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miss natali

This time next year...

About Me


I'm Natali. I'm 24. I graduated from college back in May and am attempting to lead an adult life. I work at a residential treatment facility for adolescents with behavioral and emotional issues. I'm continually weirded out by the authority I have because I still feel like I'm 16 much of the time and because I have a legitimate adult job that allows me to sleep to noon without being late for work. I'm currently attempting (and failing) to write my application essay for social work school putting off social work school for another year. I have a Cairn Terrier puppy who kind of owns my life outside of work. I'm pretty introverted. I like baking, knitting, cross-stitch, embroidery, TV, sociology and cultural studies, and indie rock/punk/hardcore/insert-sub-genre-here music, but don't go to shows like I used to because of work.

Back in Kansas City for the first time in four years.

My Interests

sociology, cultural studies, all-night road trips, dance parties, my dogs, writing, weird dreams, cross-stitching, henry rollins, dancing like an idiot, james dean, patton oswalt, embroidery, public transportation, knitting, baking and cooking, thrifting, hanging out in libraries and cafes, writing letters, mail, harrassing the employees of hollywood at home, twenty-four hour anything, rub-on letters, oni and slave labor comic books, naps, marilyn monroe, good milkshakes, shit-talking with my sister, and making art in my journal.

I'd like to meet:


Companions for shows, dressing up, crafting, thrifting, dumpster diving, talking shit, talking academics, driving all along Interstate 70, and hanging out in diners until the wee hours.

I enjoy the act of baking more than the product, so anyone interested in free homemade bread, cookies, or cakes is more than welcome to come harrass me.

Music:

the movielife, boys night out, i am the avalanche, emanuel, the distillers, glassjaw, queen, the honorary title, you me and everyone we know, the blood brothers, pierce the veil, otis redding, the outline, liz phair, nina simone, anti-flag, rx bandits, senses fail, the spill canvas, dead prez, the beatles, lifetime, hole, darkest hour, city of catapillar, princess superstar, pansy division, monty are i, limbeck, talib kwali, RES, can't face the falling, the legion of doom...

Movies:

the dreamers, brick, beautiful thing, amelie, slc punk, dawn of the dead [both], shopgirl, twin falls idaho, lolita [1997], fight club, hairspray [both], 28 days later, harriet the spy, wild reeds, hedwig and the angry inch, election, ghost ship, serial mom, crybaby, the comedians of comedy, house on haunted hill, niagra, the 40 year-old virgin, eddie izzard: dressed to kill, saved!, reality bites, before sunrise, before sunset, knocked up, afro-punk...

Television:


Daria, Radio Free Roscoe, House, Freaks & Geeks, The Henry Rollins Show, Grounded For Life, Reaper, Pepper Ann, Angela Anaconda, Doug.

I watch a lot of TV, but I'm always cross-stitching or knitting when doing so because I can't sit still.

Books:

everything by francesca lia block, nicole hollander, jeffery euginides, ayun halliday, chuck palahniuk, erika lopez, SARK, leora tannenbaum, sabrina ward harrison, dan eldon, crimethinc. ex-workers collective, kevin canty, or donna gaines, all the hopeless savages and blue monday comics, the olivia and eloise books, promiscuties, the lovely bones, listen up:voices from the next feminist generation, eccentrics:a study in sanity and strangeness, the subculture reader, straight edge: clean-living youth, hardcore punk, and social change, american hardcore: a tribal history, girl, foxfire: confessions of an all-girl gang, the torn skirt, blonde, all the available light: the marilyn monroe reader, shopgirl, hairstyles of the damned, the boy detective fails, pretty little dirty.

Heroes:


my mom and my granma for being amazing role models.

henry rollins for doing everything and refusing to stop.

lauraine leblanc made me realize straightedge was a valid research subject and is a constant resource.

donna gaines is an amazing sociologist, her work made me realize i'm capable of a MSW and PhD

My Blog

the hills are alive with you private school girls

Being home has been weird. I'm used to picking up and moving to a town where I know no one and nothing, but I know this town, I just don't know anyone. I don't talk to anyone I was friends with in hig...
Posted by miss natali on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:42:00 PST

she grabs my hand, and leads me through streetlights

I got out of Antioch just in time. As of July 2008, Antioch College will cease to exist. It's shutting down for four years because of financial issues. I'm angry, sad, and a bit happy about the whole ...
Posted by miss natali on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:06:00 PST

Natalie, it turns out that you were just my sick little fantasy,

The entire time I've been back in Ohio I've been desperate to be somewhere else. I wanna go to NYC to visit Ruthie, I wanna go to Boston to visit Liam and Ali and Rachel, I wanna go to KC to bake cupc...
Posted by miss natali on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 04:09:00 PST

I will die on these streets of Baltimore...

So I spent Thanksgiving day giving dozens of forehead kisses to Angelica, making balloon animals, telling Sally she's spectactular ("Yes, I am spectactular."), tapping Jim to calm him down, and listen...
Posted by miss natali on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 06:56:00 PST

You don't impress me! ADMIT IT!!! You don't intimidate me! ADMIT IT!!!

I was going to escape Yellow Springs for the summer. I was going to work at the Field Museum in Chicago. But I've been walking out of classes because I'm in so much pain. I have an appointment with a ...
Posted by miss natali on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:05:00 PST

Sweetie, it's hard for me to stay mad at you...

I miss how during the summer my sister and I would head out to shows two and three hours away in our pajamas, stop at the gas station at the edge of town, deck ourselves out, and head to the show. I m...
Posted by miss natali on Mon, 28 Nov 2005 03:51:00 PST

Note to self, I miss you terribly, this is what we call a tragedy, come back to me...

The boy is back from Japan and he came with gifts, both material and non. I was grateful for both. I'm just glad to have him back. I'm on a medication that causes vivid dreams as a side effect, so I h...
Posted by miss natali on Sun, 14 Aug 2005 12:48:00 PST

when i wake up in my makeup, it's too early for that dress...

If anyone wants to send me mail love, search "damone" on postcardx.net. Better yet, sign up and maybe I'll send you something back.
Posted by miss natali on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

today i offer up myself to this! i'm living for my dying wish!

There are new things on my list. I want to learn to play the bass and take a dance class and cook more and play with paint in my notebook and have a latte. I want to sew a dress and knit legwarmers an...
Posted by miss natali on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Go east on Sunrise Highway, turn left at Carmen's Avenue

I'm a slut, I admit it wholeheartedly and embrace it. I've got a crush on a fourth year who just happens to be Boyfriend's friend. And you know what? Boyfriend encourages it. I love this boy. He's so ...
Posted by miss natali on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST