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About Me

Right now I work, I run, and I bike. I'm training for a half marathon and I just bought a new awesome road bike if anyone wants to go for a bike ride!

My Interests

Snowboarding, running, mountain biking, weightlifting, music, kickboxing, reading, movies and chris ;) aw, sappy!

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who can make me laugh really hard.

Music:

POS, Lupe Fiasco, Sneaker Pimps, Eyedea & Abilities, Atmosphere, Brother Ali, Murs, Musab, Bjork, Portishead, Nelly Furtado, Roots, Tori Amos, Basement Jaxx, Radiohead, Prince, Tool, Aesop Rock, Postal Service, TV on the Radio, Counting Crows...there's more but i can't remember. I like most anything but country and opera.

Movies:

LOTR (so what, i'm a dork). The Wedding Singer. Office Space Napoleon Dynamite Garden State Pulp Fiction There's more, but is anyone really reading this?

Television:

Sopranos, Rescue Me, Family Guy, The Office, Boondocks

Books:

I am addicted to reading so I am constantly reading something. Here are a few of my favorites: 1984, The Godfather, Yesterday's Warrior (check it out!), The Jungle, Anything by Elizabeth Wurtzel, Gone with the Wind, The Handmaid's Tale, Bee Season, The Namesake, The Invisible Man, Water for Elephants, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, The Historian.....and that's all I can think of right now. But my bookshelf is full of books I love.

My Blog

:Sigh:

This website makes me want to live under a rock and only eat moss. Strangely this is a good thing. http://www.ucsusa.org Good information here people. ...
Posted by Melissa on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:36:00 PST

THANKSGIVING RUNNING!

I'm running the Arena 5K/Turkey Trot Thanksgiving morning this year. All of you should join me. It'll make the pumpkin pie go down much easier :) www.active.com ...
Posted by Melissa on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:16:00 PST

6 things about you

Rules: once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with 6 weird things/habits about yourself. Leave a comment for 6 people that says "your tagged" and tell them to read your blog.1. I hate banan...
Posted by Melissa on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:36:00 PST

IT'S 4:30 am, do you know where your heads at?

I unexplicably woke up at 4:30, and now I'm here. It may have something to do with the fact that I usually sleep with a fan on at home, so I had to set the air conditioning ridiculously low, so n...
Posted by Melissa on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 02:58:00 PST

steak country vegetarian

So they've sent me, a vegetarian for the last 8 years, to Kansas, the land of steer and steakhouses. I can't even count the amount of "eat Beef" signs I've seen. I'm currently traveling the great stat...
Posted by Melissa on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:36:00 PST

Holy Irony

I feel insensitive because I giggled after I read this. But sad, really. AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The reigning Miss Deaf Texas died after being struck by a train, officials said. Tara Rose McAvoy,...
Posted by Melissa on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:05:00 PST

Soooo Happy

I am ecstatic! Since my injury after the marathon, I have not been able to run pretty much at all without pain. Maybe a mile, but then I'd have to stop for 2 weeks. Well, last week I ran 7 miles total...
Posted by Melissa on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:13:00 PST

I'm a horrible person

We're trying to kennel train Daly. When I left this morning he wouldn't even go in his kennel for his Kong treat with peanut butter in it (which he goes crazy over). I had to physically pick him up an...
Posted by Melissa on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 05:59:00 PST

Wow

I am mourning the fact that my life has been reduced to the excitement over office supplies. And I used to be so cool.
Posted by Melissa on Fri, 20 Jan 2006 06:58:00 PST

Rollercoaster

I'm coming to realize that unless I take charge of my life that I cannot complain about my unhappiness. Nothing will change without me taking action and other people typically think of ...
Posted by Melissa on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 09:44:00 PST