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Ruth

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About Me

The interests say most of it, really.Intellectually curious; detail-oriented; idealistic, open-minded.While employed in a technical field, I use my right brain a lot. I went to an engineering college which had a 50% humanities curriculum, studied abroad, and double majored in French.

My Interests

Language. Foreign language. Reading. History. Chocolate. Ancient Egypt. Rocky Horror. Costuming. Politics. Vegetarian cookery. Ethics.

I'd like to meet:

Intellectually curious friends.

Music:

Popular: '80s; Pet Shop Boys; Beatles; Eurythmics; Annie Lennox; David Bowie; Depeche Mode; AC/DC; Eagles; Mylene Farmer; Seal; Pink Floyd; Weird Al Yankovic; Laurie Anderson; Billy Joel; Peter Gabriel; Pete Townshend; Oingo Boingo; Supertramp; Kraftwerk; Madonna; U2
Classical/Instrumental: Tomita; Debussy; Aaron Copland; Satie; Scriabin
Old-Fashioned: Edith Piaf; Marlene Dietrich; show tunes
In general, I'll listen to most anything that's got good chord changes or soaring arpeggios.

Movies:

Rocky Horror Picture Show; Johnny Dangerously; at least parts of most any movie featuring Michelle Pfeiffer; Airplane; Men In Tights; Mrs. Henderson Presents.

Television:

CSI. The Avengers. The Muppet Show. Crossing Jordan. Babylon 5 (mostly). Red Dwarf. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Star Cops. Whose Line Is It Anyway. Six Feet Under. Monty Python. Law and Order.

Books:

um, I have to choose?
I wrote my college entrance essays on "Being Peace" by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Categories I tend to check out in a bookstore:
Cookbooks; Humor. I don't tend to read as much sci-fi or fantasy as I used to, though I'm partial to Tanith Lee, Tolkien, older Anne McCaffrey, Patricia McKillip, and Robin McKinley.

Heroes:

Susan B. Anthony. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Thomas Jefferson. Benjamin Franklin. Gandhi. Margaret Sanger. Sarah Weddington. Mary Wollstonecraft. Olympe de Gouges. Virginia Woodhull. Galileo. Giordano Bruno. Giles Corey. Joan of Arc. Christine de Pisan.