I am diverse, spry, and ostentatious.
My Self-Summary
Raised in the city of Milwaukee, I've been in Madison for quite a
bit now and I consider myself somewhat settled, at least for
awhile. I'm happy to have finally achieved a great work/life
balance, and I'm getting to do a lot of the things that were only
thoughts and ideas a few years ago. I'm hoping to fit more
traveling in 2010, so if you've got suggestions, I'd enjoy hearing
them!
When I'm not on the clock, I love just about anything that gets
your body moving. I ride my bike a lot (my car doesn't get driven
very much), but I also enjoy things like climbing, hiking, and
snowshoeing. You'll also see me at art gallery showings,
cinematheque, and the film festival and book festival. I know I
can't go to everything going on around the city, but I plan on
going down trying!
What I’m doing with my life
I'm a hazardous materials specialist for the UW. Totally awesome.
It's funny where a chem degree will take you.
I train new lab employees, do regulatory compliance,
hazmat emergency response
with the fire dept, and hazardous waste logistics. If you're a UW
grad student in the sciences, you'll probably deal with me or my
counterparts in some work context at some point in your stay.
Hopefully, for the both of us, it won't be when I'm putting out the
fire on your shirt.
An odd perk of the job is that I get to force people to watch
training videos like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9xEmzFAgCo
I’m really good at
Taking things apart and putting them back together, dancing
lindy hop,
salsa, and
tango,
cooking without a recipe, and getting
virtually any idea across through
stick figure drawings. I also have
a funny eye for odd details.
In my spare time I race
bicycles, but when I'm not racing I
ride around town as slow as humanly possible. Slower than you, in
fact.
My favorite books, movies, music, and food
Books: As a kid, The Call of the Wild, Dune, Starship Troopers. As
a somewhat adult, The Big Sleep, Blood Meridian, Invisible Man, The
One Straw Revolution.
Movies: Cool Hand Luke, Ghost in the Shell, The Yakuza Papers,
North by Northwest, Rififi, Tron, The Thin Man, Ran, Glengarry Glen
Ross, Hero, A Fistful of Dollars. (Style over substance,
right?)
Music: Coltrane, Maxwell, Bjork, David Bowie, Turbonegro, Seu
Jorge, Goldfrapp, Tom Waits, Fela Kuti, Mastodon, Sparklehorse, The
Clash, Burial, Townes Van Zandt, PJ Harvey, and many other things
on my massive hard drive.
Food: I love anything with spinach, sushi, cooking soul food,
eating various fried things that are bad for me, and bourbon on the
rocks, which is always good for you.
I spend a lot of time thinking about
Career stuff, sustainability, environmental science, the way things
work (I'm a nerd), whether or not to buy a house, fitting more
volunteering into my schedule, how to get ridiculously
jacked.
I'm just kidding about the jacked part.
The most private thing I’m willing to admit here
It's hard to find pictures of myself to post up here, because most
of the time I'm either photo bombing or mugging for the camera.
You should message me if
-You think we have something in common.
-You've been really wanting to go check out that band/event/flaming
drink/movie/gallery/box of mystery that everyone's been talking
about. Yeah, I heard about that too.
-You also enjoy riding bicycles very slowly.
-You need something fixed (or broken, which is almost the same
thing in the long term, right?) immediately.