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About Me

Have passport, will travel. I work to live, not live to work.
That pretty much covers the basics. I'd much rather tell stories of my various adventures than talk about myself, so check out one of my blogs from Africa (I spent Sept. and Oct. on sabbattical there) and you'll get a pretty good idea of who I am and what I like to do.

My Interests

Travel, hiking, kayaking, biking (as soon as my wrist is strong enough), bikram yoga (the hot, sweaty kind), reading, movies (good ones!), sports (especially college hoops)

Music:

Coldplay, Pete Yorn, Snow Patrol, Dave Matthews Band, Whiskeytown, Ryan Adams, Sun Volt, Uncle Tupelo, Elvis Costello, U2, INXS (with Michael Hutchence)

Movies:

Usual Suspects, Gross Point Blank, The Princess Bride, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels

Television:

Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Rome, MI-5, Six Feet Under, ESPN

Books:

The Known World, Empire Falls, Devil in the White City, Middlesex, True History of the Kelly Gang, Vernon God Little

My Blog

Soundtrack of my life (according to my iPod)

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?So, here's how it works:1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, LimeWire, Media Player,iPod, etc)2. Put it on shuffle3. Press play4. For every ques...
Posted by Lauren on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:33:00 PST

The adventure never ends...

Hi All- Since some of you may have been expecting me home/back in the states today, I just wanted to let you know I'm running a bit behind schedule, having hit a little snafu on the long journey...
Posted by Lauren on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:35:00 PST

Jambo from 19,340'

Ok, I am actually back to sea level (exactly) cuz in I were still at the summit of Kilimanjaro my brain probably wouldn't work well enough to write complete sentences! Anyway, the climb was a "s...
Posted by Lauren on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:33:00 PST

Greetings from Cape Town

Hi All- Here's the 3rd official installment of my African Adventures diary. It's about 10pm on Monday, Oct 2nd, and I have a 6am flight tomorrow (to Jo'burg, then Dar Es Salam, then Arusha) which...
Posted by Lauren on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:30:00 PST

Greetings from Namibia

Hi all- Sorry again for the mass email, but as you can imagine, I'm trying to spend as little time at a computer as possible - but there are a few individual notes down below since a few of you replie...
Posted by Lauren on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:28:00 PST

Greetings from Zimbabwe

Hello Everyone- Sorry for the mass email, but several folks requested periodic updates from my African Adventure, so here's volume No.1... Two days after I left San Fran, I finally made it to m...
Posted by Lauren on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:25:00 PST