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Amy

I am here for Friends

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Barack Obama. Anne Lamott. status quo shakers, if you will.

My Blog

I got my feet on the ground and I don’t go to sleep to dream

I live in Des Moines now, which has been great for seeing presidential candidates and getting solicitations by phone and mail every effin day. But really! It's great. I volunteered for the Obama campa...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:16:00 GMT

f yer I

I'm moving to Des Moines in two weeks.  I will be sad to leave Minneapolis, but very very very happy to be in the same area code as the love of my life.  I'm looking for jobs, I'm writing a...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:34:00 GMT

pomegranate champagne

Reading: Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger The Wounded Healer, Henri Nouwen Writing Life, Annie Dillard Also: watched Boys Don't Cry last night.  That is the saddest ever.  Walking a lot sinc...
Posted by on Sun, 20 May 2007 10:44:00 GMT

bayla the duck

so someone set the record for number of times I've been called a mother-effing bitch in one day: it's 7 now.  this job has got to go sometime soon.  I daydream about having a job at a bookst...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:34:00 GMT

so something really cool is happening...

Ok.  Some exciting news is that one of my poems was selected to be a part of the Iowa Writes Project, which means it's published online in an archive by the Iowa Review and it'll be on the U of I...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 13:32:00 GMT

this is all

So I live in Minneapolis now.  Fortunately, my lack of Internet has sharply curbed my reliance upon it.  Or at least the time spent on it. I have a job I like and a place to live and I am ha...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:06:00 GMT

dancing to future leaders of america... technically legal

heya suckas.  myspace has become a web of people who might not acknowledge each other in real life but compliment one another's features as if they were lovers.  so I'm moving to Minneapoli...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 23:20:00 GMT

BAMF!

ahh.  Only a few short hours ago, I was reading blogs (of strangers!  I don't know these people!  I just wanted something to do other than all the important things.) Now I am writing o...
Posted by on Wed, 10 May 2006 12:40:00 GMT

won't you give a man a home

this was a really worthless, complaining blog.  Then I realized that it's Christmas.  I have a lot to be thankful for: (in no particular order) a sister. chips and salsa. sigur ros tickets. ...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Dec 2005 22:10:00 GMT

it's cold and I'm putting off leaving my room

Okay.  Having finished five papers for yesterday and one for today, I'm starting to feel like less of a toolbox for being so anti-social.  I started to edit the above paragraph to...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:26:00 GMT