Linden

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Industry Business Services
Occupation Assistant Executive Director
Location Giessen, Hessen, Germany
Introduction As a midwest girl teaching ESL at the university level in Germany, I write a lot about how Germany differs from my Missouri hometown. I am about 3 years into running, so I write about that frequently too. The last general topic you might read on my blog is cool web apps I stumble across that help me to be more organized and productive, since I've been on a personal mission to "upgrade" my life from procrastinating, disorganized college student to productive, accomplished adult.
Interests Running, reading, college, Linguistics, movies, German, cats
Favorite Movies Napoleon Dynamite, Kung Fu Hustle, Julia Roberts films, horror movies, Shallow Hal
Favorite Music Head Automatica, Interpol, The Shins, Mozart, Vivaldi, Dissociatives, Ben Folds, Jazz (esp. Maynard Ferguson), the Beatles (in no particular order)
Favorite Books Linguistics books, books on Germany, especially East Germany, Cold War period lit., united Germany, Germany post-1871, European history. And these authors, in no specific order: Kate Chopin, Toni Morrison, Flannery O'Conner, Janet Evanovich, Dan Brown, the Harry Potter series, Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier....

Which do you prefer and why: whittling with soap or whistling with wood?

When your science teacher smashed a frozen rose with a hammer, did you warm the petals to bring them back to life?