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rachel

))(( forever.

About Me

you've been chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation of the sequel to your life.

photoblog | some more pictures on flickr

My Interests

photography, languages (computer), languages (human), traveling, patterned stockings, board games + sudokus + cards, tea, vegetarian cooking, This American Life, the ny public library, delicious sweet food items, my kitty and other cute things

I'd like to meet:

kitties. and maybe exactly two people who are interested in playing canasta.

Music:

belle & sebastian, of montreal, nada surf, superchunk, pulp, bedhead, broken social scene, arcade fire, modest mouse, rilo kiley, notwist, camera obscura, jawbreaker, the shins, aesop rock, descendents, and, you know, many many others...

Movies:

i like documentaries.

i watch a lot of movies. here are some:
the science of sleep, me and you and everyone we know, quinceañera, the squid and the whale, american splendor, bad education, incident at loch ness, hotel rwanda, capturing the friedmans, the staircase, napolean dynamite, office space, better off dead

Television:

space ghost: coast to coast. the office.

Books:

currently reading: what is the what

i have also enjoyed: jonathan strange & mr. norrell, the hitchhikers guide, the wizard of the crow, collapse, guns germs & steel, agatha christie, irvine welsh, chuck palahniuk, bret easton ellis, haruki murakami, david sedaris, eric schlosser, mother jones

My Blog

my new haircut (for mary and jill)

here is my new haircut. as you can see, it isn't that different... just not, you know, uneven, with weird lengthed pieces everywhere. and it took a FULL HOUR....
Posted by rachel on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 09:34:00 PST

by popular demand: GROSS FOOT PICTURES!!

jen cut her foot in thailand and needed 5 stitches. she asked me to show the world, so they could know her pain. here is the progresssion of the gross foot:(that isn't blood, its iodine. )on the opera...
Posted by rachel on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:52:00 PST

thailand: for those who missed it

here are my pictures... yay!
Posted by rachel on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:15:00 PST

a missed photo opportunity

i just went on a one hour bike ride around brooklyn and approximately 60 times during those 60 minutes i thought: that would be an awesome picture. why do i never bring my camera with me the few times...
Posted by rachel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

my life will end shortly.

june 15, actually. the day i start working full time, tiempo completo, and will probably never stop. so from now till june 15 is my free time, my chance to do something fun and exciting, travel, f...
Posted by rachel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

braid and euchre

i got a ticket for the braid reunion tour, one of those bands that i didnt start liking till after they broke up. ok, jawbreaker, you're next. now that i have finished the hardest final i have ...
Posted by rachel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

44

degrees. last weekend i put my space heater away and pulled out all my short pants from under my bed. then i walked around in short pants and flip flops. "its not summer" some dude told me as he p...
Posted by rachel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST