I'm trying this site out mainly because it seems fun and it's free. I'm not quite ready to pay for something like match.com. I'm looking to make some friends and maybe see where anything leads. My family moved right after I graduated high school from the Chicago area to SW Michigan, which isn't exactly the most highly populated area. So while I was at college I didn't really have the chance to make new friends after the move. I'm out of college now and haven't really been able to make friends around here, which sucks. I'm a pretty quiet person, not exactly the clubbing type. I go to the movies and read a lot. Anyways I don't really know what else to say.

Oh and I did not appreciate having to do that 3-word description up there. I'm hoping I did ok.

Technically I'm a chemist. But right now I'm unemployed. It seems like I've been trying to decide whether or not to go to graduate school. I've wanted a PhD in chemistry since high school (I'm such a geek!) but I never have been able to find the right time. So I'm trying to get more motivated in that area. In the meanwhile I'm thinking about other options like studying to be a pharmacy tech or working in a medical lab. But otherwise I spend my days mostly taking care of the animals and looking for jobs.

I make sure I always have a book around to read. Math seems to be easy to me. I spend a lot of time at the barn with horses so I'm pretty capable with anything out there. I don't know if that counts as being good at anything. I've never been able to do anything like stick my tongue out to touch my nose or anything.

I'm hoping good things. But let's face it, nobody's perfect. So I'm not going to torture myself over this question or even try to find something to lie about.

OK now I used to have this big long paragraph about what I loved in each of this catagories as I was trying to avoid making lists. But now looking at other people's, it's seems like everyone has lists and that will be the easiest way to include more things without writing 20 pages. Also I'm including TV since it seems like a lot of people are doing that.

Food: General American cuisine, pasta, steaks (although I haven't had one in a very long time because we mostly eat poultry around here & it's so expensive at restaurants) & cheeseburger pie, which is a specialty of my mom's

Books: Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, the Anne of Green Gables series, Harry Potter, Twilight saga, tons of random stuff, Neil Gaiman, Phillippa Gregory - so much of this sounds historical & girly but really there are lots of other things I read that don't fit that catagory, just can't think of them. I've been finding a lot of books that are being made into movies to read & stuff that has been done on Masterpiece Theater.

Movies: any Johnny Depp movie, especially those that he worked on w/Tim Burton, Shakespeare in Love, Across the Universe, The Shawshank Redemption, those Kevin Costner baseball movies, a lot of the movies that correspond with my reading preferences, especially Pride & Prejudice, Zodiac, When Harry Met Sally, and since I have most of my DVDs packed up, I can't remember more, but there are a lot more

Music: I have to warn you upfront that I'm a HUGE Tori Amos & Beatles fan. I know most people haven't heard of Tori or don't like her. I knew of her before I started listening to her & had the impression that it was something I'd hate, but I wound up completely wrong. So I do ask people to give her a chance. But other random thoughts: Blue October, OAR, Coldplay, Alanis, most music that would qualify to be on an oldies station, corny & classic songs of the 80s, Aimee Mann, Lisa Loeb, Goo Goo Dolls, U2, classical, Paul McCartney, swing music, like Cherry Poppin' Daddies, classic rock. Most everything except "smooth jazz", country, & hip-hop/rap.

TV: the sadly recently departed ER *tear*, The Office, 30 Rock, Dancing With the Stars (guilty), The Amazing Race, Adult Swim (although I've unfortunately been living without Cartoon Network for awhile now), Medium, Scrubs, Desparate Housewives. I used to watch a lot of the various Law & Orders, but I kind of lost interest I think around the time they really messed around with the detectives on Criminal Intent. It just seems like there were a lot of cast changes all at once one all the show & it pissed me off. I like to watch PBS - Masterpiece Theater, Antiques Roadshow, Check, Please (that's a local Chicago one as far as I know), & they just started a series called Lost in Austen.

1. horses (especially mine) - I really believe in what Winston Churchill said "There's something about the outside of a horse that's good for the inside of a man."

2. chocolate - hey dark chocolate's healthy right?

3. healthcare, even if the system is screwed up here

4. sleep - that probably should come off the list because I've been sleeping too much as of late & need to put my time to better use

5. Fuzzy, my alien stuffed animal that I've had since I was five. And yes, she still spends the night in my bed.

6. I'm stuck between music & books so I'll say both.

-What I could have done differently in my life.
-How much of my college education has truly stuck with me.
-What's the next thing I'll end up doing.

Either home waiting for my mom to get back from work or at a movie/play & dinner. Some times at a trivia night if we're lucky to find one.

I spend most of my time talking to the animals at home since there's no one else around. Even at the barn I only get to see my horse or sometimes none, in which time I feel truly pathetic to have been ditched by a horse. But sometimes there's actually people to talk to out there. Please don't think I'm crazy....

You're looking for someone to talk to. I'm usually pretty good about writing. And you Chicago and South Bend type people who seem to think SW Michigan is a magical far-away land, it's actually closer than you might think (although I'm not so sure about the magical part).

Oh and also if you might be willing to go to a Tori concert with me. Last time she toured I went to Indy & the person I went with was undr the impression we were going to see a classical piano recital or something. And I wound up out money since she didn't pay me for the ticket & I paid for the hotel. This tour is July to December I think.