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This Might Be Jess

Fondue forks for everybody.

About Me

Well. I live in Somerville, and I love it. I wish I could spend more time here in my apartment and in the Davis Square area and less time at work. I work in a mailroom for a real estate company (I occasionally answer phones as well) and that is just as uninteresting as you would imagine it to be. I WANT to work in the theater; acting, directing, collaborating, anything. I haven't really decided if I want to go about it academically, or in actuality (both are appealing to me) so I am taking some graduate classes at the Harvard Extension School to help me decide.

I am friendly, good-natured, (possibly TOO good-natured... I'm a borderline doormat.) (Maybe I shouldn't announce that.) I've been often told I am unusual (that's a cop-out adjective, isn't it?) I love meeting new people (in person or in text). I like parenthesis. I attempt to be funny (is it working?) I want to be a hero, but I am easily intimidated. I'm trying to get over that.

My Interests

Alphabetically:
art, BBC miniseries, Beckett, beer, books, Boston, boys with guitars, Brecht, Brooklyn, Cambridge, concerts, Cowboy Bebop, dance, Douglas Adams, dragons, Ella Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, fairies, fancy coffee drinks, fantasy, French, Gloucester, guitar, Indian food, John Lennon, kindred spirits, Kurt Vonnegut, Lachrimae, Latin (the language), London, Magritte, movies, Muppets, music, musicals, New England Patriots, New York City, open-mindedness, painting, pirates (Arr!!!), plays, punk, reading, rock and roll music, running (well, I used to…), Scotland (though I've never been), singing, smoldering, Somerville, surrealism, swimming, tea, the American Repertory Theater, the beach, the British, theater, theatre (and however else you want to spell it), Tom Stoppard, words, words, words...

I'd like to meet:

Deus Ex Machina

Music:

All Time Favorites:
The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Flogging Molly, Barenaked Ladies, The Who, They Might Be Giants, Cole Porter, Rancid, NoFX, Call Me Dick
Current Obsessions:
Dropkick Murphys, Patti Smith, The Pixies, The Briggs, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Weezer, Billy Bragg, Against Me!, Lunachicks, Bantam, The Living End, The Dresden Dolls:

If you watch carefully, you can see my forehead!

Movies:

Top Five:
Hard Days Night, Amelie, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Shawn Of The Dead, and Pirates of the Caribbean, and Sunset Blvd. Oh wait, that's six...

Television:

I tend to (rabidly) like one or two (or three) shows at a time. Right now that would be Battlestar Galactica and Lost. Aaaaand Veronica Mars. In the past it was Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, The X-Files, Star Trek TNG, The Animaniacs. Also, I watch as many Red Sox games as I can. And that's a lot.

Books:

A Prayer For Owen Meany, The Golden Compass/The Subtle Knife/The Amber Spyglass, All Harry Potter books, The Wheel of Time series, The Lord of The Rings trilogy, Jane Eyre, Possession, A Wrinkle in Time... so many more...

My Blog

Better.

I am feeling much better (read: less whiny) today.  It's been a weirdly miserable week, and nothing much has changed...  yet I feel almost chipper. Yesterday, there was a financial crisis.&n...
Posted by This Might Be Jess on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:24:00 PST

Something I’ve been wondering for a while...

I vaguely understand what an Alderman is... but why are they always at large?And now for something completely different. This video of the Red Sox dancing after they clinched the division title makes...
Posted by This Might Be Jess on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:41:00 PST

Daunted

Every time I post I say to myself, "Self, if you posted more often, then your posts would be more concise, easier to read, and more fun!"  Yet I am never quite able to post in short, frequent bur...
Posted by This Might Be Jess on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:21:00 PST

For the Record.

In my last post I talked about my 8 mile run through Som/Med/Arl/Camb (that was nearly 2 weeks ago). After that, my week looked like this:Monday 9/3: Ran just under 5 miles on the track. I think we...
Posted by This Might Be Jess on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:00:00 PST

Frustrated.

So, on Sunday, I ran 8 miles.  Mostly. I walked a quarter of a mile to warm up, Then ran a whole lot--6 1/2 miles or so before I got completely lost at Alewife.  I still don't really unders...
Posted by This Might Be Jess on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:35:00 PST

Weekend Update

I had a busy little weekend, though I'm never as productive as I want to be. Friday was lovely.  Kristen, Steph and I took Frances (Air Hockey's 1 ranked woman in the world who is visiting from T...
Posted by This Might Be Jess on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:25:00 PST

Dull.

I have become so dull.  I hate the dullness.  It depresses me.  Though I feel better today, for some reason, because I have some sense of resolve.  Some.  We'll see how that g...
Posted by This Might Be Jess on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:22:00 PST

Scary!

On Sunday, I did three things that scare me.  1.  Running.  Running itself doesn't scare me.  Running in public does.  It was one thing in Ipswich where I rarely ran into peo...
Posted by This Might Be Jess on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:15:00 PST

Confessions of a fangirl

Once upon a time I dyed my hair purple.   I bleached two narrow strips on either side of my face and then dyed them a pretty lavender color; I chose the color specifically to match my chucks...
Posted by This Might Be Jess on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:24:00 PST

Sad...

I've lost my ipod.  I was listening to it in the car on my way to work yesterday, and by the time I left work, it had disappeared.    I've looked everywhere.  I've asked arou...
Posted by This Might Be Jess on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:24:00 PST