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Krista

Teacher with a Blowtorch

About Me

I live the rockstar lifestyle, whirling from Manhattan to Brooklyn to Queens and all around the city, all so that others can bask in my radiant presence and thereby improve their scores on standardized tests. Or something like that. Dogs love me. My hamster, however, died quite suddenly.

My Interests

Here are a few: I love the platypus, bats, zoology/animals in general, reading, sewing, needlework, welding (arc, mig, and oxyacetalene torch- fire rocks my world), traveling, theme parks (Disneyland all the way! And The Edge at Great America!), teaching, tattoos, fashion design, horseback riding, bungee jumping and such, beautifully-crafted literature, some lame-ass fantasy novels, medieval manuscripts, religious kitsch, catholic church history, conspiracy theories (an interest not a belief- I'm not a complete nut-job), cooking, learning more about areas where I feel uninformed (like science, technology, more recent history, philosophy), taking stuff apart, putting stuff back together, power tools, and ever so much more.

I'd like to meet:

new friends interested in exciting adventures in the world of New York. Zoo trips! Thrifting! Dressing up funny and playing in public fountains! Having passionate debates about proper grammatical usage! Or even occasionally acting like the grown-up I'm supposed to be! (My grown-up profile is on that other site.)

Music:

Joy Division, The Buzzcocks, Depeche Mode, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, opera in general, Madonna, Violent Femmes, David Bowie, alternative rock radio

Movies:

My favorites tend to be either children's or spookypants: Sleeping Beauty, Unico, Army of Darkness, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Heathers, any James Bond with Sean Connery, Grosse Point Blank

Television:

Since my beloved has forced me back into the world of television, I have discovered a love for CSI: Las vegas and UFC fights. Well, love is a bit strong- we're more like acquaintances, really. I also like Numbers, which we get via Netflix.

Books:

Like with the movies, I tend to like children's literature or fancypants pretentious stuff, such as anything by Thomas Hardy, especially Jude the Obscure, The House of the Seven Gables, The NeverEnding Story, Song of the Lioness quartet, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, hell, anything by Dostoyevsky, The Monk, gothic novels like The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne or Vathek, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Chronicles of Prydain, The Little Princess, Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter, HP Lovecraft, Foucalt's Pendulum, The Last Temptation of Christ... the list could go on forever

Heroes:

What a lame ass question. I think my number one hero is Batman. He rocks my world. I want to either marry him or be him.

My Blog

Incommunicado

My apologies MySpacers- I haven't been keeping up with my email and I don't check this site as often as my others so I'm extra behind.  I tried to at least start going through friend requests and...
Posted by Krista on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:17:00 PST

Krista, reporting live from Thailand

Greetings, fair readers, one and all.  Because I am lazy and hate typing, some of you will get this message multiple times.  If you are receiving this in a personal email or letter, there wi...
Posted by Krista on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 07:49:00 PST

The location of my real blog

is www.livejournal.com Username: mightyplatypus If you're interested in following my Indian escapades, check it out.
Posted by Krista on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST