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Betty

I feel pretty blissfully

About Me

I hate to write things in this part. I hate it so much I've spent the last 10 minutes writing and rewriting this stupid thing.

My Interests

Buddhism, France, travel, music, concerts, books, my friends, social justice, politics.

Music:

Green Day, Weezer, The Pixies, Built to Spill, REM, the Killers, Flogging Molly, the Vines, Inerpol, Hot Hot Heat, the Breeders, The White Stripes, Black Lab, The Streets, Nickel Creek, the Decemberists, Spoon, Postal Service, Jimmy Eat World, Modest Mouse, Broken Social Scene, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Local H, Daft Punk, Air, The Arcade Fire, Gotan Project, Stars, Portishead, Band of Horses, etc.

Movies:

Moulin Rouge and Lurhman's Romeo and Juilet, Happy Gillmore and Billy Maddison (guilty pleasures); Tennenbaums and Lost in Translation; Moonlight Mile, the Good Girl, and Donnie Darko; Pulp Ficition and the Kill Bills, Shawn of the Dead; Eternal Sunshine; L'Auberge Espangol, Amile, and Francois Truffaut's Antoine Donnel series (The 400 Blows, Love at Twenty, Bed and Board, Stolen Kisses, and Love on the Run); Stranger on a Train, Marny, and Stage Fright; Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring; High Fidelity and Better Off Dead; Kevin Smith's movies in this order: Chasing Amy, Clerks, Mallrats, and Dogma; The Edukators, Attack of the Killer Tomatos, Milo and Otis, Elling, Garden State, In America, Boondock Saints, Brokeback Mountain, Nightwatch, Lars and the Real Girl, Across the Universe, Superbad, Juno.

Television:

ER, Queer as Folk, Seinfield, Simpsons, Conan, The Riches, What Not to Wear, The Soup, and shitty reality tv.

Books:

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and You Shall Know Our Velocity; A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises; Grapes of Wrath and Cannery Row; American Psycho, Glamorama, The Rules of Attraction, Less Than Zero, The Informers, and Lunar Park; Take the Canoli, Middlesex.

Heroes:


You are a banana! Good job, captain obvious.

which rejected character are you?
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My Blog

schooled you, adri.

You Are 76% CaliforniaYou're so Californian, you belong in Hollyweird.How California Are You?...
Posted by Betty on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:35:00 PST

and you'll ask yourself: where is my mind?


Posted by Betty on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:51:00 PST

This is the kind of shit that gives me panic attacks.

I'm at the coffee shop working on the paper. As if the paper isn't enough to send me into a panic-induced coma here's what I've been reading all day:http://www.soaw.org/new/index.phphttp://en.wikipedi...
Posted by Betty on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 03:06:00 PST

cherrio!

I'm in London for the moment. In a few hours I get on a middle of the fucking night bus and head back to Gatwick for my flight to Marsilles. I've managed to only spend £40 (which is $80US) and hopeful...
Posted by Betty on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 03:43:00 PST

au revoir!

I leave for France in 10 and a half hours. This makes me nervous for many reasons, but we all know I'm prone to panic. I appologize to everyone who I was supposed to see before I left and didn't. I'v...
Posted by Betty on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 10:18:00 PST

... and when you scan the radio

I'm leaving for Arcata tomorrow (technically, later today, but I have yet to go to bed). I get to spend a week with Daivd (this is the treaty-est thing I've done all summer). We're going camping with ...
Posted by Betty on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:58:00 PST

babysitting is boring

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Posted by Betty on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 09:35:00 PST

The town is saying, "its time to go"

11:58 AM: me: "I want to move to San Fransisco" carrol, my manager: "Yeah, but the problem with that is that there's a lot of gay people there" me: "Uhm, thats not really a problem."   12:55 PM D...
Posted by Betty on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 05:11:00 PST

I wanted a change in the weather; I should have been more specific.

I fell asleep on the sofa last night watching Seinfeld dvds. This morning I woke up and went upstairs to get ready for work. 15 minutes ago I came downstairs to make oatmeal and heard a strange sound....
Posted by Betty on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:05:00 PST

3 weeks to go

I am still waiting for a response from the french community. I am leaving Mariposa in 3 weeks regardless of the reply. I cannot be here anymore and in 3 weeks I will have $2,000 in savings. It is ins...
Posted by Betty on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 04:22:00 PST