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Amelie

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About Me

I love gummy bears. Frozen Snickers are good, too. I write and like to goof around with clay, which helps me lose my sense of time. Check out the results at www.ameliesouthwood.com

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Indignant type-A personalities who do something about it in creative and positive ways!

My Blog

fixing the financial crisis

Instead of writing a $700 billion blank check to the fat cats whose greed got us in this mess in the first place, why don't we do this:1. Force banks to reduce their mortgage loan interest rates to 5%...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:05:00 GMT

Quarrel

Quarrel not at all.No woman resolved to make the most of herself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can she afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of her temper ...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:06:00 GMT

blackout

pull the shutters shut. lock the doors. deadbolt the bedroom door. crawl in the hole and pull it in after afterward.silence, please.
Posted by on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:46:00 GMT

serendipity

so, as i was thinking of contacting someone with whom i've been out of touch for good reason, i quite by accident came upon this quote: as a dog returnth to its vomit, so does a fool re...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:13:00 GMT

His suicide

John McCaine commited political suicide with his choice of running mate.Why??What, other than pure cynicism, could lead him to this?
Posted by on Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:59:00 GMT

The governor resigned

So, for those of you who don’t live in New York, you may not have heard that our recently elected governor, Eliot Spitzer, a bulldog of a man, resigned today because he used a few high-class cal...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:40:00 GMT

tiresome whore

Tiresome as you are, annoying in absence and riing in deed, manifest yourself before it's too late. I know you're out there.
Posted by on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:41:00 GMT

the marathon conquered

Oh, yes, by more than 38,000 brave or crazy souls, depending on how you look at it, including myself. My time? 3:57:31, which put me in the top 16% of women and top 28% of all finishers. And I felt...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:46:00 GMT

all the macs

Macs, Big Macs and Mac are overrated. I prefer Dells, the greasy burger from my local bar and my husband, who knows the latter about me and still makes me laugh when I'm not in the mood to laugh.Inci...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:21:00 GMT

fossilized before your time

Outmoded behaviors are for the neurotic.
Posted by on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:32:00 GMT