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About Me

Where to begin?I am working on my second degree, this time to be a teacher. I am a substitute teacher part time. The kids are usually very evil but I lay the smackdown.I love basketball. I am a huge Steve Nash fan. One day he will rule the world, and it will be a better place. Shoot baskets, not people! I also greatly admire Bill Walton and Charles Barkley. The reason I like them so much is not only because they are (or were) all great basketball players, but also because they are awesome people (or appear to be on radio and TV.) I like people who speak thier minds but don't do it to be obnoxious, get attention, or further thier own agendas. Therefore, while I love Earth as much as the next person, I really wish Al Gore would just shut up.Well...that quickly turned into a rant.I love reading and music, and am pretty open-minded about both, I like to think. I have my favorites but I always like to branch out. Most of my favorite music is from the 60's, but I'm expanding my repetoire.Dogs are the best creatures on earth (better than humans.) I had a black lab, Jazz, for many years but my family had to put her down this past December. A couple weeks ago we got a new black lab, Peyton, who was born during the SuperBowl and was named after Peyton Manning.That's about it for now...

My Interests

There are so many things that interest me: reading, knitting, ghosts, rock n' roll (yay-yuh!), NBA, beads, socks, puppies, old movies, scary movies, the 60's, history, wax museums, california, goldfish, darts, trees, small towns, football, video games, england, trampolines to name some.

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Music:

The Beatles, first and formost. If you don't like them, we probably shouldn't even bother talking about music. Other than that, I like sooo many things and I hear new things all the time. Old stuff, like the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkal, Pink Floyd, Janis Joplin, Led Zepelin, Buddy Holly, etc; Classic pop songs that you can sing along with, from back in the day when Michael Jackson was black and unquestionably of the male gender. Showtunes that I can yell along with and pretend to be singing. Lounge singer-esque songs from the 50's and 60's. Coldplay and John Mayer. I like almost everything as long as it's not crappy and boring.

Movies:

I'm not a movie freak ... I like anything that makes me laugh. I like stupid-funny movies and sad-funny movies. I like romantic movies but I freakin' hate romantic comedies. I love love love old movies - anything with Cary Grant or James Stewart! *heart*

Television:

Silly things that make me laugh ... Adult Swim, the Simpsons, Family Guy ... other than that I really try to stay away because I get sucked in and it fries my brain.

Books:

I love books; they are my best friends. Harry Potter, Catch-22, She's Come Undone, A Wrinkle in Time, The Lovely Bones, everything by Helen Fielding or Nick Hornby, etc. etc. etc.

Heroes:

Esme Raji Codell. (Children's Reading Heroine.) www.planetesme.com ...and of course, Steve Nash.

My Blog

Toaster Suicide: A Poem

Toaster Suicide Over the course of the morning I dropped five white, fluffy slices into wire-riddled slots. Of the five, three emerged black and smoking. My success rate only forty percent, it d...
Posted by Emily Loves Company on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:50:00 PST

Lyndsee's Ode to Veggie Soup from 1998

Ode to my veggie soup from 1998 by Lyndsee Priest Veggie soup you are so healthyVeggie Soup you are so convenient in my cupboard.Veggie Soup you are sitting at my desk and I am hungryVeggie Soup I wi...
Posted by Emily Loves Company on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:27:00 PST

The Chicken Place: My Review

I got a bit of a scolding yesterday for never writing my review of The Chicken Place, so the time has come (as the Walrus said.) Background: This all occured several months ago. I happen to remember ...
Posted by Emily Loves Company on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 03:43:00 PST

If the Mooninites were real, they would be proud.

Unless you live under a rock, you've heard by now that the flow of daily activity in ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Boston screeched to a halt with the a...
Posted by Emily Loves Company on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:35:00 PST

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

(That quote is by Robert Frost, by the way.) I just came from an education class that I'm taking at USI. We've been presenting controversial issues to the class, and so far, my teacher has had...
Posted by Emily Loves Company on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:46:00 PST

The internet and relationships: A topic no one has thought about before

I got to college just when it seemed the internet was getting insanely huge. (People don't even talk about how "huge" the internet is anymore that's how huge it is. You don't go around saying, "Man, l...
Posted by Emily Loves Company on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:04:00 PST

Ri Ra's Irish Pub: My Review

Yesterday, DB and I ate at Ri Ra's Irish Pub. It is a brand new restaurant here in Evansville, right across from the boat and next to Jillian's (the adult Chuck E. Cheese.) For your dining convenience...
Posted by Emily Loves Company on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:14:00 PST

Weird Dream Inspires New Layout

I had a dream last night about the Beatles ... obsession at its finest. The Beatles in the dream were circa 1967 so they all had moustaches and John & George were alive. There was a rock-ish...
Posted by Emily Loves Company on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:19:00 PST

10 Books You Must Read, even though I know you won't

I'm really bored today and really have nothing ro write about, so I think I'll compile a list of my favorite books and tell you why I like them, as if you care. No particular order than than how I tho...
Posted by Emily Loves Company on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:59:00 PST

Things that will happen when DB has hit the big time.

I have been telling DB not to forget about me when hes hit the big time, but I fear its a lost cause. I am resigned to the fact that one day, I will pick up some fat coffee table style book entitled, ...
Posted by Emily Loves Company on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:18:00 PST