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Emily

Mississippi Music-Gal

About Me

I am a cellist with the Mississippi Symphony. I grew up in suburban Connecticut, moved to France when I was 11, moved back to the States when I was 14...at 18 I went to Boston University for 2 years--Boston is great but BU wasn't the place for me, so I transferred to Peabody Conservatory when I was 20. Baltimore is also a great city and Peabody is a terrific school. I finished my Bachelor's Degree there in '99 and stayed on to get my Master's in '01. Three months later I won the Mississippi Symphony audition, so I moved to Jackson. In 2004 I met a wonderful man. He is News and Sports Editor for a weekly newspaper in semi-rural central Mississippi. I moved out of the city (which was pretty crime-ridden, so I don't mind being away from it all) and despite thinking I was a big-city girl I LOVE living in the country. (We rent a four-bedroom Civil-War-era cottage on 1900 acres of woodland. I love the quiet and seclusion, and our cats love the huge 250-sq.ft. screened porch.) On May 27, 2006, my favorite newsman and I tied the knot in a beautiful, somewhat lavish, private ceremony in Jackson. We're no longer "newlyweds"--but we couldn't be happier.
Name: Emily
Birthdate: July 2, 1977
Birthplace: Hartford, CT
Current Location: Middle of nowhere, Mississippi
Eye Color: Brown (medium to dark)
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5'4"
Piercings: Ears
Tatoos: Nope.
Marital Status: Happily married to my angel
Overused Phrase: Dude! or Whatever
FAVORITES
Food: Anything Italian, Mexican, Asian, or catfish
Ice Cream: All of them
Number: 3, 5, 13, 19, 27
Color: Green and purple
Animal: 3PO, Pica, and Cougar...otherwise, all of them
Drink: Iced tea, coffee
Alcoholic Drink: Mudslides
Letter: E
Body Part on Opposite Sex: ;-P
YOUR
Bedtime: Whenever I finally fall asleep
Best Physical Feature: The one my husband drools over the most! ;-)
First Thought Waking Up: I love my husband (yeah, we're newly-weds)
Goal For This Year Already met it...got married. Other one: do chamber music.
Best Friends: My husband, my sister, and Anna.
Weakness: Shoes
Fears: Losing my "chops"
Heritage: Italian, Russian, Czech, Hungarian, and English
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HAVE YOU...
Ever drank? Yes
Ever been drunk? Not really...a little buzzed once or twice
Ever smoked? Ew. No.
Ever been beaten up? No.
Ever shoplifted? No.
Ever skinny-dipped? Not yet...but I will one of these days! ;-)
Ever kissed opposite sex? I'm married...what do you think?
Been dumped lately? Not since high school...not even then actually...
IN A GUY
Favorite Eye Color: Blue
Favorite Hair Color: Auburn or brown. With the blue eyes, really cool.
Long or Short Hair: Short.
Height: At least 5'8" but not more than 6'.
Style: A guy who knows how to dress himself. Not too GQ though.
Looks or Personality: Both. Especially personality.
Hot or Cute: Both.
Drugs or Alcohol: No drugs. It's okay if you drink though.
Muscular or Skinny: Some muscles...but I'm not into big buff dudes.
RANDOM STUFF
Regrets: Staying with my ex so durned long! Other than that, none.
Country you want to visit: Australia.
Do you like thunderstorms? Yes.
Do you get along with your parents? Sometimes.
Do you think you're attractive? Sometimes.
Do you believe in yourself? Usually.
Do you want to go to college? Been there, done that, got two degrees to prove it, and a whole lot of debt to pay off.
Do you want kids? Yes.
Do you have your kids' names picked out? Yes. Hallie Grace and Thomas Alan.
Do you hate anyone? Not really, although there are some people I think need to be taken off this earth.
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My Interests

Aside from my job, my interests are reading, surfing the net, doing puzzles (crossword, fill-ins, Sudoku, whatever--I'm a junkie), writing (mostly poetry, sometimes prose, sometimes music), cooking (I'm not a terrific cook, but I kind of enjoy it...and my hubby just raves about everything I cook, so I must be doing okay...), and playing with our "children"--three adorable cats. We have C3PO, a five-year-old mostly-black female who has some Siamese traits (long tail, pointy face, thin but muscular build, very smart and talkative); Pica, a three-year-old black-and-white male who looks like a panda bear (or a Holstein cow); and Cougar, a one-year-old gray tiger female. They are a hoot. Naturally, I also love any time I get to spend with my adorable husband.

I'd like to meet:

Already met him. Sorry, guys! But still looking for anyone who wants to be friends--girls or guys. If you're into music (Classical or any other genre), I'd like to meet you! This is a great place to network with other musicians and music-lovers.

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Music:

Just about anything, except Gangsta-rap. I'm a symphony cellist so naturally I love classical, but I really don't listen to it much outside of work unless the hubby has it playing on XMradio, and then I scare him (and sometimes myself) by calling out the name of the composer and sometimes the title of the work within the first few seconds of hearing it--I'm almost always right, too. I also like adult contemporary/easy listening, and since I've been in Mississippi I've gotten into country music (I used to hate it...now I think it's cool) and classic rock.

Movies:

Wow okay...so many to choose from...Dead Poet Society--carpe diem and Oh Captain my Captain...I just love it. Walk the Line was pretty good. Who knew Joaquin and Reese could SING??? Sleepless in Seattle was cute...I'm a cheeseball but I loved Titanic. Even the over-dramatic Celine song. In a completely different vein, the Bone Collector was also pretty good...although way creepy...I also like anything by M.Night Shyamalan. That guy is so cool!--and comes up with the most unusual and fun stories. So there it is...kinda eclectic.

Television:

I just love my Law and Order (and SVU) re-runs. West Wing...too bad it's gone. Commander in Chief--also got canned...I LOVED Homicide, especially when I lived in Baltimore and got to walk through the set every day. The CSI franchise is pretty good too. My hubby and I also like to watch MASH on late-night TV sometimes. I never liked it when I was a kid but it's pretty funny. Murder She Wrote is kinda cute and fun--sort of a guilty pleasure...Can't get into those reality shows--too phony...I also liked The Starter Wife on USA--it was another guilty pleasure like those smut novels women read in the summer on the beach--a little preposterous yet predictable, but kinda cute.

Books:

All of them. I'm a book junkie. I've read everything on my shelf at least 5 times. Always buying new ones...I had a Dean Koontz fetish a few years ago, but now I'm getting more into historical/religious thrillers and spy stuff like Dan Brown's books and stuff in that genre.

Heroes:

Goodness I don't know...Umm Jesus (okay, cheesy). My handsome husband (more cheesy). My cello teacher Misi Virizlay. Yo-Yo Ma. Johann Sebastian Bach. Johannes Brahms. Rita Guaspari (the woman on whose life the movie "Music of the Heart" was based). My friend (and cello section leader) Ben. Emily Dickinson. My parents.

My Blog

Kobe’s commitment called into question (what? again?)

It was just on the news (well, the USM football game's halftime report) that Kobe Bryant's commitment is being called into question. And we all say "What? Again?" Not quite. This time, it's his commit...
Posted by Emily on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:52:00 PST

Too many felines

Another cat just turned up in our yard--a brown, black, and white calico-tabby mix. From the cat's stocky build and the perfectly round shape of its head, I think it's a male; he seems to be frie...
Posted by Emily on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:22:00 PST

Low-Flying

A few months ago, somebody in a crop-duster spent several hours one afternoon buzzing our house. Chris called the sheriff and they apparently solved the problem. This morning, it happened again--the g...
Posted by Emily on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:01:00 PST

Local Wildlife

We have a new young family of deer on the property--a buck with mismatched antlers, a pretty little doe, and two adorable fawns. The mismatched buck reminds me of Leon Fleischer, the piano legend who ...
Posted by Emily on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:56:00 PST

Celebrity Deathmatch

Two odd "Aren't Celebrities Bizarre?" news stories to report this morning. The less bizarre one is that 23-year-old former American Idol runner-up Kate McPhee, this generation's Famous Face ...
Posted by Emily on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:13:00 PST

Puttin’ this town on the map...

This past weekend, Chris and I were driving home from the MSO season kick-off party at the Cheesmen's house, and we were talking about the strings program I'm planning to start in Scott County. W...
Posted by Emily on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:18:00 PST

Celebrity marriages

I was just reading what Ethan Hawke had to say about celebrity "marriages." It's pretty funny...in a rather (to quote Grace in "Will and Grace") ironical sort of way. First off, I'd just lik...
Posted by Emily on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:08:00 PST

Don’t go jumping to conclusions...

So I called my doctor's office today to get an appointment for an annual check-up. For some reason, even though I changed my name three months before my previous appointment (last August), they s...
Posted by Emily on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:02:00 PST

Our collective common sense quotient is dwindling exponentially--blame the Internet!

Yesterday evening, I read a sad story about a girl who killed herself after becoming another internet-sex-crime victim. Her mother, naturally, is calling for sites like MySpace and Facebook and the in...
Posted by Emily on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:36:00 PST

Too many felines

I noticed after the "Dixie Cat" blog I didn't mention anything else about that unfortunate little critter. We ended up naming her Scottie, and Chris' co-worker Tami ended up adopting her. We just didn...
Posted by Emily on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:43:00 PST