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Moomin

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About Me

I feel like my ultimate goals in life are pretty telling: 1. After I graduate from college, never speak English again as long as I live. 2. Never, ever own a car. 3. Free Palestine!..

My favorite place in Paris is the Marché Beauvais.

My Interests

Living in Paris, studying anthropology, riding my bike, dreaming about Finland, trying to learn Finnish, loving Moomintrolls, traveling, watching good movies, and hanging out with my momma and my sis, the most amazing girls in the world!

I'd like to meet:

Leila Khaled. Nestor Makhno. Thom Yorke. Tove Jansson. Elias Lonnrot. Taras Shevchenko. Lesi Ukrainska. Naguib Mahfouz. Bohdan Khmelnitskiy. Mikhailo Hrushevsky. Aishwarya Rai. Rekha. Aamir Khan. Voltaire. Emile Zola. Harry Potter.

Music:

In Rainbows

Movies:

Dead Poets Society - best movie ever. Amelie, L'auberge espagnole, Paradise Now, anything Almodovar, Upswing, Lagaan, Les Miserables (the really long WWII French version), The Circle, Life is Beautiful, Nowhere in Africa, Run Lola Run, Monsoon Wedding & the Namesake (love Mira Nair!), La cite des enfants perdus, Everything is Illuminated, Empire Records, Wayne's World,The Neverending Story, Braveheart, Once, anything Bollywood, la Vie en Rose...and, of course, Harry Potter...

Television:

old Jamie Oliver cooking shows.

Books:

F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jack Kerouac, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Voltaire, Albert Camus, the Bronte sisters, Jane Austen. Man's Fate (Andre Malraux), Le bonheur a la queue glissante (Abla Farhoud), Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand), Zoot Suit (Luis Valdez), A Border Passage (Leila Ahmed), Le petit prince (Saint-Exupery), The Moomintroll books (Tove Jansson), Orest Subtelny's Ukraine: A History, The Namesake (Jhumpa Lahiri), Lord of the Rings, HARRY POTTER, The Phantom Tollbooth.

Heroes:

my Momma & my Allie. Gloria Gilbert and Scarlett O'Hara. Anyone who isn't afraid to be who they are and stand up for what they believe.

My Blog

Strike update

So I thought I'd follow up a little bit, because today I spent 4 hours in the 'Assemblee Generale' of my fac (university, but who wants to write it out every time?) to figure out what exactly people a...
Posted by Moomin on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:56:00 PST

Strikes - a true French tradition.

So as many of you know, there is currently a huge strike all over France and especially in Paris. The SNCF (the national train network) is fairly immobile, and the RATP (the Paris transit system) is c...
Posted by Moomin on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:49:00 PST

Sometimes, I still have hope.

Gazans gather to foil air strike...
Posted by Moomin on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:05:00 PST

pakistan

Mash'allah. The news has made me cry for two days in a row now - 80 people, mostly 15-25 year-old boys, killed because the US "intelligence" said Al-Qaeda people liked that madrasa. And of course that...
Posted by Moomin on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:10:00 PST

Radiohead. What else?

If you actually have time to sit here and read blogs, go read something worthwhile: www.radiohead.com/deadairspace. For example, "question for the minister what use is economic growth when the seas...
Posted by Moomin on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:09:00 PST