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Gender	Female
Industry	Technology
Occupation	Undergraduate Research Assistant
Location	Lacey, Washington, United States
Introduction	I am lifelong reader, writer, and learner, exploring blogging. Ultimately hope to obtain a masters degree in English and make a life of doing what I love: writing.
Interests	learning new things, languages, reading classical and contemporary Literature, writing (personal essays, poems and fan-fiction), computers, knitting, beading, drawing (wildlife and portraits pencil/charcoal), painting (acrylic landscapes), Listening to music, Photography, hiking, Making videos on iMovie, occasionally playing video games My goals include but are not limited to improving my skills in the things that I enjoy which are mainly in the arts: writing (poetry or prose), playing piano, cooking, drawing and painting. I also hope to become proficient in the Italian language because it is my dream to one day go on a long vacation in Italy. I would like to see a little bit of all of Europe but Italy is my main dream and focus. There is so much there to see: history, art, architecture, not to mention a wide variety of great cuisine and beautiful landscape and seascapes. I think it would be fantastic to go on one of those boat tours to Antarctica and see the glaciers and penguins but I am not waiting with baited breath on that particular venture. Aside from Internationally there are several places within the country which I hope to visit someday some of which include: The Islands of Hawaii, and the Pearl Harbor Memorial, Cape Canaveral, The Rock and Roll hall of Fame, The Smithsonian and Metropolitan Museums of Art, The Golden Gate Bridge, The Brooklyn Bridge, Ellis Island, and Ripley’s Believe it or Not Museum, among others on an ever expanding list. I also have self-oriented goals both academic and otherwise which while challenging and often must be taken on a day to day basis, I hope to achieve.
Favorite Movies	X-Files: Fight the Future not the sequel that was devistatingly cruel to a fangirl :'(, Suburban Girl, Bridget Jones's Diary, the Harry Potter movies, American Sweethearts, Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Arc, Van Helsing, The Chronicles of Riddick, Star Wars (especially the original triology), a good horror movie, BBC's adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, Sense And Sensibility, Emma....
Favorite Music	Music is a big part of my life I love it. I sometimes enjoy finding theme songs to fit my friends or people that I know and occasionally try to pinpoint a theme song for my own life on a day to day or week to week basis. I would not say that I am a very good dancer but I enjoy and appreciate dance and think it would be fun to take classes to improve. I am more of a quiet patron of music a wallflower if you will I dance in the solitude and safety of familiar company or behind my closed bedroom door and mouth the words to the many songs I know by heart so that no one can criticize my voice. But put me in a car by myself with the stereo…. then all bets are off behind the anonymity of sunglasses. I have very eclectic musical taste I enjoy at least a few songs of almost any genre and I am not by any means intimidated by a song that is older than myself moreover I find it sad that anyone is. I primarily enjoy, music from the 50s or later. I like all sorts of music, pretty much any genre except rap and Hip-Hop, I'm very selective of those. Otherwise I am an equal opportunity listener. I like pop, alternative, rock, country, jazz, blues, even classical. My Ipod is very much a reflection of me, ecclectic.
Favorite Books	"The Great Gatsby", and "The Crack-Up" By: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Harry Potter Series By: J.K. Rowling, "Jane Eyre" By:Charolete Bronte, "Pride and Prejudice" By: Jane Austen, Xanth novels By: Piers Anthony, nearly anything of Shakespeare's, Dean Koontz novels....