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Mary Edith

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About Me

I don't mind being the shortest one in the room. I'm an Anglophile. I prefer to read slightly pretentious stuff and then balance it out by reading celebrity gossip. Crowds make me cringe. I own far too many cute dresses for someone with such a penchant for staying in. I rarely get movie references. I like sad bastard music.

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My Interests

Likes: art, travel, music, semiotics, voyeurism, stationery, reading, writing, laughing, wine, attempting to cook, napping, pretending I can speak French, and Target.

Dislikes: Olives and pickles, mean, jealous and/or plotting people, not having enough vacation time, putting my foot in my mouth, and did I mention mean people?

I'd like to meet:

Nice people who are familiar with the basic rules of grammar. And this squirrel:

Music:

Andrew Bird, Bjork, David Brubeck, Jeff Buckley, Buddha Bar, Cake, Coldplay, Franz Ferdinand, Ella Fitzgerald, Frou Frou, Billie Holliday, Portishead, Radiohead, The Shins, Regina Spektor, Sufjan Stevens, Justin Timberlake, Rocky Votolato, Wilco, Zero 7. Basically, I can handle anything in moderation (except country, blech).

Movies:

Amelie, Being John Malkovich, Best in Show, Closer, Fight Club, Finding Nemo, Garden State, Little Miss Sunshine, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, The Secretary, The Shawshank Redemption, Wallace and Gromit

Television:

What Not to Wear. Top Chef--but Hung is horrible.

Books:

I Capture the Castle, Lolita, The Book of Illusions, Middlesex, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, A Secret History, Atonement, The Great Gatsby. NOT Dan Brown. I HATE Dan Brown.

Heroes:

My aunt Connie and my friend Margaret.

My Blog

Things that make me mad.

If I have to write down a positive thought every day, I get a negative one, too.  So here's my place to write down one thing per day that is making me angry. November 29, 2007 The idiot...
Posted by Mary Edith on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:39:00 PST

Things for which I am grateful.

Since I've had a really hard time focusing on things for which I should be grateful lately, I thought it was a good idea to start writing down one positive thing daily to (hopefully) help me stop focu...
Posted by Mary Edith on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:32:00 PST