Brittney (v1.15)

Hey guys! Here's some general stuff about me. My current e mail address is BrittneyA at gmaildotcom. Reply

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What I am Up to Now

Updated: April 1, 2005 Reply

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More About Me:

When I was 18 I described myself like so: I love pajama pants, and the color yellow-orange. I am eighteen years old, vegan, a sagittarius, an accused “hair flirt,” an aspiring interior designer, a fiery redhead, and a somewhat radical thinker who admires extremists with a cause. I am ever-increasingly opinionated (and honest). I've lived coast to coast, and I enjoy traveling. Reply

I'm twenty now and pretty much the same. I still dream big dreams, though I'm not sooo vegan, and I now plan to be an architect, rather than an interior designer. It's also been pointed out to me recently that I wear a lot of beige and neutral colors. Reply

Things that I enjoy doing

attending festivals (film, music, cultural etc.) ★ believing in the possibility of aliens, good men, and other fantasy creatures ★ cooking ★ dancing ★ doing guided meditation ★ drawing with charcoal ★ drinking coffee ★ driving with the windows down ★ eating coffee-flavored ice cream ★ goddess studies ★ hanging out with friends ★ homebirth & alternative menstrual supplies ★ laughing often and loving much ★ laying in hammocks ★ learning about the brain ★ listening to thunderstorms ★ living with animals ★ making people watch ★ Meet your Meat” ★ making things from scratch and with my hands ★ meeting new people ★ memorizing all the words to a song ★ practicing yoga ★ riding horses ★ sleeping with down-comforters (I was never a very good vegan) ★ staying in touch with myself and following my deams and my heart ★ sustainable/ecological building design ★ swimming in the ocean ★ taking pictures (My Advice: NEVER EVER put your film through a metal detector!!!) ★ travel of various sorts ★ trying to play the guitar ★ being a vegetarian ★ watching movies- particularly good rip-your-heart-out dramas, rolling-on-the floor-laughing comedies, and on-the-edge-of-your-seat thrillers ★ wearing flip-flops ★ writing down quotes Reply

Actually, my leaving the public education system has a little something to do with flip-flops and the banning of all backless shoes at school in Georgia. Those never ending biased rules and my adolescent logic and spirit (as well as the the wonderfully crafted Teenage Liberation Handbook) led me to homeschooling... Reply

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I went on to attend a symmester of college for interior design and decided instead to do architecture. Reply


Favorite Books

The TLH: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education by Grace LlewellynCunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga MusicoSucculent Wild Woman by SARKThe Underground History of American Education by John Taylor GattoMy Mnay Colored Days by Dr. Seuss ★ Teach Your Own by John HoltReply

Movies I've Loved At One Point or Another

Big Fish (!) ★ Beyond Boarders ★ City of Angels ★ Color Purple, The ★ Corina, Corina ★ Dirty Dancing ★ Earth Girls are Easy ★ Fight Club ★Four Rooms ★ God's Must be Crazy, The ★ Great Expectations ★ History of the World part II ★ Hours, The (!) ★ I Heart Hucabees ★ Joy Luck Club, The (!) ★ Life as a House (!) ★ Long Kiss Goodnight, The ★ Lorenzo's Oil ★ Magdalen Sisters, The (!) ★ Out of Order ★ Paycheck ★ Scotland, PA (A McBeth Parody) (!) ★ Sleeping With the Enemy ★ Steel Magnolias ★ Thin Red Line, The (!) ★ Rules of Attraction ★ Weight of Water, The (!) ★ What's Eating Gilbert Grape Reply

Favorite Music

90's alternative ★ African Drums (live! = ) ★ Ani Difranco (Lots of) ★ Bad Company ★ Beastie Boys ★ Better Than Ezra ★ Butthole Surfers: Pepper ★ Counting Crows: Anna Begins, Color Blind, Raining in Baltimore ★ Dashboard Confessional ★ Dave Matthews Band ★ Enya ★ Fiona Apple: Get Gone, Honey, Paper Bag, Shadowboxwer, The Way Things Are & Others ★ Janis Joplin ★ Jane's Addiction ★ Joni Mitchell ★ Lauren Hill ★ Maroon 5: She Will Be Loved, and Sunday Mornings ★ Moby (Album: Play) ★ Monks ★ Nick Drake ★ Norah Jones ★ Patty Griffin ★ Rockapella ★ Rolling Stones ★ Primitive Radio Gods ★ Strokes, The: Last Night, and Someday ★ Sublime ★ Tom Petty ★ Van Morrison: Astral Weeks ★ Wallflowers ★ Reply

Favorite Foods

Bruchetta ★ Curry and Flat Bread ★ Mexican: Guacamole, Vegan Enchiladas, Tostadas ★ Coffee, Tea (like chai), Iced Espresso, Frozen Lattes (for a divine coffee experience Come Visit Me! ReasonsToTravel) ★ Chocolate Covered Strawberries ★ Dark Chocolate ★ Breakfast Burritos ★ Pasta, Pasta, Pasta ★ Caesar Salads ★ Reply

I Just Love

Iraq war Protests! ★ Unschoolers! ★ Names, no reallyNBTSC ★ Hammocks! ★ Coffee (not caffeine) ★ Group games!! ★ Going to the park where there's a lake, a cliff to jump off of, peaceful spots to sit, and a dock that makes an awesome silhouette for taking pictures/drawing ★ San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district ★ The beach in the wintertime ★ People with a passion for life, a purpose of their own, and a knack for adventure ★ The feeling of the breeze on my face (see below). Reply

An Essay: Reply

All I that I felt was the lifeless, chilly overhead vent blasting out stiff, frigid, engineered air as I recently realized that my favorite feelings in the world are as simple as the cool breeze touching my skin. I did not truly appreciate this feeling until I was inside one day, staring out the window, looking down at a tree. The branches of the tree waved gently back and forth fanned by a seemingly mellow breeze. In that second, I subconsciously expected to feel that same breeze touch me, and was thoroughly disappointed upon realizing that the wind would not penetrate the thick brick of the house I was in. In those few moments, I realized how much I love the feeling of camping in the brisk, fresh mountain climate, riding with the car window down, going horseback and barefoot, or even taking a walk in the crisp fall air. It was in that instant that I understood that, of all the comforts that home brings, it does not provide the enrapture of the balmy wind dancing through your hair and caressing your sun-kissed skin on a perfect day. Sometimes, can be the best feeling in the world. Reply


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