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About Me

Sometimes I drive or ride with my eyes closed tight because if the skyline looks this way then I don't want to sleep tonight. Never giving up, always seeking light, we must always try, try with all our might.

My Interests

Music, Photography, Writing, Traveling, Giraffes, Shoes, Bags, Accessories, Owls, Socks, Movies, Rain, Puddle Pouncing, Riding in Shopping Carts, Cotton Candy, Roadtrips, Jackets, Gum, and Russia

I'd like to meet:

Hermann Hesse, Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Gabriel Orozco, any of the transcendentalists , the Bronte Sisters, Eugene Atget, Chris Johns

Music:

Imogen Heap, Frou Frou (I can't imagine why?!), Jose Gonzalez, Andrew Bird, Nelly Furtado, Regina Spektor, Love Runner, Sigur Ros, The Thrills, Jem, Miles Davis, South, Ryan Adams, Sufjan Stevens, Death Cab for Cutie, Rilo Kiley, Eva Cassidy, Alison Krauss, Norah Jones, Shout Out Louds, Wilco, matt pond PA, Counting Crows, The Perishers, Rachael Yamagata, Jeff Buckley, and far too many more for this list...

Movies:

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Garden State, Finding Neverland, Moulin Rouge, and Little Miss Sunshine

Television:

Gilmore Girls, Project Runway, One Tree Hill, The Office, and Grey's Anatomy

Books:

Siddhartha, On the Road, 1984, Walden, The Old Man and the Sea, and Sentimental Education

Heroes:

Roy Bug and Jessica Bug

My Blog

The Safety and the Insanity

With the upcoming departure looming on the horizon I have found myself pondering life a little more in-depth. All of the steps that I have taken to prepare for this are more defined and more rec...
Posted by Brittany Jo on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:12:00 PST

aLBaNia HeRe i CoMe

So I recently found out that I will be leaving in a little over 5 weeks and moving to Albania! It is definately somewhere that I would have never guessed before, but now I can't think of anywher...
Posted by Brittany Jo on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:31:00 PST

Seize the Day

A couple of you may know why I chose the title I did... So days come and go and you never get them back. It doesn't really seem fair sometimes but I'm not going to try to make you feel better ab...
Posted by Brittany Jo on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:05:00 PST

Fear

While talking to one of my friends I realized how much past experiences shape future choices. I know that sounds obvious, and I did realize before now that it was true; but I didn't re...
Posted by Brittany Jo on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 04:25:00 PST

A way to capture this moment forever

Oh empty my heart I've got to make room for this feeling so much bigger than me It couldn't be any more beautiful - I can't take it in. This is exactly how I feel right now! I love all of you w...
Posted by Brittany Jo on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:39:00 PST

Notebooks full of meaningless words

Where did it go? What "it" is or was...not really sure. The subject is indefinable simply because I was never able to see it. Have I lost a part of myself and was "it" so inextricabl...
Posted by Brittany Jo on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:27:00 PST

Fidelity

Suppose I never ever saw you. So here are a few questions to put out into the world... 1. If there is no face to go along with an emotion how do you identify it? 2. If you can't identify i...
Posted by Brittany Jo on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 10:01:00 PST

Don't Stop the Beat

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer." - Henry David Thoreau So I have been reading a few new books and while doing so I came across thi...
Posted by Brittany Jo on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:40:00 PST

The Dao

So this week I have been spending my time talking to some of my friends and listening to their "plans" for the next part of their lives, and doing this has raised a few questions in my mind....
Posted by Brittany Jo on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 03:50:00 PST