emmjay
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| Industry | Science |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Lab tech |
| Location | Glorious New England Featuring Lovely Fall Foliage and Easy Access to Beaches, Mountains, Lakes & Major Metropolitan Hot-Spots, Red Sox Nation, United States |
| Introduction | Since I'm a hard-core sports fan I'll describe myself by spotlighting one of my favorite athletes: Andre Agassi who is inspiring in addition to being a world class athlete. Andre's farewell speech from tennis at the US Open in 2007 was pretty much the classiest thing I've ever seen in sports; it moved me to tears. His charity - a public school and foundation for underprivileged children - rocks. It's one of my favorite charities of all time because of the hand-in-hand community approach it takes, respecting the people it serves while also challenging them to be partners in meeting their own community's needs. His involvement and leadership and the compassion he has for needy kids and their struggling parents in my opinion trump his accomplishments as an athlete, even in spite of his status as one of the greatest tennis players and athletes in history. He's shown that he has something more to offer humankind through his leadership and example. Being a sports fan, I couldn't be prouder. |
| Interests | Adventures With Katie, cycling, bike-commuting, sustainable economics, music & movies, healthful & yummy food, reading, learning, various recreational sports, working hard, theme parties, screening parties, volunteer work, massage therapy, music therapy, learning from people who inspire me, &, justice for all |
| Favorite movies | Marvin's Room, Ray, On Golden Pond, The Aviator, 12 Angry Men, The Untouchables, The Wedding Singer, Catch Me If You Can, Funny Girl, La Vie En Rose, Frida, Head in the Clouds, Mrs Doubtfire, The Hours, The Sound of Music, Just Like Heaven, Miss Congeniality, Fried Green Tomatoes, Fletch, Fletch Lives, Beverly Hills Cop, Taxi, 50 First Dates, Fever Pitch, Million Dollar Baby, Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back, Serenity, South Park, Team America World Police, Crash, Fahrenheit 9/11, The Last Samurai, Men of Honor, The Red Violin, Casablanca, American Beauty, Ever After, Mystic River, Shawshank Redemption, Donnie Darko , O Brother Where Art Thou, Phantom of the Opera(2004), Jane Eyre (w. Samantha Morris), Music & Lyrics, Daniel Deronda, X-Files: FtF, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Blades of Glory, The Last King of Scotland, the Spiderman Movies, &, Straightheads, Freedom Writers, Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story, Superbad, V for Vendetta, AI: Artificial Intelligence, Elizabeth, Forrest Gump, Hamlet 2, The Butterfly Effect, Charlie's Angels, Austin Powers Trilogy, Philadelphia, Bourne Trilogy, Big Daddy, Playing By Heart, Cruel Intentions, Firewall, Cellular, Hostage, 16 Blocks, Batman Begins |
| Favorite music | The Killers, Eminem, Ani Difranco, Tenacious D, The Cure, Tori Amos, Tool, Pearl Jam, NIN, Korn, DMX, Kimya Dawson, Radiohead, Janis Joplin, Alanis, the Beatles, Nirvana, Madonna (pre '05), Dave Matthews Band, Toadies, Aventura, The Beach Boys, 50 Cent, Johnny Cash, Rage Against the Machine, The Cranberries, Pink, Rusted Root, Jay Z, Nelly Furtado, 2pac, Paul Simon, System of a Down, Sarah McLachlan, Queen, Fleetwood Mac, Eurythmics, REM, Shakira, Evanescence, Brandi Carlile, Heart, Celine, Billy Joel, Elton John, South Park, the soundtracks to Adam Sandler movies:, especially 50 First Dates, &, the Wedding Singer, James Cantrell, Mariah (pre'05), Helen Reddy, Jim Croce, Flyleaf, Hedley, Dido, the Hollies, Bette Midler, Aretha Franklin, Patsy Cline, Tila Tequila, Pink Floyd, RHCP, U2, Debbie Gibson, Elvis, Fiona Apple, Natalie Imbruglia, Our Lady Peace, the lovely & talented Kelly Clarkson, and sometimes No Doubt, Barbra Streisand (w. reservations due to diva-trips; redeemed by catalogue & film roles), various a capella choirs doin their thang on Youtube, Beethoven (esp. Eroica), Hootie & the Blowfish, the 'Stones, Sara Bareilles, the Disney catalogue esp by Alan Mencken/Howard Ashman/Time Rice, Scott Joplin, Nightwish, John Williams, Mark Snow, Phillip Glass, Christophe Beck, Patty Griffin, Tchaikovsky, Andrew Lloyd Weber, Mozart, &, Full Blown Rose |
| Favorite books | Love That Dog, The Drawing of the Three, Wizard and Glass, Wolves of the Calla, Hearts In Atlantis, Stranger In a Strange Land, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, It's Not About the Bike, One Bullet Away: The Making of A Marine Officer, Saving Graces: Finding Solace & Strength from Friends & Strangers, The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing, The Giving Tree, Every Second Counts, A People's History of the United States, Find Me, Book of Matthew (KJB), all the Harry Potter books, Blue Like Jazz, As You Like It, Hamlet, King Lear, Hedda Gabler, The Sex Lives of Cannibals(funny!), The Glass Menagerie, & everything or anything written by Marilyn (vos Savant) |
All of the phone numbers have fallen out of your address book. Whose number do you look for first and why?
You can make any word into Bosnian just by adding either -ovac or -ovic to the end of it. It's really true. Also we had a Napolean Dynamite at my high school only his name was Dennis Peacock. It was beyond awesome.