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About Me

Seattle native currently in NYC, opera singer... enough said really. Highlights include: the stillness of sunrise, the wind on my face, my Kaycee, Bel canto, gerber daisies, anything green, hope, rowboats, a good view from a high place, shoes, the beach, Lily, hiking, sunshine, candles, my tatoo, music, laughing, running in the rain, jumping in mud puddles, fried chicken with biscuits and mashed potatos and gravy, peach pie, England, Italy, and Vienna-Austria, tennis, hard back books, parks, pretty pictures, libraries, butterflies in my tummy... driving really fast on a long straight road with the sun-roof open and the music as loud as it goes.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Friends, Networking

Music:

Strauss, Milhaud, Rossini, anything with coloratura really... Puccini tenor rep, Marcelo Alvarez, James Blunt, Guster, Jason Mraz, Daniel Powter, Hans Zimmer, Cademan's Call, Jenn Knapp, Lauridson.

Movies:

Gladiator, Thomas Crown Affair, Pride and Prejudice, Bourne Identity, Oceans Eleven, Sahara, Italian Job, Pirates of the Caribbean, Wimbeldon, Dirty Dancing, Under the Tuscan Sun, Mary Poppins, Finding Nemo, Sound of Music.

Television:

Grey's Anatomy, CSI Miami, Project Runway

Books:

Chronicles of Narnia, all the Harry Potters esp. ..5, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Jane Eyre, Da Vinci Code, anything Jane Austen, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, anything Robert Ludlum, Shakespeare, anything John Grisham, Clancy, Mary Renault on Alexander the Great, The Other Boelyn Girl, Prodigal Summer, I Don't know How She Does It, the Bible.

Heroes:

Queen Elizabeth, Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Bennett, Beverely Sills, my mom.

My Blog

Greatest City in the World or Third World Country?

I ask you? New York... Greatest city in the World or Third World Country? Not a difficult question you say? Actually, it is. My friends on the East Side joke about how the city...
Posted by Jessica on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:40:00 PST

Thanksgiving dinner $199

It strikes me as an extremely odd predicament for a person to lack all kitchen skills what-so-ever and therefore be in need of "purchasing" a pre-cooked meal. Said meal i...
Posted by Jessica on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:39:00 PST

Love and other life threatening things...

I have a theory... men are afraid of women. sorry boys, but in my experience this proves to be very much the truth. There is a quote from some movie, "alcohol is socially acceptable because ...
Posted by Jessica on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:06:00 PST

Expectation.....

Expectation is a funny thing really. We all have it, few of us want it, and all of us have been blindsided by it at one point or another. Expectation is attached to almost e...
Posted by Jessica on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:45:00 PST

dogs and babies...

It is a statement of fact that dogs and babies can stop anything dead in its tracks. On the street, people walk by with said "dog or baby" (sometimes both) and us "other people" stop m...
Posted by Jessica on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:28:00 PST

Doing the Rain Dance

When I first arrived to NYC "fresh off the boat" from Seattle, I was amused by the "New York Way" of cooping with the rain. Being brought up in the wettest environment the U.S. has to offer...
Posted by Jessica on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 08:48:00 PST

Gray's Anatomy vs. CNN

I realize that "Gray's Anatomy" is not CNN and the saga of Meridith and McDreamy does not match catastrophe states such as Katrina and the immigration reform... but ...
Posted by Jessica on Tue, 16 May 2006 08:42:00 PST

Easter Hats

Easter hats worn by adults is a totally new concept for me. Here's the deal...back on the west coast the only people to wear Easter hats (and I mean the hats with the flowers and the ribbons, frillies...
Posted by Jessica on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:45:00 PST

"Life's tough, get a helmet"

I can't claim the quote, it was in a recent celebrity trash magazine and coined by Miss Jennifer Aniston. Just a brief question without a definitive answer.... Why does the saying go&n...
Posted by Jessica on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:15:00 PST

Wings

I saw a bird walking up stairs today at Lincoln Center... walking... not hopping, flying or otherwise... just walking. He was actually making pretty good time...but I think he was going for distance ...
Posted by Jessica on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 02:45:00 PST