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Eva

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Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
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My Interests

I spend time at our TNR clinics, where three or four volunteers spend the day helping the vet sterilize feral cats.I love going thrift-store shopping, especially with my kids and/or my sister. We find incredible bargains.I also enjoy writing, and won 2nd place in the college literary review magazine for my fiction. Writing, and reading, can open up ways of looking at yourself, others, and the world as it relates to you that you may never have seen otherwise.

Music:

I mostly lean toward rock, alternative, and metal. I'm really into Disturbed, Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace, and Rob Zombie at the moment, just to name a few. However, I have a serious Kenny G obsession, and like lots of classical and acapella music. Country music is a newfound interest. The Wreckers, Billy Currington, Little Big Town, Rascal Flatts, and Dierks Bentley are awesome.

Movies:

Breakfast Club would be way up there in my list of favorites. Who in the world could not love Judd Nelson in that? YUMMY. Walk the Line was a recent good flick mostly because of Joaquin -- who is hot plus he can act, Kramer vs. Kramer an oldie but goodie, Finding Nemo, Tadpole, The Graduate, 40 Year Old Virgin. Chicago was everything I could want in a movie. Humor, music, superb choreography and dance, Richard Gere...

Television:

I like the Food Network. Have been known to watch Oprah. Upset with the recent NBC cancellation of Four Kings. My Name is Earl is pretty cool as well as The Office. Love the Simpsons, Family Guy, and the Oblongs -- which comes on so late I hardly ever catch it. Bob and Margaret was an awesome show, as was Mr. Bean. Thin Blue Line is hilarious when I can find it; a real treat. Guilty pleasures: some of the Lifetime shows.

Books:

There's not enough room here to list them all. So I'll just put down a few. Anything by T.C. Boyle. His short stories are masterpieces of literature. I dare anyone to find a funnier story than "Carnal Knowledge." Stuff by Lorrie Moore, Rick Bragg, Frank McCourt, David Sedaris. The Dollmaker, Change Me into Zeus's Daughter, The Man in Black, Follow the River. I've also been known to read romance novels -- LaVyrle Spencer reigns supreme in this genre.

Heroes:

I think this is an overused and overrated concept. Most people just do what they can to get by and get through life. Who is more the "hero" -- a firefighter that saves a child from a burning building (which is, technically, his job) or a guy that gets up every morning for 45 years and goes to work at a dead-end sucky job to provide for his family? That's his job, too, but he never gets recognized for it. Doesn't make him less important. I'm frankly sick of the celebrity/hero craze in our culture. The minute we start comparing ourselves to others we find ourselves lacking and that's a shame.

My Blog

Hump Day Poetry and random paragraphs of words strung together

I feel like my life is one big string of stuff I don’t want to do lately. Go to school where I don’t want to be, go to work where I wish I didn’t have to go, go home and decide whet...
Posted by Eva on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:32:00 PST

A few good men...

I got to thinking last night about dating... not that I wish I was still doing it, because I don't -- but I was just thinking about the past.  And I think having been very vocal about some of the...
Posted by Eva on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:51:00 PST

Contentment looks like this...

It's Friday!!!! I'm so glad just because of that one fact -- so totally ready for the weekend to begin.  Between work and school and everything else, it's been crazy lately.  I feel like I'...
Posted by Eva on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:06:00 PST

Nana Goes To School

Well, in less than a week I'll be back at college full time.  Plus doing an online class so that I'll have everything I need to apply to the nursing program on March 1st.  That means 17 cred...
Posted by Eva on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:48:00 PST

Stress level reaching maximum capacity...

What a week.  A staff member at work was caught stealing -- all told, he's taken hundreds of dollars worth of cash, gift certificates, etc. from various co-workers -- and that's just what we know...
Posted by Eva on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:36:00 PST

Randomosity

Well, after much introspective reflection, I've decided not to go to my Christmas work party.  It's supposed to be from 5-7, but as anyone who's ever had guests over already knows, the cleanup af...
Posted by Eva on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:30:00 PST

Hey, Good Lookin’ . . .

I've been thinking lately about people's appearance.  Scott walked by the computer last night and said, "You should put those pretty flowers back up as your screen saver.  I don't want to&nb...
Posted by Eva on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:27:00 PST

Baby Steps

Last night my granddaughter took her first steps -- right to me.  This is for her.   Walking Those first steps are always so trembly and unsure But, like with everything else, the more you ...
Posted by Eva on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:42:00 PST

6 months

Scott and I have been together for six months.  Truly one of the best half-year periods in my whole life.  I don't know what karmic shift I was involved in to make him be part of my world, b...
Posted by Eva on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:59:00 PST

How to cope when your boyfriend is out of town

Take long baths. Realize you don't have to shave because there's nobody to impress.  For a minute, you  think about how lovely it is to have smooth legs and nice, crisp, freshly laundered sh...
Posted by Eva on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:29:00 PST