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About Me



♥ Current: procrastinatin' like terrible ...
but loving the beauty of distraction and snuggles.

My Interests

anything! i like music . . . the relaxing kind, hanging out with friends . . . i LOVE my friends!, being an asshole (just to fuck with you!!), learning new things every day, roadtrips, the color purple, FAMILY . . . they are everything, ancestors . . . they are more than everything, traveling, meeting new people, appreciating the little things, clear sunsets on the Berkeley Hills, my balcony, get-togethers with friends, hummingbirds, colors,
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LAS AMIGAS!

I'd like to meet:

you, me, and us as kids ♥

Music:

my favorite highschool bands are Rage Against the Machine, and Sublime! 311, zurdok, bjork, amelie music (Yann Tiersen), enanitos verdes, grupo limite, juanes, jumbo, shakira, the cure, la india, lauryn hill, murder city devils, cafe tacuba, COMMON, the eagles, white fish jrs! HANDDRUM like crazy! jill scott, MAXWELL, natalia y la forquetina, natalia y la fourcade, prince, tom petty and the heartbreakers, reddmen, the roots, erykah badu, federation, frontline, fugees old shit, lucy pearl, goapele, E-40, and recentemente, as tribalistas and sum other brazilian shit, fadistas,and you gotta love that BAY shiet! 'n just to clear things up, I once said "i REALLY don't like country!" but honestly i kinda sorta do! damn ndnz got me into george strait and i can't deny growin' up with some of that. give me good music and i will LOVE it.

Movies:

Once Were Warriors -- badass, buffy the vampire slayer (yes i mean the one with kristy swanson and "lok parrot"), dogma, casper, Amelie, Amorres Perros, Life is Beautiful, and hella comedies. The Imposters, Ong Bak, Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle, moulin rouge, still trying to decipher y tu mama tambien, hero, each 'n every beverly hills cop, love actually, pride and prejudice "you have bewitched me body and soul" *melt*, usual suspects 'n then some. Madea's Family Reunion.

Television:

Girlfriends! yay for network television!

Books:

Beloved, the color purple and Flutes of Fire.

Heroes:

my mom, my dad and my grandparents especially. ..

My Blog

yay interview and b-day stuff!

ah! the interview went really really well! people loved my 5 min teaching bit too! I talked about California Indians, pretending I was teaching to a 9th grade American History, and it went swimmingly ...
Posted by ♥ koo ♥ on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:32:00 PST

i got a callback!

yup! i got a call back for the teach for america day long interview! ahh! cool, but now i'm nervous! i'm set up for monday march 26th, spring break . . .  but they originally had me set up for th...
Posted by ♥ koo ♥ on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:55:00 PST

thirtynine minutes!

yup! coo ran 5k today in 39 minutes!  almost 5 minutes better than last year despite the fact that i haven't done shit since then! hehe. fun time, good feed and lots of narrc students gettin' shi...
Posted by ♥ koo ♥ on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 04:47:00 PST

lame!

yah, yesterday was hella lame! busy day, but started out bright. in a good mood, presentation for Pearson went well and bus ride to work was nice as usual. come to CRC, kids kinda acting up. but ki...
Posted by ♥ koo ♥ on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:57:00 PST

yay! teach for america!

I got to the interview round! So Monday, the 5th at 12:45pm, I'll be interviewing for a two year teaching position! don't call my ass. . . i won't pick up! signed, surprisingly excited coo. ...
Posted by ♥ koo ♥ on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:46:00 PST

unplugged.

i was just thinking back a bit, and thinking about where I am now, and how these past couple of years have made me grow as a person. just for the sake of a little nostalgia, i brought out my...
Posted by ♥ koo ♥ on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:39:00 PST

school

yes, i must copy jo on this one, but something I've been meaning to write about for a few days now . . . I'M GRADUATING!! On time and everything!  So I'm already done with Ethnic Studies and the ...
Posted by ♥ koo ♥ on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:17:00 PST

okay...

ignore the cheesy "parisian" theme wedding and the guy with the cherub outfit and the horn.. this is a really good poem. kute! ...
Posted by ♥ koo ♥ on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:04:00 PST

portugal photos

so i can look at these later... http://www.slide.com/msnew/ticker?cid=72057594041761310& cy=ms&tt=0" target="_blank">..http://widget-1e.slide.com/h2/72057594041761310/ms_...
Posted by ♥ koo ♥ on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:20:00 PST

a year

Last year was a good year: 2006! - Hella concerts: Juanes, Julieta Venegas, Shakira, John Legend, Enanitos Verdes and the Stones! :P - Roadtrip to Gathering with Auntie and Claudia and jo 'n megan. HE...
Posted by ♥ koo ♥ on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:18:00 PST