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Paging Alison Paige

I have never intentionally cut a power line in my life.

About Me

What's there to say that most of you don't already know? I laugh all the time. I smile. I have the mannerisms and optimism of a six year old. I suffer from the Princess Complex. I am a member of Gamma Phi Beta, if you would like I could sing you some of our catchy ditties. I also am involved with the Bowling Green Radio station WBGU. I like to pretend I'm cool. I love bright colored clothing, I often dress as if it's 1986 what with all the colors. I knit. I write poetry that is more like word vomit. I hope to teach high school students someday the importance of literature in their everyday life. I drink water like I'm an amphibian. The way to my heart is with awesome mixes and copies of Pete and Pete. I'm tall. I'm not a natural redhead. I love you. Home | Browse | Search | Invite | Film | Mail | Blog | Favorites | Forum | Groups | Events | Videos | Music | Comedy | Classifieds

My Interests

Lots and lots of things. However I do enjoy good music, cooking, knitting, carmex, the state of Wisconsin, questioning authority, literature, humanity, obese cats, colored pencils and thin markers, film, conversation, spelling things they way they do in the UK, and humour. If you like any or all of the above, chances are we'll get along.

I'd like to meet:

People with a certain something...a je ne sais qoi.British people who appreciate Law and Order and don't get all weird when I say "Oh you are studying Law and Criminology! That's a show in America called Law and Order."

Music:

Elvis Costello, The Shins, The Smiths, Sufjan Stevens, The Replacements, Lou Reed, Jonathan Richman, please fill in the rest for yourself.

Movies:

Cult movies, Fellini, Coen Brothers films, Do the Right Thing, documentaries, films with Audrey Hepburn, Paul Newman, Wes Anderson, but my favorite movie since I was 3 is Singin' In the Rain. I wanted to marry Gene Kelly and be Debbie Reynolds. So as sophisticated as I like to think I am, I will laugh at Donald O'Connor during "Make 'Em Laugh" and remember my sister thinking that he was dancing with a tooth in that scene.

Television:

Gilmore Girls, Adult Swim, the Daily Show, the British version of the Office, Law and Order, and Arrested fucking Development.

Books:

Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Irvine Welsh, Nick Hornby, Anne Tyler, Tony Kushner, Roald Dahl, Barbara Kingsolver, Jack Kerouac, Walt Whitman, excellent children's books.

Heroes:

My Family; Other people who are interesting to me: John Dewey, The entire Civil Rights Movement (truly amazing), Virginia Woolf, Mary A. Bingham, Mina Shaughnessy, Susan Rodriguez, Michael Warner, Oscar Wilde

My Blog

Chaotic Good

Ahem: So today Nemo and I were having a discussion about nerdiness as what constitutes a nerd or not. So we are working on creating a "Rodenberry Scale of Nerdiness" the highest level is a 42 and alth...
Posted by Paging Alison Paige on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:17:00 PST

so I now live in a blue state

Wow. I can't really get over the election results. I don't expect there to be a drastic change but the increase in minimum wage is very very nice. I got a raise courtesy of Ohio voters. What's new wit...
Posted by Paging Alison Paige on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:40:00 PST

The City as Novel in Balzac

I just picked up a book that someone left here in the library called Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino and that is one of his criticisms. The past few days have just been filled with these momen...
Posted by Paging Alison Paige on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:22:00 PST

I felt like a burnt out caricature of Jane Russell.

Let me explain about Saturday night. It can be summed up in the words of Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany's: Holly Golightly: You know those days when you get the mean reds? Paul Varjak: The ...
Posted by Paging Alison Paige on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:48:00 PST

The Lemon of Pink

So this weekend was kind of an anxious mess.  However...I do have a job interview in about...10 minutes and although I feel like a majority of people in my life have felt this need to remind me&n...
Posted by Paging Alison Paige on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:47:00 PST

Musicality

1. What are you listening to right now? Nothing I'm in the Union computer lab.2. What song makes you sad? Lots and lots, probably California by Low is my tearjerker song. 3. What is the most annoying ...
Posted by Paging Alison Paige on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:24:00 PST

Whelmed

You know when you can't decide if you feel overwhelmed or underwhelmed and which is more relevant. So recruitment is starting and that is going to be insane, if it's anything like last year...which wa...
Posted by Paging Alison Paige on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 02:48:00 PST

Major news.

Major News! So I'm officially an English major. Huzzah! Here are some questions you might be pondering..... When are you going to graduate? Looks like December '07, alright! Wait a sec? So you are at ...
Posted by Paging Alison Paige on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:17:00 PST

Too much time

 Ok so here are some things I have been pondering: Why do assholes feel the need to tell us they are "nice" guys? What kind of guy is a nice guy? Why can't I be gainfully employed? Why are pop so...
Posted by Paging Alison Paige on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:24:00 PST

I'm having the swellest kind of a time!

So being unemployed has been nice but it's also been...well as someone who needs a schedule and sweet money, boring. Nothing too major has gone on just lots of hanging out with people I love. I found ...
Posted by Paging Alison Paige on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:12:00 PST