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Meri

Cheers to bright lines.

About Me

MyGen Profile GeneratorI have an abnormal obsession apparently with football, and maybe pumpkins too. After I finish school I am moving to Portland, OR.

My Interests

Trails with great trees, running on the trails with great trees, hiking any "hill" I can locate, kayaking, 5ks, rock climbing, volunteering, installation art, oil on canvas, all art really, old pianos, smoky red wine, very dark chocolate, vintage book stores, exploring/haunting small local eateries/coffee shops, pot lucks with friends, board games, air hockey!, fireworks, wellness, organic anything, snail mail, postcards, traveling abroad, most sports, roasting things, baking new things, the food network, UT! (this is right after the Longhorn Rosebowl win)

Sebastian my darling.

I'd like to meet:

Someone who can astonish Paris with an apple. NOT Paris Hilton. People who think you can smile and still be serious. People who play with sparklers. NCAA Football lovers. Pumpkin carvers. Bakers. Portland People. Those who "[p]ractice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty." - Anne Herbert

Music:

Rachmaninoff, Mozart, Liszt, Saint-Saens, Tchaikovsky, Michael Andrews, Michael Nyman, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Elvis Costello, Ozomatli, Ben Folds (old and new), Jason Mraz, Ice Cream Creatures, The Paper South, Radiohead, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Tool, Filter, Portishead, Massive Attack, Susan Tedeschi, Sheryl Crow, Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone, Ms. Fitzgerald - I really love it all.

Movies:

Goonies, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Somewhere in Time, Donnie Darko, Rushmore, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Shining, The Triplets of Belleville, Army of Darkness, Office Space - I need to watch more movies. It's a goal.

Television:

Grey's Anatomy.

Books:

Dylan Thomas, Hemmingway, Vonnegut, Kundera, Frost, Poe, Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, Oliver Wilde, Kafka, Baudelaire and so on. Both of Malcolm Gladwell's most recent, nonfiction on art/music when I have the time, difficult old writings by Dickens/Dostoevsky. The Bunny Suicides

Heroes:

Family and friends, a lot of Nobel prize winners :)

My Blog

Inside?

You're inside? On a day like this? If a picture says 1000 words, I've just written a 1000+ page essay on why you should go outside :).  Now if only appellate briefs were that easy. ...
Posted by Meri on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 02:53:00 PST

If you do not know

Read my sister's blog, referred to as "a great loss"....
Posted by Meri on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:48:00 PST

Avoided Writing Perfected by a Distracting Pet

Day in the Life of Sebastian Maybe people who hate cats come back in their next life as mice Some think cats are mischevious, cruel, and devious.  We also have other exceptional qualities, I...
Posted by Meri on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 01:29:00 PST

1st Thursday

Through simple detective work on a mission to find lamb chops, I unearthed a true gem of an international market - in mid-Missouri!  Walking thru the tiny aisles only one person can fit in at a t...
Posted by Meri on Fri, 03 Feb 2006 07:45:00 PST

A rose by any other name

We went downtown to see the aftermath of the game.  Crazy.  My favorite quote was "give it up for the Reggie Bush lateral".  I have video if anyone wants to see! :)...
Posted by Meri on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:51:00 PST

Ganador

Lauren wins.  I joined.
Posted by Meri on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 07:26:00 PST