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About Me

I ...
- currently feel like Niobe.
- have officially graduated from university, have officially been accepted to law school, am officially working for a literary journal ... and unofficially wondering how all of this will turn out. (Though so far my instincts, while seemingly lost in the beginning, seem to be leading me down an okay path.)
- can describe my music tastes as Lilith Fair, classical, opera, folk, '80s, and jazz, with occasional adventures in other genres.
- can say with absolute certainty that I would bomb the Atkins diet if ever I attempted it.
- tend to like shows that don't last long: Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, Now and Again, Arrested Development, Action, et al. Critical acclaim is for the birds.
- have a sister named Chantelle, a beagle named Toby, a ribboned terrier named Spike, and a lion named Bartok (though the last is NOT named after the bat and he is most definitely NOT named Bar-talk, have people never heard of the composer?!?).
- prefer goofy flowers like sunflowers and daffodils.
- have many weak spots, including: Body Shop vanilla products, Alfred Hitchcock films, kombu onigiri, three quarter coats, Spanish-language films, peppermint tea, Bumble and Bumble hair products, french fries, La Senza 'roos, black leather boots, and CHOCOLATE!
(secrets and dark truths hiding under a rose.)

My Interests

- reading books and poetry
- listening to music (and singing when I'm alone or with the man that makes me happiest)
- playing piano and cello if I actually practice
- doing yoga
- cleaning when I am stressed and/or procrastinating
- watching tv rarely
- watching movies/dvds more
- watching more extreme weather (thunderstorms, blizzards) from indoors
- baking breads and desserts
- travelling a lot
- taking photos and fixing them with iPhoto
- being a snug lazy bug in my bed

I'd like to meet:

"Tell me your name, tell me a story."
AIM - nicco3k
handsome Hawaii English graduate writer guy

Music:

Indigo Girls
Joni Mitchell
Ingrid Michaelson
PJ Harvey
Sam Phillips
the Cranberries
Sarah McLachlan
Nina Simone
Ani DiFranco
Tori Amos
Joss Stone
Vonda Shepard
Pancho's Lament
the Smiths
Damien Rice
U2
Yo La Tengo
Great Big Sea
Mary Chapin Carpenter
David Bowie
Grant Lee Phillips
Bee Gees
Gin Blossoms
Corinne Bailey Rae
Diana Krall
Barenaked Ladies
Liz Phair
the Cure
Miles Davis
Jamie Cullum
Tom Waits
Elvis Costello
Madeleine Peyroux
Leonard Cohen
Nick Drake
Me'Shell Ndegeocello
Yo-Yo Ma
Johann Sebastian Bach

Movies:

Alfred Hitchcock anything:
Rear Window
Vertigo
Psycho
Classic romance films:
Casablanca
West Side Story
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Mel Brooks everything ...
especially Young Frankenstein and the Producers
Quentin Tarantino everything ...
except Natural Born Killers
Other, not-so-AFI movies:
The Godfather parts 1 & 2 (well okay these are)
Plan 9 from Outer Space (especially with Mike Nelson commentary)
Ed Wood
Corpse Bride (and other Tim Burton/Johnny Depp movies)
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Reservoir Dogs
Clue
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Real Women Have Curves
The Princess Bride
A Goofy Movie
The Lion in Winter (the one with Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole)
Life of Brian
Memento
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Zoolander
Men in Black
Kill Bill 1 & 2
The Great Mouse Detective
The Usual Suspects
Spaceballs
Before Sunset
Rent (even though I prefer the Broadway music)
Shopgirl
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Ever After
The Producers (the original, though I can see Will Ferrell as Franz)

Television:

when I feel like it:
Gilmore Girls
Dead Like Me
Barefoot Contessa
Dog the Bounty Hunter
The X-Files
Arrested Development
Pinky and the Brain
Wonderfalls
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Alias
Firefly
Kim Possible
Crayon Shinchan
Dora the Explorer

Books:

Too many to even think about ...
To begin, authors:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
-Love in the Time of Cholera
-100 Years of Solitude
Robert Littell
-The Company
-The Defection of A.J. Lewinter
William Shakespeare:
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Julius Caesar
- Hamlet
- Richard II
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Henry V
- As You Like It
- King Lear
- Macbeth
- Henry IV
- The Merchant of Venice
- Othello
- Antony and Cleopatra
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- The Winter's Tale
Ray Bradbury:
- Bradbury Stories
- Dandelion Wine
- Fahrenheit 451
- The Martian Chronicles
Maurice Sendak!
Characters:
Calvin and Hobbes
Harry Potter
Thursday Next
Elizabeth Bennet
Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes
Bruno and Boots
Beatrice (Shakespeare, not Dante)
Stephanie Plum
Bunnicula
Also:
The Mists of Avalon
The Red Tent
The DaVinci Code
Jane Eyre
Anna Karenina
Dr. Strange and Mr. Norrell
The Confessions of Max Tivoli
The Lovely Bones
the Song of Solomon
Poetry:
Rainer Maria Rilke everything
Pablo Neruda, preferably in Spanish
A lot of T.S. Eliot, in particular J. Alfred
George Elliott Clarke
e.e. cummings
Margaret Atwood
Lucille Clifton

Heroes:

Eleanor of Aquitaine
Joni Mitchell
Elizabeth I
Katharine Hepburn
America Ferrera

My Blog

(undergraduate) school's out forever

Grades posted:EN 3420 Psychoanalysis and Approaches to Literature: AEN 4144 City Texts and Textual Cities: B+EN 4185 Advanced Shakespeare: AEN 4218 Contemporary American Gothic: ASessional GPA: 7.75 (...
Posted by saturn girl on Fri, 18 May 2007 05:26:00 PST

a book bagatelle

A mostly-dialogue post, feels slightly high-school-ish. But I love when Chantelle and I hit absurd moods at the same time and we riff off of each other ("the Sawa sisters, we're here all week"). I usu...
Posted by saturn girl on Tue, 15 May 2007 05:17:00 PST

graduation day

Brought Dandelion Wine to read at graduation but ended up actually paying attention to the ceremony.Which surprised the hell out of me.And then I doubly surprised myself by having to fight off tears.B...
Posted by saturn girl on Mon, 14 May 2007 07:28:00 PST

thoughts of a full brain in a full season (or: too long for the 'about me' section)

I ... ... am wondering if Maryknoll left me with not just a deep mistrust of organized religions and uniforms ... but also with catholic guilt.... am wondering if it's possible to feel catholic guilt ...
Posted by saturn girl on Fri, 11 May 2007 05:10:00 PST

MANIFESTO

NOTE: This is not just about me or any one specific person. Grandiose as this sounds, it's about any one who reads this and feels the same anger and frustration I feel. Salute. Comment and/or commi...
Posted by saturn girl on Thu, 10 May 2007 08:37:00 PST

the happiness of PANTS

Home for just under a month. I don't quite understand how the things I thought would be disorienting are completely and seamlessly natural (yet not taken for granted; I still remember those months of ...
Posted by saturn girl on Fri, 04 May 2007 07:07:00 PST

weekend/week update (updated)

last week Friday: Phenomenally fantastic first Bamboo Ridge meeting, in which I learned I will be in charge of their archive project (which every past intern has worked on and thus no coherence, and w...
Posted by saturn girl on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:54:00 PST

there were two side by side in orbit

I have a sinus infection. And red week. Between my sinus medicine and Tylenol for when the sinus headaches return and Midol, I feel like I'm popping pills like the fat kid in Willy Wonka eating choc...
Posted by saturn girl on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:16:00 PST

I think so, Brain, but if we had a snowmobile, wouldn't it melt before summer?

Probably should sleep but I don't want to, so I'm watching Pinky and the Brain season 2 (hence the quote) and proud that I finished ONE candy lei for UH's graduation! Iden, Elizabeth, Denise ... the ...
Posted by saturn girl on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:51:00 PST

this sun of York

Leaving for the airport soon, no way for me to do an actual blog. But I'm pretty sure I planned on it, especially after the line from R3 popped in my head. Right now everything is echo-y and too qui...
Posted by saturn girl on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:26:00 PST