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Meta-Kate

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About Me

I am getting more and more granola by the minute. Not only am I vegan (relaxed, but nonetheless), but I am currently bike commuting and learned how to knit. But don't get me wrong, I also love to get dolled up and drink martinis at fancy-ish resturants. I love doing *stuff*. Pretty much anything, I'll go to moster trucks or the opera. I try to challenge myself to do new things. I like to meet people who like to do *stuff*, but I'm not above going to something by myself if I really want to go. I love to travel, as long as I can return to cuddle with my kitty at my homebase afterwords.
Your Five Factor Personality Profile
Extroversion:
You have medium extroversion.
You're not the life of the party, but you do show up for the party.
Sometimes you are full of energy and open to new social experiences.
But you also need to hibernate and enjoy your "down time."
Conscientiousness:
You have high conscientiousness.
Intelligent and reliable, you tend to succeed in life.
Most things in your life are organized and planned well.
But you borderline on being a total perfectionist.
Agreeableness:
You have medium agreeableness.
You're generally a friendly and trusting person.
But you also have a healthy dose of cynicism.
You get along well with others, as long as they play fair.
Neuroticism:
You have low neuroticism.
You are very emotionally stable and mentally together.
Only the greatest setbacks upset you, and you bounce back quickly.
Overall, you are typically calm and relaxed - making others feel secure.
Openness to experience:
Your openness to new experiences is medium.
You are generally broad minded when it come to new things.
But if something crosses a moral line, there's no way you'll approve of it.
You are suspicious of anything too wacky, though you do still consider creativity a virtue. The Five Factor Personality Test
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My Interests

Staying out too late on weekends, cuddling with my kitty, cooking dinner and watching movies with friends, dancing, a bottle of red wine, running.. ok, I don't like* running, but I do 5ks and those are pretty fun

I'd like to meet:

People with a passion for life, who do what they say they will do, people who aren't afraid of me. Anyone who can take me somewhere I've never been and tell me something I haven't heard before. People who push themselves. People who are encouraging and inspiring without even trying. Those who know when to be serious and when to do the damn thang.

Music:

Lady Sovereign, The Streets, MIA, Tori Amos, Atmosphere, Bjork, Marry Me Jane, The Coup, Christina Agulara, Traditional Methods, Belly, Luda, Tanya Donelly, Ani DiFranco, Ceasars, Lil' Kim, Luda, Snoop Dogg, Missy Elliot, Kid Dakota, Crystal Method. I've been known to have many lyrics of monster balads memorized.

Movies:

Natural Born Killers, Trainspotting, The Ladies Man, Chicago, The Lord of the Rings, Fight Club, Office Space, Bowling for Columbine, Alice in Wonderland, Zoolander, Dodgeball

Television:

Gray's Anatomy, House, Six Feet Under, Queer as Folk, America's Next Top Model and American Idol (I can't help it! They're like crack to me.)

Books:

Great Expectations, Are you There God? It's Me Margret, Go Ask Alice. I like either non-fiction social/political books a.k.a. Fast Food Nation or fiction African-American, modern, and international novels. (Go Tell it on the Mountain, Moby Dick, Vonnegut, Nervous Conditions, blah, blah, blah) I also like reading plays as novels on occasion.

Heroes:

I aspire to be the best me possible.

My Blog

Goings On

As some of you know my mom had surgery yesterday to remove her uterus, tubes, appendix, and lyphnodes because of a diagnosis of endometrial cancer. The surgery went well and despite her extensive worr...
Posted by Meta-Kate on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:51:00 PST

Broken Cell Phone

So it finally happened that I dropped my cell phone on the muddy concrete and now it is totally broken and I can't get people's numbers off of it. I got some from Lauren etc, but there were some peopl...
Posted by Meta-Kate on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 07:36:00 PST

Nick names

I have NO time to be wrting this, but I can't help it. Here are some of my favorite nick names my students have: Tall Oak Baby Shaq Two Feet D-Boy Box Also, Lauren and I just signed papers for a new p...
Posted by Meta-Kate on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:05:00 PST

My Race Rocked!

First of all, a big shout-out of love for Alex, Alena, and Lauren for coming to my finish line extravaganza and hanging out with my mom and her bf while I ran around doing stuff. I know some of y...
Posted by Meta-Kate on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:30:00 PST

My Race Rocked!

First of all, a big shout-out of love for Alex, Alena, and Lauren for coming to my finish line extravaganza and hanging out with my mom and her bf while I ran around doing stuff. I know some of y...
Posted by Meta-Kate on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:31:00 PST

My Race Rocked!

First of all, a big shout-out of love for Alex, Alena, and Lauren for coming to my finish line extravaganza and hanging out with my mom and her bf while I ran around doing stuff. I know some of y...
Posted by Meta-Kate on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:32:00 PST

AAAAAHHHH!!!

So because of the lovely bridge collapse the relay I'm running this coming weekend has changed some of its route and many of us have to run LONGER distances. We each run three legs. Orginally my final...
Posted by Meta-Kate on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:51:00 PST

Financial happiness!

I finally did it! Partly through moving debt around, partly through my extra income this summer, I have just paid off the rest of the debt on my credit crad with the highest balance!!!!!!! Yay!!!! Thi...
Posted by Meta-Kate on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:18:00 PST

Ode to the Dollar Store

Ok, it's not really an ode*, but still. The Dollar Store near my house is not the world's best, but I always have a mini adventure when I go there. Today, I decided the adventure would involve buying ...
Posted by Meta-Kate on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:18:00 PST

My venture into Wisconsin

It was my aunt and uncle's 40th wedding anniversary and I hadn't been to good old Wisconsin Rapids (home to about 18,000) since I was 13, so i thought, why not? Then I realized it was also PRIDE weeke...
Posted by Meta-Kate on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:44:00 PST