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My score on The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test :

Modern, Cool Nerd
(86 % Nerd, 60% Geek, 21% Dork)

For The Record:A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia. A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one. A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning you the title of: Modern, Cool Nerd. The Modern, Cool Nerd is intelligent, knowledgable and always the person to call in a crisis (needing computer advice/an arcane bit of trivia knowledge). They are the one you want as your lifeline in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (or the one up there, winning the million bucks)!

Link: The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test ( OkCupid Free .. Dating )

My Interests

talking, thinking, laughing, playing, sleeping, cooking, eating, drinking, debating, day-dreaming, sketching, designing, listening, observing, writing, reading, watching, travelling.

I'd like to meet:

My friends floating around cyberspace... and old friends I've fallen out of touch with.

Music:

Tori Amos, David Bowie, Regina Spektor, Elliott Smith, The Beatles, Cat Power, Radiohead, Bjork, Fionna Apple, The National, Band of Horses, Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins, Feist, Neko Case, Joni Mitchell, Modest Mouse, Kate Bush, Interpol, The Shins, Rolling Stones, Martha Wainwright, Billie Holiday, The French Kicks, Aimee Mann, Beck, Arcade Fire, Bright Eyes, Imogen Heap, Madonna, Belle & Sebastian, Bloc Party, Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton, Built to Spill, Death Cab, Ratatat, Andrew Bird, Devon Sproule Ryan Adams, Miles Davis, Kings of Leon, Bob Dylan, Joanna Newsom ... etc

And my husband is the most awesome producer, writer, programmer, piano- keyboard player ever. :)

Movies:

Royal Tenebaums, Rushmore, Eternal Sunshine, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, I Heart Huckabee's, most Hitchcock films: Vertigo esp, Little Miss Sunshine, Withnail & I, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, American Beauty, Lantana, Children of Men, Pan's Labyrinth, Science of Sleep, The Life of Mammals, Stranger Than Fiction, Delirious, Ferris Bueller, etc etc etc

Television:

House, 30 Rock, Seinfeld, Curb, The Office (UK), Extras (so .. Ricky Gervais), The Daily Show (praise be to John Stewart), Oz, and last but not least the one and only: Neighbours. How I miss it.

I also have developed an addiction to Bravo reality shows.

Books:

Milan Kundera (Unbearble Lightness of Being), Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore), Arundhati Roy (God of Small Things), Alice Walker (Possessing the Secret of Joy), Tsitsi Dangarembga (Nervous Conditions), Ian McEwan (Atonement), Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn), Herman Hesse (Demian), Isabel Allende (House of Spirits)

My Blog

The Case for Reality TV : What the snobs dont understand

"The current boom may be a product of the changing economics of the television business, but reality TV is also the liveliest genre on the set right now. It has engaged hot-button cultural issuesclas...
Posted by " a l y s s a " on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 10:18:00 PST

The Warming of Greenland

"...We're seeing things that people have thought are impossible.""When you look at the ice sheet, the models didn't work, which puts us on shaky ground." "Even a foot rise is a pretty horrible scenari...
Posted by " a l y s s a " on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:05:00 PST