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About Me

i love the smell of clean sheets. classic cars make me happy. i get hours of amusement from watching ppl. my favorite bill is a 10$. i like shoes but hate wearing them. i can't spell. i am a lefty that likes to do things right handed. i don't wear a watch and don't own a calender. i have to listed to bbc world news when i go to bed. i see nothing wrong with gossip!I got my layout at Cleanupmyspace.com

My Interests

anthropology, asian history, music, snowboarding, maps, knitting, day spas, mini road trips, bikes, bocci, scrabble

I'd like to meet:

a unicorn. joe lalli, anyone that knows how to use an abacus.

Music:

jawbreaker, fugazi, the supersuckers,journey, destroyer, spoon, lucinda williams, pj harvey, elvis costello, wilco, talking heads, stan getz, thin lizzy, calexico, charles mingus, charlie parker,bad religion, pavement,the police, metric, built to spill, samiam, david bowie, tom waits, belle and sebastian, matt pond pa, bad brains, brit pop.

Movies:

cinema paradiso, better off dead, bobby, dogtown and z-boys, thunder road, city of lost children, little miss sunshine, friday, sixteen candles, AIRPLANE!

Television:

LAW AND ORDER, food challenge, greys anatomy, ugly betty, deadliest catch...i have really bad taste in t.v.

Books:

hiroshima, cancer ward, the red tent, the prince, anything by gabriel garcia marquez... love and other demons, one hundred years of solitude, life in the time of cholera, tom robbins works, the unbearable lightness of being, choke, the poisonwood bible, underworld... if i could ever finish it, works by:rumi, kinky freedman, carl hiaasen, esp. lucky you, any history text books.

My Blog

i tried to vote, does that count?

today was election day. i assume people are aware of this...when i went to vote at 9:30 a.m. i was informed i was not able to! being the good voter that i was trying to be i went and read up on ...
Posted by buttercup on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:30:00 PST

green ways and parks... what are they?

i read this in the greater wilmington business journal:potential changes to building rules in wilmington's downtown business district are drawing some heat. the biggest source of concern is the possib...
Posted by buttercup on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:01:00 PST

ferry rides

i am super stoked about the prospect of taking the ferry to work everyday. that means i would have a guaranteed 50 minutes of quiet alone time per day! plus no fighting traffic. i would be able to rea...
Posted by buttercup on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:22:00 PST

dress up like a hoochie day!

for the first time in years and years i am considered the conservative employee. i might as well be driving a volvo station wagon with a bush bumper sticker on it, at least in the eyes of my co-worker...
Posted by buttercup on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:28:00 PST

rockin it out old school

yes, it is true, they have put the band back together! in a few days i will be going to see van halen on the opening night of their reunion tour! i am excited, amused and a little embarassed about thi...
Posted by buttercup on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:12:00 PST

feeling bad for feeling good

so today i feel like i should be feeling sad, but i am not. so i feel even worse baecause i am not sad. so time passes and you move on, but you feel bad for moving on. it is like you are supposed to h...
Posted by buttercup on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:49:00 PST

summer time blues

i am not ready for summer to be over...and that is all there is to it!
Posted by buttercup on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:40:00 PST

sandy and flexible... hmmm

went to a yoga class today. my first in four years....yes, that does mean i have rejoined a gym! anyway... i walk into the studio and unfurl my mat. the mat that has been in the trunk of my car. the m...
Posted by buttercup on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:12:00 PST

i wanna rock... and rock i did

this was my week for rock shows. all of which i just happened to fall into. friday, before i left for greenville i found out about a show that night and then i got tix for a show monday night... thank...
Posted by buttercup on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:10:00 PST

best p.s.a. ever

" target="_self">yea, it was on my profile... this totally brings the joy... i have been walking around singing this for days....
Posted by buttercup on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:54:00 PST