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athena

I am here for Friends

About Me

I love my friends like family. I would love to be able to live for the moment on a regular basis. I am not as much of a bitch as I let on. If tattoos were free, I'd be covered in them. I can't wait until I lose all this f-in baby weight. I'd like to wear flats, but I end up looking sqat. I'd like to spend more time with my friends - every single one of them. I want to be a singer in a band. I would love to publish a book. I wish I could do more things better, but am happy that I can do a lot of things pretty well. I wish I knew how to quilt. I like saying "amazingly mediocre" but I don't like to settle for it. I like it when the Twins win. I like it better when they win against the Yankees or White Sox. I like that my husband is fanatically into baseball.

My Interests

An enemy is friend waiting to happen.

I'd like to meet:

The Dali Lama. And an actual Llama.

Music:

Currently I'm groovin to They Might Be Giants "Here Come the 1, 2, 3's," the Essex Green, the New Pornographers, Frank Sinatra, Arcade Fire, Regina Spektor, Rilo Kiley, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, some old school Bjork, Save Ferris, Patsy Cline, Snow Patrol, the Hold Steady, the Killers (new and old), some mix cd's from the C.H.U.D., Coldplay, and anything that sounds awesome.

Movies:

What Transformers lacked in storyline and quality acting it made up for in cool. Superbad killed me. Knocked up is hilarious. 16 Candles is one of my all-time favorite movies. Weird Science is a suprising piece of 80s film goodness. Big Trouble in Little China has been known to keep me warm on cold winter nights. And we mustn't forget the true American Classic that is The Big Lebowski. Oh and Predator sucks.

Television:

47 inches of pure HD glory.

Books:

Currently - nothing. I'm spending most of my free time knitting and crocheting for the masses. Favorites...."Prozac Nation" by Elizabeth Wurtzel. "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. "Animal Farm" by George Orwell. "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden. "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card. "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath. The Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich. "Blue Smoke" by Nora Roberts. And anything by Jonathan Lethem or David Sedaris.

Heroes:

Women who give birth without the aid of an Epidural. The displaced men and women of Darfur. Peter Petrelli. the Dali Lama.

My Blog

Christmas in Darfur

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said that "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." I guess that makes the Darfur region of Sudan one of the greatest threats to justice of the modern a...
Posted by athena on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:38:00 PST

The Great God Debate

I stumbled across this paper that I wrote a couple years back for a Philosophy of Religion course I was taking. It still holds true, so I thought I would share. Enjoy.This I Believe My mother, a wom...
Posted by athena on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:08:00 PST

inDecision 2008

I may be on a rant here but....   I was listening to the debate last night, and each candidate kept saying "When I'm President I will..." and I finally got fed up.  How many of them are curr...
Posted by athena on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:08:00 PST

The American Dream

Slow Down.  So many people rush through each day trying to get as much done in as little time as possible and forget to just sit back, relax, and enjoy.  THIS IS THE AMERICAN DREAM.&nbs...
Posted by athena on Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:00:00 PST