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julie

more joy, less shame

About Me

- i live in a 115-year-old house with several people and one 32-toed cat.
- i divide my time between a few different nanny gigs, a vintage shop, fun stuff, and pretty soon school.
- i like riding bikes.
- my room is overflowing with unusual objects.
- i am now cpr certified.
- i have too many hobbies sometimes.
- daylight savings!!

octavian!

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My Interests

daylight savings, cat and girl, knitting, reading, queers, lindy hop, activism, procrastination, movies, singing, feminism, ethical living, waxing intellectual, community empowerment, writing, stitching and bitching, time-suckage, dead-end jobs, guerilla magnet collecting, grad school, lazy gardening, sheet mulch, the early 1940's, vintage clothing, vintage sewing & knitting, estate sales, riding my bike, the multnomah county library system, rainy days, reclaiming and reusing, permaculture, sustainability, growing food, community supported agriculture, not eating animals, affordable natural and conventional healthcare for everyone, free piles, building stuff out of trash, octavian!

I'd like to meet:

people in north/northeast portland who have stuff in common with me, etc. vintage lovers, chicken enthusiasts, permaculture enthusiasts, weirdos, and especially those of you who are all-of-the-above! however, all the perfect ethics in the world won't mean shit to me if you're not able/willing to be a nice person.

Music:

ani difranco, morrissey (pre-21st century), iron and wine, the gossip, belle and sebastian, kimya dawson, cocorosie, regina spektor, justice, mary timony, sleater-kinney, bikini kill, cadallaca, the ditty bops, cat stevens, joni mitchell, le tigre, rilo kiley, elliot smith, the pretenders, lily allen, carla bruni, the blow, anita o'day, helen forrest, ella mae morse, all the old big bands, ska (nobody listens to ska anymore!), chick stuff, old stuff, etc, etc, etc, etc.

Movies:

ghost world, fight club, but i'm a cheerleader, office space, all over me, boogie nights, watcher in the woods, parent trap and parent trap 2, reality bites, the royal tenenbaums, high art, E.T., amelie, before sunrise, say anything, harold and maude, welcome to the dollhouse, pumpkin, my summer of love, drugstore cowboy, john waters movies, dick, bring it on, anything with deanna durbin, orchestra wives, moon over miami, the wizard of oz, the bachelor and the bobbysoxer, other old movies, me and you and everyone we know, girl interrupted, edward scissorhands, anything else with winona ryder, the slums of beverly hills, whale rider, motorcycle diaries, dirty pretty things, and again, i always leave stuff out. new favorite: shortbus.

Television:

CARNIVALE. freaks and geeks. space ghost c2c. degrassi. l-word (a guilty, once-a-year, renting-on-dvd pleasure).

Books:

joyce carol oates, wendy-o matik, katherine dunn, chuck palahniuk, upton sinclair, michelle tea, margaret atwood, sylvia plath, anne sexton, bell hooks, simone de beauvoir, david holmgren, john robbins, pat califia, judith butler, gayle rubin, beverly cleary, mattilda aka matt bernstein-sycamore, ray bradbury, george orwell, laurie halse anderson, judy blume, daniel clowes, danzy senna, anne-marie macdonald, maud hart lovelace, nick hornby, barbara kingsolver, rebecca wells. my favorite (NW-specific) gardening book is Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway. i'm currently reading: nobody passes by mattilda, and we were the mulvaneys by jc oatesplease give me book recommendations, i will love you forever!

Heroes:

the childlike empress.

My Blog

return of the sewing machine!

my sewing machine hadn't gone anywhere... although the cord was missing for a couple months. by the time i found it, my machine and table were buried under mounds of stuff needing fixing!first things ...
Posted by julie on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:15:00 PST

one year...

yesterday was my one-year boobiversary! that means that one year ago yesterday i had my breast reduction surgery.it was a good decision, even though i would have liked to be smaller.because i know you...
Posted by julie on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 01:01:00 PST

rain

we're having a couple days of midsummer rain, which has been a nice change from the sun and heat! it's also giving my skin a chance to take a break from tanning. i've been outside so much that i'm dar...
Posted by julie on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:10:00 PST

things i need

things i need/desire:- someone to come fiddle with my stereo speakers so they stop being crackly- a lot of appointments this month for dentistry and eyes and girl stuff, before my insurance runs out!-...
Posted by julie on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:09:00 PST

school update (for beth)

although i'm a bit late getting started, i've begun having transcripts sent to PSU, and my application is filled out and ready to send after work! i really hope i can still get into that math class i ...
Posted by julie on Mon, 21 May 2007 02:01:00 PST

what's going on...

the move is done! sort of. i'm actually moving into a room upstairs in a couple weeks. meaning, my room is a disaster but there really isn't much i can do about it now! my new room is bigger, has a mi...
Posted by julie on Thu, 03 May 2007 12:40:00 PST

new henhouse!

the new henhouse has been found! currently it's a doghouse that is stuffed into the back of my car. it looks like a cartoon doghouse. sturdy, pitched, shingled roof, and an opening cut into one of the...
Posted by julie on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:37:00 PST

it's spring!

i cannot fully express my relief that it's spring! we've been doing some work in the yard - still cleaning up the mess it was in when we got it, and improving upon that. today we got caught out in a r...
Posted by julie on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:46:00 PST

new car new car omg omg omg

i did it! i bought a car today! i can't believe the hassle it was, either. it involved making a hundred phone calls, a mad dash for the bus, more phone calls from pay phones, and then a fast test...
Posted by julie on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 09:12:00 PST

sunday night

i got a tattoo yesterday and found out i'm a big baby. my body still aches from clenching itself in pain. no dancing for me tonight, although i was planning to go. pictures soon...ellen is off housesi...
Posted by julie on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:51:00 PST