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Summer

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I grew up in Georgia. My sister and I are total opposites. My first drink was a shot of Jack Daniels when I was 13. At 12 I wanted to be an opera singer. I played softball for 5 years and figure skated for 4. I worked at a newspaper for five years. I've written a few books. I'm close to my grandmother. I love vanilla flavored ice cream. I have a pencil decorated with Pikachu sitting in my pen cup right here, but damn if I can remember where the hell that came from.
I'm a big quote fan.
"Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing."
--Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

My Interests

I like Kandinsky, Sedaris, Boopabilia (I amass Betty Boop stuff), sushi, dualities, anything scented lavender, Ginsberg, super string theory, the way books smell, New Orleans, jogging, postmodern's precession of simulacra, terms that sound overly academic but nice rolling off the tongue, WORDS, wave runners, Bosch, pizza, alpacas, seahorses, and probably a few other things.

I'd like to meet:

No one. Go away.

Music:

Radiohead, A Perfect Circle, PJ Harvey, Leonard Cohen, R.E.M., Depeche Mode, Tori Amos, Alanis Morissette, Spoon, Sarah McLachlan, Yello, Cracker, Tool, Smashing Pumpkins, Prince, Jucifer, The White Stripes, Sting, Placebo, Sister Machine Gun, Ben Folds, Bjork, Cowboy Junkies, Kasabian, Concrete Blonde, Massive Attack, The Violent Femmes

Movies:

Three Colours: Bleu, Blanc, Rouge; Out of Sight; When Harry Met Sally; Wonder Boys; Sense and Sensibility; Pulp Fiction; Being John Malkovich; The Princess and the Warrior; L.A. Story; The Pillow Book; Say Anything; Annie Hall; Reality Bites; Grosse Pointe Blank; Wild at Heart; The English Patient; Casablanca; Kill Bill; basically everything by Soderbergh and P.T. Anderson. Plenty others.

Television:

Scrubs, The Daily Show, Will and Grace, Buffy, Frasier

Books:

The Sheltering Sky; The Great Gatsby; Lolita; The Stranger; Beloved; To the Lighthouse; Tropic of Cancer; The Prince of Tides; The Awakening; Heart of Darkness; Henderson the Rain King; Murphy; The Bell Jar; The Fountainhead; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; The Consolation of Philosophy; Steppenwolf; Fahrenheit 451; White Oleander; Trout Fishing in America; Wuthering Heights...

My Blog

Going to New York this weekend

I'm excited! I've never been before. Also started a new job, which I'm enjoying, so yay.   That's all for now. I thought this would be a more upbeat update than the last. :)...
Posted by Summer on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:49:00 PST

Letting the days go by

I know it's been months since I've posted anything here. I've been having computer problems and I've also grown pretty tired of blogging, but I'll continue to post things occasionally.   Update:...
Posted by Summer on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 04:26:00 PST

Red sky at morning

Well, about two weeks ago I was fired from my job for making a very bad seating mistake- and it was graduation weekend, so the manager was pissed. Shit. I knew I wasn't cut out for the rest...
Posted by Summer on Tue, 30 May 2006 06:09:00 PST

I have to change fitness centers

because this psycho bodybuilder at the place where I currently work out won't stop bothering me. That, and my membership is about over anyway- and it's not that great of a fitness center in the first...
Posted by Summer on Tue, 02 May 2006 10:54:00 PST

Per Crystal's request a while ago...

The rules:Once you are tagged, you must post 6 [six] things about yourself which are either weird, unusual, habituary or just plain fun to hear about (and true!). Once you post these things in your b...
Posted by Summer on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:52:00 PST

If you're coming to the orgy on Saturday, remember to bring condoms and a casserole

Ha ha made you look. I was bored so I filled out another questionaire... EVERYONE HAS THEIR FIRSTS:FIRST REAL BEST FRIEND: JahariFIRST CELL PHONE: KyoceraFIRST FUNERAL: GrandfatherFIRST PET: My cat B...
Posted by Summer on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:26:00 PST

Woops

I thought my car was stolen this morning. Turned out it wasn't. Turned out, I'd completely forgotten that I'd parked my car a little ways down from my door last night since the people across from me w...
Posted by Summer on Sat, 08 Apr 2006 10:44:00 PST

Ah HAH

After several months of virtually nothing, I'm finally working on an outline for a new story. YAY. Also, a funny thing- I was just looking over a very old story, one I wrote when I was 17, to s...
Posted by Summer on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 12:32:00 PST

Can't get back to sleep. A lot on my mind right now.

Here's another great poem by Mr. Dunn. It's a bit long, but worth a read.   Round Trip by Stephen Dunn 1. I watched the prairie repeat itself until it got beautiful, the geometry of farms, th...
Posted by Summer on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 02:30:00 PST

A weighty subject

I just wanted to blog a little something about my personal struggles with body image for posterity, particularly for other women out there. Before: This is moi, getting my palm read in New Orlea...
Posted by Summer on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 04:51:00 PST