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Tessa, dear

for myself i am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

About Me


"I generally avoid temptation
unless I can't resist it"
[mae west]

tessa's friends = really awesome.
and tessa is more or less like her friends.
so tessa = really awesome?

i'm tessa and i'm probably really awesome. i make my own backgrounds. i know, i'm cool like that. i'm going to SDSU next year and i'm so excited! i'm on facebook. the party's over there now. i speak french? my screenname is smart1hermione and if you don't like it. i'm okay with that. i enjoy myspace. i'm starting to think i have a problem.

My Interests

.those of the male persuasion
.reading
.friends
.archery
.skiing
.shiny things

I'd like to meet:


Music:

.Muse
.The Shins
.Frou Frou
.Jimmy Eat World
.Manau
.Duran Duran
.Jason Mraz
.Queens of the Stoneage
.Kazzer
.Radiohead
.Jesse Spencer
.Velvet Underground
.Coheed and Cambria
.The Violent Femmes
.Queen
.Dishwalla
.The White Stripes
.Bowling For Soup
.Louis XIV
.Stereophonics
.The Postal Service
.American HiFi
.The Streets
.Foo Fighters
.The Doors
.The Rasmus
.Jeff Buckley
.Rooney
.Placebo
.The Hives
.The Petshop Boys
.Y-O-U
.Astaire
.The Buzzcocks
.Buddy Holly
.Johnny Cash
.Echo and the Bunnymen
Tegan & Sara

Movies:

.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
.Moulin Rouge
.10 Things I Hate About You
.She's All That
.Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
.The Nightmare Before Christmas
.Romeo + Juliet
.Million Dollar Baby
.The Upside of Anger
.Tarantino
.The Incredibles
.Robots
.Mr. & Mrs. Smith
.Sin City
.Napoleon Dynamite
.I Heart Huckabees
.Garden State
.Tarnation
.Hotel Rwanda
.Bend It Like Beckham
.What the BLEEP do We Know?
.Saint Ralph
.A Very Long Engagement
.Cinema Paradiso
.Wedding Crashers
.The Ballad of Jack and Rose
.The Matrix
.Secretary
.Chicago
.Walk the Line
.Matchpoint
.The Matador
.Cheaters
.Little Shop of Horrors
.The Da Vinci Code
.Brokeback Mountain
.Amelie
.Thank You for Smoking
.V for Vendetta
.Forrest Gump
.American Dreamz
.The Royal Tenenbaums
.Shopgirl
.The Producers
.Pirates of the Caribbean
.Scoop
.John Tucker Must Die
.Looking for Richard
.The Departed
.Funny Face
.Borat
.Reign Over Me
.Happy Feet
.Pan's Labyrinth

Television:

.House
.Scrubs
.Gilmore Girls
.The Simpsons
.Family Guy
.Monty Python
.Jeopardy
.Desperate Housewives
.21 Jump Street
.Coupling
.Mythbusters
.Grey's Anatomy
.Friends
.Futurama
.Dead Like Me
.Project Runway
.Veronica Mars

Books:

.Harry Potter
.Cirque du Freak
.Star Craving Mad
.The Da Vinci Code
.Angels and Demons
.A Series of Unfortunate Events
.The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
.A Separate Peace
.The Glass Menagerie
.Joy Luck Club
.Farenheit 451
.Catcher in the Rye
.The American Tragedy
.Lolita
.Running With Scissors
.Boy Meets Girl
.Brave New World
.Handmaid's Tale

Heroes:

Heroes?

My Blog

*shaking fist at alex*

damn you alex malerstein... THE RULES: Each player of this game starts with the 7 weird (maybe not weird) facts about themselves. People who get tagged need to write a BLOG of their own 7 weird things...
Posted by Tessa, dear on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:26:00 PST

F@%!

i love my friends.   dear friends, i love you. love, tessa   without friends, i'd be... sad.
Posted by Tessa, dear on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:29:00 PST

dot dot dot...

i'm just sitting here, staring at my cat with nothing better to do.   so i was curious.... did anyone click the link in my last blog?   if so, did you... get it?   good stuff....
Posted by Tessa, dear on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:20:00 PST

merry christmas eve!

as a holiday treat, i made a little swedish holiday card for you all. http://members.home.nl/saen/Special/Zoeken.swf
Posted by Tessa, dear on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 08:58:00 PST

10 reasons why AP is better.

10. really cool people with personalities 9. teachers that give a shit. 8. busy work, what's that? 7. discussions, not leactures. 6. everyone looks forward to college for more than the beer. 5. the ge...
Posted by Tessa, dear on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:07:00 PST

someone agrees with me! holy GEEZ!


Posted by Tessa, dear on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:50:00 PST

Feel good about yourself.

So I'm a Girl Scout. Right now, I'm in the midst of my Gold Award, and I need some help.   This is my Gold Award: If you didn't know, Oak View Elementary School has the lowest reading scores in t...
Posted by Tessa, dear on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:10:00 PST

and the chicken says moo.

two big things today.   wait, scratch that, the two big things of the past 9 days.   today, i found out i passed AP u.s. history. god loves me. i swear. i looked at the sheet of paper taped...
Posted by Tessa, dear on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:39:00 PST

APs are for people who like pain.

So I have completed my first AP test. It's kind of funny. ALL year, I spent nights cramming chapters and reviewing my outlines and key terms. ALL year, I've been stressing out about THE AP TEST. I nea...
Posted by Tessa, dear on Sat, 06 May 2006 06:35:00 PST

It's CHINA!

  ATTENTION USAD PARTICIPANTS USAD is pleased to release some preliminary information on the curriculum for the 20062007 Academic DecathlonTM season. The full subject area outlines will b...
Posted by Tessa, dear on Thu, 02 Mar 2006 04:30:00 PST