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Tracy Blue Jeans

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About Me

Here are some anagrams of my name: Machos Ratty, Toasty Charm, Stomach Tray, Starchy Moat, Throaty Scam, A Macho Tryst, A Scrota Myth (obviously my favorite), March Ya Tots, Chart My Oats, Chat Smart Yo, Most Achy Rat, Cram That Soy... I could do this all day...

My Interests

books, NPR, naps, Learning to Love You More

I'd like to meet:

maps! I need to meet maps!

Music:

Sufjan Stevens, Regina Spektor

Movies:

Melvin Goes to Dinner, Kissing Jessica Stein, Amelie, Harold and Maude, Death to Smoochy, Cold Comfort Farm, Shaun of the Dead, Stranger than Fiction

Television:

Ace of Cakes, House, Arrested Development, The Office

Books:

No one belongs here more than you, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, White Noise, Cruddy, Like Life, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Pink Think, Affluenza, The Hunters, Timequake, Bad Behavior

Heroes:

Miranda July

My Blog

i suck at meditating

So I am trying to empty my mind, which is harder than it seems like it should, not that my head is full of profound thoughts -- it's mostly full of crap -- but it's FULL nevertheless.  I can't th...
Posted by Tracy Blue Jeans on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:20:00 PST

My first earthquake!

"OAKLAND, Calif., Oct 30 (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck in a rural area about 9 miles (15 km) northeast of San Jose, California, Silicon Valley's biggest city, on Tuesday night, the U.S...
Posted by Tracy Blue Jeans on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:29:00 PST

somnia: "hyper" and "in"

So I have a theory, based on a uncontrolled, unscientific study (N=1), that antidepressants are not particularly helpful for actual "depression", although maybe they treat some of the sympto...
Posted by Tracy Blue Jeans on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:39:00 PST

"and I was like..."

The following is an incomplete list of my verbal tics.  I'm trying to decide whether I should quit some of them, so as to stop sounding like an idiot: 1. "F*ck" -- I say it a lot. ...
Posted by Tracy Blue Jeans on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:34:00 PST

The First Cut is the Deepest, apparently

1. Who was your first prom date?It would have been Chris James, but Greg convinced him to break up with me after I'd already bought my dress and shoes.  So instead it was Jeff Something-or-other ...
Posted by Tracy Blue Jeans on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:39:00 PST

w/ instant COOL BURST sensation

I've been in bed for the past two days w/ sinus headache of doom.  My whole face hurts (and that's the part where you say, "Yeah, it's killing me!")  Today Joshua bought me so...
Posted by Tracy Blue Jeans on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 06:42:00 PST

I feel bad about my hippocampus

Okay, okay, I get the point -- I am annoying when I act like a kicked dog.  I will attempt to stop.  I am reading back issues of The Believer, because it takes me a long time, a dictionary,...
Posted by Tracy Blue Jeans on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:08:00 PST

cognitive dissonance

This is sort of a continuation of a response to one of Wendy's blogs -- I realized I was starting to ramble on about myself in a way that was probably too narcissistic to qualify as a "comment", inste...
Posted by Tracy Blue Jeans on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:35:00 PST

anagrams

I have a new favorite thing!  http://wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html anagram (an-uh-gram) noun A word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.For example, Elvis...
Posted by Tracy Blue Jeans on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:18:00 PST

best job ever?

So for the past couple of weeks I've been getting phone calls and emails from recruiters trying to steal me away from my current job. Seriously, if anyone needs a new career, I can't recommend montior...
Posted by Tracy Blue Jeans on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:44:00 PST