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Leslie

taketwo05

About Me

i'm sick of having to come up with witty things to say about myself so that people i may or may not ever meet again or care about might think that i'm cool/interesting/funny/smart/worthwhile/whatever.
okay, maybe that was just a tad too apathetic--even for me. here's a quote:

"i write because writing gets me back to my own voice and the person inside that voice--the one who gets lost in other people's voices. i write because it is silent work, and silence is my native tongue."
blindfold me
with dark complex clauses

batter me
with transitive verbs
in active voice

silence me
with those common nouns
that drop my jaw

array prepositions
at to under over inside
below beneath between

compose me
for conjunction
"you ask me what it's like to have myself so figured out... i wish i knew."
Davenport in the winter time... so pretty--at least until the snow gets all nasty and icy.
Graduation 2005
(some of) my Esco girls :)
emmett, me, megan - through the looking glass. just love this picture...

My Interests

baseball (go padres!), racket sports, internat'l law/con law, public school reform, dark chocolate, good beer, hard cider, sushi, good wine, btvs, blogging, writing, procrastinating, crosswords, American lit, word games, board games, drinking games, late-night conversations

I'd like to meet:

fellow cynics, sinners, and writers

Music:

a little bit of everything. currently: ben folds, postal service, OK Go, frou frou, sarah mclachlan, red hot chili peppers, avenue Q soundtrack, cake

Movies:

amelie, eat drink man woman, x-men 2, ever after, secretary, kill bill vol. 1

Television:

buffy, angel, america's next top model, house, that 70's show

Books:

Interpreter of Maladies, A Tale of Two Cities, Of Mice and Men, Leaves of Grass, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Handmaid's Tale, Valley of the Horses, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Laughable Loves

My Blog

i always start writing bulletins and then realize i've ended up with something more like a blog

someone finally added a myspace page for Dexter Freebish, so that's what's up with the new song, an oldie but a goodie. it always makes me think of escondido. even makes me miss it sometimes, which is...
Posted by Leslie on Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:30:00 PST

random musings about the past, present, and future

something i read today got me to thinking... could i have foreseen my life now a little over 4-5 years ago? well, i probably had an inkling that law school might be an option, but i never would've tho...
Posted by Leslie on Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:33:00 PST

update from DC (reposted)

thought i'd copy it to the blog. for posterity's sake. or something. ok, as requested, an update from law school. DC is great, every bit as cool as i remember it. the weather's been very nice, not t...
Posted by Leslie on Mon, 05 Sep 2005 07:11:00 PST

east coast vs. west coast

something i've been thinking about lately... and, well, the past few years too. i used to think i would always settle down in california, but now i'm not so sure. when i finish law school, i will have...
Posted by Leslie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

thefacebook.com is better

not that myspace doesn't have its good points. photo hosting is a plus, but the interface is just plain clumsy and annoying! it tries to do too many things, and is not that great at any of them. if yo...
Posted by Leslie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

already have a blog

http://www.xanga.com/taketwo05
Posted by Leslie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST