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the great kate escape

an appetite for destruction, but i scrape the plate

About Me

"think of something that has to do with sex, drugs, and rock and roll."
"what, like my ENTIRE LIFE?"

My Interests

drinking, impractical shoes, making things with yarn, videogames,

I'd like to meet:

someone as smart as nietzsche, but without the syphilis

Music:

dandy warhols, david bowie, pj harvey, t.rex, johnny cash, rolling stones, velvet underground, the out crowd, emmylou harris, cat stevens

Movies:

last life in the universe, wild zero, dig!

Television:

fuck television!

Books:

friedrich nietzsche, milan kundera, gabriel garcia-marquez, frank portman, douglas coupland, pablo neruda, albert camus, antoine de st. exupéry

Heroes:

dorothy parker

My Blog

meghan, are you happy now?

so, as some of you may know, a relatively historic event recently occurred. that is, meghan, erin, and i were in the same place at the same time for the first time ever. meghan's first order of busine...
Posted by kate on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 04:05:00 PST

a summer wasting

i can't believe that my summer is over. it really has flown by. i didn't get to do a lot of the things that i had really wanted to do: i.e. go to seattle, visit kim, or even go to the fucking lake.. b...
Posted by kate on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:51:00 PST

drunkeness and bunny business

so last night, i went with some people to see silent hill. i am ridiculous for those games. we drank vodka and redbull for a while before the movie and arrived at the theatre absolutely trashed. i fin...
Posted by kate on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 02:49:00 PST

where is my mind

so this week is dead week, a week that is traditionally meant that campus is dead because everything's already been turned in and everyone's supposed to be able to devote all their time to studying fo...
Posted by kate on Sat, 22 Apr 2006 09:42:00 PST

life, blah blah blah

so i dropped my french major down to a minor. now i'm an english major with dual minors in french and philosophy. i'm still basically useless to society, but i'll be graduating next may. watch out, wo...
Posted by kate on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 04:43:00 PST

pictures from julie's digicam

so julie and i went by walgreens today because she wanted to put a picture from her digicam on a mug as a birthday present for her new man. after an hour of receiving the worst service ever from a tot...
Posted by kate on Sun, 26 Mar 2006 07:55:00 PST

i couldn't make this up if i tried

i'm at work right now. one of the projects that i'm currently working on is compiling poems for kids to keep in little notebooks - a bunch of stuff by shel silverstein and the like. dr. dwyer gave me ...
Posted by kate on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:42:00 PST

pictures!

a few weeks ago, i bought a package of "tom klong flavour noodles" and they have been a great source of humour ever since, due to the packaging, which is now posted on my fridge: julie and i have spe...
Posted by kate on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:17:00 PST

lent - with pictures!

so as some of you know, i gave up beer for lent. not all alcohol, just beer. in fact, the fridge in the living room is completely filled with tonic water, so there. hah. but on mardi gras, i had to ha...
Posted by kate on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:54:00 PST

little manmade chickens

i'm in this very strange mindset right now. woke up at six thirty this morning. i was sound asleep and then my eyes opened and i was fully conscious. it was so weird. since i was up, i went to mornin...
Posted by kate on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 05:57:00 PST