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Rachel

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About Me

I'm annoyingly happy most of the time, and have a great appreciation for bad horror films, fishnet tights, theme parties, lazy days at the lakes in MN (Lake Lida is my favorite lake and the one place that I always want to be), ice cream buckets full of freshly picked raspberries, cooking and eating vegetarian ethnic foods, street dances, Taco Tuesdays at Taco Johns, handlebar mustaches, Emily Dickinson, thrift stores, trying new things every day, talking to people I wouldn't otherwise talk to. I miss the days of downtown Fargo when cruising Broadway and yelling at cars was what you did for fun. I love the Greyhound in downtown Fargo (where I spent 2 1/2 years of my life working). It's the best Greyhound in America by far. I love the homeless people in downtown Fargo. They have the best stories, especially Wesley, Moon, Jake the Snake and Kenny.body

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My Interests

I love going on humungously long walks, cooking strange and delicious vegetarian meals, organic gardening, munching on potato ole's from Taco Johns late nights in Fargo-Moorhead, going to Wine Festivals (All you can drink wine!!!) (and not spitting!), hosting vegetarian potlucks. Making popcorn and trying different spices on it (Chili Pepper and Parmesan are my favorite.) Playing classic NES games, Lola, Rambo, Renegade, Double Dragon, Rad Racer, Paperboy, my all time favorite Super Mario 3, and power pad. Going to street dances during hot summer nights and twisting up and down the street with Mikes Lemonade with strangers. I really like doing everything.

I'd like to meet:

Emily Dickinson would be so cool to meet. I'd like to write long letters to her before we were to meet. She'd write poems that would baffle me and I'd write to her of wild nights on Broadway. We'd get together and make bread and pick buttercups. I once met Miss Elizabeth, the First Lady of World Wrestling after wanting to meet her for 20 years backstage when I was working security for the wrestlers. I didn't tell her I had her poster on my bedroom wall my whole childhood or that I would dress up like her and hold tag team wrestling matches in my front lawn. I didn't let her know that I was still secretly upset that I never got a reply back from all the fan mail I sent her as a child. I couldn't get too upset about it, as the only mailing address I had was the merchandise address for the WWF magazine. She would of thought I was freaky if I told her that I would skip church on Sundays just so I wouldn't miss the opening match just in case she would be on and I would cry with her when she would be hoisted up on Macho Man's or Hogans shoulders at the end of the match waving at everyone. I didn't let her know any of that.I just made small talk with her about the weather.I would also love to meet Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation. He's the godfather of the modern day animal rights movement and is such an inspiration to me!I edited my profile at Freeweblayouts.net , check out these Myspace Layouts!

Music:

The Pogues, Great Big Sea, Michael Bolton, Joe Cocker, The Doors, Jonny Cash, Teresa Brewer, Peggy Lee, Heart, early 90's music, Classic Disney, Bob Dylan, Cher, Simon and Garfunkel, Davis?, Zeljko Joksimovic, The Front Fenders, Venus Hum, James Blunt, Weird Al, Mamas and the Papas, Cyndi Lauper, Meatloaf

Movies:

Blue Velvet!!!, Better off Dead, Heart and Souls, The Brady Bunch movie, The Crush (Alicia Silverstones first film), Mary Poppins, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Wizard of Oz, Michael Bolton's Winning Softball Tips, People Under the Stairs, Candyman, Earthlings, Peaceable Kingdom, White Christmas, Pollyanna, Friday the 13th films, Picnic at Hanging Rock

Television:

Who's The Boss?, Classic Saturday Night Live episodes, Conan O'Brien, old school Sesame Street, (70's and 80's PBS shows like Smart Parts, Once Upon a Time, 321 Contact), Jem, Bravestar, Pinwheel, Family Ties, Growing Pains, The Office, My Name is Earl

Books:

Animal Liberation by Peter Singer The Secret Garden The Middle of Everywhere My War Gone By, I Miss it So Imagining Ourselves Diet For a New America Meat Market Wicked Breasts, by Mima Spadola

Heroes:

Everyone has flaws, but I can find positive aspects in everyone and admire that. I don't really have a hero. Ingrid Newkirk, President of PETA has done some amazing stuff.