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janette®

easy like sunday morning

About Me

I'd rather listen than talk. Tell me about you, then perhaps I will divulge.

I love to travel. My Australia & New Zealand Pics are here . If ya got time, click here to check out my pics from Europe. i went backpacking for 2 months during the summer 2004. and click here for a webpage from 2002, back in my partying days!

I fixed my page up with Thomas

My Interests

CURRENT MOON lunar phase
I love nights where the full moon is so bright you can see your shadow. Also:

• sleeping
• traveling
• meeting new people
• chill bars that don't result in deafness
• cool nightclubs that do
• getting drunk and going dancing
• photography
• being lazy
• laughing
• warm, clean towels
• comfy funky t-shirts
• sunsets
• parks
• beaches
• trees
• big bathtubs

Some Cool yet Pointless Webpages:
Daily Kitten | all kittens all the time. :)
Boobah Zone | this is crazy like an acid flashback but more fun
Optical Illusions | will fuck with you
Some Stuff | to read/do when you're bored
The Planet | just some cool pics

Brain Lateralization Test Results
Right Brain (52%) The right hemisphere is the visual, figurative, artistic, and intuitive side of the brain.
Left Brain (42%) The left hemisphere is the logical, articulate, assertive, and practical side of the brain
Are You Right or Left Brained?
personality tests by similarminds.com

What is your best quality?

Open Minded
you see in metaphors. you are on a bridge between the lands of good and evil standing above the river of chaos and staring into the horizon of enlightenment.
How do you compare?
Take this test!

I'd like to meet:

i like to meet people that i can learn things from: new perspectives, new insights, new philosophies, and new optimism are always wecome in my life. i'm not a huge fan of judgemental people, ungrounded negativity, or unreasonable expectations. fuck the bullshit. i'm always looking for fun, cool people (especially some chicks) who are the no-drama types. i like creative types, witty/goofy jokesters, eloquent storytellers, people who can find the humor in everyday situations, people who get contagiously excited, and hardcore partiers that can still get their shit done.

if you don't message me first, i probably won't add you.

• • • I'm not feelin' the "Top 8" friend ranking thing, so just click here to see all my friends • • •

Music:

i love music! i'll listen to anything, but twangy country makes my ears bleed so if you like me you won't make me listen to it.

• A Perfect Circle
• Black Eyed Peas
• Beastie Boys
• Beck
• Bob Dylan
• Cee-Lo
• Coldplay
• Dave Matthews Band
• Dr. Dre
• Deepest Blue
• Eminem
• Fiona Apple
• Goodie Mob
• Garbage
• Gorillaz
• Janis Joplin
• Johnny Cash
• Jewel
• Kanye West
• LL Cool J
• Ludacris
• Mazzy Star
• Moby
• Nirvana
• Outkast
• Pink Floyd
• Pearl Jam
• Poe
• Radiohead
• Snoop Dogg
• Sarah McLachlan
• Sublime
• Tiesto
• Van Morrison

love to hear new stuff too...

good lyrics sites:
Fiona Apple
Coldplay
Radiohead
annotated Grateful Dead
Bob Dylan
Pink Floyd

Movies:

• American Beauty
• American Psycho
• Blow
• Clerks
• Donnie Darko
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Event Horizon
• Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas
• Fight Club
• Friday
• Garden State
• Ghost World
• Goonies
• Half Baked
• Interview with the Vampire
• Match Point
• Meet the Parents
• Napoleon Dynamite
• Office Space
• Old School
• Requiem for a Dream
• Road Trip
• Shawshank Redemption
• Super Troopers
• Swingers
• The Big Lebowski
• The Butterfly Effect
• The Ring
• The Sweetest Thing
• The Virgin Suicides
• Walk the Line
• Welcome to the Dollhouse
• What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Television:

I don't have cable, but if i did...
• Chappelle’s Show
• Family Guy
• Sex And The City
• Scrubs
• CSI
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force
• Simpsons
• Law & Order
• Seinfeld
• Lost
• That 70’s Show

i love this quote from Sex and the City: "The most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous."

Books:

Recent Stuff:
• Guns, Germs, and Steel | Jared Diamond
• Eleven Minutes & The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho
• The Birth of Venus & In the Company of the Courtesan | Sarah Dunant
• Lake News | Barbara Delinsky
• Eat, Love, Pray | Elizabeth Gilbert
• Life of Pi | Yann Martel
• Friend of the Family | Lisa Jewell
• The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold
• While I Was Gone & The Story of My Father | Sue Miller
• White Oleander | Janet Finch
• Running With Scissors & Dry | Augusten Burroughs
• Crazy in Alabama | Mark Childress
• Men Fake Foreplay | Mike Dugan
• Waking Beauty | Elyse Friedman
• Man Crazy | Joyce Carol Oates
• Washed Clean by the Struggle | Julian
Old Favorites:
• The Book of Ruth | Jane Hamilton
• Catch 22 | Joseph Heller
• The Giver | Lois Lowry
• Catcher in the Rye | JD Salinger
• The Stranger | Albert Camus
• We Were the Mulvaneys | Joyce Carol Oates
• Davinci Code | Dan Brown
• Prozac Nation | Elizabeth Wurtzel
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera
• The Prophet | Kahlil Gibran
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey
• Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison
• Bridget Jones's Diary | Helen Fielding
• Harry Potter | JK Rowling
The best:
Desiderata | Max Ehrmann
i love to read, so if you know of some good books let me know!

Heroes:

people who know what they want, and they want something good.

My Blog

the new architecture

I've been meaning to write a blog for about a year now, and yes, this is the best I can come up with. I want a bubble wrap house.The ArticleThe Beijing National Aquatics Center has been the centerpiec...
Posted by janette® on Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:03:00 PST

Three Days on the Dive Boat

So Jonathan and I met up to finally get down to the highlight of the Australia trip: three days and two nights on a scuba dive boat on the Great Barrier Reef. It was so awesome, I can't even describe....
Posted by janette® on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:47:00 PST

The Birds

Check out the cool birds they have here. Way better than pigeons, in my opinion. They fed them in a mass feeding frenzy every afternoon at one of the hostels I stayed at.In other news, I went to Airli...
Posted by janette® on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:19:00 PST

Islands by horseback

Yesterday I went horseback riding through the bush, on a beautiful beach, and in the ocean. I saw about 15 wallabies, a few kookaburras, cockatoos, and koalas just hanging out, roaming free. How ...
Posted by janette® on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:37:00 PST

Volcanic Rock via Manual Transmission

After a short excursion to the "sunny & warm" part of New Zealand, which turned out to be much like the "cold & snowy" part of Florida, I spent new year's eve in Auckland. I went out with...
Posted by janette® on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:28:00 PST

Photos!

my feet at the sydney harbor:   the locals:     the waterfall in the rainforest near sydney: the coast near melbourne: rockin it w the dj: some cool plants: the winery: the fla...
Posted by janette® on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 06:37:00 PST

Melbourne

Well I've been in Melbourne now for about a week, I'm staying just outside the city center in St. Kilda Beach, which wasn't the best choice given that there hasn't been any beach-appropriate weather g...
Posted by janette® on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:50:00 PST

Didgeridoo Techno

I was feeling sick when I woke up, for the third day in a row, but it was the day of my (non-refundable-non-changeable) flight to Sydney. So Mom stocked me with Pepto, Tums, Nyquil, and vitamin C...
Posted by janette® on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:40:00 PST

Home

Well I made it back to my parents house. It's nice feel "home." We had an arguement about who was more embarrassing: Mom or Dad. Dad won, hands down. In the words of my brother, we'll just call it the...
Posted by janette® on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:44:00 PST

whew!

Well I'm sitting here at work, my last day, with only a few hours left. They bought everyone pizza and took pictures and said I was welcome to come back if I needed a job again. It was nice.This past ...
Posted by janette® on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:25:00 PST