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irina

E-Stalking is the new black.

About Me

I was recently described by an old friend as an efficient use of space. That aside, I'm a sometime Russian emigre who has been drawing (often on walls) since she was old enough to hold a pen and questioning things (except retarded personal decisions) since she learned to speak. At one point I was convinced that I would be an actress or I would be no one. Then, after high school, I realized that there were other options. I'm still trying to decide among them.

These days I am living with my husband(!!!) Antares, in a beautiful suburb of Boston, painting when I have time, and wondering at the unexpectedness of this suddenly grounded and happy life. I just started graduate school and it is both thrilling and terrifying and I love it so far. I'm a student again--and a wife. This is not my beautiful house...

My Interests

Philosophy, painting, and anything that makes me feel intellectually and/or emotionally fulfilled. Also, spending time with friends in or out of drunken hazes, occasional dancing and anything involving costumes.

I'd like to meet:

Fellow philoso-nerds and people who have really cool art they're looking to sell/trade. I have pretty specific tastes, so be warned. Also, people who have known Antares for a long time (or from a long time ago) and can tell me embarassing stories that he may have blocked out. Photographic evidence accepted and greatly appreciated. And Michael Ian Black, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert. So that I can mutter incoherencies at them about how much they rock my in-between-school world.

Music:

Postal Service, Deathcab for Cutie, Dealership, Fiona Apple, The Cure, Sleater Kinney, The Mars Volta, and more. I'm not a music snob, so I won't bore anyone with further details.

Books:

Anything by Nobokov, except his really early stuff, which is somehow awkwardly disjointed and too Russian. I loved most of what I'd read by Tom Robbins and the two books by Rushdie that I was fortunate enough to come accross. There are many more, so I'll leave it with my top three.

My Blog

PHOTOS!!!

More wedding photos than you have time to look through HEREPhotos of the parties are here (browse at your own risk) HERE...
Posted by irina on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 09:49:00 PST

Opposites

So, MySpace decided that everyone wants to know about horoscopes. Because, as everyone knows, Antares and I are such devoted astrologers, we thought to look up our signs and see if they worked well to...
Posted by irina on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:29:00 PST

More pencils! More books!

...well, laptops.So, it's officially 57 minutes past the day which was and shall forever be my last day at my first Real World job (read: long(ish) term, [hella-wicked] well-paying, and not without it...
Posted by irina on Mon, 29 May 2006 12:58:00 PST

Too Long For Myspace (copied from my real blog)

I've already written about Antares's love letter cache and compared it to my own past, but that's not all. Not all by a long shot. It's more than just the love letters, it's the fact that he has been ...
Posted by irina on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:45:00 PST

guess What?

Antares and I are engaged! He proposed to me this afternoon at the Berkeley Rose garden and I, emphatically, said "yes." I'm more than thrilled, of course, till in shock that he suceeded in surp...
Posted by irina on Wed, 05 Oct 2005 01:29:00 PST

And Boy Are My Nerves Tired

My relationship with speeding through the air in a tin can has had three distinct stages: the aero- hipsophilia stage, the vit-enh stage, and, finally, the citivoluphobia stage. The first could be ...
Posted by irina on Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:40:00 PST

We're Proud Parents...

..of two sweet little ratties! They have yet to be (re)named, but they are the sweetest little girls that there ever were. That's right, our rats ...
Posted by irina on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Busted

Ugh. It seems that moments before the Republican Katamari was about to roll up the filibuster in a gluttonous push to set the stage for the upcoming Supreme Court nominations, moderates on both sid...
Posted by irina on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Take THIS! and THAT!

I'm sure that by now you have all heard of the new bill that is up in a number of states that will give pharmacists the right to refuse to fill a prescription that was given to you by your doctor. Tha...
Posted by irina on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Super Mario Bastards

My boyfriend dreams of making me a video game enthusiast. I have resisted and resisted, but a few days ago he took me to EB Games to get a game that a friend suggested may just be the gateway game for...
Posted by irina on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST