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Alli

I am here for Friends

About Me


I am a/an: liberal, nerd, yogi, friend, pet-lover, wife, academic, reader, archaeologist, daughter, traveler, dancer, odd mix of girly and fan-boy, sister, scholar, black belt, feminist, aunt, worrier.

I love: beautiful days, McDonalds hamburgers, Carvel ice cream cake.

I hate: intolerance, closed minds.

I try: not to worry so much, not to judge people.

Some favorite websites:

Pet Finder
Paper-Source
Design Sponge
Cute Overload
Miss Thrift

My Interests

Archaeology, ballet, taekwondo, yoga, travel, the smell of woodsmoke, my pets, Roman sculpture, the Roman provinces, crunching through fall leaves, chocolate, feminism in scholarship, going barefoot, animal rescue in general, greyhound rescue in particular, fashion magazines, knocking on wood, flossing religiously, sunny days.

I'd like to meet:

I'm not really interested in meeting anyone. I'm here to get in touch with people I already know.

Music:

The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Modest Mouse, Afghan Whigs, The Clash, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Flaming Lips, The White Stripes, Simon and Garfunkel, Tori Amos, Weezer, Radiohead, random techno, classical, and 80's pop.

Movies:

Star Wars (the original trilogy, none of this new crap), Gone with the Wind, Clerks, Royal Tenenbaums, Igby Goes Down, Labyrinth, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, The Big Lebowski, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Turning Pointe, Sixteen Candles, Disney's Sleeping Beauty, I *heart* Huckabees, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...the list goes on.

Television:

Arrested Development, Firefly, Simpsons, Seinfeld, South Park, Jeopardy, Random Cartoons of the "Adult Swim" variety (especially Home Movies), any makeover/home decorating shows on TLC, any horrible dating shows, such as Elimidate, The 5th Wheel, and of course, Blind Date.

Books:

I'm going to steal a page from Larkin and leave it at "Dorky Stuff." I love incredibly nerdy books, though I sadly don't get to read for fun very often now that I spend my life reading for school.

Heroes:

Aqua-Man!

My Blog

A blog forgotten...

...is no blog at all.Okay, this confirms it. I am the worst blogger ever. It doesn't matter on what site I attempt to do it - it doesn't get done. I apologize for the void in your life that only my...
Posted by Alli on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:29:00 PST

Let's hear it for wasting time

I'm feeling rebellious today. It's a holiday, and although I'm not doing anything (Emily's egg dying extravaganza yesterday has left me feeling quite full of Easter cheer...and candy), I don't want t...
Posted by Alli on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 10:41:00 PST

A Rose by Any Other Name...

Does it disturb anyone else that other people in the world have the exact same name that they do? For some reason, it bothers me. A Google "vanity search" of my maiden name shows that there is at le...
Posted by Alli on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:29:00 PST

New Hair!

New Hair!In the past few years, I've developed a "grow and chop" mentality concerning my hair. I like my hair both short and long, and I hate it both short and long. So I will chop it short, like it f...
Posted by Alli on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:37:00 PST

Fashion and Politics

If the title of this blog had you thinking that I posted some sort of deep thoughts on fashion in politics or the politics of fashion, I didn't. My 'deep thought' well is pretty much dried out after ...
Posted by Alli on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:49:00 PST

Back to Blogging - My Oscar Thoughts

Well here I am, blogging again (and still despising the word "blog" and all of its forms). I think it's been about six (seven?) months since I stopped paying attention to Xanga. I could have continu...
Posted by Alli on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:23:00 PST

I am bad at "blogging"

If you want to read journal entries, go to www.xanga.com/sophitia. Considering how bad I am about updating just one weblog, I'm pretty certain that I will never post a journal here.
Posted by Alli on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST