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shelby

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About Me

Monkeys, especially mountain gorillas, mermaids and tequila. Dragonflies. I love gardening, but I don't have a garden, so I make do with house plants :) I also love breakfast foods. I pay too much money for private pilates classes and I'm a firm believer that the best way to clear one's head is to take a really really long walk... I fawn over my cat, Paris (official name: The Paris Kitten). She hates it. My fish all have names that I don't remember. I regularly have nightmares where my teeth crumble. I like to speak using super awesome rhymes (it's all good in the hood, what's shakin, kevin bacon?, too cool for school, chillin' like a villian). I am really scared of worms. They're evil. My mom is my ultimate role model, followed by every pop culture female action hero, think: Buffy.Someday I'm going to live in a little house by the sea...My favorite literary quote: "I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names or rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience. All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps." Michael Ondaatje

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My Interests

I really like monkeys...

I'd like to meet:

Dian Fossey and Frida Kahlo (if they were alive), Jane Goodall. Jane Austen.

Movies:

I like historical dramas, Spanish-language movies and Audrey Hepburn classics, especially Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Television:

LOST ~ totally addicted.

Books:

Pride and Prejudice. Cien sonetos de amor, En el tiempo de las marisposas, Memoirs of a Geisha, The God of Small Things, The English Patient, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Harry Potter, Chocolat, Of Love and Other Demons, Searching for Everado, most Latin American authors. Especially Nerudas anthology, The Yellow Heart. The House of the Spirits.