I studied Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, I love both topics, and can talk your ear off about them. I think creationism, or ID, is a joke, and that religion talk is beneath scientists. Richard Dawkins drives me nuts, he's a pretentious ass. But his books about evolution are amazing and I highly recommend them. I just don't like the attitude of someone knowing there is no god, and being so sure of themselves they think they can decide for everyone else.

When I am not strictly wearing my scientist hat (and because scientists, even evolutionary biologists, are humans too), I will gladly discuss religion, the question of god, and the meaning of life. I think it's fascinating, but I do apply sciency logic to my ponderings about the divine. That is why I have discounted the majority of organized religion, but there are some pretty awesome oddball theories out there I might be able to get behind.

I am nearly wholly unmotivated by greed. Sure I have my dreams and goals in life, including owning my own house, but it's nothing extravagant. This somewhat ties in with my disdain for many humans that I've gotten through my study of ecology/ environmentalism. There are many many things that we do that harm the environment, and harm ourselves, and there's no reason for it, other than it's just habit, or it's built into this image of luxury that people aspire to. In this case, there is no reason for 1-2 people to live in a 5000 sq ft giganto mansion, furnish it, heat it, air condition it, keep pests out, etc etc (not to mention build it), just to have a place to store their crap. It's greedy and it's wasteful. And yes, I know that Big Changes can't happen unless there are lots of people behind them, and political will helps, but that's no excuse to not to the right thing.

I am all about nature, even though I spend the majority of my time in A/C. I love being outside, I grew up in the country, and love natural history and am always trying to learn more. Being outside lets me recharge my batteries. I love camping, fishing, hiking, floating the river, wandering around on the wildlife refuge, photographing whatever catches my eye, or basically any excuse to get away from it all.

So I hope what you're seeing so far is that I am, like many people on here claim to be, "a study in contrasts," but I think the easier way to put that is that to some extent we are all hypocrites. Or at the very least, inconsistent. I try not to be judgmental though: if you don't agree with me on something, it *probably* won't hurt my feelings. It is not so important for someone to agree with me as it is for a person to have their own opinion about it. However, I strongly believe that sharing ideas should take place respectfully, and with an open mind; there is no way to know absolutely certainly that you are right about something, there is always something that isn't taken into account.

Oh and to reassure you, I am about 90% cute and cuddly, mischievous, and adventuresome. It's just that the serious stuff tends to get in the way more when interacting with people.

So if you've actually read this far, I'm sure we'd get along fine.

Bonus: Put enough alcohol in me and I go on smile patrol, my personal goal becomes cracking through the everyday shell we trap ourselves in and making someone smile.

I work in a DNA sequencing lab by day and for wedding photographers by night (well, later-in-the-day). I want to go to grad school so that I won't be doomed to be a lab tech for the rest of my live, but change is daunting.

constantly surprising people about me. One minute they think I'm quiet and innocent, the next minute I'm getting uneasy glances at my maniacal giggling. People are either amazed that I am intelligent or surprised I can be incessantly silly at times. I relish those surprised looks that tend to get plastered on people's faces around me.

blue eyes? I guess you'd notice that if I suddenly appeared in front of you about a foot away, but if you are watching me walk up to you, you're (hopefully) seeing my smile and there's no way to avoid taking in some curves.

books:
anything by Robin McKinley, Neil Gaiman, or Nick Sagan; the His Dark Materials series, Darwin's Radio, Contact, The Monkey Wrench Gang, House of Leaves, Omnivore's Dilemma, Blink

movies-
The Dark Knight, Iron Man, Wall-E, Across the Universe, Once, Iron Man, Adaptation, Sicko, V for Vendetta, Sin City, Boondock Saints, Quills, Bowling for Columbine, American Beauty, Kill Bill 1 & 2, LOTR trilogy, X-Men (all of them), Hero, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pan's Labyrinth, Life of David Gale, 300, the 1st Matrix only, Donnie Darko, Primer, Waking Life, Secretary, Perfume, Stardust, House of 1000 Corpses, Devil's Rejects, Rocky Horror Picture Show,lots more

TV- House, Weeds, Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares, Futurama, True Blood

music- Glen Hansard, Boston, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Perfect Circle, Incubus, Porcupine Tree, Tool, Chevelle, Maroon 5, Coheed and Cambria, Modest Mouse, System of a Down, Moxy Fruvous, The Mars Volta, Psapp, Counting Crows, Ludo, hmmm lots of others too

food- I did have a long list here, but really I like almost anything, I am not too picky, and love trying new foods. What's more important is whether you're willing to share, it's a waste when more than one person at a table orders the same thing, why not get something different and have a taste of everyone's?

BONUS! drinks- hot tea, iced tea, margarita, bloody mary, wine, midori sour, limeade (limes are the source of my super secret super powers, shh don't tell)

a deck of cards with appropriate scoring implements, music, books, a river to float down, stars, a sense of smell

how everything is connected, and how if we could understand just a fraction of those connections, we could completely change our world as we know it.

wondering what happened to typical Fridays.... lately I've been going to happy hour with coworkers to celebrate the end of another week, but after that, there is no telling where I am at or what I'm doing. I am certainly open to fun suggestions though!

One of the many interesting things about my life is that my mother is a lesbian truck driver, and fits the stereotype pretty well. I only mention it because if you really have some deep problem with homosexuality, or favor any idea that infringes on a free person making a decision about their life, we probably won't get along. That's not to say we WON'T, though. If nothing else, I will probably drive you nuts. :) Just warning you.

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