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Tales from the Valley and Beyond

Veni, Vidi, Visa

Created on 2003-11-02 15:57:48 (#1431469), last updated 2009-07-11

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Name:	Laura with a Peppermint Twist
Birthdate:	1983-07-26
Location:	Los Angeles, California, United States
Website:	my myspace - yup - i sold out

Bio

Edu stuff: IB from back in the day, BA in psych and women's studies, MA in cultural psychology and program evaluation

Job stuff: I work for LA County doing research on health care issues. Previously I worked for a nonprofit doing research on health care disparities with community health centers.

For fun stuff: traveling - I lived and studied in London for a while, studied in Belfast and do lots of travel for work. Shopping, swimming, reading, the beach, exploring LA, hanging out with the boy, friends and my pug.

I just got engaged (July '08)!! so add planning a big fat jewish wedding to the about me list.

"So, she got to keep her virginity but she had to be a laurel tree, which is very limiting."

from the devil's panties

from bunny

Happy the Man – Horace translated by John Dryden

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call today his own
He, who secure within, can say
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine,
The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate are mine.
Not heaven itself upon the past has power
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

Tiny Dancer

Blue jean baby, L.A. lady
Seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed, pirate smile
You'll marry a music man
Ballerina, you must have seen her
Dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me
Tiny Dancer in my hand.

Jesus freaks, out in the street
Handing tickets out for God
Turning back, she just laughs
The boulevard is not that bad
Piano man, he makes a stand
In the auditorium
Looking on, she sings the songs
The words she knows, the tunes she hums

But oh, how it feels so real
Lying here with no one near
Only you, and you can hear me
When I say softly, slowly

Hold me closer Tiny Dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today

Hold me closer Tiny Dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today

Blue jean baby, L.A. lady
Seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed, pirate smile
You'll marry a music man
Ballerina, you must have seen her
Dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me
Tiny Dancer in my hand.

But oh, how it feels so real
Lying here with no one near
Only you, and you can hear me
When I say softly, slowly

Hold me closer Tiny Dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today.

Hold me closer Tiny Dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today.

dance lil dude, dance

i wish you all the joy that you can wish

I love love love my 5 yr old pug, Olive. She is a rescue from a puppy mill where she was one of the breeder/moms. She spent all of her life in a cage before we got her so now she's totally spoiled and in love with me and the boy.

and SATC is love.

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Schools:

Cajon High School - San Bernardino, CA (1998 - 2001)
Guilford College - Greensboro, NC (2001 - 2004)
Claremont Graduate University - Claremont, CA (2004 - 2006)
Queens University - Belfast, Northern Ireland - County Down, United Kingdom (2005)

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