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Barbara

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About Me

Born and raised on Guam, a rock in the Pacific, one of many. Attended university at Cal Berkeley. Worked in London for 6 months after graduation...love the city - temp work? Not so much. Worked on Guam for 6 months after living in England...as a reporter for a business magazine, a makeup artist, a high school literature/writing teacher, and finally as an admin assistant at a multinational bank, one of the largest in the world. From there, I moved on to business school in southern California...a completely different world from the Bay Area. Did not finish out my MBA but plan to do so soon...Once equipped with MBA, I will work in finance, make enough cash to amass a diverse portfolio of investments, and later embark on my real passion, which is writing.
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My Interests

literature, including novels, poetry and plays; essays and literary theory; philosophy of language and religion; poststructuralism/deconstruction; visual arts - painting, sclupture, multimedia...Pop Art and pop culture; film - current releases and vintage/arthouse; sports: water sports - swimming, outrigger paddling, windsurfing; yoga and pilates; beach volleyball. Travel - just about anywhere.

I'd like to meet:

Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Milton, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Isaac Newton, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Swift, Pope, Tennyson, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley (Percy and Mary), Keats, Yeats, Hemingway, Orwell, Picasso, Frank Lloyd Wright, Coco Chanel, FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gandhi, JFK and Jackie Kennedy Onassis, John Lennon, Dr. Martin Luther King. Unfortunately, none of them are alive at the moment...Guess that's not going to happen in this lifetime.

Music:

Thievery Corp., Zero 7, Madonna, Gorillaz, Oakenfold, Sasha, Digweed, Way Out West, Dave Seaman, Nick Warren, Deep Dish, U2, Fat Boy Slim, Underworld, INXS, Green Day, Modest Mouse, Death Cab for Cutie, Weezer, Muse, Morningwood, Nine Inch Nails, Prince, Sting, The Police.

Movies:

The Departed, Zodiac, Blood Diamond, Stranger than Fiction, Match Point, Cars, V for Vendetta , Wedding Crashers, Syriana, Ju-On (The Grudge), Be Cool, Finding Nemo, Traffic, Ocean's Eleven, Gladiator, Out of Sight, The Sixth Sense, The Matrix, Fight Club, A Bug's Life, Se7en, The Usual Suspects.

Television:

Grey's Anatomy; Ugly Betty; Brothers and Sisters; Men in Trees; CSI Miami; Rules of Engagement; How I Met Your Mother; The Class; The New Adventures of Old Christine; Family Guy; House; The Ellen de Generes Show; Oprah; Today; Will & Grace; Seinfeld.

Books:

The Alchemist; The Power of Myth; Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences; 1984; For Whom the Bell Tolls; Pride and Prejudice; Tess of the d'Urbervilles; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; The Little Prince/Le Petit Prince; Fanny; Manon des Sources.

Heroes:

Helene Cixous; Simone de Beauvoir; Carl Jung; George Orwell; MLK; Albert Einstein; Coco Chanel; Jean Renoir; Sofia Coppola; Drew Barrymore; Milla Jovovich; Gabrielle Reese; Janet Evans; Stella McCartney; Madonna; Queen Latifah; Michelle Yeoh; Uma Thurman; Salma Hayek.