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Musings from Beringia

Isostatic Rebound is Uplifting

Created on 2004-10-29 04:17:59 (#4982974), last updated 2009-11-04

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Name:	Jacquelyn
Location:	Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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most people don't do very well and I get discouraged with
their existence, it's such a waste: all those
bodies, all those lives
malfunctioning: lousy quarterbacks, bad waitresses, in-
competent carwash boys and presidents, cowardly
goal-keepers
inept
garage mechanics
bumbling tax accountants and
so forth

yet

now and then

I see a single performer doing something with a
natural excellence

it

can be
a waitress in some cheap cafe or a 3rd string
quarterback
coming off the bench with 24 seconds on the clock
and completing that winning
60 yard pass

which lets me believe that
the possibility of the miracle is here with us
almost every day

and I'm glad that now and then
some 3rd string quarterback
shows me the truth of that belief
whether it be in science, art, philosophy,
medicine, politics, and/or etc.

else I'd shoot all the lights out of
this fucking city
right now

~60 yard pass, Charles Bukowski

See my 50 Book Challenge lists here (for the current and past years), with links to my reviews.

Currently Reading: Manifesta: Feminism, Young Women & the Future by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards , Kushiel's Justice by Jacqueline Carey, and The Terror by Dan Simmons.

Just Finished Reading: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (*****), Emma by Jane Austen (***), and Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey (****).

Listening To On Audio: none

Currently Netflixed: The Ice Storm, John Adams (Disc 1), and Emma.

Last Seen: Alias: Season 4 (Disc 4) (*****), The X-Files: Season 3 (Disc 2) (*****), and Choke (**).

Jacquelyn can also be found on Netflix, Ravelry, Craftster, Flickr, Library Thing, 43 Things, FaceBook, and LastFM!

Check out my alter-ego, theclimateblog! Or my communties, scrabbleshots, thelunarsociety, literal_libris, or uw_grads.

P.S. I <3

jackshoegazer

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Interests (149):

1950's housewife culture, alternative menstrual products, amazons, ancient history, antarctica, anthropology, anthropomorphising, anti-racism, aprons, aurora borealis, autumn smells, backpacking, baking bread, beringia, books, bookstores, british humor, cabot cheddar, calling out privilege, canada, cave art, cellos, celtic mythology, chacos, charles bukowski, chinese films, classic pre-1960 film, climate change, college of the atlantic, continental drift, cooking, cormac mccarthy, crafting, craftster, dandelions, darwin, david mitchell, deep time, defending genre, ecology, environmental archaeology, feeding the ducks, feminism, fossils, fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice, geekiness, glaciers, gleasonian ecology, goddard college, good alt country, gyttja, hiking, ironic astrology, isostatic rebound, japanese art prints, jeopardy, jeremy j. parker, kayaking, kick-wheel pottery, kitchen gadgetry, languages, lapis lazuli, learning to sew, living fossils, lost civilizations, lucid dreaming, macs, madison, making fun of libertarians, making mixes, making my life greener, margaret atwood, maria callas, massages, massive jade plants, megafauna, microbrews, mint, mudita, muppets, museums, music, my cats, naguib mahfouz, neko case, netflix, new domesticity, npr, otters, paleoecology, palynology, philology, philosophy, photography, planning vacations, playing with science machines, poetry, popcorn with nutritional yeast, porter, post-apocalyptic scenarios, pre-1960 vintage, princess leia, private languages, river run, rockhopper penguins, rocks, ruins, scrabble, sex in a tent, shakespeare, sherlock holmes, shibumi, silver maples, skepticism, sleeping outside, smartwool socks, sousa's nantucket pie, spicy food, spring peepers, spying in checkout lines, star-gazing, sufjan stevens, taoism, tarot, tea, team brdgt, the diy movement, the k-t impact event, the lunar society, the pleistocene, the quaternary period, the socratic school, theatre, thunderstorms, tiramisu, tolkien, transcendentalism, traveling, tundra, university of wisconsin-madison, using nouns as verbs, vegetarianism, vermont, video games as escapism, wilderness, wine, writing amazon reviews, wwii propaganda posters, yoga

Schools:

University of Wisconsin - Madison - Madison, WI
Vista Mare - La Maddalena, Sardegna, Italy (1988 - 1991)
Oxbow High School - Bradford, VT (1993 - 1999)
Goddard College - Plainfield, VT (2000 - 2002)
College of the Atlantic - Bar Harbor, ME (2003 - 2005)

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