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Kristin

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About Me

dum-dee-dee-dum....*drum roll please* it's ME! yessiree bob. whats can i say? "im just a girl in the world" would be a good starting point...'cause i am. in mah mid-20's (25 to be exact, im a scary grown-up!), living in da T-dot with me girlfriend in the east end of the city. im a "newly hired" elementary french teacher (yikes!) and other than that? hmmm. let's analyze kristin. what makes her up?im usually filled with a lot of caffeine, a few cups of green tea or ginger tea...good food (im partial to india, thai, ethiopian, vietnamese pho, sushi/sashimi, dim sum, koren bbq, veggie food, stir-frys plus a good serving of traditional italian food). organics are good.me's parts swiss (got the passport and citizenship to prove it and all!), part polish (pierogies, kielbasa or vodka anyone?), irish and english. je suis bilingue, a vrai-dire, je suis franco-ontarienne...ma mere est nee au quebec et a ete enseignee en francais, et alors pendant ma croissance et mon education j'ai apris le francais a la maison et aussi a l'ecole.i wish...i wish i may i wish i might....oh i wish of many things! mostly i live in a dream world filled with faeries, glitter, sparkles, wings, crowns, medieval, celtic and renaissance stories, and fantasize about what my future will be like...where i shall live (ireland, switzerland, east coast (cape breton), west coast (vancouver island somewhere...salt spring, galiano, tofino if i could ever afford it!), or the best city on the face of the earth (and most European in North America according to the current issue of Gourmet magazine)....MONTREAL!!!)okay i think that is it for now. ya want more details? read the left sidebars!
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My Interests

here goes the list: music, education, reading, writing, cooking, art, traveling, alternative/natural health, nutrition, coffee/wine/cheese tasting, entertaining, dance, yoga, pilates, belly dancing, medieval, renaissance and celtic social/cultural history, outdoors and nature, crafts, antiquing, movies, theatre, sudoku, psychology, crosswords, hot chocolate, lazy days sitting under a tree in the warm weather or curled on a comfy chair with a blanket by a fire place in the winter (blankets are essential), baking, acting like a home-maker even though im just a hippie-bohemian faerie princess kid at heart...starting up controversy and shocking people because i look "oh so innocent" but have that scorpio mystique and power inside...exploring new neighborhoods, places, people-watching, climbing rocks, being by the water...playing with animals, swining on swings, sliding down slides, toboganning, reading the newspaper,etc. etc.

I'd like to meet:

people! well, not really, not looking to meet anyone, just stay connected with my friends 'cuz i hear this is the "in" thing to do (and one must always stay on top of the current trends ya know)

Music:

SHAYE, tara maclean, damhnait doyle, kim stockwood, sarah mclachlan, tori amos, jann arden, patti griffin, natalie merchant, gordie sampson, east coast/celtic music, the corrs, delerium, danny michel, rufus wainwright, andy stochansky, sarah slean, ani difranco, terami hirsch, emm gryner, easily amused, melissa etheridge, jonatha brooke, indigo girls, melissa mclelland, martina sorbara, chantal kreviazuk, jorane, feist, the cottars, aselin debison, melissa ferrick, kinnie starr, tegan and sara, lindi, barnaked ladies, enya, enigma, phil collins (blame my dad okay?!?), arcade fire, old-skool madonna, andrea florian, dar williams, fiona apple, dayna manning, dave matthews, beth orton, nelly furtado, dido, don henley (dad), sting, the gypsy kings (ole ole!-my dad again), rachael sage, esthero, goo goo dolls, ivanna santilli, fleetwood mac, hawksley workman, holly mcnarland, imogen heap, emaline delapaix, jeen obrien, darcie miner, kathleen edwards, sarah harmer, kendall payne, kyler england, kristin hersh, mazzy starr, leahy, lady jane grey, the cheiftains, live, liz phair, mad violet, maren ord, melanie doane, michelle branch, paddy casey, peter gabriel, plumb, poe, portishead, richard shindell, ron sexsmith, shawn colvin, sinead lohan, smashing pumpkins, stevie nicks, wild strawberries, tom waits, tracy chapman, tracy bonham, van morrisson, the white stripes, etc etc etc. http://groups.myspace.com/shayeheads go there to join my group for fans of Shaye

Movies:

rent rent rent rent rent, we're not gonna pay rent!!!! the wizard of oz, harry potter movies, foxfire, whale rider, spirited away, the mists of avalon, finding nemo, shrek, the neverending story, the magdalene sisters, saved, the divine secrets of the yaya-sisterhood, in america, ghost world, the craft, now and then, peter pan, hook, all over me, boys on the side, new waterford girl, empire records, elizabeth, the princess bride, crash, etre et avoir, children full of life, girl interrupted, artemisia, romeo and juliet (leonardo dicaprio version), more i am sure

Television:

*mostly* anything on the food network-including iron chef, but NOT the american version, jamie's great escape, nigella bite; law and order and all its counterparts, ER, life's little miracles...odd documentaries and history shows, the gilmore girls, and mostly importantly, practically all the wonderful shows that the CBC provides for us canadians! documentaries are goooooood.

Books:

wicked, the icarus girl, the mists of avalon, when nietzsche wept, pilgrim, in the skin of a lion, the passion of artemisia, harry potter books, chronicles of narnia books, island of the blue dolphin, madleine l'engle books, fall on your knees, kits law, the constant princess, the prophet, written on the body, jonathan strange and mr. norrell, to kill a mockingbird, queen isabella, the tain, the princes of ireland, artemisia, by the light of my father's smile, downhill change, dangerous angels, spelling mississippi, midnight in the garden of good and evil, gueneviere queen of the summer country, the burning times, the secret book of grazia dei rossi, the birth of venus, ten good seconds of silence, the borgia bride, tipping the velvet, where the heart is, cereus blooms at night, anything by nietzsche, rousseau, de beauvoir, wollstonecraft

Heroes:

uggghhhh....nietszche??? (i wish i could spell that right, hehe) any female historical figure....officially recognized or not....artemisia gentileschi as an example, wollstonecraft

My Blog

"got my friends got my car get my love on the radio"

so maybe i dont have a car...but ttc can work just the same sometime for that feeling of freedom.  anyway. school. i have report cards due for two schools...thats 180 kids, in french, drama, danc...
Posted by Kristin on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 05:07:00 PST

hanging for my crimes...

here i am....home again, damn epilepsy.  a month and a half into work. school is....wow, cant even describe it. ive disappeared from the face of the earth. my uptown life of starbucks and going o...
Posted by Kristin on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:47:00 PST

lake of fire

i need the new shaye song. need it need it need it. its been released on radio....i have yet to hear it. need to hear it. i start teaching in one week. need to hear it, need it to get me through what ...
Posted by Kristin on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 06:09:00 PST

"would you be my neighbour?"

i love my new neighbourhood. we watch little league in the park at nite....always 4-5 games going on in the park. street meat vendors and ice cream trucks there. or we go for a jog in the valley. swim...
Posted by Kristin on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:06:00 PST

what to believe in?...

ive witnessed two car accidents in the past two days...one which was just a fender-bender and happened right outside my window as i was sitting down, drinking my  morning coffee and watching brea...
Posted by Kristin on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 04:37:00 PST

moved in....almost

i had to choose the hottest week ever since ive been BORN in Toronto to move. well okay, so we moved the stuff in on sunday....which was hot, but not that terrible. 12 hours worth of moving, my stuff,...
Posted by Kristin on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 01:01:00 PST

camping and apartments

so...i have my first apartment. christina and i got approved...the first and last months cheques have gone through, and we sign the lease tomorrow. woohoo! first time moving out from living with my pa...
Posted by Kristin on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 05:57:00 PST

past 10pm...

i do not like living on st. clair at this moment in time. i am glad i will be away this weekend.  
Posted by Kristin on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 07:10:00 PST

"the veil betrays the breathing.....who's bride am i?"

i hate apartment hunting. getting a teaching job was easier. heck, that job was almost handed to me on a gold platter. an apt. however? impossible. everything in the danforth/riverdale/beaches area is...
Posted by Kristin on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:04:00 PST

pride aftermath

pride is over...didnt spend too much time there, and  that's quite fine with me. it was nice to finally have a partner to spend pride with...but other then that? i could care less. maybe i am gro...
Posted by Kristin on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 05:31:00 PST