Gina
Blogs I follow
| Industry | Education |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Grad student |
| Location | Georgia, United States |
| Introduction | I started this blog with a metaphor in mind/body. I'm from up north, but haven't lived there since college. Based largely on childhood fantasy, I decided to learn French, move to France and marry a Frenchman, which I did. Then I imported my Frenchman back to the US for grad school. Now here I am with a dissertation to write and I'm starting a blog. I turned 30 in the middle of the first year of school and shortly thereafter, my body fell to pieces: scoliosis, joint hyper-laxity, flat feet, etc. If there is a god, my physical therapist was a gift from her. Over the last several years, he has helped put me back together - several times. |
| Interests | People watching, rapid-fire interrogation, Fab, annoying Fab, gardening, taking a ridiculous number of pictures of my cats, Pilates, Zumba, walking, physical therapy, anything and everything French and Francophone, my correspondence, pretending I'm retired when I should be writing my dissertation... |
| Favorite movies | The Labyrinth, So I Married an Axe Murderer, I Heart Huckabees, Le Père Noël est une ordure, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, Antonia's Line, The Big Lebowski, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain... |
| Favorite music | M, Early Liz Phair, REM, The Beatles, Counting Crows, The Shins, KT Tunstall, Dar Williams, Indigo Girls, Ani DiFranco, Over the Rhine, Alain Souchon, Aldebert, Bénabar, Bright Eyes, Jeff Buckley, La Grande Sophie, Serge Gainsbourg, Camille, Cat Stevens, Fleetwood Mac, Paul Simon, Elvis, Francis Cabrel, Guster, Lab Partners, Les Rita Mitsouko, Nellie McKay, Patti Smith, Prince, Renaud, Rokia Traoré, Wilco, Talking Heads, Zebda... |
| Favorite books | Les Liaisons dangereuses, Le Rouge et le Noir, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, The Great Gatsby, Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady, The Catcher in the Rye, The Temple of My Familiar, By the Light of My Father's Smile, Les Faux-Monnayeurs, Madame Bovary, Les Egarements du coeur et de l'esprit, La Vie de Henry Brulard, Le Miroir qui revient, Half Empty, anything by David Sedaris, Gulliver's Travels, Pride and Prejudice, Julie ou la nouvelle Héloïse, The Poisonwood Bible, Vatanen's hare (and several other's by Arto Paasilinna), anything Eric-Emmanuel Schmidt, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Northanger Abbey, Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Count of Monte Cristo, Perfume, So many more... |