Marcella
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Student Actuary |
| Location | Richmond, Virginia, United States |
| Introduction | I always thought I'd be an artist, clothing designer or musician someday. Unfortunately, there's about a billion people in the world with artistic and musical ability, many of them far more talented than I am, significantly reducing my chances of success. Instead, I took the pragmatic route, getting a BS in Applied Math and Physics, and here I am, a student actuary (mathematician basically) working for a financial services company. Once I had a social life - now I study to pass the grueling series of exams and coursework necessary to get professional credentials. In the hour or two left in the day, I play Warcraft. And, oh yeah, I've been vegan for...let's see...7 years now and lifted weights for about 3 years, with the long-term goal of living forever. |
| Interests | weight-lifting, reading science fiction, world of warcraft, ferrets, cooking, eating, sewing, knitting, painting, Middle Eastern dance |
| Favorite Music | Joanna Newsom, The Hotdamns, Bob Dylan, Mr. Bungle, Neutral Milk Hotel, Danzig, Jimmy Rodgers, They Might Be Giants, Queen, Dimmu Borgir, old Metallica, Dark Funeral, Eels, Hum, Gorgoroth, Belphegor, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, The Cult, Sisters of Mercy, Misfits, etc |
| Favorite Books | the vorkosigan saga, heinlein: the moon is a harsh mistress, time enough for love, the cat who walks through walls, the number of the beast, farnham's freehold, the puppet masters, the past through tomorrow, about ten trillion sf anthologies, watership down, ursula leguin, piers anthony: the xanth & incarnations of immortality series, arthur c. clarke: childhood's end, the rama series, eddings: the belgariad, the mallorean, c.s. lewis: out of the silent planet etc., john irving: the world according to garp, the cider house rules, a son of the circus the hotel new hampshire, great expectations, vonnegut: player piano, galapagos, god bless you mr. rosewater, bluebeard, slaughterhouse-five, cat's cradle, welcome to the monkey house, robert silverburg: the world inside, the majipoor chronicles!, william gibson: neuromancer etc; edgar rice burroughs: the martian tales trilogy, the house of the spirits, 1984, tom wolfe: a man in full, the right stuff, bonfire of the vanities, the electric kool-aid acid test, purple decades, hooking up, etc., all milan kundera, dune, tolkien, hunter s. thompson, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, d.h.lawrence, john knowles, tropic of capricorn, a devil in paradise, gone with the wind, ringworld, vanity fair, analog, a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court, ender's game, youth & the bright medusa, do androids dream of electric sheep?, the man in the high castle, the stars my destination, far too many to list, basically if you want to borrow a science fiction fantasy book or a classic - chances are we probably have it |