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keila

I feel at home whenever the unknown surrounds me

About Me

What to say? I'm an English nerd and a teacher's aide, and I like finding four leaf clovers to give to people. When I grow up I'm going to be a pediatric occupational therapist who specializes in autism and its spectrum disorders.

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My Interests

Shamelessly copied from my livejournal because I hate making lists... albert einstein, antiques, aromatherapy, art, asheville nc, astronomy, autism, books, brian greene, butterflies, calvin and hobbes, cello, celtic mythology, classical music, coffee, collages, color theory, compassion, contemplation, creativity, curiosity, da vinci, daffodils, dante, deja vu, edvard munch, expression, faeries, fall, family, flowers, gemology, georgia o'keefe, gothic architecture, gustav klimt, harp, harpsichord, heirlooms, imagination, india, intelligence, ireland, italy, jazz, kindness, knowledge, lazy sundays, literature, max, movies, naps, northern lights, pablo picasso, painting, passion, phantom of the opera, philosophy, photography, piano, piercings, poetry, prose, rain, reading, reflection, renaissance, salvador dali, sea glass, seashells, skeleton keys, snow, spirituality, st augustine, stem cell research, stephen hawking, surrealism, symphonies, synchronicity, tattoos, the elegant universe, the roaring 20's, thunderstorms, tim burton, transformation, twilight, vanilla dr pepper, vincent van gogh, violins, virginia lee, weeping willows, winter, writing

Music:

Tori Amos, Bjork, Portishead, Radiohead, PJ Harvey, Mazzy Star, Lamb, Nine Inch Nails, Everything But The Girl, Beck, Sublime, Dubtribe, Poe, Brad Hamers, Tricky, Massive Attack, 311, Sneaker Pimps, Garbage, Beastie Boys, Sarah McLachlan, Evanescence, Tripping Daisy, Pixies, Sia, Ben Harper, Montana Skies, LTJ Bukem, Weezer, Counting Crows, Dave Matthews Band, Bob Marley, Damian Marley, DJ Spooky, DJ Shadow, Alice in Chains, Eyedea and Abilities, Isaac Stern, Leila Josefowicz, Jurassic 5, Esthero, Manson, Sage Francis, Rage Against the Machine, Anti-Pop Consortium, Aphex Twin, Stone Temple Pilots, Jack Johnson, Squarepusher, Atmosphere, Iron and Wine, Getz/Gilberto, Tool, Clouddead, Filter, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, Keller Williams, Norah Jones, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Tchaikovsky

Movies:

The Wizard of Oz, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Waking Life, Amelie, Vanilla Sky, Doom Generation, The Salton Sea, Dancer in the Dark, A Beautiful Mind, The Last Unicorn, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Animal House, One Hour Photo, Almost Famous, SLC Punk, The Shining (the original), Ghost World, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, American Beauty, Robin Williams Live on Broadway, Bill Cosby Himself, The Virgin Suicides, Blow, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Saw 1 and 2, Legends of the Fall, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Brazil, The Crow (but only the first one), The Exorcist (again, only the first one), Rocky Horror Picture Show

Television:

It's rare that I watch TV... but somehow I found myself hopelessly addicted to Sex and the City. I also liked the version of Stephen Hawking's Universe that was made for TV.

Books:

Let's just stick with authors - the list will be marginally shorter that way... Stephen King, Anne Rice, Laurell K Hamilton, HP Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman, James Patterson, Jim Carroll, Wally Lamb, Pablo Neruda, ee cummings, Wislawa Szymborska, Rumi, Khalil Gibran, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Emily Dickinson, William Cullen Bryant, T.S. Eliot, E.A. Poe, William Faulkner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac, Brian Greene

Heroes:

My autistic cousin Brandon, who lives daily in a world that we're just beginning to understand... Gran, whose heart is big enough to shelter the whole world if need be... my good friend Eli, who is making leaps and bounds in the realm of recombinant genetics every day.... There are plenty more but that will suffice for now.

My Blog

Rainy day...

Emotionally, not actually. Today was one of those beautiful, crisp October days. I don't know why, but the sky seems bluer in October than any other time of the year. In any case, my ex-step-granddad ...
Posted by keila on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 02:45:00 PST

Rain dancing...

So, it's been threatening to rain here for like the past two weeks, and it seems that every time the weather delivers, I've been at work - and therefore, unable to play in it.Last night, that changed ...
Posted by keila on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:27:00 PST

Survey says...

1.Who are you?2. Are we friends?3. When and how did we meet?4. How have I affected you?5. What do you think of me?6. What's the fondest memory you have of me?7. How long do you think we will be friend...
Posted by keila on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 08:05:00 PST

May 16, 1915 - March 3, 2005

Home As my mind wanders to my childhood yearsI lose my tensions, doubts, and fearsI see my family poor but proudLoving each other and laughing aloudOnce again I run down that country laneWhere things ...
Posted by keila on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:18:00 PST

You know...

If I lived in Florida, I would really kiss a 17 year old today. There's a little guy in Weston, Florida, that decided to give each of his female classmates a rose for Valentine's Day. It cost him $900...
Posted by keila on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:59:00 PST

101+ questions that were fun to answer...

It's been forever since I filled out one of these huge surveys, lol. I saw this one on Aaron's myspace and couldn't resist :)(001) Your gender:female(002) Straight/gay/bi?:straight(004) Want to be?in ...
Posted by keila on Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:45:00 PST

Wow.

I have a word of advice for you, dear readers.If your dentist suggests that you need a root canal, research every other possible avenue of treatment! If it's a back tooth, get that sucker pulled. If i...
Posted by keila on Fri, 20 Jan 2006 07:37:00 PST

Merry Christmas Eve....

  I woke up this morning to a phone call from a dear friend that I haven't seen in two years. Eli came in from Baltimore for the holidays on Thursday and was at Sonic at 9:30... so I jumped out o...
Posted by keila on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 08:15:00 PST

Questionnaire

Reply with your name &...1. Ill respond with something random about you.2. Ill tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.3. Ill pick a flavor of jello to wrestle with you in.4. Ill say something ...
Posted by keila on Sun, 13 Nov 2005 11:33:00 PST