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Margie

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative ~Oscar Wilde

About Me

There is nothing really to say. Je pense donc je suis.

My Interests

new found interest is playing tennis on a Wii, also like real tennis, hiking, running, rollerblading from G-town to Bethesda, yoga, biking to Alexandria, reading books, listening to NPR podcasts, nibbling on dark chocolate, sipping coffee and an occasional pedicure

I'd like to meet:

Healthy, wholeseome types who enjoy a life full of whimsy. Bruno

Music:

Jill Scott, Nancy Ajram, Erika Badhu, John Legend, Dave Matthews Band, Sade, Faye Wong, Nora Jones, Mary J Blige, Counting Crows, Cold Play, Beyonce, Bob Dylan, Josh Stone, James Taylor, old school Billy Joel

Movies:

Farewell My Concubine, Cinema Paradiso, Saturday Night Fever, Scarface, Godfather II, One Fell Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Pulp Fiction, Fargo

Books:

Eat, Pray, Love; On Beauty (Zadie Smith), Trinity (Leon Uris), The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver), Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera), Wild Swans, Atonement, American Pastoral; To Kill a Mocking Bird (Harper Lee); for my debby downer side: "A Problem From Hell, America and Age of Genocide;" Philip Gourevitch's "We Wish to Inform you... Nickel and Dimed;

Heroes:

Samatha Power, Alice Chiang and my dear mum

My Blog

Promises

I  wrote this several years ago - sometime in 2002 when we were still contemplating the root causes of terrorism. Much has happened since then and we know a lot more... But since 9/11 w...
Posted by Margie on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:52:00 PST