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arika

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About Me


Vintage Telephone
I'm trying a new design here. This is what happens when my job ends. Feel free to give me feedback on this.
Change is always a little stressful... so I'm trying to kind of take stock, focus on the good things, and not completely lose my mind despite the fact that my job is ending, I'm planning a huge family bbq, and other stresful crap is going on and frankly, it's summer. I don't need this kind of distraction from my enjoyment of the season. SO. To be brief. Things I like: Carvel ice cream, rainbow sprinkles, tan lines, southern accents, riding my bike on the bike path early in the morning before the crowds of annoying tourists get in the way, the way my skin feels after a scrub at the Korean spa, watching the mother dove who's built a nest on my porch, the way my cat sticks her nose in my face to be kissed, the moment when the song you're really dying to hear suddenly comes on the radio... long road trips, long summer days, and long blonde hair. Things I don't like: crappy customer service, traffic, injuring myself which I seem to do constantly, when people are mean for no reason, calling unemployment, being in Whittier for no reason because I thought call time was 4 hours before it is.Right now if I can just NOT have a nervous breakdown, it'll be a good day.
Check out my blog @ http://arikalisanne.vox.com/

My Interests

country and folk music, yoga, tv, reading, writing, cats, photography, spa life, news, developing a fashion sense (trying), crossword puzzles, being outside on beautiful days, Utah, boating on Lake Powell, riding horses, the desert, driving across the country, spending time with people I love

I'd like to meet:

people who are passionate.

Music:

Rosanne Cash, Mary Chapin-Carpenter, Joan Baez, Dixie Chicks, Dar Williams, Olivia Newton-John, Tim McGraw, Tori Amos, Gretchen Wilson, Trisha Yearwood, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carrie Underwood (my latest guilty pleasure), Garth Brooks, Billy Joel, The Eagles, Madonna, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Sugarland, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt... and a lot of others I can't think of right now

Movies:

Reality Bites, The Ice Storm, Romancing the Stone, When Harry Met Sally, Little Miss Sunshine, Tumbleweeds, Grease, Office Space, Working Girl, Tequila Sunrise, Xanadu, Walk the Line, Pretty Woman

Television:

Current: South of Nowhere, The L-Word, Ugly Betty (love it!!), Desperate Housewives, Boston Legal, Heroes (eh), Medium, Grey's Anatomy, ER, Big Love, EntourageClassic: Moonlighting, Dawson's Creek, Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place, The Practice, Hunter, Golden Girls, Murphy Brown, Facts of Life, Designing Women, Dallas

Books:

Under the Banner of Heaven, The Secret Life of Bees, she's Come Undone, Prep, Middlesex...anything by Anne Tyler, Jodi Picoult... trying to get into things that aren't so girly...

Heroes:

Joan Baez, Glenn Gordon Caron, Natalie Maines... My heroes have always been cowgirls...

My Blog

go!

You know when you've reached your boiling point sometimes... you know, when it's long past time to get out out of dodge.  I've always been happiest when I'm home, in L.A., even before it was my r...
Posted by arika on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:34:00 PST

stop

Okay, if one more person asks me, "so, when will you know if your show is coming back?" I might lose it.  It's not anyone's fault for asking, really.  They're just making conversation and re...
Posted by arika on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:18:00 PST

Come on... really??

Mia Farrow is offering her freedom in exchange for that of some important person you've never heard of, to help the struggle in Darfur.  I have news for you, Mia.  In parts of the world...
Posted by arika on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:22:00 PST

august should not be this complicated

I can't believe it but my job is almost done.  Seriously it feels like minutes ago we were just getting started and now it's over already.  I'm sad.  I liked my job, didn't want it to b...
Posted by arika on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:55:00 PST

upfront and center

For those of us in the TV business, it's an exciting, nailbiting, and crazy week as the networks announce what's on the fall schedule.  The latest updates can be found at zap2it, for those who ca...
Posted by arika on Wed, 16 May 2007 12:17:00 PST