About Me

What I've Nooz'd

What I've Blogged

I spend most of my time in San Francisco or the Seacoast area of New Hampshire (about halfway between Boston and Portland, ME).
I like to meet interesting people... and by interesting, I mean articulate and thoughtful. I'm not into partying. I'm not looking for a date. So I'm not adding you if you send me a message riddled with grammatical errors that doesn't actually have any real content to it. I am not unconditionally opposed to adding bands to my friends list, but I only add them if I like their music. If you don't see any of your influences in the music section of my profile, I probably won't like your music.
I have taken the Myers-Briggs personality test too many times to count. And the only thing I have found is that I am always an "I." I'm usually an "N" and whether I'm "T" or "F" and "P" or "J" really depends on my mood the day I'm taking the test. So let's call me INTJ , since that is the most common result I've gotten.
I tend to look on the bright side of things. I'm not a Pollyanna, but I do try to find the silver lining whenever I can. Ultimately, I look at life as a learning experience and even the parts that suck are still good as long as they can teach me something.

My Interests

Swimming, yoga, crossword puzzles (recently got hooked on sudoku ), scrabble, entrepreneurship, food (in an Epicurean kind of way), teaching - I'm not a school teacher, but I really enjoyed being a swim instructor and corporate trainer in earlier times in my life, and I still enjoy helping people learn something new, learning - I've spent a lot of time in school, because I really like it. I'm not in school anymore, but I still like to listen to lectures on podcasts or from the Teaching Company

I'd like to meet:

The People I Read

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Music:

Barenaked Ladies, REM, U2, Depeche Mode, Indigo Girls, Shawn Colvin, Ana Egge, Enya, Fiona Apple, Eddie From Ohio, Emmett Swimming, No Doubt, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Everclear, Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins, Erasure, Yaz, Violent Femmes, The Police, Sting, 10.000 Maniacs, Tori Amos, Harry Connick Jr., Sarah Mclachlan, Sheryl Crow, Suzanne Vega, Liz Phair, ABBA, Steadman, Beatles, Beach Boys, the Mamas and the Papas, Rolling Stones, Blondie, the Pretenders, Joan Jett

Movies:

You are Betty Grable
The ulitmate girl next door
You're the perfect girl for most guys
Pretty yet approachable. Beautiful yet real. What Famous Pinup Are You? How perfect is this? My leg with Betty Grable's leg print
on the sidewalk outside the Chinese theater in Hollywood.

You are Dark Chocolate
You live your life with intensity, always going full force.
You push yourself (and others) to the limit... you want more than you can handle.
An extreme person, you challenge and inspire the world! What Kind of Chocolate Are You?

adopt your own virtual pet!

Television:

The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate, the 4400, Psych, Monk, DeadZone, Grey's Anatomy, Gilmore Girls, Smallville, Numb3rs, CSI (original only), NCIS, Quantum Leap, John Doe

Books:

Fiction
Neil Stephenson, Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis, P.G. Wodehouse, Jane Austen, Fanny Burney, the Brontes, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Emile Zola, Oscar Wilde, Ayn Rand, George Orwell, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Amy Tan...Plus I'm a sucker for the Harry Potter books.
Non Fiction
Stephen Jay Gould and Oliver Sacks

My Blog

Couldn't have said it better myself

From Craig's List:Why Geeks and Nerds Are Worth It...In the wide world of dating, there are many options. Do you go for the flashy guy with the smooth smile, or the dude in the corner typing away on h...
Posted by Starr on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 04:58:00 PST

The Devil Wears Prada - Review

So I saw The Devil Wears Prada today. Sometimes I am a sucker for advertising. In this case, I saw the featured myspace profile for the movie and decided I had to see it. The trailer is actually a pre...
Posted by Starr on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 06:12:00 PST

What's for dinner? Pasta Puttanesca (easy but good)

This is a recipe dedicated to ppm (aka Pistol Packin' Mama) who doesn't have enough time for all the prep work involved in my more typically twee recipes...Pasta Puttanesca1 pkg dried pasta in the sha...
Posted by Starr on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:03:00 PST

The Nature of Celebrity

For those of you who haven't figured it out, I don't use my real name anywhere on MySpace, precisely because it's important to me to keep my private life private. I've been thinking a lot about fame a...
Posted by Starr on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:46:00 PST

What's for Dinner? Homemade Salsa

One of TMS's favorites is homemade salsa. Seeing as he's only home on the weekends these days, I figured I would make him some on Saturday. Didn't have time to post the recipe until now. Like homemade...
Posted by Starr on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:55:00 PST

What's for Dinner?: Salad and the Single Girl

Now that the weather here has finally caught up to the rest of the country, I'm in the mood for a light salad. I'm also cooking for one this week because TMS is out of town on a contract.From Wayne's ...
Posted by Starr on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 02:20:00 PST

What's for Dinner? Soups, etc.

I'm trying a new thing with my blog posts. Let me know what you think and if I should continue.I do a lot of cooking. My mom taught cooking classes, so growing up, I was in the kitchen a lot. I even w...
Posted by Starr on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 04:29:00 PST

Why I'm not married

There are a lot of reasons why my partner and I aren't married. But not for the obvious reason you might guess. As a heterosexual couple, it is actually legal for us to marry. So why aren't we married...
Posted by Starr on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 07:03:00 PST

Pro-Family Values

I am reprinting this from Russell's blog. Please go to his blog and give him the kudos and praise. And please repost in your blog.See the original at Russell's Blog I AmPart of an American Family, An...
Posted by Starr on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:51:00 PST

Remembering those who have gone

A good friend of mine died last monday. She was in her early 30's and died of long term complications from an emergency C-section she had about 6 months ago. I had talked to her a couple of weeks befo...
Posted by Starr on Mon, 29 May 2006 02:15:00 PST