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Rachel

STAY IN SCHOOL!

About Me

Hello friends! I am a school counselor at Parras Middle School. Yay! I have done many things in my life that have prepared me to work with young people, and I love the path that I have chosen. I am both positive and inspired, realistic and optimistic. I am consistently calm, even in extremely dangerous situations. If you need help, I will give it to you-regardless of the sacrifice I have to make. I really enjoy keeping in contact with friends from all areas of my life, so feel free to send me a message and catch up.I AM ALSO ENGAGED! Please visit www.mywedding.com/mattlovesrachel

My Interests

I have a strange fascination with serial killers...I love my boxer dog, the holidays, museums, and jeans. I like days without studying, wrinkle-free work clothes, and made beds. Wrinkle-free because I have absolutely no interest in ironing anything ever. I am also frequently "interested" in milkshakes. I use at least four post-it notes a day to help organize my mind, so if I forget something, it is probably because I lost a post-it. I love movies, The Rock, my friends, concerts, nice dinners, BOXING, reading, counseling, and everything in between....especially sleep!

I'd like to meet:

Friendly people NOT interested as a love interest because I already have the best fiancee in the universe. Oh yeah, and Edward Gorey. And David Gilmore. And Mark Wahlberg.

Music:

Pink Floyd, The Weepies, Tom Petty, Ingrid Michaelson, Sarah McClachlan, MIA, Radiohead, The Pixies, Norah Jones, Gweny Gwen Gwen, Mercury Rev, Bjork, Flaming Lips, TuPac, Biggie, Big Pun, (all dead rappers pretty much), Fivacious, Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dixie Chicks, Sean Kingston, Handel, Enigma, Pink, MY FRIEND VICKI, anything beautiful, etc.

Movies:

There Will Be Blood, Stardust, Freedom Writers, Apocalypto, Blood Diamond, The Departed, Little Miss Sunshine, Gone With the Wind, Casablanca, Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile, Garden State, Sideways, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Godfather part 2, Arsenic and Old Lace, Duets, Empire Records, The Upside of Anger, In Good Company, Terminator 2, Pelican Brief, 10 Things I Hate About You, Dirty Dancing, Pretty Woman, The Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Serendipity, High Fidelity, Full Metal Jacket, Mission Impossible 1-3, Waitress, Silence of the Lambs, Old School, Outbreak, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Se7en, Triplets of Belleville, Alice in Wonderland, Anne of Green Gables, all westerns, Tim Burton's masterpieces, and anything involving Quentin Tarentino or Robert Rodriguez (cheater!).

Television:

Heroes, The Office, SEX AND THE CITY, House, Lost, CSI, Grey's Anatomy, Entourage, Pushing Daisies, The Tudors (I know, I know).

Books:

Portrait of a Killer, The Kiterunner, Three Cups of Tea, The Glass Castle, Empire Falls, Case Histories, One Good Turn, The Last Wife of Henry VIII, Please Stop Laughing at Me, The Borgia Bride, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Lovely Bones, The Other Boleyn Girl (ANYTHING BY PHILLIPA GREGORY), Memoirs of a Geisha, Harry Potter 1 through 7, The A-Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Harold Schecter, LOTR, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, The Wheel of Time series if it ever finishes, The Sackett Brand by Louis Lamour, She's Come Undone, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, The Red Tent, Lovely Bones, The Road, The Golden Compass, The Four Agreements, The Last Wife of Henry VIII, The Bad Girls' Guide to the Open Road, The Lorax, The Giving Tree, Goodnight Moon, Stargirl, The DSM IV b/c diagnosing people is fun, the Bible, and a ton of other books because if it's good, I won't put it down.

Heroes:

Anne Boleyn, Lucrezia Borgia, The Lorax (I just love that little guy).

My Blog

Getting Married

Well, here's the thing.  People keep messaging me with questions like "So, when are you getting married?" and "Hey, when is it your turn?" and strange things like that.  Let me clue everyone...
Posted by Rachel on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:09:00 PST

Part Time Jobs, Death of a Friends Father, and a New Start

So, I've been thinking a lot, and I just wanted to share some of my thoughts with my friends. As many of you know, I have started working as a School Counselor at Parras Middle School in Redondo Beach...
Posted by Rachel on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:09:00 PST

Weirdest Week Ever

Wow.  This has been one of the strangest weeks of my life by far.  First of all, my little sister broke up with her boyfriend of three years.  She did it with such resolve and such grac...
Posted by Rachel on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:01:00 PST

I got a courtesy wave at the 101-405 interchange!

A little over a year back, I read a friend's blog about a situation where she let someone in front of her on the freeway, and they neglected to provide her with "the courtesy wave," to acknowledge her...
Posted by Rachel on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:45:00 PST

Dave Matthews at Verizon Wireless Ampitheater

As many of you know, Matt and I saw Dave Matthews Band at the Verizon Wireless Ampitheater (formally known as Irvine Meadows) last night.  I haven't been to this venue since it was "The Meadows,"...
Posted by Rachel on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:58:00 PST

Some Movies I Want to Discuss

Okay, so my mood used to be contemplative, but now it is not!!!!  I wrote this super long blog, and then I went to preview it, and it erased the entire thing and wouldnt let me go back!!!!!!&nb...
Posted by Rachel on Sat, 07 Jan 2006 10:47:00 PST