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Maverick

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About Me

MyGen Profile Generator (I am not very good at king of the mountain. I HAVE A DISABILITY, dammit!)Currently having a delayed adolescence...still living the college life--or at least, getting paid like it. I live off of macaroni and cheese, Mt. Dew, and Spiderman vitamins. I hate mayonnaise. I watch football but care about politics. Maybe that should be "and", not "but." I have become a big hockey fan of late. I think pop culture provides fodder for intellectual discussions, and I can make "Newlyweds: Nick and Jesssica" about Marx and social class revolution. I annoy my friends by saying "________(fill in the blank) is a social construction." I debate passionately, sometimes too passionately, particularly when it involves politics. I hope I have my head in a book but don't live in the ivory tower. That's a fancy way of saying I am an intellectual, but not an intellectual snob. I get too emotionally involved in almost EVERYthing in my life. I overanalyze everything (particularly friendships and relationships). I am self-reflective to the point of neurotic. I play trivia competitively, and often get overruled on sports questions even when I'm right (EVEN when it involves Red Sox trivia). But, I deserve it, as I once got a question wrong when the answer was, essentially, my Master's thesis. I also get really excited when the trivia question is about Marx, though I'll most likely get that wrong too. Singapore is the smallest independent nation in Asia, in case you were wondering. And the first World Series was in 1903. I stay up very very late and I sleep in all morning. Don't ever call me before 11 AM. I am a thread-count snob when it comes to sheets, and my bed is the most comfortable bed in Atlanta--ask around. I think the only way to listen to music is loud, and I hear all the subtleties. Most of the time no one else gets me. It's ok though. I guess no one really gets each other anyway.
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Beth
Birthday: April 14, 1977
Birthplace: Rochester, NY (i'm practically Canadian)
Current Location: Atlanta/Decatur, GA
Eye Color: green/blue
Hair Color: brown
Age: 28
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: um...Irish, i guess
The Shoes You Wore Today: flops
Your Weakness: stories about abused animals on Animal Planet. That and girls.
Your Fears: insignificance
Your Perfect Pizza: Black Olives, Mushrooms, Green Peppers
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Dissertation Proposal
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: whatever
Thoughts First Waking Up: make that sound stop!
Your Best Physical Feature: shoulders
Your Bedtime: 3 AM
Your Most Missed Memory: a memory I forgot? that makes no sense!
Pepsi or Coke: Mt. Dew
MacDonalds or Burger King: BK Veggie
Single or Group Dates: depends
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: yuck
Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: um...neither. But get either of them at Jupiter Coffee
Do you Smoke: nope
Do you Swear: almost all the time
Do you Sing: in my car
Do you Shower Daily: yes
Have you Been in Love: yes...
Do you want to go to College: dear lord get me out of college
Do you want to get Married: yes
Do you belive in yourself: most of time
Do you get Motion Sickness: not unless i'm drunk
Do you think you are Attractive: sometimes
Are you a Health Freak: not hardly
Do you get along with your Parents: most of the time
Do you like Thunderstorms: my favorite
Do you play an Instrument: define "play"
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: yes
In the past month have you Smoked: no
In the past month have you been on Drugs: fistfuls of percocet
In the past month have you gone on a Date: hmm
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: yes
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: no
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: ew no
In the past month have you been on Stage: no
In the past month have you been Dumped: we'll just leave that one alone
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: no
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: no
Ever been Drunk: often
Ever been called a Tease: no
Ever been Beaten up: no
Ever Shoplifted: yes
How do you want to Die: old and happy
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: i want to grow up
What country would you most like to Visit: ireland
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: brown
Favourite Hair Color: depends....
Short or Long Hair: short
Height: the girl's or mine? um, i'm 5'8''
Weight: shh
Best Clothing Style: baggy jeans and doorags
Number of Drugs I have taken: at the same time? lots
Number of CDs I own: mp3ing these days
Number of Piercings: 3
Number of Tattoos: 4
Number of things in my Past I Regret: 1 big thing
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My Interests

sports (go sox), music, queer theory, sociology of sports, gender studies, LGBTQ studies... a bunch of academic stuff. board games, ping pong, live hockey games (Thrashers), belt buckles, hair products, pretending to play the guitar, acoustic music venues, potato skins (no bacon), vintage t-shirts (particularly involving the 1986 ALCS)
You are the fox.

Saint Exupery's 'The Little Prince' Quiz.
brought to you by QuizillaI couldn't have said it better myself. Fox.

I'd like to meet:

Mike Messner. Shannon Macmillan. The deeper side of try.

Music:

Hmm...this is ever changing but mostly dominated by acoustic-ness... singer/songwriter type stuff. Apparently I listen to "depressing chick music" or "lesbo folk" depending on who you ask. I don't think that's true.Lately? Tegan and Sara, Ani, Dawn Thomas, Edie Carey, Rose Cousins, Catie Curtis, Matt Nathanson, Brilliant Inventions, Matthew Kahler, Various Jennifer Nettles projects (Soul Miner's Daughter, JNB, Sugarland), Alix Olsen, Bright Eyes, Ryan Adams, The Be Good Tanyas, Chris Pureka, The Killers, Barenaked Ladies, Girlyman, Counting Crows, and Garth freakin Brooks. Plus I like to make mix CDs. Breakup mix CDs. Multiple volume breakup mix CDs. Even before there is a breakup. Sometimes even before there is a relationship. (you think i'm kidding but i'm not).

Movies:

Reverse of the Curse of the Bambino, Faith Rewarded: The Historic 2004 Boston Red Sox Season, The Life of David Gale, Shawshank Redemption, Blue Crush ;), Bowling for Columbine, Million Dollar Baby, Top Gun, Murderball, Kinsey, Sideways, Gattaca, My Date with Drew

Television:

TNT primetime in the daytime, Monday Night Football, the L Word, Grey's Anatomy, What About Brian, My Boys, Thrashers Games (when they bother to put it on TV) Law and Order (except Criminal Intent--that is a last resort). America's Funniest Home Videos, particularly late at night after pain medication.

Books:

Life After God, Life of Pi, DaVinci Code, I Know This Much is True, The Power of One, A People's History of the United States, Lies My Teacher Told Me, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, A History of Sexuality Vol. 1, Dude Where's My Country, the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Genderqueer, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, No Logo, Middlesex, The Kite Runner, Eats Shoots and Leaves (I just got the new kids edition--with pictures!), My Sister's Keeper, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, The Dive from Claussen's Pier, Goodnight Moon, How Soccer Explains the World: An (Unlikely) Theory of Globalization

Heroes:

Shannon Macmillan, Mike Messner, Helen Keller (did you know she was a radical socialist?)

My Blog

getting stuff done

shout out to cindy for the link......
Posted by Maverick on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:46:00 PST

My better is better than your better.

Oh Abby Wambach, you slay me.  "Quicky Von Quick Quick."...
Posted by Maverick on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:23:00 PST

None of us are safe.

Lesbian video from AfterEllen.com ...
Posted by Maverick on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:06:00 PST

jury duty

I have jury duty on Monday.  I have to be there at 8:15 in the morning.  Do you think I can get a doctor's note saying detox = insomnia = I can't get up at 8 AM?Sigh.  Its not that I do...
Posted by Maverick on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:29:00 PST

i don’t need to lose another hour

i'm having a hard enough time keeping track of the ones i already have.stupid daylight savings time.(lost an hour of my spring break too!  fuckers)
Posted by Maverick on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:54:00 PST

tupac! in violin!

so, there are many reasons why i am not done with my dissertation.  this is just the latest.  shelly told me about the Vitamin String Quartet.  Do you know about this?  It is, well...
Posted by Maverick on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:09:00 PST

this week’s lyrics

Well the future's got me worried Such awful thoughts My head's a carousel of pictures The spinning never stops I just want someone to walk in front And I'll follow the leader Like when I fell under ...
Posted by Maverick on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:35:00 PST

profile of a friendship - (or fuckin funny nostalgia)

so, i'm reaching new heights in procrastination...i opened all my mail from november 07 through now (nothing exciting) and started filing away all the crap and pieces of paper you need to keep for som...
Posted by Maverick on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:40:00 PST

detox

once upon a time, i didn't even like to take advil.  i was my own anti-drug.  ok, i wasn't "anti-drug" like that, but i didn't like to take painkillers because they masked pain and i thought...
Posted by Maverick on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:02:00 PST

Figures

And of course, now it has rained.  Makes stuipd Sonny look clairvoyant.  Something tells me weather.com had a lot to do with the timing of the stupid prayer vigil.sigh...
Posted by Maverick on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:13:00 PST