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Mad Scientist

She may not be the doctor, but she sure knows what's going on!

About Me

I'm a fourth-year PhD student in Biomedical Engineering. I've fully embraced my dork-dom! I'm studying medical imaging... mostly x-rays and breast cancer. I'll talk your ear off about some diffraction-enhanced imaging if you'll let me!Most people don't expect it, but I'm usually right when I say I've got more tattoos than you do. I love art in all forms, and have gotten addicted to ink. Hopefully I'll stop before I'm out of coverable areas!I grew up in VA, but I have lived in NC, SC and NY as well. I split my time as much as possible between grad school in NC and NY where I worked as a "visiting scientist" cranking through my dissertation research at Brookhaven National Laboratories in a huge windowless building with incessant white noise to drive you nuts and street lights for ceiling lights that will blind you if you look directly into them for more than 0.2 seconds. Needless to say, I did't work on my tan!I foster animals for Independent Animal Rescue, so the number and type of pets I have varies from time to time, but I've still got my two permanent babies Peanut and Buddy. Both of my kitties are street hoodlums turned rub-sluts and lazy bastards.I bought my first house about two years ago and have renovated it mostly myself... I got a bit of help with electrical so I didn't fry myself more than my teenage years did. I think the only unaltered portion of the house is the hallway. I'm *almost* done adding a master bathroom where a chimney and closet once were. Now I'm contemplating an addition to the house... because school isn't keeping me busy enough. I've accumulated a tool collection to make Tim the Toolman jealous... and I know how to use most of them too!You want to know more, just ask me.
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My Interests

Discovering new places around Durham. I love finding a great new restaurant or bar, or stumbling across a great outdoor place to enjoy.I'm a huge fan of anything NOT involving television. I love to be outside and some of the crazy hobbies/adventures I've been known to partake in include rock climbing, skydiving, caving (spelunking, I know, I just have a completely unfounded dislike of that word), and mountain biking.I spend almost all of my spare time renovating my house, which is looking motherfucking good if i do say so myself!! My house is my one vice, and the one place I allow myself to be proud and be an absolute show-off asshole. I've done all the renovations myself. I now can install an electrical outlet, lay ceramic tile, install a garbage disposal, tear out a chimney.... I could keep going. I bet my tool collection is bigger than yours.... wanna compare?I love cooking and trying new recipes all the time. I'm particularly having fun cooking southern foods (ie. chicken and dumplings, biscuits and gravy, chicken fried chicken) and sharing with my yankee coworkers and friends while I'm working up here in NY!
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I'd like to meet:

Anyone with a sense of humor and is fun to be around. I'm high-speed, motivated, intelligent and confident... and look for that in the people I surround myself with.Trust me, you'll never ever find me online for chatting, but in case you want to waste your time, my AIM & Yahoo are both climbnwalls.Here's a quick list of things that will quickly get you blocked: perversion, lack of independence, lack of motivation to do anything other than sit your fat ass in front of the television, computer or gaming system, or generalized loserdom. Yes, I make up my own words as needed. What Pin Up girl are you?
meoww, you're the sex kitten. One pose and you're on fire! No wonder you have all the men drooling over you ;)
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Music:

I adore off-the-beaten path music. I listen to music a lot while I'm studying (which I should be doing now). Most people have never heard of the artists I love, but I like to try to get people to appreciate it anyway. Little Feat, Allman Brothers, Tom Petty, Archive, Halou, Morcheeba, Placebo, Silverman, Everything but the Girl, Black Uhuru, A Perfect Circle, Frou Frou, Widespread Panic.... I could go on forever.

Movies:

Apocalypto, Dancers in the Dark, L4yer Cake, Crash, Man on Fire, The Departed, Over the Hedge, Haven, All the Kings Men

Television:

Ok, I broke and got cable. I've gotten sucked into watching Rescue Me. The sarcastic humor is great. Plus I'm a forensic science junkie, so the First 48 is on "series record" (damn I love digital cable). Heroes and House are also on record. I get seriously grumpy when a roomie erases one before I had a chance to watch it!

Books:

Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Celestine Prophecy, We Are the Stories We Tell, and any mindless murder mysteries.

Heroes:

My twin sis, 'cuz she's the shiznat!

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So I suck at dodgeball... RULES: Once tagged, write 6 weird thing/habitss about yourself, then repost! 1. I guess I got tagged because I am terrified of objects flying at my face. I cringe, duck an...
Posted by Mad Scientist on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:15:00 PST