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Adri

Normally Abnormal

About Me

I love Chris, Savannah, (and her sister and brother: Vanessa and Hunter), Rose, Bryce, Heather Elizabeth, and those who do what's unpopular because it's right, not doing what's right just because it's popular.

My Interests

Reading (not textbooks...yawn), advocating for patients, documentaries, biographies, college football, journaling, community and global activism, crafts (knitting, sewing, making natural soaps and lotions), world religions, sarcasm, irony, rallying for the vulnerable, microbiology, logic puzzles, creative writing, ranting occasionally, trying hard to be a better person, and of course...Lortab! (inside joke). More Dots

I'd like to meet:

The ghost of Kurt Cobain and ask him if it was really suicide. Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr., John Lennon, C.S. Lewis,Those who both talk the talk AND walk the walk, Savannah, Vanessa, Hunter, His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and compassionate people.

Music:

Nirvana, Dave Matthews Band, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Enya, REM, Sting, Sublime, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Wolfgang Press, Concrete Blonde, Abba, The Beatles, Cornershop, Counting Crows, Depeche Mode, Eminem, Beastie Boys, Everclear, Fleetwood Mac, James Taylor, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, The Smiths, Morrissey, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, Vertical Horizon, Cowboy Junkies, and Tegan and Sarah, Black Eyed Peas, etc.

Movies:

The Godfather, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, anything from M. Night Shyamalan, Dune, Lord of the Rings, Fight Club, It's a Wonderful Life, all Hitchcock movies, The Fountainhead, Dancer in the Dark, The Usual Suspects, Schindler's List, Full Metal Jacket, Leaving Las Vegas, Snatch, documentaries, biographies, and the occasional chick flick, Gladiator, A Christmas Story (Ralphie kills me!), A Wonderful Life, and did I mention...Lord of the Rings? It's only like the best movie EVER!!!

Television:

BBC News,Twin Peaks, Six Feet Under, Big Love, Soprano's, Project Runway, Top chef, Intervention, Grey's Anatomy, MST3K (plz bring it back!), Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: SVU, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares on BBC, Hell's Kitchen, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, Family Guy (love Brian!), and the Discovery Health Channel, and of course...House!

Books:

Everything by Charles Bukowski, Anais Nin, Alice Sebold, the classics, biographies, etc. Just finished reading "Flower's for Algernon" for the third time, lol. Henry Miller, pretty much a bit of everything--I love reading, sadly due to school I haven't had time to read as much as I'd like to. Textbooks don't count! Hehe!

Heroes:

Chris Carlson, His Holiness the Dalai Llama, Ghandi, Jesus Christ,Rosa Parks,all the rescuers on 9/11, Walter Payton (for the amazing thing he DIDN'T do), Martin Luther King, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet (For their generosity and commitment to helping others), anyone who overcomes profound disadvantages, people who strive to make the world a better place, those who question authority and buck the system when the need arises.

My Blog

On to bigger and better!

I quit nursing school on Monday.  I had two months to go before graduation.  By societal standards, this was a really stupid move on my part.  Society be damned!  My sanity is more...
Posted by Adri on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:42:00 PST

Stephanie!

Wow, hi Stephanie...I certainly didn't expect you to read my blog!  What a grand treat.  Since you like to glean so much information about me from my site, I figured I'd be kind and give you...
Posted by Adri on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:40:00 PST

Heather

I never doubted you, I just wanted to find out for myself.  You were right though, as usual.  You have an uncanny sense about who is to be trusted and who should be avoided like the plague.&...
Posted by Adri on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:33:00 PST

Desire To Ejaculate Motivates Local Christian To Wed

PADUCAH, KYThroughout his life, 22-year-old Matthew Leske has been a devout Christian, attending services three times a week at Holy Christ Almighty Lutheran Church in his hometown of Paducah, regula...
Posted by Adri on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:21:00 PST

Do you really want to know?

So you're faced with a question that you really don't know the answer to. It can be about pretty much anything. Politics, religion, career, etc. If someone asked me "Adri--What do you want to eat f...
Posted by Adri on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:47:00 PST

The End of the Thought Process

Friday late morning, waiting to see my adviser. I grab a copy of our school newspaper and head outside for a smoke until she is ready to meet with me. I've made this mistake in the past (reading our s...
Posted by Adri on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:00:00 PST

Nice little boxes

So we are approaching the end of the semester. Tuesday we have to turn in an assignment that I am not really liking at all. The assignment is this: we have to assign "group roles" to the people in ...
Posted by Adri on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:11:00 PST

Im totally not into this sort of thing, but....

So I'm sitting here trying to knock out some paperwork for school (as if that ever ends), when I get a text from Chris. He says "I happened to peruse the paper while eating. Your horoscope will be ...
Posted by Adri on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:51:00 PST

Next Vote Wins (new strategy)

WASHINGTONSignificantly trailing Sen. Barack Obama in delegates, Sen. Hillary Clinton made a last-ditch effort to settle the hotly contested presidential race Monday, when she loudly shouted a propo...
Posted by Adri on Sat, 24 May 2008 12:42:00 PST

Point--Counterpoint

Point--It Was Then That I Carried YouBy: Jesus ChristOne night, Jim, you had a dream. You dreamed you were walking along the beach with Me. Across the sky flashed scenes from your life. For each scen...
Posted by Adri on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:24:00 PST