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lisa

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About Me

currently living in St. Paul after returning from teaching H.S. students in Kenya. Obviously, I love to travel. I've also spent some time living in Paris and traveling around...Dublin, London, Scotland, Normandy, to name a few. I love living out of a suitcase. I am always, continually in love with british history, learning new languages (currently working on Latin, bah!), music, and of course, B. I love libraries and musty basements stacked with old books and newspapers. I'm also a professionally trained opera singer...I guess...although officially my career is on hiatus for an indeterminate amount of time. I've been singing competitively since I was 13 and classical music is like a wine in my blood. MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

So many people. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Margaret Sanger. Queen Elizabeth Tudor. My great-grandmother Ross. Susan B. Anthony. Why do I keep picking dead people, huh? Anyway...to be more contemporary...all the members of Sleater-Kinney. Mike Ness. Kathleen Hanna. Howard Dean. Fredericka von Stade, for sure. Jesus. Ghandi. Jean-Paul Sartre. Simone de Beauvoir. Charlotte Delbo. T.H. White. Robert Frost. Too many.

My Blog

old town, new town...

hey guys. If you are reading this, I probably miss you. Washington University is spectacular. St. Louis? Not so much. Oh, how I miss my liberal, progressive adopted hometown! It sucks living in a red ...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:47:00 GMT

Two weeks!

Well, in two weeks B, the kitties and I will load up a truck and get the hell out of Dodge. I am unspeakably excited. I am thrilled not only to be back in school, but also to be in an entirely new cit...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:48:00 GMT

Switching England for St. Louis.

Well dudes, they say everyone has a price, and mine turned out to be six years of fully funded research and an 18,000 a year stipend. To Washington University in St. Louis. It waasn’t just the...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:35:00 GMT

Unconditional offer, yahoos.

Holy cripes. Well, I have been officially accepted to the University of Essex in Colchester, England. 45 minutes to London. 20 minutes to the sea. And all the wonderful research I can handle! I was ...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:16:00 GMT

I love my husband.

Yes, yes I do. I have been sick the past oh, five days or so, and he has been an absolute dear. You know what? Marriage is fucking awesome. It kicks the shit out of dating. I have never been this happ...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:07:00 GMT

things...

Ah, that Minnesota cold, and the perpetual bedfellows: gloom, vitamin D deficiency, sloth, runny noses, sore throats, and for me - that mopey sort of depression. Thank god for Christmas and my birthda...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:38:00 GMT

honeymoon!

B and I are currently kicking it in Nice, Fr. Fucking awesome. We had originally intented to stay one night here, but the staff, hostel, city were so amazing that we decided to extend our stay...by ei...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 01:09:00 GMT

wedding stuff

I'm planning a honeymoon to europe instead of studying. Somehow, this just seems so much more pressing right now. God I am so excited about this. Party on a boat! yay!
Posted by on Tue, 09 May 2006 11:17:00 GMT

look at my ring! hee hee!

So, I'm being super girly about this, but I think I'm allowed. Can you fucking believe that thing? Exactly what I wanted! Deep blue sapphire crested by eight, yes, eight diamonds. hahaha! bitches! The...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:20:00 GMT

fucking south dakota!

Well, those bastards went ahead and did it. Outlawed abortion in every instance, even rape and incest. Those fucking bastards. Write your governor and state representative to make sure this doesn't ha...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:31:00 GMT