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nikki

i am a beautiful and unique snowflake.

About Me


Everyone should watch this Margaret Cho clip. Seriously.
my passport is my most valued possession. i'm the girl who's "too nice to be a bartender", but i do it anyway and ya know what? i do a damn good job at it too. i'm confident but humble. i have a hard time looking at people i don't respect. i make the best mac & cheese ever. i enjoy wine, vodka, and beer. and vitamin water. my favorite number is 8. and i hate packing.
p.s. my aim is "lullaby on mute" if you wanna say hi.
Organizations I support:
ACLU
Planned Parenthood
Human Rights Campaign
National Organization for Women
Pacifica Radio
Axis of Justice
Make-A-Wish Foundation
The ONE Campaign
The Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics
Caring Consumer
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Christopher Walken for President!

There is a difference between an open mind and a hole-in-the-head.

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Your Political Profile


Overall: 10% Conservative, 90% Liberal
Social Issues: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal
Personal Responsibility: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal
Fiscal Issues: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal
Ethics: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal
Defense and Crime: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal How Liberal / Conservative Are You?

My Interests

politics (the anti-war movement, the anti-bush movement, civil rights, womens rights, gay rights, protecting the environment, foreign policies, etc, etc, etc), TRAVEL (it's killing me that the only stamp on my passport for '06 was on my way home from China. i'm going to Africa next summer!), tattoos, music, concerts, movies, reading, yadda, yadda, yadda...

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American Cities That Best Fit You:


75% New York City
70% Chicago
65% Philadelphia
60% Los Angeles
60% Washington, DC Which American Cities Best Fit You?

I'd like to meet:

I would like to meet the Bush twins. "Why" might you ask? So I could turn them into tree hugging, peace loving, pro-choice, civil rights marching hippy lesbians with alzheimers who can still get anything they want from daddy. At least then whatever they want will be good for the rest of us too :)

Music:


This band Rocks! Go listen to their music!
8th Day Fall, Vendetta Valentine, Romak and The Space Pirates, Skitch, Bobot Adrenaline, Kaura, Ani DiFranco, Tool, System of a Down, A Perfect Circle, Rage Against the Machine, Candlebox, Audioslave, STP, Guns 'n Roses, Velvet Revolver, Soundgarden, Tricky, Bjork, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Meatloaf, Collective Soul, Extreme, Better Than Ezra, Cracker, Modest Mouse, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Cyndi Lauper, Everclear, Faithless, Lisa Loeb, Filter, Fugazi, Hole, Nirvana, Psychotica, Marilyn Manson, VAST, Live, Loreena McKennit, Weezer, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Portishead, George Winston, Chopin, PJ Harvey, Toadies, The Smiths, Morrissey, The Pixies, Sneaker Pimps, Sublime, The Rentals, Pigface, The Streets, The Killers, Muse, Third Eye Blind, Sponge, Fleetwood Mac, Soul Asylum, Sonic Youth, Mazzy Star, Social Distortion, X, Sylverchair, Sarah McLachlan, R.E.M., Rancid, Prince, Drain STH, Our Lady Peace, The Cranberries, Oasis, Pearl Jam, Temple of the Dog, Nada Surf, NY Loose, Placebo, Melissa Ethridge, She Wants Revenge, etc, etc, etc

Movies:

finally bored enough to fill in this bit. ok, here we go - Empire Records, Fight Club, Motorcycle Diaries, Amelie, Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine, Roger and Me, Snatch, 12 Monkeys, Hedwig (p.s. one of the best movie soundtracks EVER!!!), Resident Evil 1 & 2 (can't wait for 3!), Kill Bill 1 & 2, Bridget Jones' Diary, Love Actually, Waking Life, Requiem for a Dream, Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, The Emperer's New Groove (beware of the groove, the grooooove), of course we can't forget all the classic '80s movies - The Breakfast Club, Pump Up the Volume (i know, i know, this one barely missed te deadline, but we all know it was meant for the 80s), Pretty in Pink, 16 Candles, etc, oh! The Secret of NIMH, When Harry Met Sally, Velvet Goldmine, Shaun of the Dead, Girl, Interrupted, Gia, The Princess Bride, Robinhood Men in Tights, Beauty and the Beast, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (if you know me, you know i had to put that in there), OutFoxed, The Corporation, Ferngully, The Secret Garden, Suicide Club, Battle Royale, Eddie Izzard! (do you have a flag?), Margaret Cho, um... can't think of anything else at the moment, so i'm done. and i'm back. just have to mention that there are 2 movies that just get funnier and funnier every time you watch them. one of them is already mentioned above - Shaun of the Dead. the other is Finding Nemo. Ellen DeGeneres rocks.

Television:

i know, i know. the revolution will not be televised. that's okay cuz when the revolution comes i'll be out there being as revolutionary as the next guy. in the meantime i've got my weaknesses - The Daily Show, The West Wing, ER, Will & Grace, Scrubs, Grey's Anatomy (i really don't know why i'm so in love with hospital shows. i hate hospitals), Friends, The Family Guy, Invader Zim, Daria, BBC, CNN, and C-SPAN.

Books:

i have this horrible habit of starting books and never finishing them, but here are a few that i've either finished or gotten far enough to know they're good - everything Michael Moore, 1984, Brave New World, The Catcher in the Rye, Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm, Slaughterhouse 5, Interview With the Vampire, Lies My Teacher Told Me, The Virgin Suicides, Girl Interrupted, The Sun Also Rises, The Shining, Anne Frank's Diary, Zlata's Diary, Naked in Baghdad, A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Myths to Live By, May it Please the Court: The First Amendment, The Martian Chronicles, The Second Sex and my memory is failing me now... various religious/spiritual books... travel books! i have a decent collection of those. hopefully i'll actually get to see some of the gazillion places i've read about.

Heroes:

..Ani DiFranco - a goddess if i ever saw one

My Blog

why is it so hard to give my time away???

wow. i’ve never had such a hard time getting people to talk to me than i have in my latest quest to find volunteer work. i’m in with American Red Cross, but i want to work with one other o...
Posted by nikki on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:03:00 PST

i’m home.

so wow. i've been back in San Francisco for 4 weeks and wow. i now have a whole new group of great friends, an amazing girlfriend and an adorable apartment in a location that some people wou...
Posted by nikki on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:04:00 PST

im better now.

ok, so i've been a little... pissed off at this country for existing for the past couple weeks. i have a list of things to blame that on including everything from the weather to stress to hormones to ...
Posted by nikki on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:21:00 PST

somebody reject me! please!!! - my story of how every bar in Sydney wants me to work for them

ok, so far i've been invited to about 10 interviews. went to about half a dozen of them and have been offered a "test run" at every one. i've shown up for 2 of them, deciding not to bother with t...
Posted by nikki on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:52:00 PST

San Francisco has spoiled me

fuck! i should've just stayed in Orange County. when i was living there, every city seemed incredible. Sydney's cool, but i miss San Francisco. oh well. at least i'm not having any problem finding wor...
Posted by nikki on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:29:00 PST

i just know im gonna love it here

we've been in the country for just over 48 hours and it's awesome. we're staying with our cousin who lives in Newcastle and our first day here she took us to Blackbutt Reserve (i had to stop myself fr...
Posted by nikki on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:24:00 PST

yay for impulsive decisions

    so wow. i'm moving to Australia in 2 weeks. how amazing is that? how stoked should i be? except what's weird is the closer it gets, the more i'm thinking i'm gonna miss it here and ...
Posted by nikki on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:06:00 PST

what a fucking week i have had...

like seriously. ok, so Tuesday night i'm working at the Nappers. it's, say, about 12:30, 1 o'clock, somewhere around there. this woman has been in the bar for an hour or so. i've served her two drinks...
Posted by nikki on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:57:00 PST

yeah, i don't do stability

so my life has become relatively sound over the past couple months. finally doing pretty well financially, i've got 2 jobs that i actually like, that i can have fun at, make money, and keep myself out...
Posted by nikki on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:51:00 PST

New York

it was everything i expected it would be. what i didn't realize was that was more than i wanted. we had a blast and packed a lot into the 3 days that we were there. we got into Manhattan at around 1:...
Posted by nikki on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 04:25:00 PST