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Squishy Echinos

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

"i've just graduated from college, and now i'm taking a year off to see a bit of the world, teach a bit of english, make a bit of money, and realize once again why it is that i need to be in grad school next year. i'm into classics (that's greek and latin, not mozart) to the point of obsession, and i WILL talk about it. and yes, you will have to deal with that."i wrote that back in july. now that it's february, i have since found the ultimate job: rome tour guide. that's right. now i get PAID to talk classics. how cool is that?update: year off over. back to reality. university of texas classics department graduate student.

My Interests

languages, books, knitting, ping-pong, travel, red wine...

I'd like to meet:

more like refresh connections. considering i don't really browse.

Music:

whatever

Movies:

the princess bride, speak, the american president, monty python's life of brian, i,claudius, pride & prejudice (with jennifer ehle, NOT keira knightly)

Television:

haven't had a tv in over a year... the daily show??

Books:

the golden compass (his dark materials), catherine called birdy, the first man in rome (any books in that series), catullus, baudolino, vergil's georgics book IV, the blank slate, guns germs & steel, fear of flying, american gods

My Blog

aaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!

i've made a decision: only two more weeks of this.  that's all i can take.  wait, what the hell am i talking about?  i already can't take much more of this!  i have to say somethin...
Posted by Squishy Echinos on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:02:00 PST

jesus is...formaggio?

let me make this fast, as internet time is fucking expensive. in the last week, the following has happened: 1. i've acquired a boyfriend. 2. i've gotten my boyfriend in trouble when the alarm didn't...
Posted by Squishy Echinos on Sun, 23 Jul 2006 05:20:00 PST

ammazza mi.

um. so you know that whole romantic working-in-italy thing? yeah. so i'm here with a bunch of english teachers at this camp in the mountains near the austrian border, underpaid, understaffed, and c...
Posted by Squishy Echinos on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 02:59:00 PST

the morgue

i'm just writing to announce that after a year, i managed to successfully return to the morgue in trastevere, order a pizza with sausage and fiore di zucchini, and consume the entire thing while being...
Posted by Squishy Echinos on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:55:00 PST

night training

alice and i completed something i had vowed i would never do again: the night train from prague to rome.  17+ hours of joy. ok, so clearly i packed too much stuff: i was barely managing anything....
Posted by Squishy Echinos on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 05:09:00 PST

finale

i've been awhile, so here is what has been happening: 1. watched lots of world cup action in old town square and in zizkov beer garden, where they sell cheap beer and cheap sausages and you watch socc...
Posted by Squishy Echinos on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 09:45:00 PST

czech it out (haha bad pun...)

you've never heard czech before.  i certainly hadn't before i came to prague.  only the guy who speaks russian in our group really gets it.  but in case you're into useless knowledge, h...
Posted by Squishy Echinos on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 05:28:00 PST

friday night with TEFL

trying to prep a lesson for monday.  must find a song that pre-intermediate english students can understand that is (hopefully) on my ipod.  maybe "that face" from the producers?  we'll...
Posted by Squishy Echinos on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 07:20:00 PST

welcome to another bandwagon

ok, fine.  here i am.  i could be wrong, but i always thought that myspace was for 13-year-old girls and their 40-year-old stalkers.  but when my friends in prague seem to have identifi...
Posted by Squishy Echinos on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 05:28:00 PST