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Patricia

I smell circus midgets.

About Me

My bookshelves are overflowing because I keep buying books but don't have the time to read them immediately. I change my mind a lot. I love Burger King. Some might call it an unhealthy obsession. I call it a modern day miracle. Politics and government confound me. Sometimes, I like to run. I am almost a lush. Almost. (Denial is the first sign...) I love words. I look up underused words in the dictionary and try to use them in conversation. Ketchup is my favorite condiment. I will eat anything with ketchup. Lots of ketchup. Mmmmmmmmmmm.I dislike outdoorsy activities for the most part. Hence my reason for not liking Alaska.My favorite words: obviate and obfuscate. One word that is perfect to describe me: dilettante..r{}

My Interests

I love cross-sums, your mom, and my friends. I love to crochet. I love to read. Karaoke is a favorite activity, though we don't do it very often. I like to collect odd christian iconography. When I am more active, I thoroughly enjoy running. I tried to run a 10K in New Hampshire, but lost the other 1200 entrants. Oops. Dance parties are fun, either with other people or alone in my room. I also have other random, dorky interests, but will only discuss them if asked.

I'd like to meet:

Myself. How weird would that be?? Billie Joe Armstrong. People who DON'T work at Kaplan. The person who invented Peeps. People to sing karaoke with. W.S.Burroughs.

Music:

I am obsessed with Green Day, I love Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, Garbage, NOFX, Nine Inch Nails, Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, and anything cheesy and dancey. I love The Cure, Radiohead, Depeche Mode, Robbie Williams, and Moby. Really bad European pop music makes me happy. I am a little bit obsessed with Clear Static and other new wave sounding bands of the moment. Bjork. Marc Ribot. Everclear. Jay-Z. Beastie Boys. Better Than Ezra. Die Toten Hosen. The Sounds. Morningwood. Elastica. Kirsty Maccoll. I HATE: Indigo Girls, Ani Difranco, Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen

Movies:

Trainspotting, A Clockwork Orange, Pride and Prejudice (the A&E one), Tomb Raider, Best in Show, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Jawbreaker, Amelie, Boondock Saints, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Last Unicorn, Unico, Spirited Away, Zoolander, Dodgeball, Wedding Crashers, Royal Tenenbaums, Oceans 11, Office Space, anything that Woody Allen does, The Usual Suspects, MASH.

Television:

I LOVE Buffy the Vampire Slayer! The Family Guy, Absolutely Fabulous, Are You Being Served, Monty Python, Golden Girls, The L Word, Las Vegas, That 70's Show, Weeds, and music videos.

Books:

Pride and Prejudice, anything by Piers Anthony, Watership Down, Jane Eyre, RL Asprin books, travel books, pop culture studies books, regular culture studies books, The Monk, Junky (well, anything by William S. Burroughs), Harry Potter series, books by Amy Tan, Gossip Girl book series... I was an English major darnit! Don't ask me this question!

My Blog

Observations and Overhead at W&M

The 5 year Reunion was a glorious time for sorority and fraternity alumni to get together and drink like it was senior year all over again.  Luckily, Matt and I never stopped drinking so we ...
Posted by Patricia on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:27:00 PST

Conversations with My Mother (about Driving)

And so the circuitous repartee has begun with my mother.  I have had several conversations so far that have either left me frustrated or mortified.  I have them here for your pleasure: Mothe...
Posted by Patricia on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:02:00 PST

Dreams Do Come True

The birth day way lovely.  What I would like to know is who the hell is reading my blog.  I am getting some views here, but who is it?  I leave in 7 hours for the airport to go to VA, w...
Posted by Patricia on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:51:00 PST

I think....I like...my...job *gasp*

I think I actually like my job.  I've been complaining for weeks now, but all of a sudden I realized today- it's pretty sweet.  I like having to look at ratings numbers.  I like having ...
Posted by Patricia on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:36:00 PST

Food Nonsense

I think I have obsessions with strange foods.Let's begin with Burger King.  This has been my favored fast food since freshman year of college.  There is no rhyme or reason for it, other than...
Posted by Patricia on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 06:26:00 PST

I Hate Hemingway

Hemingway is the bane of my existence.  Why is it that whenever I take an American English Lit class, we have to read something by him?  So boring!!  I have to read The Old Man and...
Posted by Patricia on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:13:00 PST

US Open Finals!

Matt somehow miraculously got tickets to the Women's Doubles/Men's Singles Finals for the US Open today, and it was amazing!  Especially the men's singles, between Roddick and Federer.  Very...
Posted by Patricia on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:51:00 PST

I Fixed It

Everyone can breath a sigh of relief, I fixed my hair.  I know you were all worried.  It's now a light ash blonde, thanks freakin' god.  I do love how everyone kept saying it looked goo...
Posted by Patricia on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:02:00 PST

Hair and Hedonism

My hair is bright fucking yellow.  I grabbed the bleach, the super intense one, at the drug store.  Now moths are circling my head convinced I am a light bulb.  My life is so ...
Posted by Patricia on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:33:00 PST

Cache - Go See It

Matt and I just watched Cache, the french film directed by Michael Haneke.  It's amazingly brilliant!  The movie operates on many levels.  First, we have the regular story line.  T...
Posted by Patricia on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 08:38:00 PST