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Maura

For the first time in my life I was truly free. But freedom has its price, which I soon found out wa

About Me

I enjoy hamburgers with lots of ketchup. I watch reruns of Friends. I don't always say goodbye when I should. I listen to song lyrics. Genetically modified food scares me, but I know that I still eat it. In the book High Fidelity the main character begins to realize that sometimes it's not what you like it's what you are like that really matters. Sometimes I listen to country music. Some of my friends read Ann Coulter. I'm coming to terms with that.Read my VisualDNA ™ Get your own VisualDNA™I got my look at
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My Interests

Reading, wandering, going to concerts, listening to either good or fun music, writing (when I have the time and ideas), people watching, coffeeshops, tea

I'd like to meet:

Readers, writers, 'rithmatic-ers.... thinkers or just nice people. A whole long list of people I know of but have never met.

Music:

Tom Waits, Bottlerockets, Crooked Fingers, Ike Reilly Assassination, Joe Nichols, James, Mary Chapin Carpenter, the Potato song, the Trolley song, the Oprah Jeans song, Old 97s, Paul Westerberg (he's got awesome lyrics), Chicago, etc...

Movies:

The Breakfast Club, Almost Famous, High Fidelity, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, 16 Candles, Dirty Dancing, Thank You For Smoking, Short Circuit, Danny Deckchair

Television:

I have a bad habit of turning on reruns, but try not to watch too much television. Occassionally I watch The Office, My Name is Earl and Scrubs on Thursdays. I do have the complete first season of Different Strokes and ALF on DVD though.

Books:

Welcome to Higby, Curious Incident of a Dog in the Nightime, Shopgirl, Naked, Midnight Disease, An Anthropologist on Mars, World According to Garp, Newjack, anything Sherman Alexie... I'm not real good with favorites I just know I like it when I'm reading it

Heroes:

Mr. Kimball, Larry Walters and Kent Couch or anyone who will tie a bunch of balloons to a lawnchair and see how far it goes
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My Blog

Ironic?

I was reading an article about quotations and misquotations in The New Yorker and found this awesome quote..."Then, there is a subset of quotations that are personal. We pick them up off the public s...
Posted by Maura on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 05:09:00 PST

Mixed Tape

Here'e a mixed tape I hope you never get from anyone. Its snowing again so I made a mix of the best "screw you" songs that I own...1. Fairweathered FriendAll2. AppleAtmosphere 3. Hooray for MeBad ...
Posted by Maura on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:40:00 PST

Why I relate to Shopgirl...

I have a list a mile long of books I want to read but for some reason I decided to reread Shopgirl.Here are two reasons why I relate to the main character"she pulls on the restaurant door but it won't...
Posted by Maura on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 04:54:00 PST

You know you're a librarian when..

You know you're on the way to becoming a librarian when you look over to someone's books and think... Oh, he got that through ILL (Interlibrary Loan)
Posted by Maura on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:24:00 PST

Are we doing this now?

Stanis?aw Ignacy Witkiewicz 1885-1939He kept a formal list of his friends in order of importance. His best friend would be in the first position and so on. In the event that a "friend" somehow irritat...
Posted by Maura on Mon, 29 May 2006 10:42:00 PST

Quotes

"People come, people go, sometimes without goodbye, sometimes without hello" M Ward "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less" "I try to write for highest commo...
Posted by Maura on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 10:22:00 PST

Wrapping Paper for Christmas

Today I got wrapping paper as a Christmas gift. Apparently I should not wrap presents for certain co-workers in newspapers. I'm not so poor that I can't afford wrapping paper I just didn't want to w...
Posted by Maura on Sat, 24 Dec 2005 06:51:00 PST