Jess

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Education
Occupation Special Education Teacher, Writer
Location St. Paul, Minnesota
Interests Books, writing, music, knitting, learning to cook, reconstructed clothing, comic books, organizing my closet, travel, art, cheese, interior decorating, Scrabble
Favorite Movies Princess Bride, Moulin Rouge, Stand by Me, Terminator 2, Shakespeare in Love, Adaptation, Little Shop of Horrors, Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh version), Sixteen Candles, Brokeback Mountain, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Donnie Darko
Favorite Music Cake, The Beatles, No Doubt, Ani Difranco, Radiohead, Bon Jovi, Musical theatre, Weezer, my brother singing opera, 80s, The Cure, Fiona Apple, Bright Eyes, Mason Jennings, Smog, Mountain Goats, The Owls, Christine Fellows, Hot Chip, Neutral Milk Hotel, DeVotcka
Favorite Books A Widow for One Year by John Irving, Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo, Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Room with a View by E.M. Forster, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, The Boys of My Youth by JoAnn Beard, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The Brothers K by David James Duncan, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, Extrememly Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, The Dictionary

You can whistle and steam can whistle, so why do you sing in the shower?

Because the acoustics in my bathroom make my voice sound awesome, and it helps me wake up.