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Hey Moody!

About Me

I generally ROCK!And, I am here for your homework-helping pleasure. Enjoy.

My Interests

SCIENCE RULES! Biology, birds, cute little kids named Kira, dance, speaking French, cooking, gardening, reading, movies, travel

I'd like to meet:

Better Than Ezra, E.O. Wilson, the Dalai Lama, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Julia Stiles, Nelson Mandela, anyone who has taken a stand for peace and justice and the environment and made a difference in this world. I'd like to know how they do it. No point in listing dead people since it'll never happen. Although I do wish I could have known my great-grandparents. I hear they were extraordinary people.

Music:

Better Than Ezra, Anúna, Aslyn, Allison Krauss, John Prine, Postal Service, Johnny Cash and the other Highwaymen, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Cole Porter, Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, the Gershwins, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Eric Clapton, The Police, tha Stones, Duran Duran, Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Michael Buble, KT Tunstall, Sarah McLaughlin, Norah Jones, Alanis Morissette; most old jazz, old country, alternative, 80s, classic rock, bluegrass, folk.

Movies:

Lord of the Rings trilogy, Harry Potter series, Pirates of the Caribbean, Save the Last Dance, Centre Stage, Return to Me, A Knight's Tale, Dead Poets' Society, Mr. Holland's Opus, ET, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Princess Bride, Monty Python & the Quest for the Holy Grail, We Were Soldiers, It's a Wonderful Life, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Dancing at Lughnasa, etc.

Television:

Sucks your brain out.

Books:

LOTR trilogy, Harry Potter series, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Nickel and Dimed, Anne of Green Gables series, House of the Spirits, Dancing at Lughnasa, Beloved, Guess How Much I Love You, The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Heroes:

Eleanor Roosevelt, Jane Goodall, Rosalind Franklin, Mahatma Gandhi, E.O. Wilson, Winston Churchill, Rev. Karen Thompson, my grandfather, Rosso the Bosso

My Blog

Tragedy at school

I am in shock.A student of mine from last semester was stabbed/gashed nearly to death over the Easter weekend. By his own mother. My insides turn every time I think about it. He’s out of intensi...
Posted by Hey Moody! on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:05:00 PST

Kira is reading!!!

That's right - READING! As in, recognising short familiar words and sounding out many she doesn't know and making whole sentences. She read two whole "first reader" books this weekend and only needed ...
Posted by Hey Moody! on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:27:00 PST

Reason 1 000 000 that my kid is awesome

So earlier this week at the dance team's practice Kira decided she wanted to run the mile with the girls. After tripping and skinning her knee in a record-breaking 15 seconds, she asks me "can I go fi...
Posted by Hey Moody! on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:01:00 PST

Poor car

I got rear-ended this afternoon. No injuries to any party, except my car! I haven't even had this car for a full year and it's already bent up. Boo! :(I felt worse for the girl who hit me, actually. I...
Posted by Hey Moody! on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:12:00 PST

Rhinovirus, I detest thee.

That would be the common cold in non-geek language. This guy:http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/6708/images/ He's mean and nasty and he's out for blood. Or maybe just your voice.I really should h...
Posted by Hey Moody! on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:19:00 PST

Toes!

So I took the nail polish off my toenails the other day, and I have normal toes again! SO excited!!Oh wait, you probably don't know the backstory on this one. *rewind to June 2007*So back at the dance...
Posted by Hey Moody! on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:01:00 PST

West Virginia Mountain Momma

"Country roads... take me home... to the place... I belong!"Ok so I didn't actually go to West Virginia. I went to Virginia. But I don't know any songs about Virginia so John Denver will have to do. I...
Posted by Hey Moody! on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:53:00 PST

Science Tattoos!!

**WARNING* Extreme geekiness ahead. Further reading may result in pocket-protector wearing, glasses-taping, snort-laughs, and doing Genetics problems "just for fun." Consult your physician before read...
Posted by Hey Moody! on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:37:00 PST

I looooove cookies!

See that profile picture? That's me making Christmas cookies. SO much fun! Literally took two days, and I ended up with almost twelve dozen cookies. (You're not getting any so don't even think about i...
Posted by Hey Moody! on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:42:00 PST

Scary experience

Have you ever had the feeling something out of sorts was going to happen, and then it did? That happened to me this evening.Stopped at a gas station just after nightfall and as I was getting out of th...
Posted by Hey Moody! on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:17:00 PST