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leala

I heart the Dewey Decimal Classification System...

About Me


I'm an aspiring Librarian.....Working on my MLS.
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DO NOT TRY TO COLLECT ME (I only friend, "friends" who actually are my friends)!!!!
Here are the rules (thanks Mike Inhuman for this lovely list):
1. people I know
2. people who message me before-hand, but I still have to know ya
3. I don't do bands (except ELO and Gary Numan, I couldn't resist and my boyfriends band, just had to)
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I am a “tweedy academic” in disguise (or maybe not). My BA is in Museum Studies; focus on Ancient civilizations (Ancient Near East, Greece and Mesoamerica). I love ancient/classical civlizations and their art, but you can count me out after 323 BC (BCE for you PC folks). Alexander makes me snooze, so don't ask. Now I am just working on my Masters in Library Science, trust me you don't want to know about that. I am an Archivist and I love what I do (one of the few people that I know that loves their job).
Oh, it would be a shame to leave out that I collect comics (DC Vertigo), I love my record collection (Punk, 80s and Hardcore) and adore anything Doctor Who. Hell, I even used to ride BMX Freestlye Yo! Shockingly, as of about a year ago I could still do a trick or two (on my fancy chrome Haro)and we're not talking Endos!
My “cool” friends think I’m “geeky” (not in that trendy way) and my “geeky” friends think I’m “cool”. So you figure it out.....

My Interests

Soccer all day long! Ancient Civ/Classical studies (Art, archaeology and myth), eschatology, Sci-Fi/Horror ..

I'd like to meet:

Herodotus, Ayn Rand, Lucian of Samosata

Music:

New Wave (anyone call it that anymore?), Punk, Hardcore, 80s, British Pop (none of that icky "snow patrol" new stuff), 60s/70s/80s , anything silly or just plain wrong...
Top 5
Gary Numan, ELO, The Kinks, Kraftwerk, The Clash
Plus 1 more: Captain Sensible ..

Movies:

Brazil, Evil Dead 2, Xanadu ..

Television:

Doctor Who!!!!!!!!! The Prisoner, Monty Python, The Science Channel, The Scifi Channel, The Avengers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica (both series), Firefly, Kingdom Hospital, Medium, Dead Zone, Red Dwarf, Black Adder ..

Books:

Lucian of Samosata, Homer, Virgil, Euripides, Aeschylus, Jonathan Swift, Edgar Allen Poe, Clive Barker, Joseph Campbell, Aristophanes, Elizabeth Peters, F. Paul Wilson, Barbara Michaels, John Dunning, Neil Gaiman, Douglass Preston & Lincoln Child, Jasper Fforde, Oxford Classical Dictionary (swear by it!) ..

Heroes:

Doctor Who! (Tom Baker, Jon Pertwee), Patrick McGoohan, Ayn Rand, Mia Hamm ..

My Blog

I am back on weddings! :)

Ok, my ban on weddings has been lifted. Yesterday, I received the best wedding invitation with the best insert ever. It goes something like this:     "A Note about bringing guests: No P...
Posted by leala on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:21:00 PST

I am calling it quits on attending weddings!

----warning heavy venting to follow-----Today I had the distinct pleasure of going all the way to Stamford, CT on metro-north for a wedding, only to find that once I got there my reason for being ther...
Posted by leala on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:08:00 PST

Shameless promotion of Doctor Who and myself!

Sunday, LA TimesMe in the LA Times, I'm so famous!Its a story about the show "Doctor Who". If you didnt know, Scifi just bought the airing rights from the BBC for the first season of the New Doctor Wh...
Posted by leala on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 09:09:00 PST