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Meredith

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About Me

Scooter enthusiast, erstwhile musician, gainfully employed idler. I have dry skin in the winter, and insomnia in the summer. Someday I will take a long slow aimless roadtrip on my Stella.If you want to add me as a friend, my last name is Noel.

If we were made of cellophane we'd all get stinking drunk much faster.

My Interests

Vegetarian cooking, mindfulness and compassion, Pilates, reading, riding my scooter, playing music, indie films, doing nothing. I like iron skillets, the smell of rain-soaked earth, thrift-store clothes, toasted almonds, killer su dokus, a steady paycheck, irises, licorice Altoids, chocolate ice cream with chocolate syrup on it, and the relentless pursuit of reality.

I'd like to meet:

Oh, I know that guy. He's a nihilist.

Music:

Currently: Interpol, Spoon, Andrew Bird, Feist, Decembrists, Gomez, Ryan Adams. Also Suzanne Vega, Patty Griffin, old jazz standards, Camper Van Beethoven, Tom Petty, Barenaked Ladies, Poe, Moody Blues, Blondie, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Doves, the Xanadu soundtrack, Astrud Gilberto, Bach.

Movies:

Jackie Brown, American Beauty, Lord of the Rings, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Team America, Galaxyquest, History of Violence.

Television:

Six Feet Under, South Park, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Heroes, Bones, Friday Night Lights, 30 Rock. And a few other shows that I won't admit to watching.

Books:

Anything by Neal Stephenson. Porno, by Irvine Welsh.

My Blog

Magnetic scooter poetry

Poetry from the magnetic poetry kit on my scooter:summer with a beat like a gorgeous whisperso easy to leave these bitter crushesnever drunk like honeyfinger through buttyour cool void   ...
Posted by Meredith on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:23:00 PST

4:28 am thoughts on m&ms and Ryan Adam's new album

I read this... and found out that M&Ms are made with a less-filling chocolate that leaves you wanting more...Q. when do I stop eating M&Ms?A. when the candy coating makes my throat burn.I've s...
Posted by Meredith on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:05:00 PST

Scootering with eggs

I took my scooter out to the country to visit family for Mother's Day. It's a 100-mile round trip, so taking the scooter saves about 3 gallons of gas. And it's more fun.On the way home I bought some e...
Posted by Meredith on Mon, 14 May 2007 02:28:00 PST

My old scooter turned up

So, last week I got a call from Scootopia, the shop where I bought my first scooter, the one that got stolen. They had it.I went to see it the next day. Two guys had brought it in, towed behind anothe...
Posted by Meredith on Thu, 10 May 2007 04:51:00 PST

Scooter rally in Cincinnati

Two weeks ago I went to the WKRP Scum of the Earth rally in Cincinnati. It was really fun. I saw SO many cute scooters and mets lots of really nice people. But I think my favorite parts were the trip ...
Posted by Meredith on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:05:00 PST

he didn't even look...

So as I'm parking my scooter, I see him walking down the sidewalk with his girlfriend. This is a guy I flirted with criminally at a party, then found out later he's taken. I put my scooter up on its s...
Posted by Meredith on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:53:00 PST

I don't know what to call my Creative Zen Nano Plus

So I finally got an mp3 player. Yes, I'm a late adapter. I've been ripping my cds to my harddrive for 3 years but never felt the need to carry music around with me. I got it because recently I decided...
Posted by Meredith on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:46:00 PST

In my ongoing war with ice cube trays...

I have finally won. Or surrendered, depending on how you look at it. I simply am not going to use ice cube trays anymore. No more twisting the trays until the plastic turns white from stress, no more ...
Posted by Meredith on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:21:00 PST

Roadtrip to Utica

So 2 Saturdays ago, the temperature got above 50, and I hadn't had the scooter out for a few weeks, so I figured I should take it out. It was a beautiful day, too, so I didn't just want to go to the s...
Posted by Meredith on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:53:00 PST

Drivers I don't trust when I'm on my scooter

The creeper You are at an intersection, turning, yielding to traffic, yet you can quite bring yourself to stop your car completely, since it looks like you might not have to. I know it would suck to ...
Posted by Meredith on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 07:19:00 PST