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About Me

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Science is only my second interest - languages are my first, but I don't speak any of them well enough to teach them.
I am interested a little in a lot of things - I'm not an expert at anything, though - I get bored too easily. I love indie music and indie movies - I like listening and seeing things no one has heard of yet.
I have jumped out of a perfectly good airplane, and lived to do it again.
My favorite city in the world is Boston - I will never live there, though - it's too cold, and it doesn't get enough sun in the winter. I will always root for Boston teams though: Go Red Sox, go Celtics, go Bruins, and go Patriots!
My second favorite city is San Diego - I would live there if I won the lottery. I would spend summer in San Diego, winter in Rio, spring in Atlanta, and fall in Boston - that would be perfect.
If I were to win the lottery, I wouldn't work, but I would travel - there are so many places in the world that will take your breath away. I would like to set foot on all seven continents before I die. So far, I have walked on three. I love my family!
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What Your Soul Really Looks Like
You are a wanderer. You constantly long for a new adventure, challenge, or eve a completely different life.
You are a very grounded, responsible, and realistic person. People may not want to hear the truth from you, but they're going to get it.
You see yourself with pretty objective eyes. How you view yourself is almost exactly how other people view you.
Your near future is likely to be filled with great successes and accomplishments. You just need to figure out how to get there.
For you, falling in love is all about the adventure and uncertainty. You can only fall in love with someone who keeps you guessing. Inside the Room of Your Soul
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My Interests

Languages, science, travel, football, horse racing, reading, movies, genealogy, and the world in general...

I'd like to meet:

Aliens from another planet, the Abominable Snowman, Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, Big Foot, Neil Armstrong, Stephen King, John Irving, Bill Clinton, and Santa Claus.

Music:

All kinds (even country) and particularly Brit-pop...Current favs - Starsailor, Lennon, Wet Brain, and, my hometown boys - the Dropkick Murphy's!

Movies:

I love sport movies - Horse racing: Seabiscuit, Boxing: Million Dollar Baby, Rocky - Football: Rudy, Remember the Titans, Friday Night Lights, Jerry Maguire, Brian's Song - Basketball: Hoosiers, Love and Basketball - Baseball: Field of Dreams, The Natural...Space and sci-fi movies: Star Wars(all of them because I am a nerd) ditto The Lord of the Rings, Apollo 13...Disaster flicks: The Perfect Storm, Titanic, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno and random movies: both Charlie and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, To Sir With Love

Television:

Man Vs. Wild, Digging Up the Truth, Bizarre Foods w/Andrew Zimmern, No Reservations, Lost, Survivor, E.R. (even though it's getting weak), CSI (all of them), Numbers, Law and Order (all of them), Project Runway, Top Chef, Dancing With the Stars, Jericho, Spongebob, Fairly Oddparents, Friday Night Lights
Bear Grylls - "Man Vs. Wild"

Josh Bernstein - "Digging Up the Truth"

Anthony Bourdain - "No Reservations"

Books:

So many books a nerd can't count(Freakonomics, Blink, Into Thin Air, Ghosts of Everest, The Stand, The Perfect Storm, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Weight of Water...just a small sample). My favorite author is, without a doubt, John Irving; the man can use a semi-colon.

Heroes:

New Heroes! Bear Grylls - if I'm ever lost in the wilderness, he's my man! Josh Bernstein - a real-life Indiana Jones. Andrew Zimmern - of Bizarre Foods fame - that man is brave enough to put things in his mouth that I don't even want to look at! Anthony Bourdain - I want to tour Ireland with him and consume the traditional Irish 'Breakfast of Champions' - Brilliant!
Barbaro, Carl Sagan, Tedi Bruschi, the guy who invented velcro, Sally Ride, Steven Hawking, Wolverine, Christa McAuliffe, Igor Sikorsky, John Glenn, The Thing, Neil Armstrong, Mae Jemison, Captain Kirk, Alfred Wegener, Roland Fryer, Gus Grissom, Luke Skywalker, M.C. Escher, Salvador Dali AND the Dali Lama, and the guy who invented Post-its.

My Blog

What would you do?

..> I posted this as a bulletin, but I thought it made a great blog topic, too. Lately I have been completely enthralled by shows such as Survivorman and Man Vs Wild. I have also read a couple bo...
Posted by Mrs. Q on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:24:00 PST

Summertime...and the living is easy...

As a kid, I don't know that I ever gave much thought to what teachers did with their summers off. I probably thought they got rolled up and stored in the janitor's closet until the fall, when th...
Posted by Mrs. Q on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:55:00 PST

My Old Kentucky Home

Well, Derby weekend turned out to be (and I quote) "The Best Derby Ever!" My sister and I say that every year - and every year it gets better (with the exception of 2004 - the Smarty Jones victory in ...
Posted by Mrs. Q on Thu, 10 May 2007 07:09:00 PST

The Curse Is Broken!

The Breeder's Cup Juvenile curse, that is... Leading up to this year's Derby, I kept researching Street Sense and comparing him to other horses - every time I looked, he was the better horse...yet, th...
Posted by Mrs. Q on Thu, 10 May 2007 05:09:00 PST

It's the most wonderful time of the year...

Yeah...I love this time of year - weather's warming up, sun is staying out longer, testings is over and done with so we're relaxing a little, winding down the school year, and having some fun like Fie...
Posted by Mrs. Q on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:51:00 PST

Ugh - I HATE Daylight Saving Time!!

So, yeah... The subject line says it all. This week has been horrendous - I feel like an extra in a Rob Zombie movie - actually, that would probably be an improvement! House of a 1000 Corps...
Posted by Mrs. Q on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:48:00 PST

Tonight's Lunar Eclipse

Tonight, North America will be able to see the full moon rise in a total eclipse - that is, of course, if the weather cooperates. Lunar eclipses are not as dramatic as solar eclipses, but more p...
Posted by Mrs. Q on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:29:00 PST

"Crash" Into Me...Wow, what a movie!

I just finished watching the movie "Crash" - it was last year's Best Picture Oscar winner - and wow, it deserved it. It made me laugh - it made me cry - it made me cringe - it made me think. It ...
Posted by Mrs. Q on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:52:00 PST

Derby Watch 2007 - 78 days to go!

For some it's Christmas, others, Thanksgiving, but for me, the most wonderful day of the year is that first Saturday in May when they have the "Run for the Roses." It's Derby time, baby. Too soon for ...
Posted by Mrs. Q on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:22:00 PST

Houston, we've got a problem!

I just finished watching one of my all-time favorite movies, Apollo 13 (and this is after spending the last three days showing it to my class - five times each day). I don't know what it is...
Posted by Mrs. Q on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:17:00 PST