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leslie

I am here for Friends

About Me

I guess I am now truly Euro-trash...

My Interests

writing books that no one reads, running Swedish marathons, the fashion gaffes of Kim Jong Il, lightweight men's rowing, Estonia, former-Soviet Georgia, Bashkortostan, speaking broken Russian, crosswords, sno-cones

I'd like to meet:

my plate is kind of full right now but I am partial to wounded birds, odd ducks, glorious weirdos and pieces of work...

Music:

Bjork, Blur, Ride, Cure, Smiths, New Order, Joy Division, Pet Shop Boys, The Rentals, Stone Roses, Yo La Tengo, Neutral Milk Hotel, Belle and Sebastian, My Bloody Valentine, The Postal Service, Ladytron, Snow Patrol, Masha and the Bears

Movies:

House of Yes, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Royal Tennenbaums, Amores Perros, Strictly Ballroom, Moulin Rouge, Bringing up Baby, Babette's Feast, Better Off Dead, Lost in Translation

Television:

if I had the time and cable tv I would watch six feet under

Books:

Brothers Karamozov, Mrs. Dalloway, Portrait of the Artist, Canterbury Tales, Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Master and Margarita

My Blog

the latest...

Ciao ragazzi! Im sitting here watching a program on Italian TV called the Club thats kind of like a televised myspace. Theres a split screen and on one side a twenty-something guy or girl a...
Posted by leslie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

so smart

I am off to a brilliant start to my new academic career.. it is 8:45am, I have a 2 hr Italian test, written and oral, at 9 and am still drunk from last night.. I have convinced myself that this will o...
Posted by leslie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

the adventure continues...

Croatia was amazing.. I went to a little beach town called Rovinj on the Adriatic Sea.. all carved out of this white rock rising up dramatically through little twisted streets to a big church at the t...
Posted by leslie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

i am so spoiled

meeting a friend in venice tomorrow and heading off to the beaches of croatia for the weekend.. jealous?? :)
Posted by leslie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

day 4, I think

so, not much of an update.. I continue to be in love with my apartment.. particularly the stairwell leading up to it.. europeans are big on conserving electricity so the stairwell lights are on a time...
Posted by leslie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I have a home!

whooooaaaah.. so first of all, nobody is allowed to be offended by a lack of personal attention.. my new policy is just to post details on myspace since internet access is really sporadic.. but wow, i...
Posted by leslie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST