Stevie
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | EFL Teacher |
| Location | Granada, Andalucia, Spain |
| Introduction | Moved to Spain in March, 2008. Who knows where I'll be next year...??? Japan, Mexico, Colombia, Thailand, Brazil...the world's a big shiny oyster full of work for English teachers. |
| Interests | conversation on coffee high, -isms, punctuation, language, rock-n-roll, walking everywhere, not having a car anymore, midnight tapas tours, contranyms, yoga, pandas, good poetry, Rioja & jamon, throwing clay, sea otters, cute (i.e. tiny) things, hair-do's and don'ts, drawing & painting abstract flowers, the beach, WWII trivia, orangutans, orchids, hearty laughter, Bhujangasana (cobra pose) & Setu Bandhasana (bridge pose), speaking Spanish when i'm drinking...in SPAIN!! |
| Favorite Movies | anything w/ Ewan McGregor or John Cusack or Phillip Seymour Hoffman in it, Woody Alan films, Lolita (esp. the Jeremy Irons version but also the Kubrik), Charlie Kaufman films, Newsies, travel documentaries, Broken Flowers, Shopgirl, Love Liza, Eternal Sunshine, The Matador, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Secretary, Stranger than Fiction, Jason Schwartzman movies, Winona Ryder films, Adaptation, Say Anything, the Science of Sleep, High Fidelity, Shag, Reality Bites, Bedknobs & Broomsticks |
| Favorite Music | Too many to name, so today's theme is "the letter M": Meiko, M.I.A., Mates of State, Mirah, Modest Mouse, Mellodrone, Cibo (M)ato, Bob (M)arley, Matador |
| Favorite Books | Classic (I've re-read each of these at least twice): Nabakov's Lolita (all-time favorite); The House on Mango Street; Cat's Cradle (2nd favorite); Riddley Walker; Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; Beloved (3rd favorite); Disgrace; Bird by Bird/// Fav Poets: Bruce Bond, Ginsberg, Pound, Sexton, Etheridge Knight, Thom Yorke/// Non-fiction: semiotics, grammar handbooks, education/learning theory, travel guides, and language history |
Oscillate my metallic sonatas with your plan for the Panama canal:
uh, that's a command, dude (not a question).