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Laura

i should be in bed.

About Me

i moved all the way to paris to wait tables and sometimes it's scary how much i actually like it. i'm studying at the lecoq school here. rough life but someone has to live it... thursday is my favorite day of the week. i have a lot of shoes. i like to color and to make lists and do crossword puzzles. i want a turtle. some fucker stole my bike last week. i miss california. i miss my little green toyota echo. i miss driving to the beach with my radio turned up way too loud and my left arm hanging out of the window. i love walking to work and rummaging through the 3 euro bin at my favorite vintage store (nope, some things don't change). i love red wine and new notebooks, clean t-shirts and vintage dresses, jackets, shoes, purses, gloves...um, okay- it's a problem. i have a problem. but at least i have admitted it and i've heard that that's half the battle...right??

My Interests

trains, boats, cars, airplanes-theatre, music, dancing-french, books, crossword puzzles, college ruled spiral notebooks with nothing in them-bright colors, food...

I'd like to meet:

someone who will send me harper's bazaar every month. someone who knows i can't keep a secret and tells me anyway...

Music:

old stuff, and new stuff that sounds old.

Movies:

most woody allen (old and new but not the in-between stuff), stealing beauty, n.d., red, white,and blue, little monsters, miki+maude, adam's rib, marie baie des anges, big business, carousel, six degrees of separation

Television:

fish tank.

Books:

another country, any james baldwin really,the other boleyn girl, autobiographies, balzac and the little chinese seamstress, tess of the d'urbervilles, lonely planet guides, any david sedaris, tropic of capricorn, the passion, vox, the fermata (nicholson baker)- geez, i really do like books with lots of sex in them...

Heroes:

annie hall, katherine hepburn, ellen degeneres, and my mother.

My Blog

staying put

i have made a decision and it wasn't easy. i am staying in paris to start school at lecoq (which is a freaking mouthful, i realize). it is a really cool program that i have wanted to be a part of ever...
Posted by Laura on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:56:00 PST

star wars playstation

something to do while my charge plays star wars legos on his playstation: 1. In one sentence, explain what ended your last relationship: no clickage (don't know if that's even a word) 2. What made you...
Posted by Laura on Wed, 10 May 2006 02:32:00 PST

the christmas angel

i am sitting in the fancy living room of my new (old) stepfather's decorator showhouse in indiana. i have never understood the concept of two living rooms, someone once told me that "family room" was ...
Posted by Laura on Sat, 24 Dec 2005 05:45:00 PST

christmas pageant

it's a rainy saturday today- there was a time when i did not like saturdays. a time when saturdays meant getting up extra early for speech meets or showchoir competitions (yes, i know that i am a n...
Posted by Laura on Sat, 03 Dec 2005 01:24:00 PST

it's raining, it's pouring...

it's thursday again, my favorite day of the week- especially in the fall... i have been babysitting a lot this week because the dad of the family has been out of town. next week is toussaint holiday s...
Posted by Laura on Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:58:00 PST

the grocery store

there is no peanut butter, i repeat, no peanut butter...
Posted by Laura on Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:11:00 PST

my brain came back

so it's a little bit amazing, a little predictable, but here i am! i have an amazing little high ceilinged studio in paris and these darling french children to look after...and last night i had a dr...
Posted by Laura on Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:09:00 PST

maybe god thinks this is funny

now this is just cruel. i was sitting at my desk and suddenly there was this flood of male models coming through the front door- i thought, "maybe god is playing a trick on me" and then i thought..."o...
Posted by Laura on Thu, 08 Sep 2005 03:36:00 PST

hey dudes

did you know ikea has a place on their website where you can design your dream room? it's really cool. now, if they only had a website where you could design your dream house...that would keep me busy...
Posted by Laura on Wed, 07 Sep 2005 04:36:00 PST

lord of the flies

i think it was the english who blamed us for sensationalizing the news after the london bombings, but it's funny when you read the english coverage of the new orleans crisis and compare it with the us...
Posted by Laura on Fri, 02 Sep 2005 02:54:00 PST