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| User: | yellowroses510 (1047143) Blackbird singing
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| Name: | Angie | |||||
| Location: | Chicago, Illinois, United States | |||||
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| AOL IM: |  FrazzleDazzle1 (Add Buddy, Send Message) | |||||
| Bio: | I graduated with my B.S. in English from MacMurray College in May, 2006. I'm planning on pursuing a career in publishing, but at the present, I'm serving as the Asst. Director of Residence Life at Woodlands Academy in Lake Forest, IL. I am a lifelong theatre fan and a closet musical geek. I love to read and I try to sample a little bit of everything literary. I've got a long To Be Read List, so if you have any recommendations, know that it will most likely be years until I get to it. Like the rest of the American population, I love music and movies. I don't have many music preferences. I love most kinds of music--anything I can dance or sing along to is just great. As for movies, I suppose that sort of accompanies my love for reading. I prefer interesting story lines as opposed to fluff. I don't really like "teen" movies, although my weekness is '10 Things I Hate About You." However, that has roots in Shakespeare, so it can't be all bad. Speaking of The Bard, I love him. I haven't read all of his works, but I'm working on it. I would LOVE to become a Shakespeare scholar. I'm a lifelong Chicago White Sox fan, not one of those recent bandwagon fans who came along when they went to the World Series. My very first baseball game was at Old Comiskey Park, and I remember Ozzie Guillen as a player and Frank Thomas as a rookie. I remember when we all thought Robin Ventura was out for the season, and I was there that night in August when he came back and proved he was great. I love a good board game. I like to play games that make me think, like Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, and dominoes, but I'm a big fan of the classics like Life, Clue, and Monopoly. I'm what you might call a "Recovering Catholic." I survived a lifetime of the Chicago Catholic School system (a well-oiled machine if there ever was one). I crave independence and I hate relying on people to live my life. I prefer to take control of the situation and I don't feel like things are done unless I do them myself. However, since college I've gotten better. I can delegate and appear relaxed, even if inside I'm fuming and neurotic. I'm a geek. I read encyclopedias for the sake of reading and learning something new. I like knowing the parts of a sentence. It drives me crazy when I find typos in books. I correct everyone's grammar. I pride myself on knowing how to spell. I consider proper grammar and spelling a lost art. I love school. Sometimes I'm not always the best student, or I (would) get fed up with classes and/or projects and complete them for the sake of "getting them done" rather than wanting to put forth my best effort. I haven't made up my mind if that's the product of laziness, academic burn out, or a combination of both. It drives me insane when I've gone to the trouble of arranging knick-knacks and the like on my dressers, desks, what have you, and someone walks right up and moves it or plays with it and doesn't put it back EXACTLY where I had it. It itches at me until I have to stop what I'm doing and fix it before I can do anything else. I love to write, and I write just about daily, but so few people see what I'm working on that I might as well be Emily Dickinson without the fear of people. Oh yeah, and I tend to lack greatness. Graduate School is somewhere in my future. But don't ask me what I want to study, because I want to study everything. I want to be a playwright, a Shakespearean scholar, a Whitman professor, an expert in Post-Modern American lit. I want to study about everything and know about everything. I want to discuss literature with people who share the same passion for it that I do. I also want to own my own bookstore someday. I want to open a small shop and be surrounded by literature every moment of my day. I can't start my day without coffee. Well, I can, but it's a slow start. VERY slow. If there's no coffee to be found, a Mountain Dew will work. If both are unavailable, I don't "wake up" until 3 p.m. or so. I've been dating the same wonderful guy for over 6 years. We will became engaged September 16th, 2006, and we're getting married December 15th, 2007. At present, I'm enjoying being engaged, and there are aspects of wedding planning that can be fun, but don't get me wrong-I'm only doing this once. As fun as it was trying on dresses, it also made me want to stab a flathead screwdriver into my eyes so I wouldn't have to look at myself in white ever again. I feel that there may be something terribly, terribly wrong with me. I love my fiance, and I can't wait to spend my life with him, but I have yet to feel a wedding consume me body and soul. I keep waiting for that pain, that joy, and that rush of adreneline to envelope me and make my life full of tastings, fittings, viewings, and trunk shows. However....nothing. I have nothing. I suppose that's for the best....I'd rather view my wedding as a special day, but not THE special day. My wedding day and my college graduation will share the "best day of my life" title, as they both hold a profound significance for me. My college graduation day was like none other. My wedding day will be the same, but for very different reasons. I'm getting sick of women who view marriage as an accomplishment and not a committment. Fancy table settings don't make great marriages, but love, respect, and trust are the foundation for a lifetime. I judge you by your grammar, spelling, and the books you read. I can't help it. If you're 25 with a 5th grade reading level and no medical excuse, you're not worth my time. I wish I could be more accepting and willing to discuss ideas with those people, but I just can't. No one is more excited about finally having a female Speaker of the House than me. Well, Nancy Pelosi might be. Either way, I am so thrilled that we finally have a woman in charge of the House of Representatives. The significance of this is lost on so many people, it sickens me. I feel that we're so close to having a woman for President. However, I fear that most Americans are afraid of strong, assertive women, so our first female Commander in Chief may be further off than we think. This does not mean I will blindly vote for Hillary in the primaries. I'm still sizing up the candidates and I have many months until I can vote. Finally, I'm also a lia sophia jewelry consultant, so if you want something pretty, I'm your woman. =) | |||||
| Memories: | 70 entries | |||||
| Interests: | 71: american literature, american sign language, amusing coincidences, anne sexton, black and white films, black and white photographs, books, broadway, candy, charlie brown, chicago, chicago white sox, chinese food, chocolate, civil rights, coffee, country music, degas, due gatti coffee, edith wharton, eeyore, english, english literature, fiction, fleece blankets, fortune cookies, great america, halloween, harold pinter, hot cocoa, international thespian society, ireland, italian food, james bond, journaling, journalism, lazy sunday afternoons, macmurray college, mexican food, movies, museums, music, nancy drew, new york city, newsies, penguins, peter paul and mary, photography, politics, rainy days and mondays, rent, robert lowell, shopping, singing, sleep, sliding down banisters, snoopy, spring, summer, sylvia plath, the carpenters, the confessional poets, the harlem renaissance, the x-files, theatre, thrift stores, vincent van gogh, vintage anything, william shakespeare, writing, yellow roses | |||||
| Schools: | Queen of Peace High School - Burbank, IL (1998 - 2002) Mac Murray College - Jacksonville, IL (2002 - present) | |||||
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| Mutual Friends: | 35: alinna, allabtkrazy97, annabananamaria, apropos418, b_b_shinin, baristanikki, blackyhorse97, bowlerbabe, crystal_skies, dj_ruck, electricshaver, englishroselady, evillittletroll, flyinghipposstg, forcednature, grevin, iced_strawberri, icgraham, jeskameska, jezzam, lizcyard, mandiepantz, milestails_212, missred347, mugging_hipster, ngel2283, nickibuttface, penguinkapitan, phinublue, secret_spoken, squishygumibear, sunny4ever18, super_elmo133, swnopsi4life, v_opposition | |||||
| Also Friend of: | 1: howie21300 | |||||
| Member of: | 10: autumn_addicts, booktards, chi_white_sox, chicago_bike, chicago_el, deaf, english_majors, its, playwrights, sigmataudelta | |||||
| Account type: | Basic Account | |||||
