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About Me

"To cook a heavy dinner in hot weather, to wash the dishes afterward, this is sober prose, and by a very dull author; but to make the dessert, this is poetry." -M. E. W. Sherwood
I'm Naomi. I like people. I like making desserts and making people smile. I like music. I like other things too.

My Interests

baking and pastry arts, movies, music, anthropology marching band, books, history, traveling, Mexican folklore, art, little known places, vintage clothes, beauty in everyday happenings, contact juggling, webcomics

I'd like to meet:

Not random guys who think that just by saying "hI, yOu'Re HoT!" can get into my pants. I really don't have much need to meet people on here. I get by pretty well on my own.

Music:

Hands on Fire, The Black Keys, Gomez, Beaten Awake, Porches, A Technicolor Yawn, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Kelli Shay Hicks, Foot Ox Into The Evening, Cardiac Party, Bri White, Ghost Mice, Destroy Nate Allen, Empire of the Bear, French Quarter, Daryl Scairiot, Paul Baribeau, Adam Lipman, Charlie Saxophone, Princess Lady Friend, Cold War Kids, Elliot Smith, The Flaming Lips, The Shins, R. L. Burnside, Iron and Wine, Persephone's Bees, The Pixies, Wilco, Nick Drake, Billie Holiday, Butch Walker, Majandra Delfino, Louis Armstrong, Ok Go, Third Eye Blind, Yann Tiersan, Foo Fighters, Goldfinger, American Hi-Fi, The Postal Service, The Killers, David Bowie, Dire Straits, Stephen Lynch, The Rocket Summer, Ninedays, Operation Ivy, Radiohead, Ani DiFranco

Movies:

Amelie, Playing Mona Lisa, Mirror Mask, A Very Long Engagement, Pride and Prejudice(the new one), Victor/Victoria, Cabaret, Waiting for Guffman, Spinal Tap, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Delicatessan, Love Actually, Lost in Translation, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, Amadeus, Monty Python movies, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Boondock Saints, Alice in Wonderland, Pan's Labyrinth, I love watching movies

Television:

I don't watch TV often enough.

Books:

Charles de Lint is my favorite author, everything Sandra Cisneros, SARK, Terri Windling is an amazing editor/author, any books with Brian Froud's art, Neil Gaiman is amazing too, And The Earth Did Not Devour Him, Bukowski, Kerouac, Richard Matheson's horrors are great, Pride and Prejudice, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Life of Pi, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthologies, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through The Looking Glass, I'm working on Don Quixote and I'm really enjoying it

Heroes:

I'm not big on the hero thing.

My Blog

What I would like in a guy

Just some requirements of boyfriends/future husband. An idea I got from a friend. I know it's childish, but eh, I mean em. 1) You have to cook. Well. Very Ve...
Posted by Naomi on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:58:00 PST

Tomorrow's gonna be a better place.

I decided that: I'll be over it quite soon. He's a pussy for starting something he wasn't ready to put some effort into.I still want to be his friend.I liked the idea of a boyfriend more than I liked...
Posted by Naomi on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:03:00 PST

I wonder

...if I'm ever going to find a real best friend out here or anywhere. I don't quite know if I can still call the girls back in San Antonio Best Friends, they all seem to have someone that wo...
Posted by Naomi on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:29:00 PST

I'm missing those slow days

I'm exhausted. I've had a busy busy life the past couple of weeks and I haven't really had one day where I could just sit down and enjoy not having to do anything. I miss being able to do th...
Posted by Naomi on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:49:00 PST

Loose Woman

Sandra Cisneros.I don't think I can accurately describe my feelings on what I just saw tonight at her reading. I'll try... So, I get out of class around 5:30 and don't get to the Heard Museum for the ...
Posted by Naomi on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:56:00 PST

Fill My Cup

Making new friends pretty much rocks. I think that it is the best thing that has come out of me travelling all the way over here for school.When I first got here, in that first month, I was commi...
Posted by Naomi on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 09:16:00 PST

>.<

Is it bad that I got so much enjoyment from proving my Calculus teacher wrong? Explaination of said event is too long and it would be stupid for me to write it all out. But it made me feel really good...
Posted by Naomi on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:49:00 PST

Xican@ Flan

Today while waiting for the professor to come into class I came up with a new idea for my Ginger Flan. I wanna call it Xican@ Flan.The flan will be ginger-orange flavored (instead of just the gi...
Posted by Naomi on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:08:00 PST

Returned:

My Purse. The Biggest Relief Ever. A few (or a lot of) sucky things though:I still feel like the biggest dumbass ever for not putting my purse in the car like I kept on telling myself to do....
Posted by Naomi on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:02:00 PST

FAQ's (inspired by/basically copied from AROD's fantastic blog)

"I get alot of messages asking me a variety of questions. I usually don't answer, but I decided to combine some of the best questions and answer them in this blog post. Think of it as a greatest hits ...
Posted by Naomi on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:19:00 PST