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In-Jee

Mr. Newman, short people DO have a reason to live!

About Me

Short, skinny, bespectacled nerd. Well traveled and well read.In-Jee Lee, Peace Corps Kazakhstan, a/? 257, 050022 Almaty, Kazakhstan

My Interests

literature, cinema, cooking, backpacking, hiking, dancing, collecting location postcards, politics (socialist slant), volunteer work, photography, writing short stories

I'd like to meet:

Everyone - right wing, religious, conservative Republicans and men with sick Lolita or Asian mail order bride fantasies need not apply.

Music:

Everything except bugglegum/teeny bopper music, country/western, and the Village People

Movies:

Anything foreign or American independent. I like some mainstream Hollywood movies, but they are few and far between.

Television:

South Park, Sex and the City, Coupling, The Daily Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Masterpiece Theatre, NOVA, 60 Minutes, BBC World News, I Love the...retrospective specials on VH1

Books:

Death in Venice -Thomas Mann, Beloved - Toni Morrison, Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov, Delta of Venus - Anaïs Nin, Last Unicorn - Peter Beagle, Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling, Color Purple - Alice Walker, On the Road - Jack Kerouac, House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros, Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe, Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding

Heroes:

Henry David Thoreau for inventing civil disobedience, and Mohandas Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for putting it into practice. César Chávez for improving the conditions for Mexican migrant workers. Gloria Steinam and Betty Friedan for teaching women that we don't have to be second class citizens, and Margaret Sanger for teaching us that women have a right over their own bodies. Vladimir Nabokov for setting the bar so high for all other contemporary writers in the English language. My mom for imparting in me the importance of kindness and humility. My dad for teaching me not to put up with anyone's bullshit. And the Dali Lama

My Blog

Peace Corps Address

In-Jee Lee Peace Corps Kazakhstan P.O. Box 257Almaty 050022Kazakhstan
Posted by In-Jee on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 01:01:00 PST

Loneliness

Loneliness is crying yourself to sleep at night Loneliness is doubting if the heartache will ever pass Loneliness is imagining your mother is looking up at the same starry sky Loneliness is wondering ...
Posted by In-Jee on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:42:00 PST

Peace Corps Humour

Volunteer Fear - going to the non-flush squat toilet in the middle of the night and accidently dropping a flash light, shoe, or cell phone down the hole. "Sam, telling the children that smoking is bad...
Posted by In-Jee on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:37:00 PST

To Lose Oneself

Excerpt from Peace Corps letter: "If you wear eyebrow rings, nose rings, nose or tongue studs and the like, take them out before you leave the United States, or we will ask you to at Staging. Whether ...
Posted by In-Jee on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:25:00 PST

Murdered by the Mob

Since my father retired, he has been bored to tears. He accepted 2 part time bookkeeping jobs, and to my mother's dismay he has also taken up cooking and cleaning. That's her turf and she's pissed. No...
Posted by In-Jee on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:02:00 PST

15th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival

The film festival ran from March 30-April 11. I ate and slept poorly for 2 weeks, and 40 films later I feel like the walking dead. I am going to try writing reviews for a few of the films for www.imdb...
Posted by In-Jee on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:45:00 PST

"They F*cking Forgot My Birthday!"

"I don't believe it. They F*cking Forgot My Birthday!" said the disbelieving Samantha Baker of her family in the cult teen movie "Sixteen Candles." Today's birthday greetings count goes something...
Posted by In-Jee on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:40:00 PST

I Have Never Felt So Low

It's over. I have been hopelessly holding onto hope for over 4 years. In November of 2001 I met who I thought to be the man of my dreams. Tall and handsome with a wonderful intellect and personality t...
Posted by In-Jee on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 05:43:00 PST

My Only Valentine's Day Memory

This time of year, every year, I become even more cynical than I usually am and that's saying something. Looking around I see couples. Lots of them. Some are reveling in the Hall Mark sponsored holida...
Posted by In-Jee on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 03:10:00 PST

Hetero in a Sea of Lesbians

For the longest time I had been planning to take my friend, Kristi, to a bar/club downtown called Sisters. Yes, it's a lebian establishment. She doesn't have many opportunities to meet other lesbians,...
Posted by In-Jee on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 03:22:00 PST