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Maggie

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About Me

After nearly a decade in the Biggest Little City, I moved to Portland last weekend. It's very exciting and just a teensy bit scary. But Portland is such a cool place, I'm looking forward to exploring my new surroundings!HOT Myspace Layouts

My Interests

Being silly. :)

I'd like to meet:

Britney Spears. I just don't understand how someone could have that much money and influence and still have such hideous personal style. It boggles my mind. Maybe she does it on purpose to keep people like me interested?

Music:

My fabulous big brother (okay, bro-in-law) just got me a subscription to eMusic and I am still reeling from all the new options that are now available to me. My first download was this song by The Walkmen. Isn't it dreamy?

Movies:

I've been watching a lot of tv shows on Netflix, and now I don't have the attention span for movies.

Television:

Lost, now that it's back on. Veronica Mars. Grey's Anatomy. The Office. My Name is Earl. The Simpson's.

Books:

Some books that have affected my thought process: The Little Princess (Burnett), The Secret Garden (also Burnett-that guy really knows the way to a little girl's heart!), The Trumpet of the Swan (White), Pastures of Heaven (Steinbeck), Frankenstein (Shelley), Les Miserables (Hugo), The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald), The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway), The Little Prince (Exupery), The Hundred Secret Senses (Tan), Jurassic Park (Crichton-before I read this book I had no idea math and science could be cool), The Celestine Prophecy (Redfield-it blew my mind but I'm still not sure I get it...was it fantasy or was it supposed to be real? it made me think, at any rate, and I like things that are both compelling and confusing), Peace is Every Step (Hahn), and Oh! The Places You Will Go (Suess). And pretty much anything by Stephen King because I think he has a great imagination. And I always liked reading Shakespeare, although admittedly I don't always get what's happening without someone acting it out for me. And technically that should be in the "Stage" section, rather than the "Books" section.

Heroes:

My boss, partly because she demonstrates that a woman can have an education, a powerful position, financial security, and a family, and her family doesn't get neglected because of her career. And also because she's put up with quite a bit of crap from me over the years and still signs my paychecks. And anyone who tries to make the world slightly more fair.

My Blog

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To continue: 31. I left off with religion, so that's where I'll pick back up. Although Christianity is the organized religion I identify with most, I do not consider myself specifically Christian. I w...
Posted by Maggie on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:16:00 PST

I want to be like Morgan and Marc

On their blog, Morgan and Marc have decided to follow the trend of posting 100 interesting facts about themselves (except that Morgan has stalled out at the halfway point-you better finish! I want the...
Posted by Maggie on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:46:00 PST

A large white smear

Just now I looked down and saw that I had a little crumble of deoderant in my lap (which, by the way, is totally annoying, why does deoderant do that? does that happen to everyone, or just me?). So I ...
Posted by Maggie on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:14:00 PST

Mon nez

My latest profile pic has refocused my attention on the size and shape of my nose.  I don't think it's an entirely accurate representation of my nose, as my camera has a fixed focus lens and some...
Posted by Maggie on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:20:00 PST

My week in review

I just realized I haven't written a blog yet this week.  Probably because nothing extremely interesting has happened.  I have a line on a cool studio on the riverfront in Portland, so I've s...
Posted by Maggie on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:35:00 PST

Slicker than snot

I can't help but complain about the damn snow some more. When I left work yesterday it was snowing those little tiny pellets that kind of hurt when they hit you in the face.  By the time I got to...
Posted by Maggie on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:37:00 PST

"I can taste the MSG."

Last summer Holly and Eric's wedding party was madly putting the final decorating touches on Dogmusher's Hall in preparation for their wedding reception during the final hours before the rehearsa...
Posted by Maggie on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:09:00 PST

On visual acuity

Yesterday my parents and I were returning to my grandma's house from an afternoon of outlet mall shopping just a few minutes after sunset. As we were cresting my grandma's driveway, I saw several deer...
Posted by Maggie on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:09:00 PST

Seeing stars

Sometimes I can see little flashes of light in my peripheral vision. Generally it's when I'm really exerting myself, or sometimes if I've been kneeling too long in church (okay, that hasn't happened i...
Posted by Maggie on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:03:00 PST

I am but a cog in the machine

Sometimes when I am especially bored at work I think, "Is this really the best use of my time?? Did I really spend all those years being bored in school just so I could be bored in a cubicle? Is makin...
Posted by Maggie on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:00:00 PST