Jenn
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | AP and Gifted English Instructor |
| Location | Orlando, Florida, United States |
| Introduction | "As idle as a painted ship/Upon a painted ocean" --Samuel Taylor Coleridge. That pretty much sums it up. |
| Interests | magic realism, Arabic music, coffee, tea, literature of all genres, writing, blogging, shiny objects, lemurs, tai chi, tolkein, bronte, shakespeare, sophocles, coleridge, wordsworth, shelley, keats ,morrison, walker, david foster wallace (RIP), mark leyner, douglas coupland, vladimir nabakov, project runway, digital photography, foreign travel, teaching, myPod, my niece and nephews, chai tea lattes, sarcasm, art, poetry, pirates |
| Favorite movies | Slumdog Millionaire, The Princess Bride, Star Wars LOTR, Pirates of the Caribbean, Doris Day movies, Now Voyager, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Amelie, About a Boy, High Fidelity, Star Trek (esp. The Wrath of Khan), MONTY PYTHON AND THE QUEST FOR THE HOLY GRAIL, Hamlet, Erik the Viking, The Godfather I and II (not III), Harry Potter, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Office Space, Mel Brooks's work, Citizen Kane, To Kill a Mockingbird, Dumb and Dumber, Terms of Endearment, Belle du Jour, Cinema Paradiso, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Little Miss Sunshine |
| Favorite music | Ofra Haza, U2, the Verve, Bad Company, The Eagles, The Beatles, Elvis Costello, The Smithereens, The Smiths, Diana Krall, Tori Amos, Sarah M., Delerium, Corinne Bailey Rae, Tasmin Archer, Paul Oakenfold, Depeche Mode, Smashing Pumpkins, INXS, Luscious Jackson, Crowded House, Weird Al, Arctic Monkeys, The Hives, Edmee, Enya, Liz Story, Suzanne Vega, Roy Orbison, The Lonely Island, Oasis, 1980's music, too many more to list |
| Favorite books | One Hundred Years of Solitude and everything else Gabriel Garcia Marquez ever wrote, Jane Eyre, Hamlet, Macbeth, Henry V, The Orchid Thief, Lolita, The Kite Runner, Still Life with Woodpecker, The Hotel New Hampshire, The World According to Garp, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tess, Jude the Obscure, anything by Jennifer Weiner, The Lovely Bones, Griffin and Sabine, Beloved, Madame Bovary, My Antonia, far too many more to mention here |
You forgot your mom's birthday! What can you make out of super glue and olive pits?
Miss Bronte, Miss Bronte. . .