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15th April, 2009. 12:58 pm. summer plans

hello!!!

I haven't written on here in ages. But guess what?! I GOT A JOB FOR THE SUMMER. After a lot of bull about no one having work, all sorts of firms firing people and blah blah (lame economy), I found a perfect job in Hallowell, which is just minutes away from Augusta [i.e. where Travis' apartment is]. Yessssssssssssssss.

The job is as a nanny for three little girls, ages 3, 4 and 6, which of course, is perfect. They like to play pretend, and dress up, and doing artsy things. My favorites.

Also, Travis got an amazing kayak which we can play with when we're not sailing. And we're getting a kitten. And I'm getting paid to PLAY WITH KIDS. Did I mention that they have an in ground swimming pool?? This is going to be a really good summer...

Now, if only I could make it to the end of this semester. 20 days til I drive home. 12 days til deadline. I can do it, I can do it, I can do it.

And Steph is going to be a nanny also, in Rome, so we both get to play with kids and compare experiences, even when we're on different continents. Yayyayayaya.

okay, enough. time for lunch. and getting back to work....... blah

xoxo
 

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9th January, 2009. 2:57 pm. Etsy shop

Hey guys,

I just opened an Etsy shop on Etsy. com!!

It's www. CopperLee. etsy. com and Travis and I will both be selling some hand-i-work on there for your pleasureeeee (and to raise some money for ourselves, and charity!)

Right now I have some photographs, soon there will be paintings and architectural models and lots more.


The photograph that I just put up is from the Irish Famine Memorial in NYC, and when it is sold I'll contribute 1/4 of the profits to Heifer. Org, which is a great charity helping to feed the world's poor...

Even if you don't buy my artwork, you should check out www. heifer. org!

Thanks everyone,

Sophi
|CopperLee|

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22nd November, 2008. 10:27 pm. i eat well, i promise.

Good sources of iron for vegetarians include wholegrain cereals and flours, leafy green vegetables, blackstrap molasses, pulses such as lentils and kidney beans, and some dried fruits.

Women between the ages of 11 and 49 should consume 14.8 mg of iron per day. In women of child-bearing age, loss of iron from menstruation of blood adds considerably to iron need. These losses can be highly variable. Around 10% of women of child-bearing age will need more iron than is indicated.

Also:
Spinach quiche

4 servings

150g wholewheat pastry
150g spinach (frozen or cooked)
150g cottage cheese
2 free range eggs
2 tablespoons milk
Freshly milled black pepper

Set the oven at 200 C, gas mark 6. Line a flan tin with the pastry. In a large mixing bowl, mix together the spinach, cottage cheese, egg, milk and freshly milled pepper. Pour the mixture into the pastry case. Bake in the pre-heated oven for about 30 minutes. Serve hot or cold.

All from "The Vegetarian Society of the UK"'s website.. great stuff there! :-)

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21st September, 2008. 9:55 pm. school/life.. or school=life, hard to say....

busy busy busy. procrastinating by writing this.

looking forward to our october trip to NYC and seeing travis.
sad i didn't go riding today.
loving my Mickey Avalon station on pandora.

third year is good so far!

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28th June, 2008. 9:51 pm. top 100 books meme

27th June, 2008. 10:05 pm. Big Read Meme

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well, let's see...

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)


001. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
002. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
003. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
004. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
005. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
006. The Bible
007. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
008. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
009. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
010. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
011. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
012. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
013. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
014. Complete Works of Shakespeare
015. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
016. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
017. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
018. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
019. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
020. Middlemarch - George Eliot
021. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
022. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
023. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
024. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
025. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
026. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
027. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
028. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
029. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
030. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
031. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
032. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
033. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
034. Emma - Jane Austen
035. Persuasion - Jane Austen
036. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
037. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
038. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
039. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
040. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
041. Animal Farm - George Orwell
042. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
043. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
044. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
045. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
046. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
047. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
048. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
049. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
050. Atonement - Ian McEwan
051. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
052. Dune - Frank Herbert
053. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
054. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
055. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
056. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
057. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
058. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
059. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
060. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
061. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
062. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
063. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
064. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
065. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
066. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
067. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
068. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
069. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
070. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
071. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
072. Dracula - Bram Stoker
073. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
074. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
075. Ulysses - James Joyce
076. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
077. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
078. Germinal - Emile Zola
079. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
080. Possession - AS Byatt
081. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
082. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
083. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
084. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
085. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
086. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
087. Charlotte's Web - EB White
088. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
089. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
090. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
091. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
092. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
093. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
094. Watership Down - Richard Adams
095. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
096. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
097. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
098. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
099. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo






There are a few books in there that I'm not sure if I read or not... and a few that I know I read but that I hardly remember. and I read the kiddie version of some of them, but that doesn't count so I didn't put it in bold. interesting! i count 36. six times the standard american? haha

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9th June, 2008. 10:25 am.

1. i made my own veggie-burger-from-scratch this morning :-)
2. helped to sand/paint/launch the little boat this weekend!
3. jumped off the dock for the first time this season on sunday

ps, congrats to the class of '08! <3

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9th May, 2008. 12:57 pm. burma

Well, the news just keeps getting worse, doesn't it? There's just no way to get supplies to these people fast enough. I wish there was some way I could get to burma and help, but I realize it's not feasible right now. Maybe at the end of the summer I can go and help re-build.


in other news: second year is over. wow!! we're half way done with college. how strange.

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19th March, 2008. 1:30 pm. five years

so, today is the fifth anniversary of the invasion which started the War on Terror. i don't know what to say about it, but it feels like five years of an unjustified war is too long. i try not to be selfish, but i hope they figure out a new policy before my boyfriend has to go back to qatar.

best wishes to all those brave soldiers serving their country and to all those family and friends who are left behind...

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1st March, 2008. 11:27 am.

ya wah, eh lay awo. gah hu jet toh ya wah ay, ey lay awo-oh.... (repeats).
oh africa, your music is beautiful. beautiful!


in other news: hi maine! i'm here and it's lovely to be on vacation. i have been in bed forever, and it's glorious. i did get up for a minute to clean so that the room would be peaceful, but does that even count? haha. i wish i'd gotten to meet up with echo and go to the barn this morning, but that's coooooooool. we'll maybe go see the folks on the island today? trav wont' get home til around four though, and i'm stuck here until then.

so far, plans include:
tonight-- sidecar radio @ usm
monday-- lunch or something with rach
eventually-- seeing jenni and rosa, seeing becca
march 8th-- acoustic AFA bullmoose show

any other shows you know of??

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21st February, 2008. 3:01 pm.

STRANGE DREAMS LAST NIGHT.

1. we were in a park with plants growing in the shape of dinosaurs, and slinky sculptures in the shape of dinosaurs, elephants, bears, etc... i knocked one over and it was reeeally embarrassing. the giftshop had candy with bugs in it and travis bought some. i thought i'd be tough and i stole a piece and put it in my mouth. EW. for the record, candy with bugs in it is soooo gross!
2. i was in the baylines, for some reason with my school stuff? including laptop? and it was either really late at night or really early in the morning. then all of my old campers and co-workers from horse island camp showed up (especially sean and robert for some reason?) and were really really happy to see me, and i gave them hugs. oh, and kayla. and kourtney.
3. i was in my room, cleaning, when this boy in my room was like "why are you throwing away that padlock?" so i gave him the padlock and the key, and he jammed the key in, twisted really hard, made the lock all twisted and broken and broke the key. i was like, "see? trash" and re-threw it away, haha. but then i was super concerned he was going to break other things and had to ask him to leave my room so that he wouldn't break one of the MILLION framed pictures of travis and i, hahaha. so so so strange.


i love being woken up early :-)

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