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Natalie

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About Me

"In a foreign country you should love/ a girl who is a history student./ You sleep with her in this grass/ at the foot of these hills/ and between groans and screams/ she tells you what happened in the past./ "Love is a serious affair."/ I never saw animals laughing."That's Yehuda Amichai and I'm a history student at Tel Aviv University. I'm currently about halfway to being a Master! if you count in time or 1/19 if you count in work actually submitted. I'm a terrible closer. Once I've learned what I think I'm learning I have a very hard time actually sucking up and putting on the finishing touches (like readable grammar or titles).I like the Hallmark Channel, screens on windows, sixteen cups of coffee a day, laughing until I want to throw up, and lying in the grass when it doesn't make me itchy.I don't like being bitchy, unreliable people, couples who touch each other a lot in public, or cats. But you all knew that anyway, since I'm not much for friending strangers.

My Interests

Langauges, English, Spanish, Russian, Latin, Tibetan, Hebrew, Arabic, Reading, Writing, Good Movies, Cooking, Eating, Chocolate, Cheese, Wine, friends, Illuminated Manuscripts, Coffee to Go, Coffee in General, Tel Aviv, Israel, the World, the Universe, HIBs, skirts, shoes

I'd like to meet:

Shakespeare and Tony Hoagland.

Music:

Madonna, Tori Amos, Idan Raichel Project, Sarah McLachlan, Atomic Kitten, Mirah, Bjork, Charlotte Martin, Avenue Q, Sound of Music, Pajama Game, Dresden Dolls, Scissor Sisters, Depeche Mode, Erasure, the Smiths, Covers of Nirvana (but not the band itself), Paul Simon,

Movies:

Walk on Water, Dreamlife of Angels, All About my Mother, Cabaret, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Broken Wings, The Incredibles, Casablanca, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Girls will be Girls

Television:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Veronica Mars, Desperate Housewives, Family Guy, Aquateen, The Office (British), Coupling, America's Next Top Model, Amish in the City, HaChevrai

Books:

A Tale of Love and Darkness, Bee Season, the Archivist, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Basic Eight, the Series of Unfortunate Events, Never Let me Go, Valley of the Dolls, The Kite Runner, White Teeth, The Great Gatsby, Anna Karenina, The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Bridget Jones's Diary, Adverbs, Running with Scissors, Naked, On Beauty, Mashehu bishvil Mishehu,

Heroes:

Tony Hoagland, Shakespeare, Eliezer ben Yehuda's long suffering wife, Azit the parachuting dog, my mom and dad

My Blog

Sitting in a railway station got a ticket for my destination (M m mmmmmm)

Back in the states tomorrow around 1pm.  I will be leaving the next day (Wednesday) to present my paper at the SLC conference, but I will be back to MI on Sunday.  I hope to see you!  ...
Posted by Natalie on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:23:00 PST

Natzerat

Or as I call it, The Naz, or as you might call it, Nazereth.Nicci and I got in last night and went out for a falafel, choosing, totally by random, the best falafel place in town, according to my local...
Posted by Natalie on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:24:00 PST

Dead Sea, Jordan

Nicci and I are at the Dead Sea following an extremely stressful trip into Jordan.  Despite my experience with Rebecca, I decided that since it was not at all Shabbat it would probably be no prob...
Posted by Natalie on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:22:00 PST

Dates

I will be in Michigan (more or less) June 18th to July 18th. Be there or be sober.
Posted by Natalie on Wed, 09 May 2007 06:11:00 PST

Academic Rockstar!

I am a real academic grown up now.  My paper on Antun Saadeh was accepted to the Middle East and Central Asia (MECA) conference, so I'll be presenting in September.  Who is a rock star? ...
Posted by Natalie on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:38:00 PST

Gay Paris

I'm in Paris and it's beautiful.  Paul and I have already consumed a week's worth of cheese and wine, but that's just how we roll.  Today we're off to.... some village I should know the name...
Posted by Natalie on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 12:25:00 PST

Academic Success!

Turned in a paper today titled Asad's Ambitions: Why Syria Supported the Maronites in the Lebanese Civil War but you laymen can call it:  Hold Up-- Syria Supported Christians Over Palestinians?&n...
Posted by Natalie on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:17:00 PST

The French Mandate-- of my heart

This morning I booked a trip to Paris for five days over my upcoming school break.  I'll be staying with Paul and we are going to eat a lot of cheese, drink a lot of wine, visit tiny little frenc...
Posted by Natalie on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:00:00 PST

Books, Backs

I'm moving into my new place giant sack of books by giant stack of books.  How did I accumulate this much crap in a year and a half?  I don't understand!  I have no idea how I'll get it...
Posted by Natalie on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:40:00 PST

25 Melancholia

I had a wonderful birthday week, but I'm still a little sad that two people I really wanted to remember my birthday didn't.  Now I have to decide if I want to do anything remotely christmassy t...
Posted by Natalie on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 05:26:00 PST