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Kristen

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About Me

Exit, pursued by a bear...

Eddie Izzard - Death Star Canteen
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids....

My Interests

drumming in The Personals, houses with vaulted ceilings and spiral staircases, dark bars, swimming holes, science stuff and space stuff, sleeping, harvest gold things, crocodiles, rock & roll, friends, my large black cat, parties, beer, 1960s and 1970s houses, people who like music a lot, pate and homemade bread and butter pickles, college football, Austin, sunshine, and more rock & roll.

I'd like to meet:

Robert Smith

Music:

*******************************************LOCAL BANDS I SUPPORT THAT YOU SHOULD TOO: the real heroes, midori umi, household names, the ugly beats, the yuppie pricks, the vacation gold, that's mister to you, the unbearables, the action is, nooner, bag 100, the total foxes, militant babies, lions, okkervil river, the ravines, grand champeen, nagel, amplified heat, michelle anthony, the bedazzlers, the dolly partners, adrian and the sickness, the karaoke apocalypse, peter elliot and the sellouts, and many, many more.

Movies:

lost in translation, the ice storm, fargo, the sweet hereafter, high fidelity, school of rock, smoke, almost famous. judy garland movies, star trek movies, war movies.

Television:

star trek, UT football, project runway and top chef.

Books:

Discover magazine. Nicholson Baker.

Heroes:

my grandmother was the most wonderful human being on the face of the planet.

My Blog

hungry.

So, I've been on this no-cholesterol (or at least extra-low-cholesterol) diet for about a month now, trying to get my levels down before the doc puts me on drugs for the rest of my life.  I've be...
Posted by Kristen on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:17:00 PST

new lamp

Finally, almost two years after buying the house, I've replaced the god-awful eyesore of a lamp that hung in my dining room.  I cannot describe the feeling of relief I am experiencing. The n...
Posted by Kristen on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:18:00 PST

this one’s a tad harder

Name the mascots.  I could only remember 47. http://www.sporcle.com/games/ncaateamnames.php      ...
Posted by Kristen on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:48:00 PST

zzz

Is it football season yet?  Here's a good quiz: http://www.sporcle.com/games/ncaamajorconference.php My attempt kinda sucked--I scored 51.    ...
Posted by Kristen on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:13:00 PST

shaking like milk

Last night's set at Austin Music Hall, by far the smallest venue I've ever seen (and will ever see) The Cure in: Open, Fascination Street, alt.end, Torture, The End ofthe World, Lovesong, The Big Hand...
Posted by Kristen on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:23:00 PST

WHEW. another item off the list

I passed my Spanish translation test!!!  Unbelievable! I took it last night, and it was bloody HARD.  We're talkin' REALLY difficult.  I had to translate a bunch of stuff from a Spanish...
Posted by Kristen on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:04:00 PST

FINISHED MY THESIS!

After over 2 years of the horrible weight of my Master's thesis hanging over my head, it is done.  I just turned in the complete, fixed-up, draft.  Basically a 2nd-to-last draft. ...
Posted by Kristen on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:50:00 PST

yep.

Thanks, Erin, for finding this gem!...
Posted by Kristen on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:17:00 PST

aughr!!

is it ever going to stop raining!?!?   i feel like bashing my head against a wall.   then crawling in a hole.  miserable.  I CAN'T TAKE IT ANY MORE!!!...
Posted by Kristen on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 02:47:00 PST

AWOL (me); some explanation.

I have been seriously missing in action lately, and there are several friends that I miss greatly and wish I had plans with, say, tonight.  I thought I'd sorta explain why the recent AWOL status,...
Posted by Kristen on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:23:00 PST