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katie

women are meant to be obscene, not heard

About Me


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“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion." Jack Kerouac



My Interests

policy, feminism, international development, traveling, photography, whiskey, trampolines, dancing, fun, happiness, smiles, people....

I'd like to meet:

people with mystique and personality, creativity and intelligence. people who work and play and make life into something worth living.

Music:

Decemberists, Dar Williams, Ani DiFranco, Wilco, Liz Phair, Modest Mouse, Dashboard Confessional, Bitch & Animal, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, Tegan & Sara, Carole King, The Pretenders , The Postal Service, Cat Power, LeTigre, Damien Rice, The Waifs, Union Station, The Shins, The White Stripes - a little of something from a little of everywhere

Television:

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Books:

Zami: A new Spelling of my Name - Audre Lorde, Chuck Palahniuk, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Paradise - Anything Toni Morrison, On the Road (classic) - Kerouac, Naked, One Day me Talk Pretty - David Sedaris, The Wall Between - Anne Braden, Peggy McIntosh, Zora Neale Hurston, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sonia Alvarez, Angela Davis, Bell Hooks, Laura Kipnis, Betty Friedan, Simone, Amrita Basu...

Heroes:

my life is enchanted with amazing people...

My Blog

arepas, tinto, teaching, costeñas, etc.

3 months in Colombia, quickly approaching. I´ve become an arepaholica. Arepas. Corn stuff with cheese, appx $.25. Tinto in the morning, in the evening and underneath the moon. Little cups. For little...
Posted by katie on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:43:00 PST

okay, first stop bogota

The school I'm going to isn't opening the Quito location until May... Thus leaving me the awful alternative of Bogota... the rich cultural center of Colombia, most acclaimed nightlife in South America...
Posted by katie on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:07:00 PST

on my way south... way south. ecuador.

So I've started into my final planning phases of this move that took what seemed like 4 years, actually 4 months, to pull together. I've been immunized, I've picked out the school, I've got a request ...
Posted by katie on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:58:00 PST

life in covington..........

one month past, two to go. i'm living in covington, living with my parents, working two jobs - both jobs i had in college. this might be fruition of life moving in circles. i'm working long hours in a...
Posted by katie on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:19:00 PST

time and space

2 days before I end my 21st year, 2 months before I leave the country indefinitely, 2 years after I moved to new york city... i've been knocked into a state of self evaluation... to think about the re...
Posted by katie on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:55:00 PST

reinventing life plans

for each day a new life plan...the latest however has become a bit more concrete:Vancouver - May 23-July 15Living with Marnie Tamaki, global coordinator for women's participation in the World Urban Fo...
Posted by katie on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:04:00 PST

modern dance and faux hawks

audition in six days. yesterday i practiced jumping off a fifteen foot platform onto my stomach. flying, they call it. i also learned some hot modern dance routines where me and my duet partner fly ac...
Posted by katie on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:22:00 PST

jummmmmp

So... Two weeks from tomorrow I awaken to an audition to be part of a performance company... my mad trampoline skills are in demand. www.strebusa.org The auditions make me nervous but the sport makes...
Posted by katie on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 02:57:00 PST