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Nance

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking...patience.

About Me

I like to talk about almost anything, but music and movies and literature are my favorite topics. I love ridiculously bad movies and television shows. I'm a very musical person. I sing, dance, play the piano and love meeting other people who enjoy music. Jim Gaffigan is one of my favorite human beings, along with Donald O'Connor. I'm an anthropology major and a history minor at Mount Holyoke College, so I get pretty excited whenever I get the chance to talk about obscure history and social trends. If you don't speak sarcasm, you might not understand anything I say. I like traveling, reading, pantsing people, alternating between laziness and spurts of energy, being judgemental and making up words.

My Interests

"Brod discovered 613 sadnesses, each perfectly unique, each a singular emotion, no more similar to any other sadness than to anger, ecstasy, guilt, or frustration. Mirror Sadness. Sadness of Domesticated Birds. Sadness of Being Sad in Front of One's Parent. Humor Sadness. Sadness of Love Without Release."

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Music:

Joni Mitchell, The Avett Brothers, Sun Mountain Fiddler, Eva Cassidy, the Beatles, Sufjan Stevens, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Indigo Girls, the Rolling Stones, Dixie Chicks, Eve6, Iron and Wine, Lauryn Hill, Green Day, Billy Joel, Damien Rice, Cake, the Eagles, Goo Goo Dolls, Charlotte Church, Rilo Kiley, Alison Krauss, The Decemberists, Sheryl Crow, Queen, India.Arie, Belle & Sebastian, Dar Williams, the Avett Brothers, Ben Folds, Simon & Garfunkel, Arctic Monkeys, Sam Cooke, the Cranberries, Trespassers William, Gillian Welch, the Shins, Johnny Cash, the Killers, Michael Buble, Of Montreal, Dawn Landes and classical music

Movies:

american beauty, the original star wars, 10 things i hate about you, gangs of new york, dirty dancing, moulin rouge, clueless, napoleon dynamite, to kill a mockingbird, adventures of robin hood, breakfast club, the lion king, lady and the tramp, anchorman, animal house, first wives club, you've got mail, good will hunting, blazing saddles, last of the mohicans, garden state, love actually, dirty rotten scoundrels, monty python and the holy grail, the departed, city of god, gone with the wind, singing in the rain, trainspotting, B-13, dear frankie, the rage in placid lake, little miss sunshine, Inside Detox Manor

Television:

THE OFFICE, flight of the conchords, the mighty boosh, that 70s show, whose line is it anyway, band of brothers, CSI, colbert report, LOST, the daily show, buffy the vampire slayer, most extreme elimination challenge, america's next top model, digging for the truth, Detox Manor

Books:

everything is illuminated, the golden compass, the subtle knife, the amber spyglass, the wainscott weasel, to kill a mockingbird, the great gatsby, the handmaid's tale, kite runner, gone with the wind, brave new world, all quiet on the western front, when the elephants dance, me talk pretty one day, the catcher in the rye, barrel fever, pure drivel, born blue, winnie the pooh, ceremony, monkey beach, sex drugs and cocoa puffs, the memory keeper's daughter, earth tigerlets as explained by professor xargle

My Blog

Modern Love: The College Essay Contest

 Just before Valentine's Day this year, Sunday Styles did something very unromantic: we asked college students nationwide to tell the plain truth about what love is like for them. We weren't sure...
Posted by Nance on Wed, 07 May 2008 12:25:00 PST

213 Things Skippy is no longer allowed to do in the U.S. Army

213 Things Skippy in no longer allowed to do in the U.S. Army a couple of highlights in case you don't believe me that it's funny: 7. Not allowed to add "In accordance with the prophesy" to the end of...
Posted by Nance on Sat, 03 May 2008 08:58:00 PST

Nerds are the best

HS teacher with PhD, looking in stereo microscope at spores: Oh no, you won’t be able to see the hermaphrodites fully, they’re not sexually mature yet. [Dances around.]Student: Umm... Okay...
Posted by Nance on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:14:00 PST

Overheard in New York

Sometimes when I start to miss New York I take a little trip to http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/ and then everything is okay again. Here are some recent highlights: Transplanted valley girl: I ...
Posted by Nance on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:15:00 PST

Donald Duck’s Indecent Exposure

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
Posted by Nance on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:01:00 PST

Useless Fact of the Day

Useless fact of the day: Goodyear once made a tire entirely out of corn.
Posted by Nance on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:36:00 PST