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Kate

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I'm a wicked down-to-earth take-me-as-I-come kind of girl. I'm working full time on an after-school program that pairs at-risk youth with people with Alzheimer's disease, and finishing my PhD in Biological Anthropology....Work and school are the centers of my world - along with my pug dog, Sumi, who I am crazy for.... I'm the most no-frills, no fuss, easygoing chica this side of northern Michigan - rather be in my jeans and tees or PJ pants lounging around than all dolled up in the clubs of the city...What can I say? If I didn't hate country music, I'd probably be a real Midwestern girl...People are the number one most important part of my life - my friends and family are the be-all and end-all....Although research is a huge part of my world also - currently investigating HIV in Chicago and working to change behaviors while figuring out the connections between immune function and stress...Love to travel - lived in England for a year, been to Egypt, Bolivia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Austria, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, France, Scotland, Greece, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Corfu.I'm always surprised at the surprises life can bring you...

My Interests

I love dogs (especially labs and pugs), travel, reading, shopping, TV, music, movies, basketball, soccer, hiking, sleeping, drinking, jungle living, city slicking, people-watching, roller-coaster riding, water park swimming, Up North nature, museums, plays, comedy, walking in the woods in the fall, figuring out how to change the world for the better.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone to make this city life more interesting!

Music:

Alternative, hard rock, oldies and classic rock, folk, the blues, anything but country! Pearl Jam, Ani DiFranco, the Beatles, the Who, the Rolling Stones, Sublime, Nirvana, CSNY, Barenaked Ladies, Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Stone Temple Pilots, Tori Amos, Sublime, Erykah Badu, Country Joe & the Fish, the Doors, Guns 'N Roses, Janis Joplin, Green Day, the Crow soundtrack...etc. etc. etc.

Movies:

Silence of the Lambs, Dances With Wolves, LOTR Trilogy, Kevin Smith movies (Chasing Amy, Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back), the Usual Suspects, Fight Club, Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Trainspotting, Schindler's List, Hannibal, Red Dragon, Boondock Saints, Apocalypse Now, the Deerhunter, Platoon, Born on the 4th of July, Saving Private Ryan, the Harry Potter films, Zoolander, Grease, Dirty Dancing, the Crow, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Saw, Seven, Memento, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Goonies, etc. etc. Classic horrror films - Halloween is my absolute favorite, followed by the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Psycho, Friday the 13th (it's the Mother!), Nightmare on Elm Street....only the originals...although I love the Mike Myers story arcs...

Television:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Tru Calling, ER, Lost, Law & Order SVU, the L Word, Extreme Makeover Home Edition, Gilmore Girls, Prison Break, My Name is Earl, Smallville, Law & Order Criminal Intent, Six Feet Under, Dead Like Me, How I Met Your Mother.

Books:

Thomas Harris novels, The Da Vinci Code, Helter Skelter, all forensics/true crime novels, Vietnam era stories, TIME magazine, If I Die in a Combat Zone Box Me Up and Send Me Home, Angels & Demons, the God of Small Things, Catch-22, the Grapes of Wrath, etc. etc. etc.

Heroes:

My sister Mo, my brother Mike, my Mom and Dad, my friends, my grandparents, Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Gandhi, the Dalai Lama.

My Blog

Bored, boring, boredom, borer?

I'm having a blah day, decided to see what a blog was....since I am lacking in inspiration I decided to copy some of these silly quiz things and fill them out....that's just how lame my day is going.....
Posted by Kate on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 02:32:00 PST