My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	Student- Medicine/Law
Location	Springfield, Illinois, United States
Links	Wishlist
Introduction	Hung up on words. What writer isn't?~********~ Funny, smart, humble- not modest. Skeptic, smartass, scholar, idealist. And no, none of those are mutually exclusive.~******~ Try not to be bigoted, but usually wind up discriminating against bigots.~******~ Believe that beauty is its own justification.~******~ Despise euphemistic lies, psychological manipulation, and oversimplification- hallmarks of public life (sigh- most life) in the States.~******~ Admire the U.S. Constitution in form and conception.~********~ Find the scientific method of testing, observation, and analysis to be the best intellectual discipline for examining the world and the people in it.
Interests	Thinking, studying, Constitutional law, bioethics, writing, reading, being a smartass, hot caffeinated beverages, climbing, medicine, laughing, poetry, cosmology, travel, art, cruising goofy websites
Favorite movies	O Brother Where Art Thou, Princess Bride, Adaptation, Much Ado About Nothing, Pan's Labyrinth, Sleepy Hollow, Real Genius, Lord of the Rings (12 hour version)
Favorite music	Loreena McKennitt, Tori Amos, Mark Knopfler, Annie Lennox, Bach, Timbaland, Handel, Chanticleer, Offspring, B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Nine Inch Nails, Sting, Depeche Mode
Favorite books	To Kill A Mockingbird, -see weblog for a longer list, -it gets cut off here

This is a colon : and this is a semi-colon ; - what's a semi-truck?

Half a truck with a comma underneath it, clearly. Yeesh, talk about stating the obvious...