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Jody

i'm working on it

About Me

I am currently working on my doctorate in public policy at the George Washington University, working part-time, being a GRA, and researching/writing/avoiding my dissertation. It's a solitary, scary, isolating, and strange experience. I will end up a stronger person when it's all over, I guess - or just socially awkward and kind of weird - perhaps all of the above. I already am a big dork. I don't drink nearly enough anymore. I just noticed that I like to use "/" and "-" when I write. My stylist has me growing my hair out, and it's freaking me out a bit. One of the many changes in 2006 - all for the better, but the jury is out on this long-haired business. We'll see how long it lasts into 2007. MySpace Comments MySpace Layouts MySpace Editor Icon Collage MySpace Graphics

My Interests

music, feminist/queer theory and fiction, the gender of the built environment, disability studies, transfeminism, being a coffee snob, being a beer snob, learning more about wine, becoming a wine snob, volunteer work, saving the world, drinking, playing bass, playing pool, drinking, bathrooms, karaoke, drinking

I'd like to meet:

a bit busy, so not lots of time to hang out, but...interesting people, political people, transfeminists, thoughtful/introspective/reflective people, people who can teach me how to survive a dissertation, people who will make me think, progressive activists, good story-tellers, funny people, good-natured people, people with superpowers, drama-free people (although I find that people who like to stir up/create/thrive on drama rarely know that about themselves - same thing goes with crazy people), aliens, long lost friends, people who will play pool with me, and a cool drummer. I delete those that abuse the bulletin board!

Music:

brian's ipod, michael jantz AKA shin kicker, pj harvey, tegan and sara, brazilian girls, the killers, morcheeba, dar williams, ani difranco, catie curtis, tribe 8, dixie chicks, toshi reagon, radiohead, tricky, massive attack, guster, the white stripes, queens of the stone age, indigo girls, dolly parton, 90's seattle bands, classic country, 80's music, almost everything, the list goes on and on and on...

Movies:

lots... too many to list... grindhouse - super gross and nauseating yet THE most fun i've ever had at the movies, v for vendetta, pedro almodovar films, house of flying daggars, lord of the rings trilogy, an inconvenient truth, jet li movies, the matrix, the usual suspects, the original star wars trilogy, o brother where art thou, alien series, being john malkovich, la confidential, a christmas story, most anything with christopher walken, bad 80's movies, good 80's movies, martial arts movies, and on and on and on...

Television:

PANTS OFF DANCE OFF!!!!! PODO is the stuff that nightmares are made of. I cry at Cold Case and Extreme Home Makeover...every time. Robot Chicken. Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Buffy. Angel. Veronica Mars. Sex and the City. The Office. Ellen.

Books:

the historian, the ethical slut, tipping the velvet, stone butch blues, zami, the invisible heart, written on the body, she's come undone, need more time to read more fiction.

Heroes:

hmmmm. the everyday sort.