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About Me

No marriage, no babies, no regrets.
I can't help but laugh when I break out the soul clap, but I can't help but break it out.
I'm not really "into" domesticated animals.
I think Galileo screwed Kepler.
I really like Kepler.
I made my first dress recently, it's pretty fabulous.
I love false eyelashes.
I'd like to be the print journalist version of Robert Krulwich.
My brain looks something like this (I know, not too good):
Also, I wasn't always so square:

My Interests

learning things about stuff.

I'd like to meet:

Isaac Newton said: I see not what there is desirable in public esteem, were I able to acquire and maintain it. It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline.
I tend to agree with the sentiment, yet here I am, securely hitched to the party train. Go figure.
Maybe I'll meet this guy:
and thank him for making it cool to be neurologically impaired.

Music:

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Television:

Books:

periodicals: Providence Journal; New York Times; New Yorker; Harpers; The Economist; Atlantic Monthly; Seed (back from the dead)
favorite books: The HAB Theory; Coming of Age in the Milky Way; Brothers Karamazov; A Wrinkle in Time
current books: Born on a Blue Day; Guns, Germs, and Steel; The Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2006; The Aleph and other Stories

Heroes:

My Blog

thank god for television

Rarely will you hear me sing the praises of television, but I feel as if last night the Science Channel had me, and only me in mind.First: "Brain Man" Totally lame name, but it was an awesome document...
Posted by brandie! on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:41:00 PST

Let me tell you a story

Today at about 10:30 I left the office, as I typically do, to go for a walk and buy a bagel.As I was walking down Westminster Street, I saw a man riding toward me on a bicycle. He was riding slowly. H...
Posted by brandie! on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:48:00 PST

I don’t mean to be so hateful

Last night we saw "There Will Be Blood."Not only was I thoroughly unimpressed by the movie in general, but can I just say that I am really tired of going to a movie, spending my (or someone else's) ha...
Posted by brandie! on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:21:00 PST

Nana is totally awesome

So my grandmother has some inner ear problem that's messing with her balance and she's started using a cane. She said that for the first time, she feels old. But she's beginning some therapy and is ho...
Posted by brandie! on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:15:00 PST

Dear Madeleine Albright

Thanks for calling today. I'm sure we're one of your favorite hometown newspapers. Sorry we didn't have the time to get your endorsement in the paper during our traditional day-before-an-election blac...
Posted by brandie! on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:37:00 PST

More bodily unpleasantries

Hyperventilating.I'd suggest you don't do it.
Posted by brandie! on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:07:00 PST

eyeballs

Have you ever had your eyeballs numbed? I had to see my eye doctor (neuropthamologist, I'm sorry), and she did a test I've never had before, a "pressure test."Before the actual test, she put drops in ...
Posted by brandie! on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:22:00 PST

Dear xmas

Someone better than Santa visited me this year -- MARISOL!She got me the best book in the world (I'm assuming, I haven't read it yet). I hadn't been able to find it, I'd looked high and low (but appar...
Posted by brandie! on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 07:47:00 PST

Circumzenithal... what a word

A Circumzenithal arc over Providence. Totally awesome. The only reason I noticed it was because it was reflected in the windshield of a car....
Posted by brandie! on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:09:00 PST

wicked winter skies

OK, so the "wicked" part was a joke. But I have seen two awesome atmospheric phenomena in the past month. I shared the sun dog already; I also saw some crazy iridescent clouds. I've never seen this be...
Posted by brandie! on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 04:17:00 PST