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Caitlin

all happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast

About Me

I blow air upwards out of the side of my mouth, aiming at one stubborn curl that touches down in the center of my unibrow. The curl is hit by the fierce gust and stands on end for a moment, waving at passersby, and I roll my eyes as it touches down again.

My Interests

emotional maturity, girl talk, craftiness, feathers, socks on warm nights, mexican food, breathetarians, dinner parties, pool parties, underpants, yoga, yuppy hangouts, divorcees, peanut butter and bananas, baking things, home, honesty, tourists, trains, typewriters, chacho, passionate people, cold beer cans, reading diaries, eavesdropping on the bus, giving dutch ovens, pumpkin ice cream,smoking cigs in hottubs, drinking wine out of thermoses, succulents, baked beans and toast, american spirits, manatees, writing, giant squid, the harvest moon, food fights!!

I'd like to meet:

Ian Ziering.Seriously, if anyone knows him, let him know I wanna make out.

Music:

coolio .. billy joel, whitney houston, depeche mode, janet jackson, elvis costello, the cure, radiohead, of montreal, hole, blur, grizzly bear, van morrison, the beach boys, the smiths, mariah carey, linda rondstat, bowie, beck, bjork, the beatles, blind melon, trio los panchos, spanish guitar under my window, madonna.

Movies:

Moonstruck, Heathers, Dazed and Confused, Sleepaway Camp, Wet Hot American Summer, The Big Lebowski, The Royal Tenenbaums, Clueless.

Television:

Planet Earth, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, 90210, Arrested Development, Seinfeld, Golden Girls, Faulty Towers, Spongebob, Are You Being Served?, Lost, Iron Chef..

Books:

.. Henderson the Rain King, Infinite Jest, The Flounder, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, anything by Roald Dahl, Siddhartha, Lafcadio by Shel Silverstein, Naked, The Handmaid's Tail, Jitterbug Perfume, Et Tu Babe, Still Life with Woodpecker, VegNews Magazine, Meatpaper, The Believer, Harpers, Confederacy of Dunces, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The Sun Also Rises, and that book that was the authors first novel and she was only 24, and it is totally sad and poignant and beautiful about the young girl who is a tomboy and becomes obsessed with the deaf mute who sort of brings the racist southern town together. you know, that book?!

Heroes:

Blanche Devereaux, Paula Deen, Susan Lucci, Valerie Malone and Courtney Love

My Blog

my brother totally owes me

I am such a good sister sometimes that I can't even believe it. My brother, Patrik, moved to New York today and because he will be couch-surfing until he can move into his new apartment on the first, ...
Posted by Caitlin on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:32:00 PST

a necessary lie

Why do I feel guilty for lying to my boss? That's right, folks, as of last Monday I started working at some crappy cafe/bar down the street called Grumpy's. It's actually pretty cute and I really like...
Posted by Caitlin on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:40:00 PST

breaking the ice is so satisfying

not in the "getting to know you" sense of the phrase, but in the literal sense. I just got back from maxing and relaxing in Tahoe in a cabin right on Donner Lake. It was so cold that the lake act...
Posted by Caitlin on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:51:00 PST

ghosts in my bed

There are ghosts in my apartment. It's not usually that bad, just funny little instances of colanders sitting on the couch when I get home from work when no one has been there, or pint glasses explod...
Posted by Caitlin on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:02:00 PST

don't even try to challenge me

In scrabble, that is.  First I I worked off of the e in "cane" to make "dregs" which was a triple letter score and everyone was howling about how there are two g's in dregs. HA! YOU LOSE YOU...
Posted by Caitlin on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:48:00 PST

ewwww!

First of all, can I just say that the most disgusting thing ever is when you are staying in a hotel room and when you take a shower the shower curtain blows onto you and sticks to you? I mean, ewwww! ...
Posted by Caitlin on Wed, 09 May 2007 05:49:00 PST

Dream Journal

I've been having a hard time making myself write lately. Nothing I write sounds good to me anymore, and I think that means I need to practise. So, just to get back into the swing of things, I am going...
Posted by Caitlin on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:31:00 PST

Midnite train to bootyville

oh god. everyone likes some really gross music. it's like ani difranco or indigo girls or some other flowey girly lesbie hair twirling magician shit. i think someone just yelled "I feel so alive!" i'm...
Posted by Caitlin on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:09:00 PST

Ladies Swine night

Sloth!!! So Fat Tuesday is among us and Tracey's buns are really feelin the spirit. Do people still give up shit for lent? I was contemplating swearing, but realized Fuck That. I can barely keep up w...
Posted by Caitlin on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:59:00 PST

the deadest of the dead

Jesus Cristo! For the first time ever, I am sitting at work (the cliffhouse) checking my email and writing a blog. That is how fucking dead it is tonight. Funny, it is Dia De Los Muertos...I have had ...
Posted by Caitlin on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:01:00 PST