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Laura

Painting is like loving yourself, it's never too late to start.

About Me

Fun, spunky, a great friend, honest, independent, artsy fartsy, a computer geek, and a little firecracker (little because I am 5’2’’, what I lack in height I make up in personality, really what’s cuter than a girl you can pick up anyway :)I enjoy life in SF. I like to go out on the weekends, dance, drink, and hang with friends.
You Are 40% Boyish and 60% Girlish
You are pretty evenly split down the middle - a total eunuch.
Okay, kidding about the eunuch part. But you do get along with both sexes.
You reject traditional gender roles. However, you don't actively fight them.
You're just you. You don't try to be what people expect you to be. How Boyish or Girlish Are You?
Joyful Girl - Ani Difranco
I do it for the joy it brings
because I'm a joyful girl
because the world owes me nothing
and we owe each other the world
Quote from the movie Elizabethtown:
"No true fiasco ever began as a quest for mere adequacy.
A motto of the British Special Air Force is: 'Those who risk, win.'
A single green vine shoot is able to grow through cement.
The Pacific Northwestern salmon beats itself bloody on it's quest
to travel hundreds of miles upstream against the current,
with a single purpose, sex of course, but also....life"
"Seperate the ones who know you from the ones
who couldn't bother to see you for all that you are"~ Tilly & the Wall

Here's to the crazy ones


Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,
disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some see them as the crazy ones,
we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world, are the ones who do.
~Apple Computer~
You Have A Type B+ Personality
B+ You're a pro at going with the flow You love to kick back and take in everything life has to offer A total joy to be around, people crave your stability.While you're totally laid back, you can have bouts of hyperactivity. Get into a project you love, and you won't stop until it's done You're passionate - just selective about your passions
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My Interests

Art, Drawing, Painting, Graphic Design, Web Design, Music, Reading, Cultural studies, Theatre, Movies, Hiking, Camping, Gardening, Plants, Animals :), Swimming, Paddling around on lakes, water skiing, basically anything that includes water: pools, the ocean, surfing, etc., Volleyball, Kick Boxing, Softball, Roller Hockey, Watching football, baseball, basketball, and hockey in person :), Hanging out with friends, exploring San Francisco, exploring California, traveling, going out dancing, New York in the Fall :)

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who likes to have fun, who inspires me to be a better me :) who makes me laugh. I LOVE TO LAUGH!! I'm looking for friends, dates, likes, and loves. I just want to meet people who make me feel good and who I make feel good, people I can enjoy life with :) all smiles and laughs all the time :)

Music:

Man this one will take some time... Classic Rock, Hip Hop, R&B, Soul, Jazz, Bossa Nova, Rock, and Pop...Bebel Gilberto, Ani Difranco, India Arie, Santana, Janet Jackson, The Beatles, Pixies, The Allman Brothers, Dave Matthews, Phish, Sheryl Crow, The Shins, Elton John, The Doobie Brothers, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Weezer, Bare Naked Ladies, Black Eyed Peas, Jurassic 5, Blues Traveler, Cat Stevens, Lenny Kravitz, Prince, Counting Crows, Daft Punk, Dixie Chicks, Eagles, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Hoiliday, John Coltrane, James Taylor, Jill Scott, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Nora Jones, Simon and Garfunkel, Steve Miller Band, Rusted Root, Sarah McLachlin, U2, Van Morrison, and many, many, many, many, more

Movies:

My favorite movie: So I Married and Axe Murderer (super funny, filmed in SF).......other favorites: Shawshank Redemption, Seven, Silence of the Lambs, almost any horror movie pre-1998, favorite horror Dracula, Candyman, The Omen, The Shining, any cheesy vampire movie..... on a lighter note Tommy Boy, Happy Gilmore, Dumb and Dumber, Friday... on a girly note Fried Green Tomatoes, Annie, West Side Story, Steel Magnolias, Beaches... on a life in your 20's note Garden State. There are many more that I am forgetting but that covers the basics.

Television:

LAW & ORDER I watch this so much I'm begining to think I have a problem, CSI, Judging Amy, Animal Planet - the cool rescue shows not the lame "Look at this specimen" shows, Ellen, Court tv, the History Channel,The L-Word, and some of the cheesy horrible reality tv shows (to embarrassed to share which ones) :)

Books:

The Artists Way - for any creative person, or if you would like to be more creative I suggest this walk down the creative path to freedom :)..... Oh the Places You Will Go - Dr. Seuss, while we're on him, One Fish Two Fish is ones of my all time favorites. The Shining by Steven King, Audrey Rose. For any woman out there I suggest reading Cunt it is an amazing book and one of the few books that I have taken to reading twice, Slut is also a good book, no I am not swearing a lot these are really, really good books, if you want a good read on the influence of Visual Culture on American culture I suggest reading The Visual Culture Reader, one of the most moving but emotionally draining books I've ever read is The Lovely Bones, I'm still reading the first Harry Potter Book, it's pretty good so far :)

Heroes:

My Mom is my hero, she is my best friend, and is the strongest, most beautiful, most amazing woman I know, I love you Mama.... My other Heros are strong, intelligent, righteous women around this world, too many to mention, I am grateful for your example, may every woman be strong, know herself, and treat herself as the goddess she really is!!

My Blog

Katy done lost her mind! And I love her for it!

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Posted by Laura on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:49:00 PST

105 Ways of Being

Katy and Laura's Ultimate Must Have List(in no particular order)1. Must have nice teeth2. Must love to smile3. Isn't completely massive4. Must love music  LIVE MUSIC5. Must love the pursuit of knowle...
Posted by Laura on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:07:00 PST

sitting, waiting, wishing...

"Sitting, Waiting, Wishing" ~ Jack JohnsonNow I was sitting waiting wishingThat you believed in superstitionsThen maybe you'd see the signsBut Lord knows that this world is cruelAnd I ain't the Lord, ...
Posted by Laura on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:33:00 PST

Squint your eyes and look closer...

thirty two flavors ~ ani difrancosquint your eyes and look closeri'm not between you and your ambitioni am a poster girl with no posteri am thirty-two flavors and then someand i'm beyond your peripher...
Posted by Laura on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:04:00 PST

Variety.

I Ryan Montbleau Variety - Ryan Montbleau I should be happyPrime of my lifeSingular wild and free.Nothing out of the ordinary. But I still want to be everything,Have you every wanted to be everythi...
Posted by Laura on Thu, 11 May 2006 10:27:00 PST

THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would love to write a long winded explanation full of happineess and jumping up and down, but really all i have to say is....I PASSED!!!!!!! I walk across the stage at the end of this month and will...
Posted by Laura on Fri, 05 May 2006 11:14:00 PST

Strength, Courage, Wisdom

Strength, Courage, Wisdom ~ India Arie Inside my head there lives a dream that I want to see in the sunBehind my eyes there lives a me that Ive been hiding for much too longBecause Ive been, too afra...
Posted by Laura on Mon, 01 May 2006 08:30:00 PST

For people as brainy and footsy as you...

My momma bought me this book after I graduated high school, and tonight I was talking about being nervous for my final thesis presentation for grad school on Thursday and she "ordered" :) me to take t...
Posted by Laura on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 11:01:00 PST

Sacrifice

"I tell you one lesson I learnedIf you want to be something in lifeYou ain't gonna get it unlessYou give a little bit of sacrificeOoohh, sometimes before you smile you got to cryYou need a heart that'...
Posted by Laura on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 02:28:00 PST

thirty-two flavors and then some

I love me some Ani DiFranco...32 Flavors..................................................... ..........Squint your eyes and look closerIm not between you and your ambitionI am a poster girl with no po...
Posted by Laura on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 01:58:00 PST