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¡Aulait!

The longest way round is the shortest way home

My Interests

Movies:

High Fidelity, Wings of Desire, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Kontroll, The Overture, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Enchanted April, and Tuvalu are some of my favs...A. I. Artificial Intelligence, Amelie, Pieces of April, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, L'Auberge Espagnole, West Beirut, Dracula, Frida, Lilo and Stitch, I Robot, and Monsoon Wedding (to name a few). I'm a big cinema fan.

Books:

Everything. Ordinary Wolves by Seth Katner, Kerouac, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, High Fidelity, George R. R. Martin, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Julian Barnes, Anchee Min, Passion by I.U.Tarchetti, All Men are Mortal, Planet of the Apes, Solaris, Oryx and Crake, Shakespeare, The God of Small Things, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Laxmi Prasad Devkota, Rabindranath Tagore, Louise Erdrich, Carol Shields, The Condition of PostModernity by David Harvey to name a very very small select few....

Heroes:

Irena Sendlerowa

My Blog

Manifest

A quotation I like: "God is asleep in each stone, God dreams in the plants, God awakens in the animals, and God becomes conscious in the human form." I think it's a great illustration of how God exis...
Posted by ¡Aulait! on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:22:00 PST

I will never take another oven mitT for granted.

1. It's probably better to find out stuff in progress than to find out afterwards. 2. It may make no difference in cooking or baking whether you learn of your mistakes during or after food preparation...
Posted by ¡Aulait! on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 06:02:00 PST

Wow.

Whoa you guys. Ok, so, I just found out staging has been moved forward to 5/31 (this means, this is when I have to report to Peace Corps for orientation). A few days later, we go to Mongolia via Seoul...
Posted by ¡Aulait! on Fri, 04 May 2007 03:31:00 PST

Strength

strength isn't measured by how high up the mountain you can climb but by how many people you help reach the summit with you. If you've ever been on trek...you know that's the truth. You realize just h...
Posted by ¡Aulait! on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:13:00 PST

Universal Language

The syllables are the trees The rhythm is the path That leads you through the forest.
Posted by ¡Aulait! on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 06:15:00 PST

Fun Facts

1) All About Mongolia 2) Everyone should visit Mongolia (and visit me while there) 3) My best friend and I will be overseas at the same time. Both of us serving the country, though she "in theater" w...
Posted by ¡Aulait! on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:58:00 PST

(Clink, clink)

This song is SO 1970's tacky, and SO adorable: "Knock Three Times" by Tony Orlando and Dawn. Every time I hear it, I have to sing, knock, and clink along. And now it's time to share the love. You can ...
Posted by ¡Aulait! on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:07:00 PST

Sub-Saharan Shout Out

Yay, I just noticed my World Visitor Map finally got its first Sub-Saharan visitor--I was wondering when that was going to happen! Specifically, Yaounde, Cameroon--so, thanks for stopping by. And if y...
Posted by ¡Aulait! on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:00:00 PST

I'll Be Your Easter Bunny....


Posted by ¡Aulait! on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:30:00 PST

Why Lawns?

SO, I'm reading this book for class on the bygone days of local civic engagement and neighborliness (I say this with a tinge of sarcasm, which for those of you who know me, is a given). This combined ...
Posted by ¡Aulait! on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:19:00 PST