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For the longest time, I believed that I always had to be headed in some direction...and then I would blind myself to everything else but the New Goal and the Wide Horizon. It's only recently that I've realized that maybe I've missed seeing alot in the little details that happen to you as you go through the day. Right now, it feels like it's OK to just be and breathe for a little bit. I'm happiest when I'm learning something new, and I'm a voracious reader. I like fooling around with astrological charts and using what I see in them to help other people. I save the fortunes out of fortune cookies."Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment, and making the best of it... without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity..." -Gilda RadnerRESIGNATION I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult.I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old again.I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant.I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make a sidewalk with rocks. I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them.I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day.I want to return to a time when life was simple; when all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care.All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset.I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good.I want to believe that anything is possible.I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again.I want to live simple again.I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness, and loss of loved ones.I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow.So . . . here's my checkbook and my car-keys, my credit card bills and my 401K statements.I am officially resigning from adulthood.And if you want to discuss this further, you'll have to catch me first, cause.............."Tag! You're it."

My Interests

All things anthropological, sociobiological, primatological, philosophical, evolutionary, meme and systems related. Our Known Universe. When I get tired of contemplating the meaning and the reason for it all, I like to cook and drink and smoke and take long drives with my black lab, Darwin, and listen to the radio. I'm a pretty mean Scrabble player. I also like camping and fishing and going fast and a bunch of other boy stuff...

I'd like to meet:

Nice people only need apply. Sorry, I just don't have anything left for the mean people to use up and take anymore. Some people who'd like to hang out and breathe with me, maybe talk into the wee hours about all manners of things. People who are working on their Saturns. People who will point it out to me when I'm giving in to my Moon (Chris positively excels at this one). People who can see the world for what it is, but not let reality strip them of their idealism and hope. People who don't give up.Oh, and Gugga...I can NEVER get enough face time with Gugga.

Music:

REM, Donna the Buffalo, Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Guster, Billie Holliday, Foo Fighters, Jimi Hendrix, Mozart, Lucinda Williams, Bill Monroe, Blondie, the Black Keys, Nirvana.

Movies:

American Beauty, Happiness, The Big Chill, Fight Club, Out of Africa, Wizard of Oz, Princess Bride, Kevin Smith films, Pulp Fiction, Pianist, Gone with the Wind, Shawshank Redemption, Coen brother's films, The Good Girl, Almost Famous, Big Fish, Full Metal Jacket, River Runs Through It, Cold Mountain, Farenheit 9/11, Eternal Sunshine...

Television:

Don't watch much, really. I do like Lost, and it broke my heart when Six Feet Under ended.

Books:

A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Time Traveler's Wife, Lucifer Principle, Six Degrees, Gulag Archipelago, Sync, Moral Animal, Out of Africa/Shadows on the Grass, Origin of Species, all books by: Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkins, Dan Dennett, E.O. Wilson,Stephen Jay Gould, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Robbins.

Heroes:

Bertrand Russell, because he had the courage to name the Christian religion for what it is. Gore Vidal. Dr.Frisbie, because he never stopped believing in me when I was afraid to believe in myself; I am who I am today because of him. Jimmy, my bartender-poet-laureate: May we drink long and deep of Our Known Universe together. I love you, Pal.

My Blog

Olbermann: Resign, Mr. Bush

..> .. google_ad_section_start --> Long, but worth reading. Much love -M Published on Wednesday, July 4, 2007 by MSNBC I Accuse You, Mr. Bush& by Keith Olbermann "I didn't vote for ...
Posted by darwingirl on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:01:00 PST

Chimps More Evolved Than Humans?

From: livescience.com Since the human-chimp split about 6 million years ago, chimpanzee genes can be said to have evolved more than human genes, a new study suggests.The results, detailed online this ...
Posted by darwingirl on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:13:00 PST

Should Chimps Have Human Rights?

This is a subject that is near and dear to my heart. Having worked very closely with chimps, I can tell you that they DO deserve to be accorded "human" rights. The only real difference between "us" an...
Posted by darwingirl on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:06:00 PST

This one goes out to Thomas G.

...And all the other people who send me add requests but have a privacy lock on their profiles stating that they're either 14 years old or that only friends can view their profiles. Thank you fo...
Posted by darwingirl on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:11:00 PST

The Chimps

I've been missing the chimps quite a bit lately. Leaving them was sorta like moving away from friends that you are really close to. At first, you don't feel so keen on calling and visiting...
Posted by darwingirl on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:37:00 PST

The joy of a bag o'crack.

This is an unusually useless blog (and yes, I realize that's saying something for me). This is just an odd bit of trivia about my domestic life. If you stop reading right now, I'll complet...
Posted by darwingirl on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 05:56:00 PST

Knowing a good day when you have one...

Today I woke up at about 11, and stayed in my pjs until 6:45 this evening. I went out for some Chinese then and didn't think that my-pjs-that-aren't-really-pjs-but-rather-purple&black-un derp...
Posted by darwingirl on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:46:00 PST

because breaking up is hard to do

I wished I had the words. And even if I did, I wished I had the courage to say them.... Today I did just that. Right now, I feel empty inside. It was the right thing to do. ...
Posted by darwingirl on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:56:00 PST

Homeward bound...

So, naturally, my flight itenerary has been changed at the last minute (mmm, I'm LOVIN' YOU, American Airlines!!!!). Looks like I won't fly until 11:15 out of DFW, to Little Rock, to Chicago, an...
Posted by darwingirl on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:09:00 PST

Home

Not quite there yet. On Wednesday, in the afternoon, I think. I should probably figure that out between now and then, I suppose. The whole trip's been fantastic. Well, except for the...
Posted by darwingirl on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:32:00 PST