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Persephone

She thinks she missed the train to mars, she's out back counting stars - Hum

About Me


Cleveland Chickie looking for friends (insane, sane, in hiding - whatever). I am 31 and happily married. I'm currently in graduate school at MSASS at CWRU getting my Masters in Social Work, with a concentration in health and adult mental health.
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My Interests

Shiny things
Music
Reading
Writing
Road-Trips
Crochet
Cross-Stitch
Smiley faces
Sponge Bob (yeah, what's it to you)
Meeting people from around the world
Disc golf
Playing games
Talking
Anti-Death penalty
Singing
Sleeping
My laptop (Boo Berry)
Being with my friends

I'd like to meet:

As strange as it sounds, because most people would say they'd like to meet someone famous, I'd love to meet my maternal great-grandfathers. Through my genealogical research I've come to learn alot about my family. My great-grandfathers sound like such great men; I wish I knew them.

Music:

Tori Amos
Fiona Apple
Artificial Joy Club
Ashby
Badly Drawn Boy
Joan Baez
Basia
Beck
Belle & Sebastian
Ben Folds
Beulah
Pete Bjorn and John
Black Crowes
David Bowie
Built the Spill
Call and Response
Shayla Carpenter
Neko Case
Cat Power
The Catherine Wheel
Nick Cave
Frederic Chopin
The Church
Cibo Matto
Coldplay
Cranberries
Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young)
Curve
The Dave Matthews Band
De Novo Dahl
Depeche Mode
Rob Dickinson
Dixie Chicks
Duran Duran
Anton Dvorak
Elbow
Foo Fighters
Frente!
Frou Frou
Garbage
The Go! Team
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions
Indigo Girls
INXS
James
Jefferson Starship
Norah Jones
(London) Suede
Aimee Mann
Loreena McKennitt
Sarah McLachlan
Joni Mitchell
Moby
Morcheeba
Jim O'Rourke
Beth Orton
Our Lady Peace
Over the Rhine
Pearl Jam
Pet Shop Boys
Poe
Powderfinger
Pretenders
Psychedelic Furs
Masha Qrella
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
REM
Remy Zero
Smashing Pumpkins
South
The Sundays
10,000 Maniacs
U2
Wilco
Vaughan Williams
Pete Yorn

Movies:

American Beauty
Better Off Dead
The Big Lebowski
Blackboards
Clerks
The Color Of Paradise
The Color Purple
The Crow
Curse Of The Pink Panther
Empire Of The Sun
Garden State
Half Baked
Haiku Tunnel
Heaven Help Us
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
The Hunt For Red October
The Last Emperor
The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers
Love Liza
The Lover
Mallrats
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life
Office Space
One Crazy Summer
The Pink Panther
Radio Days
Raise The Red Lantern
Raising Arizona
Revenge Of The Pink Panther
Salaam Bombay!
Serenity
A Shot In The Dark
Spaceballs
What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Television:

Angel (ended)
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Arrested Development (ended)
The Ben Stiller Show (ended)
Carnivale (ended)
Chappelle's Show (ended)
The Colbert Report
CSI
CSI Miami
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Eureka
Family Guy
Futurama (ended)
Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law
Home Movies (ended)
House
Kids In The Hall (ended)
Mad TV
Monk
Monty Python's Flying Circus (ended)
Mr. Show With Bob And David (ended)
MXC
The Office (American)
Psych
Ren And Stimpy (with John K) (ended)
Reno 911!
Rescue Me
Rocco's Modern Life (ended)
Saturday Night Live
Scrubs
Sealab 2021 (ended)
Seinfeld (ended)
The Simpsons
The Sopranos
South Park
Sponge Bob Square Pants
Squidbillies
The State (ended)
Upright Citizens Brigade (ended)
Without A Trace

Books:

The Color Purple - Alice Walker
First Circle - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Growing Up Catholic Series - (forgot who wrote them)
Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Haunted Ohio Series (Chris Woodward, I think)
Hitchhiker's Guide Series - Douglas Adams
Hunt For Red October - Tom Clancy
Sum Of All Fears - Tom Clancy
They Died Crawling (and the rest of the Cleveland true crime series) - John Stark Bellamy II

Heroes:

My Father and my sister

My Blog

Happy Birthday, Siouxsie and Moi Imenii Dien!

July 23 blog is posted here...
Posted by Persephone on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:14:00 PST

In Memoriam

Alternate blog posted here.
Posted by Persephone on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:06:00 PST

Opening the flood gates at IHOP

There's nothing that says open up and share your darkest secrets and wounds from your past like a ham, cheese, tomato and onion omelet at IHOP. I'm sitting at the restaurant yesterday with Foofy and ...
Posted by Persephone on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 02:15:00 PST

Happy New Year!

Check out my main blog.
Posted by Persephone on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:59:00 PST

Something's got to give...

I'm not quite sure what to feel...I thought things were going well: school and an internship that I adore. Yet, something happened Friday that really shook me up. I guess I knew it was coming...perhap...
Posted by Persephone on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:37:00 PST

She is one of the reasons I'm still here

Mew^2
Posted by Persephone on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 08:34:00 PST

Color Quiz

Mew Mew took the Color Quiz, and it was dead on. So I took it, too. My results are quite interesting. I guess my goal is to be a snob and look down on y'all.   I took the free ColorQuiz.com ...
Posted by Persephone on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 04:45:00 PST

Update

I've been in school for nearly a month now and things are going very well. I started my internship at Hospice of the Western Reserve last week and absolutely love it. It makes me really wonder why it ...
Posted by Persephone on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:08:00 PST

Time to Grow Up

My first day of class in 7 years starts Tuesday. I'm really excited and honestly, a bit scared. It's been a long time. Walking around the campus for Orientation, I felt that certain sense of happiness...
Posted by Persephone on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 04:43:00 PST

Stuff

Today's post is brought to you by another post at Out Beyond the Styx entitled Pain There is also a picture of an afghan I made for charity a year ago on Ro Knits I also want to explain my new photo ...
Posted by Persephone on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:14:00 PST