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Name: Britt
Interests: Sign language & Deaf people, animals, backpacking, poetry, art (sketching, acrylics, watercolor), traveling, different religions & beliefs (Buddhism is fascinating), rock climbing, Barnes & Noble and Starbucks, Spanish, camping, skiing (snow or water), watching Smallville and Good Eats, being outside.
http://www.mit.edu/~adorai/seuss/seussbo...
http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm...
http://www.aslpro.com
http://www.poets.org/
http://www.myspace.com/vidapoetica
http://www.8legged.com
http://www.transfairusa.org
http://www.religioustolerance.org
http://www.britt.m.youaremighty.co...
http://www.artchive.com
Expertise: Encouragement
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Member Since:
12/20/2004
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| Today at a church I visited they had posted something on that large white screen up front. You know, the one we've all grown to know and love.
"You are invited to a program on Gang Awareness. The United Methodist Women will have refreshments available at 6:30."
I mean, goodness forbid that just any old women should provide refreshments after a Gang Awareness program! We better leave this one to the pros. If you have ANY concerns about the quality of your food, you can rest assured that it has been lovingly and sanitarily prepared by none other than the United Methodist Women.
I will sleep easy tonight. : ) | | |
| I am in love.
With Hinder.
I love the lead-singer's smoker's voice.
I love the lyrics that, while brutally savage at times, are so real and true to human emotions.
In ways I don't understand, I have this emotional connection with their music, especially their songs "Better Than Me" and "Lips of an Angel."
Salvador, step aside, at least just for a little while while I positively feel to the essence of my being "Better Than Me." | | |
| Once in a blue moon, there are some questions that just render themselves unanswerable. I happened to encounter one such question this weekend in Memphis for my cousin's wedding.
Having arrived a day early to enjoy ourselves, my parents, Shawn, and I went downtown to enjoy dinner, sitesee, walk out the impending blood clots in our legs from prolonged car riding, etc.
The happenin' street in downtown Memphis is dubbed "Beale Street." It's kind of your typical area of nightlife with a rock n roll flair. (That's what Memphis is about, after all.) We get to the end of this street and there before our very eyes stands a vast group of people with blood-spattered clothes, grotesquely dark eye makeup, and even a pregnant lady with what looks like the traces entrails hanging off of her belly. My dad walks over to two of these young men and asks what everyone is doing. Instead of gracing us with an, oh, human response, they immediately hunch down, arms trailing toward the ground, and begin moaning. Dad just laughs goodheartedly and we move on to find dinner. We eventually overhear talk that it is a zombie invasion.
While in the restaurant we settle into (also located on Beale Street), we inform the waitress of said interesting happenings. With a look of genuine innocence, she exclaims,
"Oh, do you think they're real?"
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| Hooray for haircuts! As fun as resembling a shaggy sixth grade boy was...
Anyone looking for a roommate? I have a female friend who is wanting to move out asap and pay about $200/mo. She also has a dog. And this person is NOT Miranda, haha. | | |
| 1. no holds barred... tell me about your dream life. GO!
Dream life now or later? Wildest fantasy dream life or more practical? I guess all of my dream worlds have a few things in common: I would be with the person of my dreams (which is a whole 'nother post or fifteen), be a deaf educator, working and volunteering to make a positive difference in the world. Ideally we would be doing this someplace warm, if not tropical. And by the beach. And we could learn to surf and scuba dive. We would travel often to places all over the globe, sometimes for humanitarian goals, other times just for enjoyment. We might have kids (I haven't decided about this yet), maybe adopt a Deaf kid or two. And I guess that is my fantasy dream life, and I don't think it's too impossible to say it might happen. : )
2. if you could author the biography of anyone (alive or dead; famous or not), who would it be and why?
Heehee, my first response was Harry Potter. I wish I could write like J.K. Rowling. Not to mention have her royalties... She is so creative. It is so hard to write an "easy read." I would love to be able to tap into the imagination like that.
3. if you could have been born a child prodigy... what would you want your remarkable gift/talent to be?
Hm, I don't have a clear answer on this. Perhaps just an incredible way of connecting with people. I kinda wish I had been born a person who is lively, vivaceous, talkative, hilariously entertaining, etc. Not that I don't have measures of these qualities. But I think I'd rather have amazing people skills than fame, fortune, or a remarkable skill.
4. if someone were to make a movie about your life, who would you want to play you? why?
Nicole Kidman and Gwyneth Paltrow run pretty close. I think Nicole Kidman might be able to capture my emotional side a little bit better than Gwyneth, but then again, Gwyneth did do a great job in an emotional role in Proof, so it's a hard choice.
5. what is the greatest gift you've ever been given? what's the greatest gift you've ever given to someone else?
Probably my sense of compassion. Who gives you that gift? God? Your parents? You? All of the above? Without my sense of compassion and empathy for others, I would like to think I'd feel very adrift. In fact, if I had to choose between having amazing people skills or a quietly intense sense of compassion, I'd choose compassion any day.
The greatest gift I've ever given to someone is time. People spend time on the people and things that are most important to them, and never think that people don't realize it if you don't spend time with them.
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I'd love to hear your interview responses if you have a little time on your hands! : ) | | |
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