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Amy

I am here for Friends

About Me

Fastest way to a girl's heart is with a kick-ass cover song. Or so sayeth me.
I'm learning to play the guitar. I want to learn to play everything. I set crazy goals like that.
I take pictures . Some of them are quite possibly decent.

My Interests

not-so-scientific experiments, misguided attempts, white merlots, piratical diversions, nachos, late-night chitchats, baking, rss feeds, photography dabbling, sound, gingerbread, dancingdancingdancing, sweet tea, yarn crafting, new places, cupcakes, reading, smithwick's, pajamas, my cat, learning, french, book smells, tree climbing

I'd like to meet:

My doppelganger. The President of Burundi. And this little guy:

Music:

Constant friends: Fairweather Friend , +medic , Ferris Wheel Junkies , Matt Butcher, History, Christina Wagner, silverchair, Elastica, Rilo Kiley, Jenny Lewis, The Sounds, We Are Scientists, Metric, Garbage, No Doubt, Damien Rice. Lately I've been listening to a lot of The Frames, Sara Bareilles.

Movies:

The Princess Bride, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Pirate Movie, the Goonies, Amélie, 10 Things I Hate About You, A Very Long Engagement, Pride and Prejudice, Boondock Saints, Dummy, The Believer, West Side Story, Little Miss Sunshine, Eddie Izzard's Dress to Kill, Juno

Television:

Provides some nice background noise.

Books:

Lord of the Rings, How to Breathe Underwater, To the Lighthouse, anything about pirates, Interpreter of Maladies, Stiff: the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Catch-22, Oh the Glory of It All, The Great Gatsby, The Time-Traveller's Wife, His Dark Materials, A Song of Ice and Fire, Harry Potter, eat pray love

My Blog

Oooooh

I have an interview today with a company here in town. I don't want to go into lots of details because I don't want to jinx myself. More on that later. BUT, this morning, morning of my interview, inte...
Posted by Amy on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:20:00 PST

BORED.

The worst part about being laid off so far is that I have nothing to do. SURE, there are myriad things i could do. I could read many of the books on my shelf that I haven't yet read. I could watch mov...
Posted by Amy on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:16:00 PST

I might be tired

Due to many, many hours at work and many, many hours trying to finish Christmas and birthday presents, I haven't had (or haven't made, however you want to look at it) the time to do relatively simple ...
Posted by Amy on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:26:00 PST

Damn I win.

I broke down and showed Jason already, so I can share with everyone else now.If you know Jason, you probably know he's a big fan of E.T. Well, for his birthday this weekend, I made him this....
Posted by Amy on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:21:00 PST

Baby Meerkat

Forever and a day ago, Eric and I went to Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo. We had heard that the zoo had a couple of baby meerkats, but they eluded us for most of the day. Finally, late in the afternoon, we ca...
Posted by Amy on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 09:28:00 PST

Things that make you go vroom.

My titling skills win. I've been without a vehicle for a week now. Last weekend, someone who shall remain nameless accidentally backed into the driver's side second door and dented it quite nicely. So...
Posted by Amy on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:22:00 PST

Damn you Shannon, or How I Stumped the Nurse

While was up in Tennessee, I got bitten by something, just above my right ankle. It itched like crazy for a day or two and then I forgot about it. I vaguely remember thinking "oh, that bite is gone."W...
Posted by Amy on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:54:00 PST

A battle of epic proportions! Oh, and giraffes

Some of you know my cat Vera. You probably don't know about her ongoing battle with the curtain that I have up in my bedroom window. Well, today she had some success against the curtain, and it was do...
Posted by Amy on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:42:00 PST

Why yes I am bragging

On a whim, I decided that I could make chicken parmigiana. No recipe, no prior experience, but I could do it, no sweat. And I win. Oh lordy was it good. I have to try this cooking experimentation thin...
Posted by Amy on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 04:15:00 PST

summer movie madness

Here's my Summer Movie Viewing Wishlist. As you'll see, I'm very into serious cinematic art. Movies I have to see Or ELSEMay 25 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's EndMay 25 WaitressJune 8 Surf's UpJ...
Posted by Amy on Tue, 08 May 2007 02:31:00 PST