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alaina

alainafaye

About Me

**** i got a thing for school.(or at least education) **** i believe cd and dvd collections should be alphabetized. ****ps i collect sneakers. and boxes. ****and i love food. **** i dont like grammar- generally speaking. i do think people should know the difference between their, there and they're. **** too bad i'm not marcos. ****

My Interests

creating databases, making stuff, sleeping, eating, crocheting & knitting, collecting recipes that i never use, museums, traveling, reading a good book in an afternoon, shows, movies, riding on byrons motorcycle...

I'd like to meet:

dogs named bubba.cats named sam.(and the tambourine player from cyhsy)(and good spellers)

Music:

recently played in my car: sarah blasko, the clash, damien rice, death cab for cutie, the decemberists, le tigre, ted leo and the pharmacists, m.ward, moving units, new order, pedro the lion, pinback, the postal service, richard shindell, the shins, devon sproule, stars, teru'ah, TOMAS MIX 1 and 2, wilco, and 100.3.

Movies:

amelie, around the bend, as good as it gets, ashoka, the big lebowski, christopher guest pics- all of them, clue, the constant gardener, dead poets society, dirty filthy love, garden state, the goonies, i heart huckabees, in america, the iron ladies, lost in translation, mad hot ballroom, me and you and everyone we know, napoleon dynamite, paradise now, the royal tenenbaums, run lola run, rushmore

Books:

gabriel garcia marquez & vonnegut are my favorites.

Heroes:

matthew peekachu, julita mamacita

My Blog

i did it!

after countless days of 12+hours of writing, serious nerves about the darn meeting, and at least a month of hardly sleeping......yesterday i passed my proposal! new dissertation topic: why does phil, ...
Posted by alaina on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:30:00 PST

what is advancing to candidacy you ask...

what advancing to candidacy and passing my comps means is this: i passed my comprehensive exam/portfolio and i have advanced to be a doctoral candidate. meaning i am officially done with all of my re...
Posted by alaina on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:31:00 PST

scoreboard

just so you know.... scott got 3 bullseyes on wednesday night. watch out people- he's on fire, possibly a dart shark.
Posted by alaina on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:14:00 PST

required reading

so, my friend wrote this book. it's funny, it's handy. all dirty divas should have a copy. http://www.dirtydivabooty.com spread the word if you would. love, alaina
Posted by alaina on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:06:00 PST

eek.

i have writer's block. f**k.
Posted by alaina on Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:01:00 PST

best toast ever.

may 2006 bring more ass. and better ass. gahdunk-ah-dunk. i love my friends.  
Posted by alaina on Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:24:00 PST

damn straight!!!!

from my inbox this morning: Dear All,Thanks for putting in this extra work - I hope you find the efforts to be worthwhile. I am very satisfied with the result - I am sure it makes a unique contributio...
Posted by alaina on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 05:12:00 PST

heavy metal parking lot

thats right all you heavy metal fans. on monday, dec. 5th at 7:30 in the pm. heavy metal parking lot will be shown for free at college park in the atrium in the stamp student union. but wait. that's ...
Posted by alaina on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 12:46:00 PST

detroit rock city

when i am grumpy about people who do not know the difference between your and you're i think about the land of great lakes. this is one awesome freakin album.
Posted by alaina on Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:51:00 PST

where all the cool kids at?

at the g spot of course. at least thats where they'll be on saturday night. GSPOT:AUDIO/VISUAL PLAYGROUNDCELEBRATES 6 YEARS OF ART, MUSIC AND PERFORMANCESATURDAY, DECEMBER 3RD, 8PM-1AM$8 DONATION AT ...
Posted by alaina on Tue, 29 Nov 2005 04:38:00 PST