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Paula

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About Me


Hey. I'm constantly evolving. I'm stubborn but reasonable. I'm generous with my heart but intuitively watchful. I'm a sucker for a good love story. I like red wine, mostly Shiraz, Pinot Noir, or Cab Sav's....no white wines, though. And, I like most of my wines from Australia. I am an existentialist. I believe humankind is naturally good, and equally, naturally evil. I love just-out-of-the-oven chocolate-chip cookies, but not once they are cooled and definitely not any packaged chocolate-chip cookies. I believe that if gay marriage seriously threatens traditional marriages then gay marriage is not the problem. Penguins are my favorite animals. I'm passionate. I think the establishment of social, physical and ethical norms has stunted our growth by equating "normal" to moral superiority, leaving everything else abnormal, immoral and inferior. In 2000, I graduated from Oglethorpe University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy and Political Science. This was a six and a half-year feat because I was a non-traditional student. I was a single mom and worked full-time while going to school. I earned my MBA last year from at Mercer University and I'm finally working in a field I love--film. I work at IMAGE Film & Video and we present The Atlanta Film Festival. We also have a screenplay competition, a 50-hour film making competition and we provide workshops to the community on all aspects of film making, including acting and directing.
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My Interests

Funny Stuff:
Music. Movies. Learning new things. I'm interested in what motivates people.

I wonder:

  • why people eat Heinz 57 with expensive steaks--c'mon, you could order the cheapest piece of meat on the menu and dip it in Heinz 57 and it'd taste exactly the same as filet mignon dipped in Heinz 57

  • why people continued to use chopsticks after the advent of forks

  • why some people can't look at a key and instantly deduce the way it fits into the keyhole they're about to insert it in

  • why some people don't think sarcasm is humorous

  • why American companies don't focus on customer service the way most foreign companies do

  • why some people chew food and gum with their mouths open

  • why it's become common practice for people not to hold themselves accountable for their own actions/reactions

  • why we can't end world hunger--especially since it would be so easy, if it only costs something like $0.27 per day, if each company earning more than $25 million in profit gave $500,000 per year for world hunger it would more than pay for it

  • why a God would make it physically possible for girls to get pregnant sometimes as young as nine years old

  • what justifies something as worthy of worship

  • if animals know they are going to die one day

  • why colleges and universities hire teachers that can't teach

  • why Paris Hilton is alive

  • why I like fruit but I don't eat a lot of it

  • we haven't figured out some accurate and equal way to vote regardless of our location

  • why some people are idiots


    • I'd like to meet:

    Anyone interesting...

    Music:

    Anything except Opera and classical. But, to narrow it down just a bit (in no particular order)...Ray LaMontagne, Pete Yorn, Dido, Blessid Union of Souls, Oasis, Melissa Etheridge, Tracy Chapman, Coldplay, Five For Fighting, POD, Puddle of Mud, Macy Gray, Nora Jones, Eagles, ACDC, Natalie Merchant, Alabama, Rascal Flatts, The Beatles, Lenny Kravitz, The Who, Prince, Goo Goo Dolls, Sophie B. Hawkins, Snow Patrol....too many to list

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    Movies:

    Top Fourteen (in no particular order, except the first one): Half Nelson, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Borat, American Beauty, Benny and Joon, Scarface, Sex, Lies and Videotape, Traffic, Garden State, Sideways, Donnie Brasco, Spinal Tap, Little Darlings, Almost Famous and Silence of the Lambs...
    Office Space (this is exactly how I felt when I stopped going to my job):Office Space: Peter Quits

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    Television:

    [FREE] Television on the Internet! When you want it, how you want it.
    "The Office" rocks (US & UK versions)! Scrubs. The Daily Show. The Colbert Report. The L-Word. Nip/Tuck. Simpsons. Grey's Anatomy. King of the Hill. Tell Me You Love Me. Weeds. Family Guy...
    10 Things You Don't Know About Women, written by Jenna Fischer: .. ..

    View some of my favorite Office clips by clicking Here

    To view an Awesome video of the L-Word click Here

    Books:

    The Giver, by Lois Lowery!!! Running with Scissors. Dry. Anything by Augusten Burroughs. Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady by Florence King. The History of Sexuality, Part I by Michel Foucault.

    Heroes:

    Mike. My dog, Daisy. Honest, hard-working people who try to do right even when no one is around. Nietzsche. Sartre. Foucault.

    My Blog

    Are You Going......

    Okay, well, maybe not the same thing.........but, can you believe this?!...
    Posted by Paula on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:02:00 PST

    Reluctance

    Reluctance Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of view And looked at the world and descended; I have com...
    Posted by Paula on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:47:00 PST

    Atlanta Film Festival Opening Night World Premier

    THE LENA BAKER STORYDirector: Ralph Wilcox, 101 min.Thursday, April 10 @ 7:30PMClick here to watch the trailer.Shot in Colquitt,Georgia at the Southeast Film Commission's Jokara-Micheaux Film, Televis...
    Posted by Paula on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:29:00 PST

    Ive been tagged

    So, I was tagged by Kari.  The drill is to list 10 interesting things about myself, then tag 10 of my friends to do the same.1.  I am one of the most stubborn people I know.  I have suf...
    Posted by Paula on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:50:00 PST

    Free Wifi

    At the Richmond, Viriginia, International airport!  SWEET!!!!!!!  Now, if only other airports in major cities would follow suit.
    Posted by Paula on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:04:00 PST

    Get Real......or is it Reel?

    I wish I could take credit for finding this gem, but I cannot.  Credit goes to Gabe--I stole it from his blog. ...
    Posted by Paula on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:49:00 PST

    Istanbul, not Constantinople

    So, it's been a jammed-packed couple of days here in Istanbul. Yesterday, we took a tour of the city. We visited several famous sites, like the Blue Mosque and the Grand Bazaar. Something of note t...
    Posted by Paula on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:59:00 PST

    Cha, cha, cha, Chaaanges.......

    So, I haven't made any new-year resolutions for the past several years.  I used to make them but then I always broke them, so instead of setting myself up for failure, I just stopped making them....
    Posted by Paula on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 07:25:00 PST

    Christmas in Athens.......Greece!

    So, Mike was suffering from a severe case of wanderlust and booked us a trip to Athens, Greece, for the holidays.  I had been to Athens before, as a teenager (hence the profile picture), but sinc...
    Posted by Paula on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:33:00 PST

    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

    Okay, so I've seen this movie twice now, and it hasn't even opened yet.  I know, hard life, right?  I love the perks of my job.I have to say, I LOVED this movie.  The Diving Bell a...
    Posted by Paula on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:11:00 PST