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Travel, study and great literature. Ancient history, particularly Ancient Mediterranean (Roman, Greece, ancient Near East and Egypt), also world history, history of slavery, Mediterranean archaeology. I'm working on my Ph.D. in History at UC Santa Barbara, so I don't have too much time to do much else at present; most of my energy is spent studying and teaching! but I like to read (mostly history and non-fiction) and do creative writing projects like travel journals and scrapbooks. I collect boxes from all over the world; I have quite a few of them at this point! I also enjoy photography (some of which is featured on this page) and music!
Places I have been:
You are a Redwood Tree. Which means you're smart, brave, and very strong.
You don't think much about looks or other
people's appearances. You accept people for
the way they are. You never let anyone get
away with saying you, or your friends are
stupid, and you try to enjoy each day like
it's your last.
What Tree are you?
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You Are Fall!
Intelligent, introspective, and expressive at times...
You appreciate the changes in color, climate, and mood that fall brings
Whether you're carving wacky pumpkins or taking long drives, autumn is a favorite time of year for you. What Season Are You?
Your Hidden Talent
You are both very knowledgeable and creative.
You tend to be full of new ideas and potential - big potential.
Ideas like yours could change the world, if you build them.
As long as you don't stop working on your dreams, you'll get there. What's Your Hidden Talent?
Other persons with insatiable curiousity and fascination with the world around them. Anyone out there who studies ancient Greek and Latin? I really need the practice! Just looking for people who have the same interests I do. World travel, music, literature, history and museums, art exhibits and academic life. Not too many of you out there, are there?
You are Augustus! First emperor of the Romans and one of the greatest statesmen in the ancient world. You brilliantly eased the old Republic into the Principate and set the path for an empire that would last for centuries and form the underpinnings for all western civilization. Hail Caesar!
Augustus
Vespasian
Hadrian
Antoninus Pius
Marcus Aurelius
Tiberius
Trajan
Nerva
Claudius
Domitian
Vitellius
Nero
Commodus
Caligula
This is going to take a while! I like music from most genres, particularly classical piano (Chopin, Beethoven, Liszt, Mozart, Rachmaninov) and soundtracks (movie scores), which is like modern classical music! Some of the best composers I have found include Georges Delerue (but difficult to find), Hans Zimmer (of Gladiator fame)Alan Silvestri, Basil Poledouris, George Fenton, James Newton Howard, James Horner, John Debney, Michael Kamen, Thomas Newman, Trevor Jones & Trevor Rabin. I listen to Indie Rock quite a bit; some of my favorites are Sarah MacLachlan, Dido, Beth Orton, Jewel, Avril Lavigne, Evanescence, Fisher is great too, Fiona Apple, Sinead O'Connor, etc. I also like good Old School stuff like Garbage, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, toad the wet sprocket, Green Day, like that... Great Oldies are worth having too! I have pretty versatile tastes when it comes to music; it's all about Mood!! I get in the mood for Jazz every once in a while (Nina Simone and Billie Holiday). About the only thing I can't handle is modern country, but old school country and bluegrass is great!
You are a Brainy Girl!
Whether you're an official student or a casual learner, you enjoy hitting the books.
You know a little bit about everything, and you're always dying to know more.
For a guy to win your heart, he's got to share some of your intellectual interests.
A awesome book collection of his own doesn't hurt either! What Kind of Girl Are You?
Roman Art
I usually like movies about history (Last of the Mohicans, Gladiator [which was interesting for subject matter but wasn't highly accurate!], Braveheart, etc.) but also like some Fantasy (like Lord of the Rings Trilogy) and Independent films (Amelie, The Fifth Element, etc.), just as long as they are creative and different. Love Tim Burton Movies (Sleepy Hollow) and Cohen Brothers (Raising Arizona and O Brother). I don't have too much time to spend watching movies but there is some great creativity going on, even though you have to look pretty hard for it!
Your Element Is Earth
You excel at planning and strategizing.
You could be a champ at chess or Survivor.
Well grounded, you are able to be realistic and rationalize.
On the inside, you have a hard core. It's tough to phase you.
You are super productive, and you are able to think anything through.
Focused and super charged, your instincts are a good guide for your next step. What's Your Element?
Your Personality Profile
You are elegant, withdrawn, and brilliant.
Your mind is a weapon, able to solve any puzzle.
You are also great at poking holes in arguments and common beliefs.
For you, comfort and calm are very important.
You tend to thrive on your own and shrug off most affection.
You prefer to protect your emotions and stay strong. The World's Shortest Personality Test
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TV is so bloody mindless right about now...there used to be some really creative things, but they seem to have been retired by the powers that be in favor of really mindless garbage. So, the only shows worth watching at the moment are those featured on channels like the History Channel, National Geographic Channel, the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, TLC, Home and Garden Channel, Food Network (check out Iron Chef) and some other "off the beaten track" channels that still have something interesting on. One of the best new TV shows (which was previously featured on KCET) is Globe Trekker, which is now being shown on the NG channel, I think. Some great tips featured there; if you are planning to backpack, you really ought to check it out before you go!!
Your Aura is Red
You have a high level of emotion. This can mean passion, but it can also mean rage.
Usually, you don't take these emotions out on others. You just use them as motivation - and it works!
The purpose of your life: embracing all the wonders of the life, lots of travels, and tons of adventures
Careers for you to try: Teacher, Surgeon, Writer, Artist What Color Is Your Aura?
Reconstructions of Roman Sites
OK, here goes: This is a list of must-reads at least once in a lifetime.
Homer: The Iliad and the Odyssey
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex; Antigone; Electra
Herodotus: The Histories
Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
Hesiod: Works and Days
Aesop: Fables
Sun-Tzu: The Art of War
Plato: The Republic
Beowulf: Author Unknown
Leonardo da Vinci: Notebooks
Thomas More: Utopia
The Bible: Various
The Qu'ran
Dante: The Divine Comedy
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales; Knight's Tale; Book of the Duchess
Machiavelli: The Prince
Cervantes: Don Quixote
William Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona; Taming of the Shrew; Romeo and Juliet; King Lear; Othello; Merchant of Venice; Julius Caesar; Hamlet; Antony and Cleopatra
John Milton: Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained
Edward Gibbon: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (but only if you have a vested interest in this kind of thing; a word of caution: this is long and technical but an exhaustive resource unparalelled in modern times.
The Poetry of Goethe
Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Emma
Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America-this work is one of the best works of literature ever written but is greatly underrated. This is truly a work of unparalelled genius! He also wrote extensively regarding the French Revolution. -tw
Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist; David Copperfield; A Christmas Carol; A Tale of Two Cities; Great Expectations, and others.
Karl Marx: Das Kapital
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment
Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace; Anna Karenina
Nietzsche (if you dare): Beyond Good and Evil; Thus Spake Zarathustra; The Antichrist
George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness (intense!)
James Joyce: Ulysses
D.H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover; Sons and Lovers; Women in Love; Amores; New Poems
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
George Orwell: Animal Farm; 1984; Shooting an Elephant
James Fenimore Cooper: Last of the Mohicans
Washington Irving: Legend of Sleepy Hollow (for some of the most beautiful English ever written)
The Ramayana
The Mahabharata & Bhagavad Gita
Kautilya: Arthashastra
E. B. White: Charlotte's Web
Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
Virgil: Aeneid; Georgics
Epic of Gilgamesh
Victor Hugo: Les Miserables; The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Collected Essays
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Edgar Allen Poe: Complete Works
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray; Essays
E. M. Forster: Howard's End; A Passage to India
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
Franz Kafka: The Trial
Arnold Toynbee: A Study of History; The Decline of the West
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises; The Old Man and the Sea; A Moveable Feast; A Farewell to Arms
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath; Of Mice and Men; East of Eden; Cannery Row; The Red Pony
Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialism and Human Emotions; Being and Nothingness; No Exit
Arthur Miller: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman
H. G. Wells: The Time Machine; War of the Worlds; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jack London: White Fang; The Call of the Wild
Walter Farley: The Black Stallion & Series
Harper Lee: To Kill A Mockingbird
Walter Lord: A Night To Remember
C. S. Forrester: Horatio Hornblower Series
Richard Adams: Watership Down
Michael Chriton: Jurassic Park; Congo; Rising Sun; Airframe; Sphere and others
Peter Schaffer: Amadeus (play)
William Golding: Lord of the Flies
John Knowles: A Separate Peace
Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky
Tom Clancy: The Hunt for Red October; Patriot Games; The Cardinal of the Kremlin; Clear and Present Danger; The Sum of All Fears; Debt of Honor & Related Works-highly recommended!
This list is by no means exhaustive; if you would like to comment on anything or make any additions, please let me know; this should keep you going for quite some time, however. There are a number of works of political and physical sciences (such as the works of Einstein, Newton and others) that I have omitted here, but they are well worth the read. Enjoy and Happy Reading! -tw
You're an Alien. I mean, you have to be! No one is
as smart as you, and no one likes to study as
much as you do! People might just think
you're a know-it-all, but I know what you
really are. So what planet are you really
from? Maybe one of the moons of Jupiter!
What are you?
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This is going to take some time, but in general I can say that I don't have "heroes" as such; instead I tend to admire traits or qualities that people display and try to emulate these instead. Courage, dedication, loyalty, integrity, intelligence, resourcefulness, kindness, generosity, independence... these are important to me and I hope to other people. I have a great deal of admiration for people who follow their dreams and who don't give up in pursuing what they are passionate about, even if they are discouraged by others who are thoroughly trapped and miserable. Anyone who completely changes their life course to pursue something that is new and different really has my respect, because I know firsthand how difficult it is, and unfortunately many people (even well-meaning people) you know will try to dissuade you from taking a chance. If you believe in yourself and know that what you are doing is what you were meant to do, I think in the long run you will be successful. I admire people that aren't afraid of hard work and are willing to make sacrifices in order to achieve their goals, even if life has been less than kind to them. Thanks for listening...
Your Power Color Is Lime Green
At Your Highest:
You are adventurous, witty, and a visionary.
At Your Lowest:
You feel misunderstood, like you don't fit in.
In Love:
You have a tough exterior, but can be very dedicated.
How You're Attractive:
Your self-awareness and confidence lights up a room.
Your Eternal Question:
"What else do I need in my life?" Your only fear? People not realizing how smart and able you are! What's Your Power Color?