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About Me

I wanted all things
To seem to make some sense,
So we could all be happy, yes,
Instead of tense.
And I made up lies
So that they all fit nice,
And I made this sad world
A par-a-dise.

- From Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

"Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?"
"Uhh . . . perhaps in English. In Japanese a story would have an element of invention in it. We don't want any invention. We want the 'straight facts,' as you say in English."
"Isn't telling about something--using words, English or Japanese--already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?"
"Uhh . . ."
"The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?"

-From Life of Pi by Yann Martel

My Interests

writing, reading, sometimes bike riding, driving, pacing, talking on the phone, thinking, listening, volunteering, taking care of plants and small animals, eating out, watching movies, doing cartwheels, taking naps, dreaming, belly dancing, running, traveling, hiking

I'd like to meet:

members of my karass

Music:

Big Smith, the Be Good Tanyas, Nickel Creek, Lucinda Williams, Ryan Adams, Wilco, the Avett Brothers, Nina Simone, Truckstop Honeymoon, the Dixie Chics, Guster, Death Cab for Cutie, U2, Pearl Jam, Mos Def, the Beatles, CCR, Tracy Chapman

Movies:

documentaries, foreign films, independent films, and many of the more well-known variety

Television:

[only with friends]

Books:

/Authors: Jhumpa Lahiri, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Kurt Vonnegut, Shel Silverstein, David Sedaris, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Don DeLillo, Ray Bradbury, J.K. Rowling, Dave Eggers, E. Annie Proulx, Alice Walker, Michael Pollan, Raymond CarverIn general: post-colonial and multicultural literature, creative non-fiction, and some science fiction and fantasy

Heroes:

My Blog

Music from the World of Literature

I am so psyched: For a project in my Intro to Fiction class, one of my students wrote a song and put it up here on MySpace. Now, if I could just get my automotive students to do something like t...
Posted by Ms. Paper Cut on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:35:00 PST

Writing on Walls

As of a week or so ago, I can now write right on my walls. All of the white paint was crying out to me to take some writing utensil to it, and finally, I have relieved at least portions of my wa...
Posted by Ms. Paper Cut on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:36:00 PST