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Name: Kinsey
Country: United States
State: District of Columbia
Metro: Washington D.C.
Gender: Female
Interests: acting, shakespeare, jane austen, europe, guitar, traveling, bob dylan, history, driving late at night, being outside, discovering a good downtown, the ocean, the moon, peach tea, summer, documentaries, discovering new music, maps, trains, coffee, tour 57, the beatles, national geographic, coconut lime verbena lotion, sleeping late, lemonade, listening to records, cheesecake, front porches, patty griffin, spring in washington dc (when it doesn't suck), burt's bees beeswax lip balm, making music mixes, travel books, vintage travel art, the arcade fire's newest album, government cheese
Expertise: theatre and history, i hope
Occupation: artist
Industry: theatre/legal secretarism
Message: message me
AIM:  kinsruth
Yahoo:  chintzeyruth
Member Since:
2/1/2005
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| so a few news items: * i have one week left at my job. next friday, october 3rd is my last day here at the law firm. incidentally, that makes 2 years and one day i have worked here. the current economic crisis is making me a little nervous. conventional wisdom says that i should probably stay in a stable working position, but . . . i'm just done. i've been saving money, plus i have no debt, except for $50 which i owe to my grandmother, but she's not charging me any interest. so we'll see how this all pans out. but if we do have a second great depression, i've decided i'll be playing the part of the railroad hobo. a lifelong dream. * i leave for italy on october 7th for 2 weeks to visit my friend emilia. i'm super excited, although the nervousness of all of these life transitions seems to be overshadowing it a little. i think once i'm completely done with this job, i'll be able to concentrate on it a bit more. i'm also trying to be determined not so slip up on the no smoking thing. i'm almost at 9 months, but when i think about being in italy it's hard to imagine it smoke free. but that would just be too ironic right? since this trip is a reward to myself for quitting. . . * i'm about to be an aunt again. my brother christian and his wife amber are having a little boy next month. unless he comes early, he'll be born while i'm in italy. * not much else to tell except i have get lots of things figured out. the lease on my apartment ends on december 1st. i'm pretty sure it goes month to month after that, but the landlord may be raising the rent, so we'll just have to see. . . hope everyone is enjoying fall. it's been kind of blustery lately. ps check out this band in my currently listening. good stuff. | | |
| check out this link: http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2002.php beloit college puts out something called a mindset list every year for students who are just entering college. this year's students are considered the class of 2012, born in 1990. the list includes things that they have never lived without, i.e. the internet, things they can't remember or didn't realize had never existed at some point in time. you can look up the years all the way back to 2002, which would have been my class -- those of us born in 1980 -- had i not transferred schools and had a double major causing me to graduate in 2003. to be honest, i was kind of insulted. take a look at the link above and you'll see what i mean. are you kidding me? you think i never had a black and white tv? that i always had cable? that i don't remember the cold war? some of them are legit. you're right i didn't realize there used to be beige colored m&m's. i don't know. obviously, this is supposed to be a generalization. i guess i just don't like being put into stock categories. at any rate, these lists are kind of interesting. | | |
| so here i am. back again, trying to keep the blog thing afloat. went to the beach this weekend with my good friend lee, who just moved to dc. hadn't seen her in about 4 years. we had a great time -- a perfect day for the beach. although getting there started off a little rough as the first exit we were supposed to take ended up being closed and there wasn't any visible way to get to the highway we needed to get on. so we basically turned around and went into a circle about 3 times before realizing that we were clearly going to have to find an alternate route. thanks to my trusty map and the fact that like to drive around just for fun which leads to learning lots of back roads and alternate routes for just such occasions, we were able to figure our way out of the what seemed like an endless mess. the waves at the beach were pretty big -- bigger than normal. it may have been some offshoot of hurricane/tropical storm fay. anyway, they were big enough to knock me down over and over again and i finally just got tired of fighting them and went back to the blanket. hopefully, i'm going to make it back to the beach once more before it gets too cold. my little backyard patio has been getting lots of action lately. my neighbor shane, his best friend josh, josh's girlfriend marsha, occasionally marsha's roommate laura (who all go to my church) and i have been hanging out there alot on nights when it's not too hot, just hanging out, drinking and listening to music. it's nice. i have 5 weeks left at my job -- 24 days and counting. i'm so ready to be done. and so scared at the same time. people keep asking me what's next and while i have a few things up my sleeve, the short answer is that i just don't know. and that's thrilling and frightening at the same time. italy is coming up soon, and that's exciting. as well as my nephew who, unless he comes a few days early, will probably be born while i'm italy. so that's my news for now. i'll keep you posted. ps have you heard that song by the killers? "all these things that i've done". i don't think it's new, but i'd never heard it until recently on a commercial during the olympics. i can't stop listening to it. such a great song. | | |
| ok fine, dave, i'm posting something. i've been ordered to post something soon or my friend dave is going to cut me off forever. ok, not really, but he wants me to post something. anything. i guess that means he reads this thing. anyway, to be honest, not a whole lot to talk about other than the continual family drama. this summer has felt kind of boring and i'm looking forward to autumn. i guess there are a few things to talk about. * i'm well on my way to quitting smoking -- 7 months as of yesterday * i have a new beautiful niece -- adalae marie (pictures on facebook) * the biggest thing in my life right now that some of you may not know about is that i'm quitting my job at the end of september. what am i doing next you ask? don't know yet. and while that's kind of scary and unsettling, it feels really good. i have sat in front of a computer for way too long, and i just can't do it anymore. i made this decision back in march and have been saving money ever since. so at least i'll have a bit of a cushion while i'm figuring out what i'm supposed to be doing. * in the meantime, i'm going to italy for 2 weeks in october to see emilia. this is my reward for quitting smoking. i needed some serious motivation to force myself to quit, so i told myself that if i could go for 6 months without a cigarette, i could go to italy. cold turkey, i might add. i'm pretty excited about this trip. that's really about it, i think. hoping to make it out to the beach once or twice more before the summer is over. and probably going to the county fair this weekend. i'm pretty excited about that. i haven't been to a fair in ages. i want to eat lots of cotton candy and funnel cake and snow cones. actually i don't really like cotton candy, but it's the principle of the thing. hope everyone is well. here's to a good end to the summer. | | |
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