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Ellie

I am here for Networking

About Me

Born and raised in North Carolina. Daughter of the Revolution. Descendant of a ship boat captain, baker and peanut farmer. My family refers to the Civil War as the War of Northern Aggression, which is not something I'm proud of, but it gives you a good sense of where I'm rooted. The profusion of prejudice, patriarchy, and evangelical conservatism offends me. I've learned in true southern fashion to call you a dumb mother fucker in the sweetest, sugary drawl.Graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Go Heels!Got married and birthed two babies in Atlanta, Georgia. Turned thirty-two last fall, but people still mistake me for the babysitter.I'm a naturalist with an urban sensibility.I bake a mean pecan pie, take my Jack with or without Coke, grow the best damn tomatoes you'll ever taste and curse like a sailor. You can find me on the beaches of South Florida.

My Interests

FICTION, MUSIC, LIVE MUSIC, movies, running, art, philosophy, unexpected kindness and patience, science, metaphysical studies, feminist theory, anime, TRAVEL, salt air, NIGHT SKIES, great conversation, games, FRIENDSHIP, shared silences, LAUGHTER, random smiling strangers, synchronicities, skinny dipping, inner peace and happiness....

I'd like to meet:

characters, harmless crack-pots, unconventional thinkers...basically anyone who can stretch my mind.

Music:

PIXIES, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Flaming Lips, Dinosaur Jr., Strokes, Bad Plus, Eminem, Modest Mouse, BRIGHT EYES, David Sanchez, AIR, Thievery Corporation, Strokes, Silversun Pickups, Nick Drake, Wilco, TV on the Radio, Grateful Dead, Widespread Panic, Phish, Beastie Boys, Streets, Bob Marley, Vincente Amigo, Kings of Leon, Nirvana, REM, Sting, Ben Harper, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson...

Movies:

Flirting with Disaster, True Romance, Donnie Darko, Big Lebowski, Rear Window, Bourne Identity, Lord of the Rings, Wonder Boys, Spirited Away, Cool Hand Luke, Lost in Translation, Bull Durham, Wings of the Dove, Star Wars, Old School...

Television:

Gave it up.

Books:

Authors: Willa Cather, William Faulkner, TC Boyle, Ian McEwan, Vladimir Nabokov, Cheever, Dostoyevsky, AM Homes, Jhumpa Lahiri, Mary Gaitskill, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, David Foster Wallace, DH Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Mary Karr, JR Tolkien, Frank Herbert, Dorothy Parker, Robert Jordan, Nora Roberts, Sylvia Plath, Stephen King, ZZ Packer & so very many more...

Heroes:

Honestly...none.

My Blog

I ran 18 miles today!!!!!

It's a beautiful day in South Florida. I watched the sun rise over the intra coastal as I ran 18 miles. I can't believe how far I've come in three months of training. I must say, I'm feeling quite ple...
Posted by Ellie on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:55:00 PST

Saving lives one mile at a time!

I am training to run the San Francisco Nike Marathon (26.2 miles-yikes!) as a member of Team In Training, the endurance sports fundraising arm of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The Society's mi...
Posted by Ellie on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 05:12:00 PST

WISH LIFE

Excuse the rant& WISH LIFE She lives in a stateof pure possibility, a rotating confidentexpectation of prosperity.   All things are possible.All paths are open.She could be anyone....
Posted by Ellie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Out of the mouths of babes

Emma put pen to paper tonight and wrote a song. My Dark HeartInside me,Beneath myself,just I.Inside me there hidesa dark black devil.Why can't I get rid of you dark devil?Her form; her punctuation; he...
Posted by Ellie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Brother slain brother

Fourteen children on the run East to west over blackness dash Seething white traces wait to flash Play spotlights in the Valley sun   Arms wide, pressure flows by Laughter parts the white divide ...
Posted by Ellie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

To the unborn self...

To the unborn self,an ashen inmate,I mourn. A circled stairway,into the omnibus clouded mind,I climb. Green phantom,salted by citizen gazeand noxious laughter,I lay, slain. Elle ...
Posted by Ellie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Had I not killed her, she would have killed me.

She was intensely sympathetic.  She was immensely charming.  She was utterly unselfish.  She excelled in the difficult arts of family life.  She sacrificed herself daily.  If ...
Posted by Ellie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Sleep - that deplorable derailment to the joy of life. - Virginia Woolf

I have never understood naturally HAPPY people.  Yes, all of you who wake up after a normal night's rest, HAPPY, eager to start your day, are an ENIGMA to me.  I stay up all night,...
Posted by Ellie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST