Uppie Updegraff

Pennsylvania

University of Arizona, Attended 2007 - Present, Class of 2011, Master's Degree, Masters: Public Health
Pima Community College, Attended 2006 - Present, Other, Nursing Pre-reqs
Oberlin College, Attended 2000 - 2004, Class of 2004, Bachelor's Degree, Neuroscience, Psychology

No More Deaths (Tucson, AZ), Young Adult Volunteers (PCUSA), Samaritans, Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network (TIHAN), Madden Open Hearts Camp (MOHC), PanLeft, Americorps, BICUS (bike co-op), Youth Now! Program, Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation, American Red Cross Volunteer, Child and Family Resources, Healthy Families, Americorps Youth Now!, The Volunteer Center of Southern Arizona

Art, music, bike riding, writing, hiking, being outdoors, social justice, olives, found objects (and dumpstered objects/food), hummingbird, building/repairing bi-cycles (and learning how to), knitting, sitting, refitting, circles., hands, my surroundings, dancing, opening my eyes, writing letters, emerging, meditating, unraveling, deconstruction-rebuild., community, entirety, spontinaity, adventure, restlessness, procrastination, doingmorethanicandoandgettingburnedout, wonder/awe, crying, learning when i'm lying, dying/rebirth, center, Ggod, delicious, tender, misguided, foolish, aware, stepping more lightly, Singing more BRIGHTLY, SONG, swings, sun. challenge, fun, coming undone.

The Little Prince (thanks el-roy)

Babe, Amalie, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Wren for the City and a Spoon, Monsters run EpicLust and Candles/Boy. Explodes. (uncut), Error of Clay and the Missing... ...Self-Confession: i just made those last few up because it is a lot hipper to list absurdly obscure art movies that no one else has ever seen. And i want to be hiptellmeimhiplikeme.

Still Love ANI, but listen to a lot of NPR and Democracy Now! Because I spend lots of time driving around in my car for work, and I only have the RADIO. KXCI is good and random as well. And John Prine (especially sung by Steve Johnson, especially round a fire), and Desert Rat, and every now an then, a little Sinatra (that bastard!).

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I want to meet Jesus, the Dalai Lama, someone who will ride in on a stallion and carry me away on an adventure, Tom Robbins, My match, energy, Buddah, Ggod, Lockness, Magic, Ani (sigh), someone with the answers, the answers themselves, and for that matter- the questions, dancing, my maker, shane boris (where are you, anyway?), Jem, my soulmate, light, Jerry Seinfeld, She-Rah, Ghandi, marbles in the road, lessons, exhilleration, Aerosmith, and Andy.