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Liz

It's a Christmas miracle!

About Me

Congratulate and high five me!Three down, two to go:1. Figure out how to use Quicken. 2. Find a new job--check. 3. Crochet blanket--check. 4. Train for Philadelphia Marathon--PR! 3:48:14 5. Watch all 95 movies in my Netflix queue. Hmmmm, what gave me away?
What American accent do you have? Your Result: Philadelphia

Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you're not from Philadelphia, then you're from someplace near there like south Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you've ever journeyed to some far off place where people don't know that Philly has an accent, someone may have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn't have a clue what accent it was they heard.


The Northeast
The Midland
The Inland North
The South
Boston
The West
North Central
What American accent do you have?
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My Interests

Reading, running, feminism

I'd like to meet:

People who used to work at Laneco.

Music:

Wes Tucker and the Skillets, Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Ben Folds Five, Hotel Lights, Neko Case, Fiona Apple, Mason Jennings, Jenny Lewis, Feist, Rilo Kiley, Ron Sexsmith, Ray Lamontagne, John Butler, Aimee Mann, Jeff Buckley, Josh Ritter, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, the Beautiful Girls.

Movies:

Little Miss Sunshine, LA Confidential (I love Guy Pearce; he's so pointy), The Prestige, While You Were Sleeping, That Thing You Do! Wallace and Gromit, Million Dollar Baby, Walk the Line. Other classics: Bernard and the Genie, It's a Wonderful Life, the End of the Affair and Can't Hardly Wait.

Television:

Ugly Betty and DVD marathons of Arrested Development are my new favorite things. I'll also watch Desperate Housewives while doing my homework. The Simpsons is the only show I still watch on tv at its usual time.

Books:

A Confederacy of Dunces, The Glass Castle, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, The Boy Detective Fails

Heroes:

Greer, who managed to finish her thesis-like paper. Matthew Lesko (I saw him once in Dupont Circle and at the TPG booth at the SHRM conference!)

My Blog

So much for my Urban Dictionary Entry

Add up this clip: Fox 5 Morning News and my illustrious appearance as Kraushaar-sidekick on Sports Center, and I figure I have about 11 minutes of fame left. For the record, that is NOT how I get re...
Posted by Elizabeth on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 07:41:00 PST

I didn't want to jinx it.

But I guess the secret's out. I'm "in a relationship" as the kids on MySpace say. Despite all my flip answers for why I labeled myself "single" (most notably, "I can dream, can't I?") my main motivati...
Posted by Elizabeth on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 06:52:00 PST

Where'd you go?

So, my friend counter is down to 71, which means I lost a friend. If I ever figure out who it was, then watch out, I've really lost a friend. *menacing fist-shaking* MySpace is real, son. Surprisin...
Posted by Elizabeth on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:50:00 PST

One for Kate's Awkward Blog

So in the grand Bolton tradition of blogging about embarrassing things (bonus fact: I don't know how to spell "embarrassing." So many Rs and Ss??), here is my blog on meeting Katha Pollitt, delightful...
Posted by Elizabeth on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:07:00 PST

Wes's CD

Hey, If anyone besides members of the Skillets or Katie read this blog this message is for you: My gentleman friend has finally (and I mean finally) finished his CD. It took forever (and I mean fore...
Posted by Elizabeth on Mon, 05 Dec 2005 11:51:00 PST

Nothing is worth doing until you're at work...

At which point everything you've been putting off must be done before all that work you've been putting off.Anyway, when I am procrastinating, I become a firm beliver in internet rules. Kate "tagged" ...
Posted by Elizabeth on Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:59:00 PST