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Happy Mel

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joined on 10/11/03
last updated 01/13/09
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the quick and dirty

Gender
Female
Age
33
Location
about me
Graduate-level engineering student, finished my BS at Portland State in 2007 and then moved to Austin for further studies. Fun-loving, easy laugh, goal-oriented. Ready to squeeze everything out of (or into?) this life.

I've recently been a non-drinking vegetarian. That's a pretty big deal for me. I was also toying with the idea of celibacy, but naturally that meant I started meeting better men... go figure. I'm developing an obsessive yoga habit while I finish my masters degree, and I'm trying to get outside more. Mostly I am trying to find balance... merging the raucous partying of the last few years with the spiritual, sober, renunciate nature I've found hidden deep within... now THAT'S a challenge. The universe has called me to change my life, and you can't exactly say NO to the universe... hence this life is under construction. Please pardon the mess.
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rumination.

Ahhhhh, Portland… the city of my dreams, the home I never thought I’d have, the place whose taste and smell I savor and cling to and hope for as I live out my sentence in the purgatory that Austin has become. Or rather, the purgatory Austin HAD become. The recent changes in my thinking and aspirations had gone some considerable distance to making me happier here, and I can’t discount that. There can be no doubt that prior to my flight home week before last, I was better than resigned to my fa... read more
Tue, August 5, 2008 - 5:56 PM permalink - 4 comments
 
superficial note: I have decided to buy a car... it's been some 5 years since I really owned one. It's not that I can't get to the places I want to go; it's just that it's terribly inconvenient, and I'd rather spend less time waiting for and/or riding the bus. The environmentalist in me is just sick about this, but it's for the best. In fact I'll probably use my bike MORE after this since I won't be trying to carry my yoga clothes and my lunch and my books all over the place.

on the deeper... read more
Tue, July 15, 2008 - 1:55 PM permalink - 6 comments
 
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lies people have told

January 16, 2007
Thank you Mel for introducing me to the Nectar of the Goddess! TUACA!
October 20, 2006
Mel is a ninja.
you should trust her.

i did. and she IS sparkly and spy like!!
December 30, 2004
Hubba hubba.

'nuff said.

xoxoxox

Rat
September 15, 2004
HAPPY! Mel rocks as a camp mate, and is a mellow and fab addition to my palate of freaky pals. Her trading cards rocked. Mell loved riding in the big as car with you. Thanks for the happy vibes
August 11, 2004
Mel is full of delicious mystery to me... I've never had the fortune of really getting close to her, but I've always felt like she's a deep, true friend... AND, she's one of the sexiest evil klowns I've enclowntered...
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