Barbara - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I live in Champaign, IL with my husband, Kirk and our two cats, Lexie and Chloe. I work for the National Atmospheric Deposition Program as a "data person". My hubby is a cognitive neuroscientist at UIUC. He just took an assistant professor position at the University of Pittsburgh, so we will be moving in a few months! We are very excited for a change of scenery.
I have a great family with a beautiful niece, Kambell and nephew, Steven. Kirk and I love traveling, we have been to England, Costa Rica, Curaco, Panama, Haiti, Aruba, San Francisco, NYC, San Diego, Toronto, Colorado, Montreal, Atlanta, Las Vegas together and heading to Berlin this summer. Our goal in life is to travel the world together. I enjoy spending time with friends and family, esp. my buddy Steven, movies, drinking and learning about wine, playing with my cats, gardening, biology, watching my favorite TV shows, reading, and eating Indian food.
My new favorite show:
Favorite Deadwood Clip:
The Office/Heroes Spoof - brilliant:
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My Interests

traveling, movies, gardening, biology, wine, nature, genetics, space

I'd like to meet:

Barack Obama, Bill Maher, Al Gore, Stephen Hawking, Sarah McLachlan & all the brilliant/talented people in our world.

Music:

Sarah McLachlan, Barenaked Ladies, Alanis Morissette, Fiona Apple, Abra Moore, Dave Matthews, Jonatha Brooke, Matchbox Twenty, many others

Movies:

Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Matrix, 300, The X-Men movies, Aeon Flux, Equilibrium, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Little Miss Sunshine, National Treasure, The Goonies, Back to the Future, Batman Begins, Superman Returns, Napolian Dynamite, Spaceballs, When Harry Met Sally, Overboard, Cars, Romancing The Stone, The Golden Compass

Television:

Rome, The Office, Deadwood, Battlestar Galactica, The Sopranos, Real Time with Bill Maher, Boston Legal, Extras, 24, Big Love, My Name is Earl, Flight of the Concords

Books:

Lord of the Rings, The Poisonwood Bible, The Time Travelerâ€™s Wife, Portnoyâ€™s Complaint, All of the Harry Potter books, The Hobbit, The World According to Garp, The Red Queen, Genome, Dune, His Dark Materials, Atonement

Heroes:

Dwight, Aragorn, Jack Bauer, Alan Shore, Bill Maher

My Blog

Customer Service??? It no longer exists....

I'm making an assumption here that customer service did at one point exist. I'm 31 and have probably only been a consumer of any gravity for about 10 years or so. So, I'm not sure that eve...
Posted by Barbara on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:51:00 PST

No children? You must be from Mars!!!!

As a married woman in my early 30's, surrounded by couples, younger and older, having children left and right, I am constantly asked, "Well, when you are going to start having kids?". Fi...
Posted by Barbara on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:57:00 PST

Global Warming and Birds

I just spent the past hour on my deck watching the birds on my birdfeeders and was thinking about what humans are doing to them. Not to mention removing their food supply, deforestion, extinction but...
Posted by Barbara on Tue, 01 May 2007 04:34:00 PST