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la fin de Lauren

Live down your good reputation.

About Me

Sleepy.

My Interests

Shane, all aspects. Oxy morons. Mad Libs. Grammatical snobbery. Putting everything in order. Making sure the labels face front and the pourers point left. Limiting/banning the use of the adjective, as prescribed by Marni Ludwig. Restoring glory to the semi-colon, not only to piss off Marni Ludwig. Chrysididae. All things Wilde. Keeping a messy home and a spotless bar.

I'd like to meet:

To quote Jon Boucher: "The mentally challenged ponder Stomp; bring neither noise nor funk."

Music:

M. Ward, Coydogs, Caesars Palace. People yelling, ice cream trucks, sirens, 5 am break-ups, the guy upstairs practicing flute, my phone ringing at 3, 4, or 5 am, anything else I can hear from my bedroom.

Movies:

City of Lost Children, True Romance, Harvey, Carnival, Mystery Train, Christian F., Y Tu Mama Tambien, Children of Paradise, Songs for Cassavetes, River's Edge, Down By Law, Heathers, Candy Mountain, Rumble Fish, The African Queen, Fargo.

Television:

The news and cartoons.

Books:

Sue Hubbell, Scarlett Thomas, Edwin O. Wilson, Julio Cortazar, Kobo Abe, Anne Sexton, ee cummings, Haruki Murakami.

Heroes:

Dorian Gray.

My Blog

The Continental Divide.

Last Wednesday, Shane and DimSum and I spent the night in Denver. Usually, we drive down 82 to 70 (actually, up: Denver is north, but since we're going down out of the Rockies, it feels like South. Ad...
Posted by la fin de Lauren on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:39:00 PST

For Shane:

You knew I was sick. I sent you a feeble text message: "Maybe you should bring me ice cream." But you didn't just bring me ice cream. You MADE blueberry ice cream and brought it home to me. You hike w...
Posted by la fin de Lauren on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:24:00 PST

Two Years.

I am in Aspen for two more years. Probably. I am managing the restaurant that I love working for. Assistant managing, that is. I am starting the sommelier course in October. I have a big, beautiful h...
Posted by la fin de Lauren on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:30:00 PST

End Love Aspen Affair, or, Just Talk About Me Behind My Back, PLEASE.

This past Wednesday I went out with all of my co-workers to get a drink or nine. As I was getting up to buy a round, Shane affectionately touched my stomach. The chef, Alberto, who was coming to the b...
Posted by la fin de Lauren on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:46:00 PST

Is there any just cause for a feeling like this?

Wow, I'm finally having high school! I'm at Julie's. We've been trying on clothes and drinking white wine all day.   And we're listening to "I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight". Which is on her 80...
Posted by la fin de Lauren on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:14:00 PST

I love my cat.

Not a witty title. I just love my little black cat. DimSum will be coming to NYC with us next week, as long as he passes his health test and gets his certificate in order to fly. I had to gather all o...
Posted by la fin de Lauren on Fri, 16 May 2008 06:06:00 PST

Whats happening to me?

I've gone from living on the loudest corner in possibly the entire world and adoring it to loving it here and wanting a little cabin of my own with two cats and the chef and lots of woods between me a...
Posted by la fin de Lauren on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:05:00 PST

Where I live, part two.

Tuesday morning I was waiting for Shane to finish up, uh, whatever the hell he was doing upstairs. I was staring out into what is basically our backyard when I see an especially huge black dog lumberi...
Posted by la fin de Lauren on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:08:00 PST

Where I work:

So this is a little boring, but not to me. This is where I'm a bartender.If you click on the menu, you'll see a photo of my favorite dish, which is the pork chop. Yum. Totes exciting, no?For intereste...
Posted by la fin de Lauren on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:36:00 PST

It’s April and I’m in the middle of a blizzard.

It's freezing outside. I wore my down jacket today. So I'm going to Julie's to eat fondue and watch Lost. No one mentioned to Aspen that it's April, obviously, because it looked like a storybook Chris...
Posted by la fin de Lauren on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:35:00 PST