Friends

Sep 2003

Cincy originally, D.C. off & on, L.A., etcetcetc

Genetix- Field Support Engineer. Previously of Naval Research Lab Nanoscience Div; Ionian Tech; also stints @ Yale School of Medicine, NIH

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Antioch University, B.S. Chemistry. Sycamore High School

former biochemist now Engineer (!!!???!!)

ACS; The AliMeister Foundation For the Ultra-Hip

RUNNING (preferably marathons these days as i like losing toenails); swimming, cycling, chemistry/genetics/medicine/neurochem; YANKEES!!!!!!; Oenophily; whining when I can't run; stealing Splenda packets from WaWa; amusing self when behind 15 planes on Philly airport runway;collecting speeding & parking tickets; playing Chef Ali; scamming the "U-Scan" lanes@ grocery stores;, Jazz/blues bars + red wine= heaven, did I mention RUNNING???

N.Mailer "Executioner's Song" ; J.R.R. Tolkien "Lord of the Rings" (since I was a kid, not since the darn movies came out); C.S. Lewis "Chronicles of Narnia" (ditto on that); W.Styron "Sophie's Choice"; S. Rushdie "Satanic Verses" & "Haroun & Sea of Stories"; T. Hardy "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"; E.Segal "Doctors"; B. Stoker "Dracula"; J. Medoff "Hunger Point; the Merck Manual; Carey & Sundberg "Advanced Organic Chemistry" (Part A&B); anything Doestoevsky, Plath, Foucault, Peretti, Susie Orbach. Anatomy & Physiology texts. For trash pulp, R.Cook.Hopped on the Harry Potter bandwagon recently & now am obsessed (ahem sellout).

Magnolia. Vanilla Sky. Pi. Planes, Trains, & Automobiles. Rocky. 61*. L.A. Story. Kissing Jessica Stein, I AM her. Star Wars. Falling Down. 12 Monkeys. Monthy Python & the Holy Grail. All Woodie Allen. All 007's, preferably Sean Connery. A Beautiful Mind. Buffalo '66.

Cello/bass/piano rule. Rachmaninoff! Belly. Tegan&Sara. Afghan Whigs. Twilight Singers. Randi Russo. Garbage. Death Cab for Cutie. The Strokes. Glenn Miller. Ani DiFranco. Benny Carter. Cab Calloway. Miles Davis. A. L. Weber. Kayne West. Pixies. Mozart. John Coltrane. Liszt. The Cure. Alvin & the Chipmunks! Enigma. T.Monk. K's Choice. L7. Outkast. Over the Rhine. Salt. Squirrel Nut Zippers. Urchins. Supreme Beings of Leisure. B.B. King. Duke Ellington.Traditional E. European; Arabic.

last i watched was Diff'nt Strokes & Punky Brewster (she was my 1st crush). TV rots the brain more than the wine I drink. Though when Looney Tunes shows up on TCM channel, I'm glazed over like a Krispy Kreme.

Leo

I've yet to fit into any sort of genre or stereotype. I hate boxes. I require more time alone than a hermit but it's never personal against anyone. I'm absurdly stubborn; it's both my greatest strength & weakness.

Sunday a.m.'s aren't right w/o a strong cup of coffee, french toast, newspaper in hand & John Coltrane in the background. Friday nights (or any night!) need only good red wine, candlelight, & some good jazz.
Ultimate goal is to get my damn M.D./Ph.D. in neuropharmacogenetics A strong passion to heal mental illness by elucidating the chemical pathway of catecholamines has been precedented by operating on stuffed animals at age 3....But in the meantime I dig "operating" on instruments.

I hate sitting still. I'm completely inept at it. I have a photographic memory but I'll forget what I hear within a minute, & don't ask me where I last put my keys.

I run. A lot. Every mile I log brings on new revelations. I think a marathoner learns more about their capabilities, limitations, & potentials than most. I run to find myself & to keep sane....besides I tend to push myself to extremes to prove my own strength to myself. Always have. Always will. Ok actually, I am completely obsessed with running & my life revolves around it. Endorphin rushes are what I live for. Best way to see a new city? Run it for a couple of hours.

Freud's mother. Mozart. Ghandi. My grandfather(s). Einstein. Linus Pauling. Sylvia Plath. My father. Ani DiFranco, Bernie Williams, Paula Radcliffe.