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Liz

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About Me

Living in the DC area, shepherding young girls through the trying years of adolescence, showing up to work every day at an NGO. That's right! Full-time, with benefits, 40-hours-a-week work! Take that, bitches!

My Interests

Reading, movies, music. I'm a stationary kind of person.

I'd like to meet:

Surprise me. No crazies, please.

Music:

Hard to specify. Random selections from my iPod bring up Billie Holiday, the Stones, Spoon, Queens of the Stone Age, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Bright Eyes. Basically, I like what I like. So suck it, hipsters.

Movies:

Let's see. In my Netflix queue I currently have: The Aristocrats, A History of Violence, Junebug, Harold and Maude, Wallace & Grommitt....I try to avoid committing to a favorite movie. Depends on my mood. However, and I hate to be such a girl, I could probably watch the A&E version of Pride & Prejudice any day of the week.

Television:

I don't have cable. The price of living in a dorm, folks, is that I have no idea what people are talking about around the watercooler at work. It's like I've lost my center.

Books:

Anything written by Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Zora Neale Hurston, or Zadie Smith, to start. Some recent favorites also include I Capture the Castle, Age of Innocence, and John LeCarre's Smiley trilogy.

Heroes:

Sargent Shriver, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jon Stewart, Paul Farmer (for the public health nerds out there). There are others, I suppose, but that's who came to me during the 15 minutes I gave myself to fill out this form.