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Brannon

Runnin' Down A Dream

About Me

Random Thoughts- I'm currently in Tanzania for almost 6 weeks doing medical mission work and seeing some of the country. I'll be in a clinic near Arusha with a Volunteers in Medical Missions team for a week, then we will go to the Serengeti and see the animal migration. Then I am in a clinic/hospital near Mwanza with International Health Partners of Tanzania for another 2 1/2 weeks. Then over to climb Mount Kilimanjaro! Return home on March 19... yes, the afternoon before Match Day! Read my blog to keep up with me and to send me messages. I love and will miss all my friends & family!
About Me: BELIEVE. I’m a very passionate person- I think life is valuable and being half-hearted isn't an option. I enjoy learning about different ideas, trying new things, and exploring new places. I have a list of places I want to visit and things I want to do and try before I die. I believe in hard work and busting your butt to achieve your goals, and I get very annoyed by lazy or close-minded people. However, I know we can't do it all on our own and there are things that are out of our control. I've learned a lot about myself and about humanity through various experiences in life, and they've made me a better person. Life has certainly shown me that truly some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. I'm blessed with a very close and wonderful family and incredible friends, and I absolutely wouldn’t be where I am without their love and support. I think intelligence and a wicked sense of humor are sexy and that lack of ambition or work ethic are total turn-offs. I talk a lot, but I also am a good listener and remember things people say and enjoy good discussions & debates.

My Interests

hanging out with my awesome friends and family, medicine, (esp. general surgery, trauma, and health care for under-served populations), traveling, baseball, fencing, Clemson, being adventurous, college football, music, the outdoors and sunny warm days, people in general, going out with my friends (on the rare occasions I get to leave the hospital and have a social life), photography, the lake, religion, naps, happiness and fun and laughter, politics and law, my dogs and cat, LIFE

Music:

mainly country and rock but I have a huge variety on my iPod

Movies:

A Few Good Men, Bull Durham, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Wedding Crashers, For Love of the Game, Shrek, The Notebook, Ladder 49, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, and who doesn't get a good laugh from Wedding Crashers or Talladega Nights

Television:

Grey's Anatomy, ER, Brothers and Sisters, Scrubs, all baseball, college football and basketball, ESPN, The West Wing reruns, the news, and I used to like watching Regis and Kelly back in college when I wasn't already several hours into my day at that point :-)

Books:

Stolen Season, Murder in the Cathedral, Gone With the Wind, It's Not About the Bike, Intern Blues, Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives, Ball Four, My Sister's Keeper, Prozac Nation, Bastard Out of Carolina, "If"

Heroes:

Bill Pulsipher, Lib Reynolds, Jana Morse, anyone who works their butt off to reach their goals or to serve others