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Rachel

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About Me

A curious and imaginative intellectual snob

My Interests

literature, language, linguistics, gender and other constructs, verbs, stripey things, tactile experience, knitting, writing letters, words, having an intense inner life, painting my nails in public places, factory tours, number theory

I'd like to meet:

iconoclasts and people who read. Oh, and people with more than two nipples.

Music:

David Bowie, Pulp, Bruce Springsteen, british heroin rock in general, Chopin

Movies:

The Linguini Incident, The Piano, Dune, Whale Rider, Ma Vie en Rose, Chungking Express

Television:

PBS, kinky Law and Order episodes, the Sopranos

Books:

Lolita, The God of Small Things, Midnight's Children, Middlemarch, a Wrinkle in Time, the OED, Lewis Carroll.

Heroes:

Nabokov, Pauline Jacobson, Jim Henson

My Blog

Old, but still important

So with some notable exceptions that are not relevant here, my two officemates are both my good friends, and without any exceptions at all, they are both highly intelligent, highly capable, superkicka...
Posted by Rachel on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:12:00 PST

Projectile Peeing

I am going to learn to projectile pee! This is the website that inspired me: http://www.ampnet.co.uk/femorabilia/pee_standing.html I have long wanted the skill but always thought it would invo...
Posted by Rachel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

dreams of superherodom and laziness

I haven't been to a conference in ages... well, since march. I really like the idea of going to them, but not of submitting abstracts. A few years ago, my (now ex)boyfriend's advisor told him to jus...
Posted by Rachel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

My correspondence with Tom Selleck's Moustache

I have a new friend. It seems that the Moustache Formerly Known as Tom Selleck's has struck out on its own, and is looking to forge a new network of connections. Here is an except from a brief int...
Posted by Rachel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST