sarah
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"I'm pushing an elephant up the stairs." -REM
Female
37 years old
SUGAR LAND, TEXAS
United States
Last Login: 3/12/2009
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| General | Current: reading,reading, reading, writing esp. short stories & mystery novels, medieval women, how to get a 2 yr old to eat vegetables
Past: Classics, knitting, graphic novels, rowing, guitar, theater
Future: Rowing (again), fencing, cooking, Bhangra dance | | Music | Aimee Mann, Liz Phair, Greenday, Tori Amos, Shakira, Indigo Girls, compilations (Hear Music, Nick Hornby's Songbook, Brokeback Mtn, High Fidelity sntrck, Garden State sntrck, random mix CD's), Lisa Loeb, Shivaree, Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Loreena McKennit, Bob Dylan, also occasional bouts of showtunes (Wicked, PBS Broadway sndtrck, Rent, Stephen Sondheim compilations) or disco or eighties. also listen to Laurie Berkner, They Might Be Giants ("Here Come the ABC's & No, No, No), and Philadelphia Chickens. | | Movies | When Harry Met Sally, Love Actually, Soapdish, Serenity, Brokeback Mountain, Sin City, Chasing Amy, Ghost World, Miss Congeniality, Casablanca, Chicago, La Femme Nikita, LA Confidential | | Television | Veronica Mars, Law & Order SVU, Without a Trace, The Office (both British & American versions), Coupling (British version only), Buffy & Angel back when, Firefly, Simpsons, Family Guy (hey, I used to live in Rhode Island), Medium, Gilmore Girls. Looking at this list, I think I need to cut back. Also Sesame Street, Bob the Builder, Jack's Big Music Show, & Thomas the Tank Engine. Issuing no statement on whether or not, despite past protests, I have ever watched or allowed my child to watch Barney. | | Books | Not a complete list--impossible to create one . . .
Pam Houston (studied with her at the Taos Writers Workshop)-her short stories esp. Cowboys are my Weakness, and her nonfiction
Alice Munro's short stories
Dan Chaon's short stories esp. those in Among the Missing
Dennis Lehane, Sara Paretsky, Marcia Muller, Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson
For memoir, Ruth Reichl, Mary Karr, Frank McCourt (cliche?), Augusten Burroughs
Recently read, The Historian, The Lincoln Lawyer, The Year of Magical Thinking, The Known World, Dress Your Family in Corduroy & Denim (saw David Sedaris in Abq, so funny & smart, he recommended "Birds of America" by Lorrie Moore, but her excellently written short stories always make me want to throw myself off a bridge)
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde-read aloud hysterical
Atonement
Nick Hornby (loved his newest A Long Way Down)
Also loving J. Carey's Kushiel fantasy series & anything by Neil Gaiman but esp. American Gods & Wolves in the Walls
Alice Hoffman
Anne Lamott on writing, also Stephen King on writing
have been rejected by Zoetrope, Glimmer Train, Southern Review, Gettysburg Review,Georgia Review, even Woman's World. Accepted by Southern Arts Journal! Story appearing in July/August/September issue! | | Heroes | My parents, my writing group, librarians around the world. |
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Virginia | | Body type: | 0' 1" | | Zodiac Sign: | Aquarius | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | Grad / professional school |
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About me:
A reader, a writer, prone to sudden, intense, but ultimately short-lived enthusiasms (knitting, playing the guitar, graphic novels) for which I maintain a nostalgic affection and a vague sense that "someday" I'll go back to them. I'm also a wife, a mother, a "Pee Wee Playgroup" and "Toddler Time" regular. In the past year, largely against my will, I have learned the names of all the trucks on Bob the Builder and all the trains on Sodor. I write meandering, depressing short stories, mystery novels, and peppy articles for UpClose magazine. Only the articles have been published. I belong to a writing group--check us out at www.concretebride.com. I'm happily married to an Applied Mathematician, which makes for bitter struggles over the remote control. He codes while I watch SVU and Without a Trace, and I read while he watches Attack of the Show & Top Gear. We agree on Veronica Mars and the Office, and that's enough. My favorite movie (yesterday, today, forever) remains "When Harry Met Sally." His is "Love, Actually." Clearly compatible.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Dennis Lehane (again), Alice Munro, Stephen Sondheim (but I'd have nothing to say), Joss Whedon
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