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alexia

I just figured if I was going to make the world a better place I would do it with cookies.

About Me

mosquitos LOVE me.
i am cool, calm & collected. almost always hungry. i can't wait to buy a house and make it my own. i love food - reading about it, cooking it and serving it to the people i love.

My Interests

currently obsessed with: heirloom tomatoes
and corn on the cob.
cooking, baking, reading, crosswords, decorating, shopping, farmers markets, wearing uncomfortable shoes, reading maps, thai food, making up silly dances and songs, just ask erik.

I'd like to meet:

"oh my god, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, i wish i could just stay up here and rest and be kind."
-- the dharma bums

Music:

in no particular order: trashcan sinatras, wilco, sons and daughters, belle and sebastian, blur, franz ferdinand, the decemberists, the new pornographers, bloc party, kings of leon, mazarin, the beatles, interpol, modest mouse, the verve, creeping weeds, robbie williams, blur, jason collett, neko case, matt pond pa, the beautiful south, alkali flats, arcade fire, broken social scene, the cure, damien rice and many more.

Movies:

amelie, bridget jones' diary, pride and prejudice (who do you prefer as darcy, colin or matthew?), run lola run, trainspotting, the forsyte saga, stranger than fiction, about a boy, lord of the rings, bend it like beckham, big fish, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, dazed and confused, mansfield park, the goonies, bride and prejudice, harry potter, shaun of the dead, alfie and more

Television:

right now: nothing. absolutely nothing.
continuing: entourage. ugly betty. monarch of the glen. good eats. oh, and mourning the loss of gilmore girls.

Books:

right now:
madame bovary
otherwise i'm obsessed with historical fiction, cookbooks that read like novels and reference books about words.

Heroes:

julia child, ruth reichl, alton brown, anthony bourdain, elizabeth the first, sophie gouzopoulos
and last, but certainly not least, erik schmidt

My Blog

word of the day: em·pa·thy [em-puh-thee]

em·pa·thy [em-puh-thee]etymology: greek empatheia, literally, passion, from empathEs emotional, from em- + pathos feelings, emotion -- more at PATHOS1 : the imaginative projection of a subjective stat...
Posted by alexia on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:44:00 PST

best sandwich ever

best sandwich ever: roasted turkey with medium salsa, avocado and clover sprouts on a whole wheat tortilla. simple pleasures. what's yours?
Posted by alexia on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:45:00 PST

summer 2006: what are your plans?

to celebrate that we are on our second full day of summer here in sunny sweltering 95 degrees hot virginia - what are your summer plans?erik and i embark on our very first trip together to the west co...
Posted by alexia on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:54:00 PST

lonely mondays

i like lonely mondays. lonely mondays here in this new life where i don't have to work on some mondays. i wake up late, wrapped up in the covers. i read the paper, drink some coffee and contemplate br...
Posted by alexia on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:51:00 PST