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emily

That rug really tied the room together, did it not?

About Me

So... Back in Peru again for three months, learning Spanish properly at last and doing my best to get some work done on a thesis. I will be in Cuscoi till March 24th so feel free to come catch up with me here if you are in south america. To all my loki buddies, I just wanna say I miss you heaps (you know who you are...) (For anyone who is interested, see all the photos from Switzerland, my recent 3 month-long road trip through American national parks, and all my travels in the last few years here .)

My Interests

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Music:

Phish, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Wu Tang, Tribe Called Quest, The Doors, Neil Young, Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, Jimi Hendrix, Talking Heads, Grateful Dead, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Bob Dylan, Medeski Martin and Wood, Old and in the Way, J.J. Cale, Van Morrison, Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine, Tom Petty, Seeed, Bob Marley, AC/DC, Paul Simon, Nirvana, Allman Brothers, Eminem, Moby, Coldplay, Jurassic 5, CCR, John Coltrane, Velvet Underground, Maceo Parker, Tower of Power, Stan Getz, Outkast

Television:

I don't really watch TV but when i do I am always happy to catch CSI or Jeopardy. I just discovered Lost and I think it is brilliant.

Books:

Recently (last three months):
Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket; Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison; Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace; Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism; In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio; Peruvian Street Lives: Culture, Power, and Economy among Market Women of Cuzco; Nickel and Dimed; Guns, Germs, and Steel, Into the Wild, Reading Lolita in Tehran, The Devil in the White City
Less Recently Read:
Development as Freedom, Sickness and Wealth, Life of Pi (best work of fiction I have read in 10 years), The Poisonwood Bible, Orientalism, Dying for Growth, The Feminine Mystique, Ishmael, Tropic of Capricorn, The Air-conditioned Nightmare, Lolita, E=mc^2, A Short History of Nearly Everything, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Power of Myth, Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, i have read everything John Grisham ever wrote because I can't stop myself, Diary of Anais Nin, ok I have read all the Dan Brown ones too like everyone else, Cider House Rules, Half-Asleep in Frog Pajamas, Jitterbug Perfume, anything Rumi, Madame Bovary, Cat's Cradle, 1984, Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse Five, Letters to a Young Poet, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, Fear of Flying, The Alchemist, Varieties of Religious Experience, Fear and Trembling, Small is Beautiful, Picture of Dorian Gray, Memoirs of a Geisha

Heroes:

Henry Miller, Joseph Campell, Tom Robbins, Maria Vesperi, Muhammed Yunis, Jane Goodall, Bill and Melinda Gates, Paul Farmer, Amartya Sen

(Washington, DC, March 2001)

My Blog

Back Home

just a few musings on this latest transition from OR back home to FL...  There are always things about being back I don't anticipate but end up being really happy about, but on the other hand of ...
Posted by emily on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 02:22:00 PST

Stupid Questions

(Thanks for this Steph)For the benefit of those that don't already know, I work for an outdoor adventure sports company in Interlaken, Switzerland alongside several others operating activities such as...
Posted by emily on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 06:38:00 PST

Winter Term Begins...

So this term I am taking all Anthropology classes....Wealth and PovertyCash, Class and CulturePower and ResistanceStatistical Applicationsand  (auditing) Ethnographic MethodsI am also serving as ...
Posted by emily on Sun, 22 Jan 2006 09:46:00 PST