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Christy

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About Me

I love to play outside, eat Thai and Indian food, and travel.

My Interests

Snowboarding, hiking, mountain biking, camping, backpacking, skiing, snowshoeing...you know, things that you do outside. Trees, nature, animals...you know, saving the environment.

I'd like to meet:

Friends"A tree is a wonderful living organism... it even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down." -Buddha

Music:

Portishead, Depeche Mode, Ladytron, Tricky, Radiohead, The Cure, Massive Attack, OMD, James Newton Howard, Incubus, Xavier Rudd, Deep Forest, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fischerspooner, Moby, 311, Sneaker Pimps, Peaches, Bjork, Air, Sigur Ros, Tori Amos, Pink Floyd.....Anything electroclash, trip-hop, new wave, electronic, and world.

Movies:

The Lost Boys, Amelie, The Neverending Story, The Village, Lady in the Water, The LOTR Trilogy, Corpse Bride, Trainspotting, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, Sleepy Hollow, The Fifth Element, Whale Rider, Skeleton Key, Goonies, Human Traffic, Mulholland Dr., Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Requiem For A Dream, The Beach, The Burbs, Medicine Man, Run Lola Run, The Princess Bride, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Best In Show, Pulp Fiction, The Piano, Step Into Liquid, Waking Ned Devine, The Virgin Suicides, From Dusk till Dawn, Four Rooms, The Green Mile, Now and Then, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (new and old), Shawshank Redemption, Napoleon Dynamite, Interview with the Vampire, The Hunt for Red October, The Indiana Jones Trilogy

Television:

No TV!

Books:

The only thing I've read recently is a school textbook.

Heroes:

My family

My Blog

Earth Hour

On March 29, 2008 at 8 p.m., join millions of people around the world in making a statement about climate change by turning off your lights for Earth Hour, an event created by the World Wildlife Fund....
Posted by Christy on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:29:00 PST

Dear college student...

Who are you texting throughout an 8am class?  Are the five of you sitting in front of me texting each other?  If you have words on the butt of your tight pants and I am behind you, do you r...
Posted by Christy on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:17:00 PST

Arctic Ice Cap Melting 30 Years Ahead of Forecast

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent Tue May 1, 2:59 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Arctic ice cap is melting much faster than expected and is now about 30 years ahead of predictions...
Posted by Christy on Tue, 01 May 2007 03:31:00 PST

Global Warming Already Killing Species, analysis says

Global warming already killing species, analysis says --> date --> .. language=JavaScript type=text/javascript> --> if ( location.hostname.toLowerCase().indexOf( "edition." ) != -1 ) { document....
Posted by Christy on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:54:00 PST

Farmers go green to fight global warming

Farmers go green to fight global warming --> date --> .. language=JavaScript type=text/javascript> --> if ( location.hostname.toLowerCase().indexOf( "edition." ) != -1 ) { document.write('POSTED...
Posted by Christy on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:51:00 PST

Scientists issue global warming report

Oct. 4, 2006, 7:52PMScientists issue global warming report By LINDA A. JOHNSON Associated Press Writer © 2006 The Associated Press --> --> TRENTON, N.J.  Global warming could strain the Northeast's...
Posted by Christy on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:50:00 PST

Study Acquits Sun of Climate Change

POSTED: 11:39 a.m. EDT, September 15, 2006 OSLO, Norway (Reuters) -- The sun's energy output has barely varied over the past 1,000 years, raising chances that global warming has human rather than ce...
Posted by Christy on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:26:00 PST

Polar Bears Drown, Islands Appear in Arctic Thaw

Polar bears drown, islands appear in Arctic thaw Signs of wrenching changes are apparent around the Arctic region due to unusual warmth -- the summer minimum for ice is usually reached between mid-...
Posted by Christy on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 08:29:00 PST

Portrait

Who Should Paint You: M.C. Escherhttp://images.blogthings.com/whatartistshouldpaintyour portraitquiz/mc-escher.jpg" height="100" width="100">Open and raw, you would let your true self show for your por...
Posted by Christy on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:19:00 PST

Warming turns bears into cannibals

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea may be turning to cannibalism because longer seasons without ice keep them from getting to their natural food, a new study by America...
Posted by Christy on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:21:00 PST