact. I say really shockingly intimate things to people I don't know well but keep secrets from people I love. I lie a little bit and I am bad at saying no. I become avoidant when stressed and don't understand how to be angry. I have nightmares several times a week. I sleep in.I like: food, Matt, nooky, Moxie and Fumo, booze, traumatology, Aaron Sorkin, the Hokey-Pokies, being warm in cozy places, dreaming, shakin' it, mojitos, waterslides.I don't like: bigots, woman-haters, sunburn, wedgies, dizziness, insomnia.I am good at: cooking, loving, snuggling, grossing people out, fighting when I have to, moving very fast, moving very slow, working 16+ hour days, doing tedious things.I am not good at: keeping my mouth shut, leaving things unsaid, balancing independence with dependence, moving at a moderate speed, speaking truth to power, remembering to call people when they're having a hard time, saving money.

My Interests

people, food, trauma (in that order); dancing, singing off-key karaoke, sleeping during the afternoon when the sun comes through my window, my partner, my dogs, my friends, other people's friends

I'd like to meet:

People who have interesting things to say and have the courage or brazenness to say them. People who find it interesting that I like meaning and connections. Open people. People more radical than myself. People just like the people I already am in love with, but in my zip code. People willing to move to my zip code.

Music:

dar williams, rufus wainwright, george michael, kris delmhorst, prince, patty griffin, jason myles goss, melissa ferrick, madonna, chris pureka.

Movies:

Hannah and Her Sisters, Kinsey, The Squid and the Whale, A Fish Called Wanda... I know there are more, but I can never remember movies after I see them. New James Bond, you are a sexy devil.

Television:

The West Wing. Sports Night. The new Aaron Sorkin show--it's getting better. A show called Heroes that I bet no one else watches. I can get down with some Cosby Show, too. I'd totally Threes Company if we had good cable.

Books:

Love in the Time of Cholera, The Bone People, Poisonwood Bible, Lucky, Trauma and Recovery, The Glass Castle, books about sex, anything by Nancy McWilliams, anything about trauma.

Heroes:

My little sister.

My Blog

reading tea leaves

I have heard that one can predict the future from the pattern that the tea leaves make in the bottom of one's cup. I'd always thought of it as superstition, till today my own tea leaves made the natur...
Posted by Wendy on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:23:00 PST

Tag, Drewie style

So the rules are, once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with 6 weird things or habits about yourself. In the end, you need to choose the 7 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't f...
Posted by Wendy on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 06:01:00 PST