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April

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My Interests

Geeking out in front of the computer (Hi I'm April and I'm a Civilization junkie...), music (live & otherwise), a good bottle of vino, and TKD (got my 1st degree black belt in 08/06) KIYAP! I'm also a language geek and like to pick up a new one when I can (currently tackling Korean).

I'd like to meet:

Well, seeing as I already met Elvis...

Music:

Overall? Rawk-n-roll, baby. Um, and some indie too, yeah. I can "sing" along to everything from '60s/'70s R'N'R to '80s hair bands to 90's grunge to whatever you call today's stuff (genres are so meaningless anymore...). Faves include the Decemberists, the Raconteurs (Patrick Keeler is my latest drummer hero), Elliott Smith, the Features, Office & OK Go (yay Chicago bands!), Spoon, the New Pornographers, Sleater-Kinney, the Stripes...

Movies:

LA Confidential, Monty Python & the Holy Grail, the Usual Suspects, Indiana Jones, V for Vendetta, original Star Wars flicks, Lord O' The Rings triology (..1 is my fave), all things Hitchcock (esp Rear Window--Grace Kelly at her most fab-u-lous), pretty much anything but that rom-com dreck.

Television:

X-Files, Simpsons, Twilight Zone, Deadwood, Rome, and anything and everything on BBC America (brilliant!). BTW, HBO are a bunch of "c***suckers" for cancelling Deadwood.

Books:

Alice in Wonderland, A Confederacy of Dunces, the HP books (yeah, that's right!), and anything by James Ellroy (esp LA Confidential and American Tabloid) or Lindsey Davis. I just read The Club Dumas and it was genius.

Heroes:

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My Blog

Oops, long time no blog--2006 in 60 seconds or less

First of all, I figured a change in profile picture was ~1 year overdue, so voila, have at it, kiddies. Secondly, I nearly forgot that the world would likely end without *one more useless year in revi...
Posted by April on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 06:18:00 PST

KIYAAAAAAAP! (tales of a TKD hazing ritual)

So I got my black belt yesterday....and after these past two weekends all I can say is, I am in NO HURRY to get to my second degree anytime soon.My school is kind of lax in that it really really reall...
Posted by April on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:53:00 PST

Obligatory end-of-year lists

Since everyone and their brother insists on releasing their lists of The Best-blah-dee-blah Of 2005, I figure I CAN TOO. So let's see:Best albums (in order of Overplay On My iPod): 1. Sleater-Kinney -...
Posted by April on Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:26:00 PST

*&^%$. banner ad

So I am sitting here trying to come up with a witty title for this entry, and there is this hideous banner ad at the top of this edit page BLINKING  BLINKING BLINKING at me with these awful, gari...
Posted by April on Wed, 21 Dec 2005 06:05:00 PST

Next year ***I*** am wearing the tux...

So Jeff's company shindig is tonight, which means he gets to don his tux and I don some slinky, purty evening-gown-dress-thing and heels and freeze to death as we walk to the party. Add to that the fa...
Posted by April on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:51:00 PST

Say kimchi....!

So tonight was Picture Day at TKD (Mary, you totally missed it! Better go tomorrow, I think Master Koo still has the photographer bug...) They erected the gargantuan tiger banner for our club, and we ...
Posted by April on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:24:00 PST

Ta rah rah boom de-ay....

...it's my last DAY today! Hurray! Buh-bye, State of Illinois! Adios, nasty second floor public bathroom that always reeked of things dead & dying! Au revoir, Mr Every Call on Speakerphone Man...
Posted by April on Fri, 02 Dec 2005 08:50:00 PST

I hate Springfield.

Boy, I am just full of holiday cheer, this week, aren't I? I can't believe I have to go to frigging Springfield on my second to last day of work at the frigging State. I can't believe I have to travel...
Posted by April on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 01:15:00 PST

The obligatory second blog

That first entry looked so forlorn/lonely that I had to give it a buddy. Anyway, I am currently gorging on roasted almonds that I got from the Christkindlmarket here in Daley Plaza. MMMMM. I had some ...
Posted by April on Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:29:00 PST

It's blog, it's blog, everyone loves a blog...

Blog blog blog. What on earth am I going to say on this thing every day? The pressure! I wasn't updating my other site very reliably either. Hmm. I suppose I may as well wait until I find all my "frie...
Posted by April on Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:51:00 PST