Linden
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| 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?