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sarah jo

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me....and I'm feelin' good....

About Me

Sometimes I need to know what is coming around the corner but other times I just close my eyes and wait for it to hit me.

TWIN PEAKS COFFEE

My Interests

I really love to read. A LOT. I absolutely ADORE coffee. I am afraid of the future. I wish to be a lifelong student. I am not very good at being an adult yet.



I'd like to meet:

Aslan...and She-Ra


Music:

Listened to most on my IPOD: She and Him; Nina Simone, Amy Winehouse; Madonna, Rilo Kiley, Duran Duran; Tegan & Sara; Sam Phillips; Black Rebel Motorcycle Club; Snow Patrol; Lauryn Hill, Tori Amos; Jill Scott, Liz Phair, Reindeer Section; Rilo Kiley; Faith No More; Bob Dylan; Leona Naess; Sonic Youth; Beth Orton; Kasey Chambers; Lucinda Williams; Megadeth; Chris Isaak; Bjork; Devandra Banhart; Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins; Cat Power; Alison Krauss; Wolf Parade; Feist; Tom Waits; Ani Difranco, A Fine Frenzy, Jill Sobule, Her Majesty's Ship and of course Cory Chisel and The Wandering Sons.

Movies:

Fire Walk With Me, Once, Wrist Cutters, Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind; Garden State; High Fidelity, Sixteen Candles, Clueless; The Last Kiss, Pretty in Pink, Blue Velvet; Dancer in the Dark, Trainspotting; Memento; Spanglish; Spun; Requiem for a Dream; Dark City; Girl, Interrupted, Dead Poet's Society, Mona Lisa's Smile, The Breakfast Club, Almost Famous, Stigmata, Meet Joe Black, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Northfork, Crank, Nowhere, Amelie, all of the Die Hards, and this list would be too long if I truly listed ALL of my favorites. So I'll stop with The Big Chill which I will never get sick of watching.

Television:

Weeds...and Twin Peaks, Gilmore Girls, The West Wing.

Books:

Driving Sideways by Jess Riley, We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Lovely Bones, We Were the Mulvaney's, The Kite Runner, 1984, Invitation to a Beheading, Life of Pi, Lady Chatterly's Lover, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Fahrenheit 451, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Memoirs of a Geisha, Living History: Hilary Rhodam Clinton; Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, Maus, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The Heart of a Woman; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Lolita, The Catcher in the Rye, Sense and Sensibility, A Walk to Remember, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Known World

Heroes:

my dad, the most unselfish person i have ever known. my mom, who taught me to never be ashamed of who you are. my step mom for teaching me that biology doesn't necessarily determine ones ability to be a good mother.

My Blog

Surgery is over!

Well, today was my surgery...and its finally over.I thought I would be scared, but with Paul and my mom there at my side, somehow it was easy. Plus, the anesthesia hits you pretty quick.The tumors hav...
Posted by sarah jo on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:31:00 PST

2 am phone calls

It is amazing how a phone call at 2 a.m. immediately takes you back to your very first 2 a.m. phone call as a child. The one that wakes up the whole household. The one that leads you to see your fathe...
Posted by sarah jo on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:54:00 PST

A Change of Heart...

So, I woke up this morning with a strong desire to skip my classes today. This is a pretty normal response in the morning for me, when my alarm goes off at 5:20 to wake me for an 8 a.m. class with no ...
Posted by sarah jo on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:44:00 PST

The Invitation

The Invitation By Oriah Mountain Dreamer It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't inter...
Posted by sarah jo on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:14:00 PST

Halloween shopping woes

Hey there,So...can someone help a girl find a pretty apron? They are pretty impossible to find these days. Too hard I should think.I mean...i reali...
Posted by sarah jo on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:02:00 PST

Update

Wow...it has been awhile! So as some of you may know, my mom went through a battery of tests last month, they poked and prodded her from every angle possible. Most of her tests came back great...yeah...
Posted by sarah jo on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:32:00 PST

New Pictures, etc.

The last few weekends have been filled with lots of outdoor fun...here are some recent pictures. Fishing at my parents land on the wolf river... Last weekend my mom and I went on an all day s...
Posted by sarah jo on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:06:00 PST

Hello Summer...I'm back

Well...i've said so long to algebra...and said hello to summer! I've dropped my class and I'm re-evaluating my major. (again)  I just can't see torturing myself through 4 years of math...ugh...i'...
Posted by sarah jo on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:07:00 PST

Benefit tonight

So, I ran into Mr Ryan Dake Sunday at the jazz orgy...and he informed me that Tuesday night (tonight) there is going to be a benefit held for Tim Zuelke at the Algoma Club, to raise money for a grave ...
Posted by sarah jo on Tue, 08 May 2007 07:22:00 PST

how does a normal person manage stress?

I really cannot wait until this semester is over. I really do actually love being in school, but man...the pressure is unbelievable. I guess I just don't handle stress as well as others do. This week...
Posted by sarah jo on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:51:00 PST