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Andrea

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About Me

I dig dorks and dorkiness. I am pale like milk and nothing is changing that. Glasses are hot and so is being a smarty-pants. Swiss Miss hot chocolate with milk is so superior to the water version. Things that I am loving: sneaking into the movies, pajama days, yummy beer, driving with crazy music, singing along, gourmet coffee, snugglin', taking it really old school, my peeps.
Not so much: scuba diving, being in the cold ocean, jerks, W sticker on the back of the car that cut me off, people writing long notes in the color yellow, cold toes, starbucks (addendum: I now have sold my soul and I drink starbucks. Crushing, isn't it?), cinnamon gum.
I'm in grad school so I am poor, and someday, I'm gonna be super-smart!
Which fucked-up genius composer are you?
Tom Waits... charismatic story-teller with a penchant for freaky people and unusual settings. You thrive on the concept of the underdog coming out on top.
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My Interests

Music of all kinds, Cooking and Baking, Coffee, The Weather Channel, rare diseases, flossing, Dorking-out, The Meyers-Briggs, Glasses, Feminism, Bitches and Hoes, the Movies, Driving.

I'd like to meet:

Geeks, Dorks, Nerds, Smart Kids, Funny Looking People
If you can smile when you're having a crappy time and never let a day go by without something terribly inappropriate coming out of your mouth, clap your hands.
If you like to go to parties or eat huge amounts of brunch food, clap your hands. If you don't really care about money, but you still have your shit together, clap your hands.
Also, if we meet and then become estranged because I am horrifyingly busy and mildly socially retarded, then I really am sorry that I am such a total bastard. Call me anyway. We'll eat cake together and all will be forgiven.

Music:

I love it all...except for that harpsichord shit. It's like having someone pour hydrochloric acid into my ears. The band List:
Chow Nasty
Calexico
The Reindeer Section
Regina Spektor Johnny Cash
Go Team!
Bent
Architecture in Helsinki
Ryan Adams
Willie Nelson
Talking Heads
Snoop Dogg
Ludacris
Waylon Jennings
Camera Obscura
Charles Aznavour
Postal Service
Ladytron
The Reverend Horton Heat
DeVotchka
Tom Petty
Neil Diamond
Amy Winehouse
The Pixies
fugazi
Hope Sandoval
The Kills
Tom Waits
The Decemberists
Nick Cave
Ukes of Hazzard
Leonard Cohen
The Hives
Ah-Ha
Goldfrapp
Slowdive
Kings of Convenience
My Morning Jacket
Cat Power
Bob Dylan
John Prine
The Roots
PJ Harvey
Patsy Cline
P Funk
Radiohead
Blonde Redhead
Arcade Fire
I could go on...but you get the idea

Movies:

The Day the Earth Stood Still, Wings of Desire, the Jacket, Donnie Darko, Royal Tenenbaums, Tapeheads, Salton Sea, Shaun of the Dead, Thin Man (and all of William Powell's oeuvre), An Affair to Remember, 28 Days & 28 Weeks, Brigadoon, End of the Affair, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, To Kill a Mockingbird, Waiting for Guffman, Zoolander, Dinner with Melvin, Waking Life, Secretary, Willy Wonka, Maltese Falcon, Bottlerocket, Harold and Maude, Love & a .45, Ghost Dog, Pretty in Pink, North by Northwest, Arsenic and Old Lace, 5 Senses, True Romance, The Professional, Magnolia, The Parent Trap (w/ Haley Mills), Pollyanna, Dig, Myth of Fingerprints, Garden State, Punch Drunk Love, The Cooler, Vampire Movies are ok Zombie movies are sometimes not. It just goes on and on...

Television:

Office, Big Bang, How I Met your Mother
I like to rent TV shows that aren't on the air and binge on them by watching entire seasons in two days. Shows I do that with are: Six Feet Under, Sex in the City, The L Word, Weeds,the Buffster, The Closer (thank you!)...

Books:

Have you read Candyfreak? well, maybe you should.
Also, bone up on Margaret Atwood, Michael Cunningham, & of course David Sedaris.
Right now, I mainly just read lame sounding textbooks that are actually sort of cool like, Articulation, and Language Disorder Treatment Practices...scintillating, eh? Joe Meno
Thomas Pynchon
e.e. cummings
Camus
Kierkegaard
Coupland
Browning
Zafon
I just like the books like the big big nerd that I am.

Heroes:

Mom & Dad, Alex, Evan, Melissa.

My Blog

thief

Yes, I'm sorry that the river was a thief.  But the cool air is here now and it cannot be denied that everything is moving forward as predicted.   Nothing will change what happened and...
Posted by Andrea on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:05:00 PST

autumn again

The sky looked like bruised orange sherbet last night so it must be fall now.  The storm that brings autumn is almost always like that and it rains torrentially for a few hours&one last big rain ...
Posted by Andrea on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:01:00 PST

Esspressly yours

SO I am BACK in school...again.  I know, I know.  Eventually I WILL finish.  The thing is this.  Since I finished my undergrad many years ago (how is that possible?) I have become ...
Posted by Andrea on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 09:09:00 PST

My admission of Defeat

Yes, I heard you all not say it...the unvoiced I-told-you-so's made a resounding bong in my brain as I signed the new lease.  You were right.  Character, cute built-ins, massive square ...
Posted by Andrea on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 06:58:00 PST

Beer and Saline. What more could you want?

Well, its official.  I have been back in Texas for a year.  Even though I was born and reared here in the Lone Star state, I sometimes forget about the strangeness of my state because I was ...
Posted by Andrea on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:35:00 PST

Reviewed with alarming presence

Ah, performance review.  hallmarking corporate america and my day. Mostly, an hour and one half to bill to 'corporate tasks' and a circumspect gossip session with the big boss.  Notes were m...
Posted by Andrea on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:57:00 PST

My Amazing (-ly scary) apartment.

I just moved.  I moved into a gorgeous new old apartment in lower greenville.  Built in 1927, it has a ton of charm and beautiful hardwood floors, built-ins & other great things like tha...
Posted by Andrea on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:25:00 PST

Tagged?!

Christina "tagged me". So here goes...Ground Rules: The first player of this "game" starts with the topic "5 weird habits of yours" and people who get tagged need to write an blog about their 5 q...
Posted by Andrea on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:08:00 PST

March comes in like a lion...and pretty much stays that way.

It is almost March.  Last week, I didn't realize that.  Then, I was freaking out.  I Was upset because of the job I do and where I live and that my car is a little crappy and that my ma...
Posted by Andrea on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:53:00 PST

Denny's of Life & Death

So yesterday, a new Austin came into the world.  Aside form that whole giving new life thing, it's not spectacular to add to the hugeness of our family, but for some reason, we all still trickle ...
Posted by Andrea on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 01:14:00 PST