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About Me

What you see is pretty much what you get.
I have a B.A. in French and a B.S. in Journalism plus a European Studies certificate to boot.
I like to hang out with positive people, dance like a crazy fool and ponder the vastness of the universe.
Music rules, good food rules just as hard. But most of all, I love beautiful souls.
Pollution sucks. Littering sucks. Hatred sucks. Ignorance sucks. Illiteracy sucks. War sucks. Opression sucks. The humanitarian in me wants to stop it all, the realist in me knows it can never be stopped.
I like the silence of rain and the sound of snow.
I like to write because I like the way words taste.
I STILL have no career goal in mind. Financially, it scares me. I would be happy to wander around the world for a few years... or forever.
I made a Goal List in seventh grade. I have crossed off 21 of 101 items. Not too shabby.
I like short sentences when writing for effect, but have a strange addiction to commas - most definately my favorite form of puntuation followed closely by the elipses.
I love water. I can't swim.
I was a coxswain for my rowing team.
I find it funny when high-ranking people misuse the word "myriad."
I have an addiction to long distance relationships... disasterous relationships. But always beautiful beautiful.
I seek truth.
I exaggerate.
I tell white lies to make people happy. Sissela Bok says I can.
I hate myself for all that hypocrisy.
I don't know what I want to do with my life.
I am in love with intangibles.
I fear for my profession.
I live in Romilly-sur-Seine, Champagne-Ardenne, France. Call it a lifelong dream fulfilled. I teach English to high school students. I don't think I am that good of a teacher, but maybe I am just trying too hard to change the world. My contract is up in May.
I've travelled all over the world, but the one place I call home is wherever Brandon is. I've finally managed to find someone that deserves to share my life.

My Interests

Crew, le fran?ais, photography, writing, outside, music, intelligent people, business cards, graphic design, intersting people with lives that I'll never experience, Qu?bec, Europe, creativity, freedom, sunshine, road trips, concerts, Donkey coffee, pens, artwork
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I'd like to meet:

My late great-grandfather Trygve...
People who will just talk to me, tell me their story. People who will go out and experience things with me. People that have kissed life and will tell me all about it.
I want to meet people who I can teach and those who can teach me. I want to wake each day mentally stimulated by the people I know and do not know yet.

Music:

I like intersting stuff for intesting moods
Sigh... I never seem to pick the right music or can think of what I really like. I like most of everything, save country. Ambient, new wave, hardcore, classical, classic rock, alternative, post rock, punk, pop punk, lately more hip hop than I imagined, girl rock... you know. All of it. Music.

Movies:

Donnie Darko, The Last Unicorn, American Beauty, The Big Lebowski, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Matrix, Fight Club, Almost Famous, Boondock Saints, Finding Nemo, Waking Life, Wet Hot American Summer, LOTR Trilogy, Girl Interrupted, Boys Don't Cry, Forrest Gump, Office Space, Shawshank Redemption, Waiting, X-Men Trilogy, Love Actually
you know, all the typical college stuff.

Television:

Kill your TV.

But I love Project Runway... ok, anything on Bravo... and Nip/Tuck... and Deadliest Catch... and Heroes... and Jericho... oh I love TV. I hate TV.

Books:

"You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing anti-war books?"
"No. What do you say, Harrison Starr?"
"I say, 'Why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?'"
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.

And so it goes, Mr. Vonnegut.

Le Petit Prince, The Last Unicorn, Just a Couple of Days, Fahrenheit 451, On the Road, Cat's Cradle, The Fountainhead... all the Ast?rix albums!, White Fang, On the Road, Watership Down, Harry Potter... I should read more "big kid" books, eh?
Anything by Vonnegut, Hiaassen and the like.

Heroes:

Genuis folks

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My Blog

OH-IO! truisms

I agree with ALL of these. The heart of it all...Comedian Jeff Foxworthy on Ohio:You may be from Ohio (pronounced "ah-hi-uh") if:You think all Pro football teams are supposed to wear orange.You know a...
Posted by MerMar on Sun, 05 Feb 2006 03:47:00 PST

theraputic deluge

What a week it has been. Current complaint of the hour is that the layers - that's right, layers - of carpet in my bedroom have reached the cycle point where they smell a lil funky. Complaint of this ...
Posted by MerMar on Fri, 07 Oct 2005 08:16:00 PST

FISHIE

Ok. I am never going to write about the last two weeks in Canada. DEAL. I am also probably never going to write about my last couple months here in Athens. DEAL. I can tell you that it has been ...
Posted by MerMar on Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:01:00 PST

I sold Puerto Rico to a Canadian last night

This is going to be a short entry. One, I have not accomplished much this past weekend and two, I have to go meet with Pernille in a half hour to talk about my sweet journal. Allons-y... Right now ...
Posted by MerMar on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Littering kills

So I was walking to class today and a seagull swooped down in front of me, picked up a muffin paper and began to eat it. Then more gulls came down and fought him for it, blissfully unaware that if the...
Posted by MerMar on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Oasis - the Juicy Juice of Québec

For real. That shit rocks. I drink a juice box or two a day. The passion fruit mix is by far the best. Well kiddies. Here I am, once again, in my stupid little salle d`ordinatures. I really wish I c...
Posted by MerMar on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Nutella!

That is what I had on my toast this morning for breakfast. I could not think of another subject. Hokay. So. Here I am, about a week into this trip. I am so tired of writing things down in a bazill...
Posted by MerMar on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

"ohmygodican'tbelieve it"

"I've never been this far away from home..." - I'll try to keep this short. I don't think anyone reads this anyway since I am not on AIM, but here it goes... So here I am in Québec. The best part...
Posted by MerMar on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Oh, Five Iron Frenzy

Welcome to Canada, it's the Maple Leaf State. Canada, oh Canada, it's great! The people are nice and they speak French too. If you don't like it, man, you sniff glue. The Great White North, their kilt...
Posted by MerMar on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

on bioluminescence

The soy fields were diamond mines that night. I was driving to Louisville from Athens... funny how I am not quite sure which one I should call home... and it was the peak time of the night for firefl...
Posted by MerMar on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST