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Bobbi

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I'm making it up as I go along.

My Interests

Music (listening and playing), cello, drums, knitting, hiking, walking my dog, reading, rock shows, movies, friends and family, yoga, learning to weld, sitting, smiling, staring into space.

I'd like to meet:

I just want to be left alone, actually. Go away!

Music:

I play drums, cello, and enough guitar to be able to write songs. Not that I write many songs. I listen to lots of stuff, including: The Stooges, Guided by Voices, Nick Drake, X, The Cramps, Stereolab, The Rolling Stones, Magnetic Fields, My Bloody Valentine, Ani DiFranco, Shonen Knife, Patti Smith, Beck, Dinosaur Jr., Annie Lennox, Spiritualized, Joy Division, Nick Cave, Belle & Sebastian, Air, Silversun Pickups, Beck, The Shins, Modest Mouse, New Pornographers, Editors, Interpol, and on and on.

Movies:

Yes. Preferably on DVD, while cuddled up on the couch with my man.

Television:

Lately, it's downloaded British TV: The Book Group, Monkey Trousers, Saxondale.

Books:

To Kill a Mockingbird, anything by Tolstoy, various non-fiction du jour. I grew up on a steady diet of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. I've read the Lord of the Rings trilogy two or three times (probably three, 'cause I'm a dork.) Currently reading The Master and Margarita for a book club I just joined.

Heroes:

Abraham Lincoln, Atticus Finch, Jimmy Carter, honest mechanics, the pants buyer for Anthropologie.

My Blog

New Dinosaur Jr. Album (and, How I Overthink Things)

I had a surprising gamut of reactions listening to the new Dinosaur Jr. album.  I've loved Dinosaur Jr. since 1989, when I wandered into their show at The Green Door in Pomona, California, having...
Posted by Bobbi on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:41:00 PST

Bamboo: I, Me: 0

The bamboo is kicking my ass.  My ass has been kicked by bamboo. Whatever I've cut down has grown back twice as thick.  It grows faster than I can cut it down.  It's cove...
Posted by Bobbi on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 04:59:00 PST

The Joys of Apathetic Home Ownership

It's been seven months since I bought my first house.  I have settled quite comfortably into what I call Apathetic Home Ownership.  It's responsible, but it's not TOO responsible, if you kno...
Posted by Bobbi on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:07:00 PST

Me vs. The Bamboo -- Part II

Three words: cordless power saw. In less than an hour, I cut down half the bamboo on my side of the monstrous bamboo jungle. The bamboo fought back, as evidenced by my bloody head wound (er, a scratch...
Posted by Bobbi on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 02:13:00 PST

Me vs. The Bamboo

I remember noticing the tall stand of bamboo between my garage and back fence when I first saw my house.  I thought, "Oh, how pretty."  I was impressed that it was twice as tall as the garag...
Posted by Bobbi on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:07:00 PST

Cello Recital

First cello recital tomorrow, in a school auditorium with all my teacher's students: violin, viola, cello, bass.  I'm playing a Beethoven duet with my teacher on the violin.  It's truth...
Posted by Bobbi on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:51:00 PST

Generation MySpace

I saw a new patient today, a somewhat depressed 14-year-old girl.  When I asked her to tell me about her friends, she replied, "Lemme think, who are my top 8 on MySpace?"  Then she proc...
Posted by Bobbi on Sat, 11 Feb 2006 08:02:00 PST

All this effin' rain

Every winter I hear loads of people complain about the rain in Oregon, and I think to myself, "Boo hoo, you wussies, you chose to live here, so suck it up!"  But this winter I am humbled, as...
Posted by Bobbi on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 12:50:00 PST

If you ignore a problem for long enough, it often goes away!

One of my potentially less healthy core beliefs is that if you ignore a problem for long enough, it often goes away.  Of course this means that I'm often avoidant when it doesn't serve me well, b...
Posted by Bobbi on Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:21:00 PST

End of 2005

Lots happened to me in 2005.  An incomplete list of lessons learned (and re-learned, in many cases) this past year:-Broken hearts heal.-Buying real estate is not rocket science.-Friends are ...
Posted by Bobbi on Sun, 01 Jan 2006 07:50:00 PST