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Leeandra Nolting

Leeandra Nolting
Location
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Birthday
July 08
Title
Assistant Guru (not to be confused with Assistant to the Guru)
Bio
Proud native Hoosier who’s settled permanently in New Orleans. Teach English. Live in an old whorehouse with three very talkative and sexually-confused birds and one very talkative bird that isn’t sexually confused at all but just wants what s/he wants, which is pretty much everything and everybody. They appear quite frequently in my writing. Former bedpan wrangler, radio announcer, preschool teacher, and freshman comp. instructor. Once accidentally picked out A Clockwork Orange for a make-out movie. Have a very rational appreciation for the works of Flannery O’Connor and the television show The X-Files and an irrational fear of Meg Ryan. All my friends are drunks.

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Salon.com
April 12, 2012 07:59PM
“I never claimed that mothers do not work, nor that Ann Romney did not work while raising her five kids. Far from it. My argument was that her five ki…”
About: I Won't Vote for Romney But His Wife Works
December 21, 2011 02:15PM
“I don't hate Lost in Translation. I'm just sort of ehh about it. Admitting this in certain circles though is like saying you don't like money or sunshi…”
About: Seven Things I'm Supposed to Like But Don't
December 18, 2011 10:25PM
“Which two?”
About: Seven Things I'm Supposed to Like But Don't
December 05, 2011 01:50PM
“Buy gravel, not kitty litter. And a folding shovel. Rated.”
About: Cars Are Not a Status Symbol in My Small Midwestern Town
November 29, 2011 10:22PM
“Thanks, everybody. As to not being listened to when I complained about her in the years after I left her class, it should also be known that I have a…”
About: Ordinary Germans
November 28, 2011 12:51PM
“Nice. Rated.”
About: Ode to The Manhattan
November 28, 2011 11:30AM
“If this was a public school, someone ought to have pointed out that the Supreme Court ruled that students can refuse to salute the flag (I believe it w…”
About: My Daughter Had Her Own Governor Brownback (update)
November 28, 2011 11:15AM
“Glad Tristan is in remission and Happy Christmas! Tacky it up! Oh, and does that guy in Versailles still decorate like the Griswolds? New tradition:…”
About: i did a bad bad thing
November 28, 2011 11:15AM
“Glad Tristan is in remission and Happy Christmas! Tacky it up! Oh, and does that guy in Versailles still decorate like the Griswolds? New tradition:…”
About: i did a bad bad thing
November 28, 2011 11:10AM
“Fernsy--didn't think you were accusing; just clarifying the age range (and that she hasn't been teaching for quite some time). As far as I know, none…”
About: Ordinary Germans
November 28, 2011 09:15AM
“Fernsy, to answer your question, I was 11 when I left St. Mary's and maybe 17 or 18 when she retired. I did complain about her in my teenage years, but…”
About: Ordinary Germans
November 27, 2011 11:38PM
“Karen, you're awesome. That is all.”
About: i lied to my gynecologist, so bite me.
November 21, 2011 01:52PM
“To those who asks who, outside the rarified world of the NYT Society Pages, does wedding/engagement announcements anymore: small-town papers. And the…”
About: Does The New York Times Scorn Women?
November 19, 2011 11:23AM
“I don't know your situation, but I agree entirely with Sweet Peony. Children aren't property to be "shared" equally. I have no opinion on w…”
About: The Real Cost of Custody Battles
November 17, 2011 05:42PM
“I love this. Thank you for lighting a fire under my ass to finish up that piece about my love/hate relationship with the New Orleans RTA...which seems…”
About: I run for trains: my love/hate relationship with the NYC MTA
November 17, 2011 05:42PM
“I love this. Thank you for lighting a fire under my ass to finish up that piece about my love/hate relationship with the New Orleans RTA...which seems…”
About: I run for trains: my love/hate relationship with the NYC MTA
November 16, 2011 01:20PM
“I love the "we need a winning sports team to attract students" logic. The best and brightest 17-year-olds may very well decide to attend a s…”
About: Golden Opportunity
November 14, 2011 06:02PM
“Ah, yes. I might have, while on the air reading the news at a radio station when I was a teenager, been the recipient of a whole lot of this sort of s…”
About: I Was An "Overly Sensitive" Employee
October 26, 2011 03:47PM
“My family hosted a half-dozen German exchange students when I was in high school and college. What struck me as one of the biggest cultural difference…”
About: OWS: Perspective on Student Debt from Across the Pond
October 22, 2011 09:18PM
“@Shannon--Great piece. @Jeannette--"S ally Field playing Tom Hanks's mother" isn't really a good example of this. Sally Field, when she was on…”
About: You’ll Never Work In this Town Again!
October 19, 2011 02:45PM
“There is exactly one benefit to pink-colored breast-cancer-awa reness shit, such as pens and staplers: it kept my boyfriend from stealing them. Rated.”
About: Why I Don't Wear Pink Ribbons
October 17, 2011 03:55PM
“The most hilarious, heartbreaking, and entirely true sentence I've ever heard on this subject (spoken by a man with the Elfquest logo tattooed on his c…”
About: Get Out of My Dreams and Into My Mylar
October 14, 2011 01:56PM
“1. He was a brilliant tech and design innovator. 2. He was an even more brilliant marketer. 3. I really like my iPod. I can't see paying twice as muc…”
About: Was Steve Jobs Really Insanely Great?
October 12, 2011 06:14PM
“I'm pretty sure that a kid saying OM of his own accord would be OK...there is no law against children praying in public schools, just mainly rules agai…”
About: Is Namaste Okay in Public School?
October 04, 2011 10:11AM
“ok, not saying I agree with the activists, but good people can have a valid, principled stand here: that parents should not have the right to force the…”
About: Foreskins: Nothing Can Unite Muslims & Jews Quite Like Them.
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