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My Interests

cute babies : caffeine : laughing too loud : music : working out : jaws : attempting to belly dance : straws : beer with limes : curry : apple jollyranchers

I'd like to meet:

the drummer of Wilco

Music:

Arcade Fire, At the Drive In, Bloc Party, Broken Social Scene, the Cars, Catherine Wheel, Cave In, Clash, Colin Hay, early Cure, David Garza, Descendents, Elvis Costello, Failure, Foo Fighters, Interpol, Old 97's, On, Piebald, Razorlight, Rhett Miller, Riverboat Gamblers, Seaweed, Smashing Pumpkins, Sparta, Strokes, Sunny Day Real Estate, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, and, most of all, Wilco

Movies:

Jaws, A Long Engagement, Garden State, Down with Love, Billy Elliott

Television:

My Name is Earl, Veronica Mars

Books:

Confederacy of Dunces, Memoirs of a Geisha, Life of Pi, all Nick Hornby sans Fever Pitch, East of Eden, Lovely Bones, Liar's Club, Pride and Prejudice, Everyday Zen, the Anne of Green Gables series (guilty pleasure)

Heroes:

Cash & Jason

My Blog

10th anniversary

Today marks the 10th anniversary of my bone tumor removal. Hard to believe that 10 years have already passed....somedays it feels like that was century ago and others it feels like yesterday. The mo...
Posted by Jamie on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:24:00 PST

It is self preservation

And the list continues....I had to work an ungodly 11 hours yesterday. The whole hellish day wrapped up with giving a presentation to prospects interested in entering an engineering master's deg...
Posted by Jamie on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:55:00 PST

Good times

Optimism.....something that eludes me from time to time. I was always a "glass if half full" kind of person but somewhere along the way I really bought into a "life is a struggle" mentality.&nbs...
Posted by Jamie on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:31:00 PST

are you kidding me????????

A Haiku about my pathfinder It is so new, 1/21/07 it came to me So black, so shiny, so pure parking garage dangerous idiot driver nails my car for fuck's sake!!!!!!!!!...
Posted by Jamie on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:28:00 PST

I've lost all control

I've seen the future, people, and it ain't purty. I always wondered about the "golden years". You know the scene...we are living in less-than-stellar dormitory type conditions and they plac...
Posted by Jamie on Thu, 22 Dec 2005 02:55:00 PST

fur industry outrage, mourning, and appreciation = what a mix

Just watched a video from Peta about the fur industry in china. It was dogs and cats crammed in cages and being tossed all over the place, dropped from heinous heights, and then skinned. I...
Posted by Jamie on Sun, 23 Oct 2005 10:07:00 PST

my dog broke my face

The date: Sunday, October 9 The crime scene: Town Lake The criminal: Redding (aka, angel dog) The victim: moi I bend down to pick up the dog toy; he jumps out of the water at t...
Posted by Jamie on Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:54:00 PST

Breaking up

Tonight I paid tribute to New Orleans by making a huge batch of jumbalaya. There are two unusual things to note about that: 1) I don't cook and 2) Not a fan of New Orleans. Tha...
Posted by Jamie on Sun, 18 Sep 2005 09:14:00 PST

black cat = bad luck

Okay...just wrote a novel about how this day sucks and somehow i managed to loose the whole damn thing. Just illustrates what a sharp left this day has taken. Hating.... To recap novel......
Posted by Jamie on Thu, 01 Sep 2005 08:47:00 PST

mercury in retrograde

Today kicks-off the beginning of my long overdue vacation. What should have set me off to the fact that something evil was brewing was the fact that my contact just didn't feel right. No b...
Posted by Jamie on Sat, 20 Aug 2005 09:06:00 PST