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Lainie

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MySpace Generators Click Here for Free MySpace Layouts I'm a grad student studying literature in the jungles of the Midwest. I love all forms of literature and in most mediums. You may make fun, but I have a soft spot for children/young adult fiction and believe that there is actually a lot of merit in what these kids (and I) read. If I ever decided to go on to a PhD program, I would choose children's lit as my focus. I want to be an editor or work somewhere in publishing literature, ie books, poetry, plays, literary journals, etc. I get just a bit mad when people assume that I mean magazines or newspapers, or that I want to teach. Never ask me that. I'm also very interested in posthumous editing and publishing.I work at a homeless shelter which, surprisingly, has stripped me of most of my naive idealism; but the upside is I always have great stories! I teach Introductory Composition at the University. Sure I get paid, but I'm really just in it to make Freshmen cry. Maybe also pee a little. I'm still working on that. Also, if you haven't noticed, I have a penchant for hyperbole, and I have an off-beat and sometimes morbid sense of humor. I'm a book nut, and can talk forever about things I've read. I have no life, so I live vicariously through characters in books. More than likely my conversations will consist primarily of lines from movies, tv, or stand-up shows because I am a dork and most of what I know is slowly being replaced by what I watch.
You Are 70% Evil
You are very evil. And you're too evil to care.
Those who love you probably also fear you. A lot. How Evil Are You?See, I told you guys... Lainie --
[noun]:
A person who falls into an outhouse and dies
'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.comThat sums up life quite nicely...and here's some spam underneath
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My Interests

Books, Music, Movies, Theatre, Musicals, Shopping for shoes I don't need and probably will only use for one outfit, puzzles, volunteering, making lists, collecting obscure reference books, road trips and photos, good jokes, good friends, a good White Russian (the drink)

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Movies:

I absolutely love JAWS Lord of the Rings movies, Indiana Jones movies, Silence of the Lambs, Terminator 2, Princess Bride, Monty Python, Ghost Busters, Goonies, My Cousin Vinny, Better Off Dead, Labyrinth, Clue, Last Unicorn (shut it Savage), Super Troopers, Nightmare Before Christmas,South Park, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Adventures in Babysitting, American Beauty,Airplane!, Se7en, Can't Buy Me Love, Fight Club, The Replacements, 8 Women, A Christmas Story, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Harry Potter movies,Pirates of the Caribbean,House of Flying Daggers, Liberty Heights,Groundhog Day, Coming to America,Identity, Beaches (shut up, I'm a girl), Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness, Trading Places, Shaun of the Dead, Breakfast Club, This is Spinal Tap, Much Ado About Nothing, Westside Story, Mary Poppins, The Muppet Movie, The Apartment, Bone Collector, Drop Dead Gorgeous,Love Actually, Blazing Saddles, Batman, IT, so many more.

Television:

Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, Law & Order CI, South Park, Family Guy, Futurama, Scrubs, Weeds, Sex and the City (shut up, I'm a girl who enjoys shoes and a twinge of romance), Forensic Files, Most Haunted, Psychic Detectives, Body of Evidence, Trace Evidence with Henry Lee, Animaniacs, Full Metal Alchemist (subtitled), Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Books:

Dear God, this'll take me a very long while...I'll name a few: The Oz series, Harry Potter series, Indian in the Cupboard, The Last Unicorn, The Devil's Dictionary, The Secret Garden, Napalm and Silly Putty, Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Gormenghast, Titus Groan, Anna Karenina, The Three Musketeers, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Darkness Visible, Lord of the Flies, Ferdydurke, Living Loving Partygoing, Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, Catch-22, Ghosts, A Long Day's Journey Into Night, Over the Horizon, Desire Under the Elms, Portrait of a Lady, Turn of the Screw, The Castle, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, The Mammy, Animal Farm, Six Characters in Search of an Author, You Are Worthless, Tales of Suspense, Cyrano de Bergerac, Wayside School series, Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Of Mice and Men, A Confederancy of Dunces, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Huckleberry Finn, Adventures of Tome Sawyer, Importance of Being Earnest, Picture of Dorian Gray, Fences, Two Trains Running, The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, That's all I can think of at the moment. There are sure to be many more.

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My Blog

Holy Hairy Underwear, Batman!

My dog is absolutely driving me nuts. She is evil. Here is a list of the many reasons that I may have to sell her to the Chinese food place down the street:1. She barks at everything. If I tell he...
Posted by Lainie on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:48:00 PST

Even When I'm Writing Stories, They Lack Transitions

So I guessed I missed Julie's party. I'm such a bastard. But I have reasons!Thursday night I was at Casa de Homeless until midnight, then went over to my friend's place to eat ice cream and watch mo...
Posted by Lainie on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 03:11:00 PST

Its...A Double Decker Bologna Sandwich!

It's midnight. I have a paper to work on, but can't seem to start it. I'll probably take another nap and do it around 4am -- ah, the magic hour. Right now Temple of Doom is playing in the backgroun...
Posted by Lainie on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:15:00 PST

Another Waste of Time

I get a lot of quiz-ee things from friends. I get bored during office hours (I actually have a kid in here taking a test, but like I'm going to act professional *sarcastic smirk*)Your Birthdate: Octo...
Posted by Lainie on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:56:00 PST

A Very Good Day Gone Awfully Wrong

I received this as a message from my nineteen-year-old brother's seventeen-year-old girlfriend. Read this and then guess all of the ways I have problems with this. Be advised, I've only been in the ...
Posted by Lainie on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:19:00 PST

I'm Sorry, Did You Say Two "Yoots"?

Well I'm just now getting over the plague that I've seemed to have contracted from the local homeless.  I was out for the entire fucking week of Spring Break.  I couldn't go anywhere!  ...
Posted by Lainie on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:15:00 PST

Go Foucault Yourself...

So, I'm wasting time until my Renaissance Poetry class. I should be reading more, but of course, I'm not. I feel like such an idiot in that class. It seems that everyone has read ten times more tha...
Posted by Lainie on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:21:00 PST

What Kind of Reader Am I...?

A friend had this posted and I immediately thought I should compare myself to her.  haha!  No, seriously.  I wanted to see just what is considered a good novel by whoever made this lit...
Posted by Lainie on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:41:00 PST

They look like good, strong hands, don't they?

Hmmm... I've realized that I haven't written anything lately. Blogs are pretty frickin tedious, but for those who I don't really get to talk to, this is my vehicle of expression. Also because I h...
Posted by Lainie on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:44:00 PST

What one will do to waste away the days...

Okay, so Travis convinced me to start writing.  I'm not a very effluent writer, or even affluent for that matter (a joke).  In fact I suck at writing.  But boy has it been excercis...
Posted by Lainie on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 12:02:00 PST