(you're one thing greater than all the things you are together)
from the go-betweens' "spirit"
(you'll never get away from the sound of a woman that loves you)
(pull your dress on & stay real close)
"i’m not the most connected individual, denny. sometimes words
are all that allow me to feel like i’m a part of the world,
a part of life. if i don’t have words, then i’m alone."
James Spader as Alan Shore on Boston Legal
"a woman who writes feels too much,
those trances and portents!
as if cycles and children and islands
weren't enough; as if mourners and gossips
and vegetables were never enough.
she thinks she can warn the stars.
a writer is essentially a spy.
dear love, i am that girl."
Anne Sexton, from "The Black Art"
"still best friends, still deeply suspicious of
anyone who isn't us, if you know what I mean..."
Stephen Fry on Hugh Laurie
"i have always heard voices in my head saying what a useless bastard I am,
but the voice is my own"
Stephen Fry"and now is greater than the whole
of the past, is greater and now she knows that."
R.E.M- "She Just Wants to Be""i think it's been very difficult to get away from the fact that as a child I was brought up to loathe myself"
Tom Baker"the world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear."
Richard Dawkins
"i am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."
Richard Dawkins
"i am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it."
Edith Sitwell"douglas (adams) was such a dear, sweet man.
it breaks my heart that he isn’t here anymore...
he was so good at parties and such a dear man...oh god,
my ideal friend. it breaks my heart that douglas isn’t here
anymore. it really does."
Lalla Ward
"we stand on a precipice, then before a chasm, and as we wait
it becomes higher, wider, deeper, but i am crazy enough to think it doesn't matter
which way we leap because when we leap we will have learned to fly.
is that blasphemy or faith?"
Diane Arbus
"to the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby,
the world itself is a bad dream...
i remembered everything...
maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them.
but they were part of me. they were my landscape."
Sylvia Plath
"sometimes i don't know whether zelda and i are real
or whether we are characters in one of my novels."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
i'm a 29 year old girl who is at once much too old and much too young. i write, i learn, i create art, i make things, i teach, i make lots of lists, i listen, i dream & plan. i am an english professor at nic . i'm an INFP .i graduated from the university of washington in 2001 with a b.a. degree in english language and literature. i graduated from eastern washington university in 2003 with an m.a. degree in english literature and teaching writing at the college level. i wrote my thesis on the public & the private in the poetry of anne sexton .
i have chipped red nails. i love mikey. i love intensity & passion. i love to knit. i love to read. literature was my first love. i love to write. i wear grandma sweaters & messy buns & high ponytails. i'm bipolar. i love vintage style & fashion & art. i love everything hugh laurie & stephen fry have done, either together or separately. i love certain slash pairings quite a lot. diet soda & star trek (tos) can make my day. i love cozy weekends spent indoors with mikey. i love pet names, copious use of lavish adjectives, and the feeling of being protected by my friends & my love. i wear fake pearls and high heels. i love house & jeeves and wooster & a bit of fry and laurie & doctor who & QI & blackadder to bits (my favorite shows!). i am needy and tough and weak and brave. i am a writer. i love indie pop & '60s french music & eux autres & pavement & the who & pernice brothers & mates of state & a million other bands. i have big crushes on hugh laurie, stephen fry, lalla ward, tom baker, james spader, richard dawkins, & william shatner. i want to become a better photographer and keep up with my study of the french language. i love theory (literary/cultural/media/pop culture, etc.), information, research, and analysis. the hat would put me in gryffindor after considering ravenclaw carefully. i want to meet hugh laurie & stephen fry & lalla ward & tom baker & richard dawkins & sylvia plath & anne sexton & jean-luc godard & william shatner & serge gainsbourg & shakespeare.i am all of these things & much, much more.
send me presents, letters, puppies, etc:miranda
po box 1800
spokane, wa
99210-1800
usa
& here's where i can be found:
/mirandaceleste on flickr
/mirandaceleste on del.icio.us
/mirandaceleste on last.fm
mirandaceleste on librarything
livejournal: /starmiranda
mail journal: /mirandamail
reading journal: /mirandareads
& sometimes, all i want to do is live in the world of star trek or doctor who. or in boston legal. or in secretary. or in house. or be in a godard film and live the glamorous life of a ye ye girl. but, most of the time, i love my life. it's quite wonderful, really. i wouldn't trade it for anything else.
&hearts
