Andrea9797 profile picture

Andrea9797

It Matters Not How Staight the Gait, How Charged With Punishments the Scroll, I am the Captain of my

About Me

Dichotomous

My Interests

LOTS!

I'd like to meet:

old friends

Music:

much and far between

Movies:

don't really watch too many movies

Television:

nope. if I wanted scripted BS, I would go to church.

Books:

The Fountainhead, Catcher in the Rye, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Snows of Kilomonjaro, The Sun Also Rises

Heroes:

Holden Caulfield, Ani DiFranco, Hemingway, Paul Simon, Sarah Maguire, Ayn Rand, Mr. OB, John Muir, Betty Ann, My mother... many more

My Blog

Thank God

Just a quick one to say how simply delighted I am with the choices I have made and where I am..... I am an open book and oh yeah, contrary to the opinion of some, a good person :)  a person with ...
Posted by Andrea9797 on Thu, 22 May 2008 07:44:00 PST

moral certainty

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has...
Posted by Andrea9797 on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:10:00 PST

The Merits of Hilarity

Laugh, laugh, laugh..... that is when we all feel the best, right?  So, let it be and let it wash over.  I say this more to myself than to anyone.  The truth is that those that are gift...
Posted by Andrea9797 on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:21:00 PST

LMX and Pontifications on Leadership

I have been blessed in my life to have served with and learned from some great leaders.  The most pressing thing I come out of this with is my absolute belief that a leader must posses honestly a...
Posted by Andrea9797 on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:25:00 PST

I hate statistics

when all else fails, manipulate the data, right???   I would never do such a thing.  :):):)  And thankfully due to my highly statistically significant results in a sample size N of...
Posted by Andrea9797 on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:41:00 PST

no worries

Well, I am officially home from my latest advetures and am confronted in a rude way with life as it here..................  so, where's the magic in the mundane, one may ask?  Beauty and bre...
Posted by Andrea9797 on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:27:00 PST

Ernest Hemingway pulling my soul again

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."  Ernest Hemingway How very right you are, Ernest.  Another of my favorites from you is from For Whom the Bell Tolls.  Jorda...
Posted by Andrea9797 on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:42:00 PST

Home

So, I'm back in the good ole US of A and back to work as of Monday.  The travels are over for the next few months.  Wish I could say that was a good thing.  I guess it is what it is.&nb...
Posted by Andrea9797 on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:22:00 PST

ripped

One year ago today, which is yesterdy for all intents and purposes back in the states... I left something undescribable and I remember it so keenly, so thoroughly.  I mark it....
Posted by Andrea9797 on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:33:00 PST

Ice Queen

Hello from the most remote continent on earth.  Life in Antarctica is strange to say the least.  The most pressing fact of which is that we are all a little bit lost down here... for one rea...
Posted by Andrea9797 on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:06:00 PST