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steph

Being nice takes energy. Life's a marathon. I'm pacing myself.

About Me

My favorite: Smells: dirt after the rain, nag champa, the forest, the ocean, jasmine, Sounds: rain and thunder, the sitar, silence, water (ocean, river, etc), Sights: endless forest or ocean with no signs of human influence, overcast days, Feelings (physical): cloud-shade, waking up with Tamarack cuddling me, memory foam beds, Tastes: espresso, dark chocolate

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My Interests

Classical guitar, kayaking, hiking, speeding in ambulances and running red lights, dogs, all types of music, camping, books, coffee, silence, sleep, friends...

I'd like to meet:

People who want to do stuff.

Music:

I really like all styles. Lately I'm listening to: The String Cheese Incident, Tony Bennett, Pearl Jam, Simon and Garfunkel, Son Volt, Krishna Das, We Are Scientists, Postal Service, Gerald Jay Markoe & Subroto Roy Chowdhury, Elvis Presley, Paul Simon (without Garfunkel), Elliott Smith...

Movies:

I thought I didn't like movies for a couple of years. I like them. Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith, The Eye, The Jacket, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Butterfly Effect, Dancer in the Dark, The Jerk, Everything is Illuminated, Bent (I love Lothaire Bluteau), Kundun, Brokeback Mountain, Little Miss Sunshine

Television:

Stuff. Whatever serves the needs of my brain at the time.

Books:

Recent and upcoming reads include The Lovely Bones, The Historian, The God Delusion, Open Heart Clear Mind, Taming the Mind, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Night Watch, Collapse, The Road to Omaha, and The Art of Happiness at Work.

Heroes:

My favorite superhero...

My Blog

time passes

I am on my vampire schedule now. I never got used to the day shift, strange, but it only took a few days to get used to the 6p to 6a shift. I don't get headaches from the sun burning holes in my retin...
Posted by steph on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:40:00 PST

I found snow!

Today I planned on hiking up to Sunday Peak with my mom and dog. A road was closed so we adjusted our plan and just hiked along that dirt road. The whole two hours we were hiking it snowed on us. That...
Posted by steph on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:01:00 PST

salamanders and rigor mortis.

I joined about 20 strangers from the Kern River Valley Hiking Group on the Mill Creek Trail today. It was cool. I got to see so many red salamanders really close up. I posted the best picture I g...
Posted by steph on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 02:50:00 PST

real live dead guy

I saw my first "real" dead person, not that the coroner's people weren't dead. I got to run a suicide call, gunshot to head. Wow! Crazy stuff!! Bloody for sure, but we had some energizing music to kee...
Posted by steph on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:57:00 PST

I see dead people.

Today was the best training day ever. First we went to the correctional facility on Lerdo Hwy. Fun stuff. Like a zoo but with people who all look the same. Then we went to the coroner's office. There ...
Posted by steph on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:34:00 PST

Poppea

The LA Opera trip was fabulous. The Coronation of Poppea was great. Beautiful stuff. The trip included gay coffee and pizza. Getting lost, over and over, because mapquest failed me big time. Running...
Posted by steph on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:00:00 PST

...and...

...and... all of my guitar books and sheet music were in the boxes I lost to USPS! Arrgh!!I had been wanting to relearn to play my classic guitar, now that I'm not in school and can focus on that agai...
Posted by steph on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:59:00 PST

Zen and the USPS

When I moved a month ago, I mailed 10 boxes of things to myself. Only 9 made it to me. It was a 1 of 4 boxes of books that was missing. I was hoping it was not books I like, but instead was a box that...
Posted by steph on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:12:00 PST

Serman Peak, 9,909 ft.

Tamarack and I went hiking yesterday. We drove a couple of hours into the mountains, to over 9,000 ft. in elevation. I found where all the good weather and air is hiding. Then we hiked 2 miles up...
Posted by steph on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:49:00 PST

California here I come, right back where I started from

I will be back in CA by next weekend. Strange. I will finally be getting another lesson in non-attachment. It's been a while. Of all of my stuff, I get to keep only what I can fit into my Civic. Trick...
Posted by steph on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 11:53:00 PST