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Amanda

Friction is a drag.

About Me


I love horses. I am in love with my boyfriend. I hate when people whine too much. And when people talk without saying anything. I am pro-gay marriage. I am against the Federal government’s efforts to tell a woman how to regulate her body. I love books. I hate television. I love being motivated. I hate rap music. I love the smell of rain. I hate racist people. I'm a science and math nerd. I don't really like history or politics. I don’t like red meat. I hate people who try to tell others how to think. I love cuddling with the one I love. I hate fighting with anyone. I like being someone who everyone thinks I am not. I hate how my parents try to make me what they want me to be. I love weird photographs. I want to live my life how I see fit, not how anyone else thinks I should. I am myself and no one else...
You are a super geek
You are into everything that is geeky – which is hard because there are so many types of geeks. You are very smart and have a great imagination. People who call you a geek are just jealous, right?
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My Interests

-horses
-beauty
-eccentricity
-reading
-sweating
-determination
-smoothies
-goals
-showering
-effort
-intellectual conversations
-laughing
-toast
-memories
-swimming
-water parks
-the beach
-music
-honesty
-intelligence
-persistence
-rain
-bicycles
-dressing up
-contrast
-cheesecake
-Tic Tac Toe
-sleep
-ice cream
-dates

I'm happy because it beats being depressed; I'm moody because too many people are hypocritical. I'm angsty, I'm devious, I'm harsh, I'm affectionate, I'm a dreamer, I'm an aesthetic, I'm not who you think I am.

Music:

-A Perfect Circle
-Bad Religion
-Barenaked Ladies
-Blue Oyster Cult
-Boy Sets Fire
-Brand New
-Breaking Benjamin
-Bush
-Counting Crows
-Cruxshadows
-Darkane
-Dave Matthews Band
-David Bowie
-Def Leppard
-Depeche Mode
-Eve 6
-Everclear
-H.I.M.
-Iced Earth
-Incubus
-Jane's Addiction
-Jimmy Eat World
-Led Zeppelin
-Marilyn Manson
-Matchbox Twenty
-NINE INCH NAILS
-Pink Floyd
-Pixies
-Rammstein
-Smashing Pumpkins
-Smile Empty Soul
-Smoking Popes
-Soil
-Soilwork
-Story of the Year
-Suicidal Tendencies
-Switchfoot
-System of a Down
-Taproot
-The Dandy Warhols
-The Doors
-Third Eye Blind
-Vertical Horizon
-Verve Pipe

Movies:

-American Beauty
-Benny and Joon
-The Breakfast Club
-The Butterfly Effect
-Dead Poets Society
-Donnie Darko
-Edward Scissor Hands
-Ferris Bueller's Day Off,
-Monty Python and the Holy Grail
-The Rocky Horror Picture Show
-most horrible 80's movies

Television:

I hate tv...it's just another way for Americans to be fat and lazy...

Books:

-Brave New World
-The Bell Jar
-Kissing Doorknobs
-Hard Love
-Lord of the Flies
-The Perks of Being a Wallflower
-Define Normal
-To Kill a Mockingbird
-Razzle
-Romeo & Juliet
-You Don't Know Me
-The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Heroes:

Anyone who doesn't let their own personal fears get in the way of their ability to be there for others they care about.

My Blog

Oops

Recently, I've had a very strong urge to start swearing.  I'm not really sure why.  However, maybe what just happened to me will curb that urge...I just visited Nick on his break at Vons and...
Posted by Amanda on Sat, 19 May 2007 06:02:00 PST

Don't talk to me. Don't speak to me. Stay with me.

Caring for Your Introvert by Jonathan Rauch   Do you know someone who needs hours alone every day? Who loves quiet conversations about feelings or ideas, and can give a dynamite presentation to a...
Posted by Amanda on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:09:00 PST

Gorilla.

I met Nick for dinner tonight.  Like usual, I stopped to look at the little claw machine to see if any of the toys were obtainable.  Then...we saw it...the Las Vegas-esque gorilla.  We ...
Posted by Amanda on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:20:00 PST

Look what I got this weekend!

Their names are Tangent and Pi.  Tangent is the bigger one with the lighter face.  She's really playful.  Pi, although also playful, is more cuddly than  Tangent.  I believe t...
Posted by Amanda on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:11:00 PST

Go away.

I'm in Alaska now on my "vacation."  Yesterday, I sat on an airplane all day to go from Ontario Airport to Anchorage, Alaska.  Today, I sat on a train all day to get to Denali National Park....
Posted by Amanda on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:29:00 PST

Magazines

I got another Scientific American Mind magazine today.  I still haven't had time to read the previous one.  They're so good...I want to read them!  (I've read a couple articles but not ...
Posted by Amanda on Wed, 31 May 2006 12:28:00 PST

The dangers of education

Does anyone else find it strange that I was wondering how to determine the specific heat capacity of my Eggos this morning?  I suppose it could be found using calorimetry but then the eggo would ...
Posted by Amanda on Thu, 25 May 2006 11:21:00 PST

What is school for?

The professor's argument for the abolition of the degree and grading system produced a nonplussed or negative reaction in all but a few students at first, since it seemed, on first judgment to destroy...
Posted by Amanda on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:57:00 PST

Nerdiness = Awesomeness

Since it's finals week, Noam and I studied for our Chemistry final tonight after we took our Engineering final.  After talking about strange things like bananas, eel sex, and foreign foods, we en...
Posted by Amanda on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:42:00 PST

Woo hoo...

My 42 page final report for Chemical Engineering is finally finished.  Now it's time to start worrying about finals.  In a week and a half, winter quarter will be over, hooray!
Posted by Amanda on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:57:00 PST