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About Me

You Are A Maple Tree

::There's not anyone in this world quite like you::
::You are full of imagination, ambition, and originality::
::Shy but confident, you hunger for new experiences::
::You have a good memory and learn easily::
::You are sometimes nervous and always complex (especially in love)::

Last updated Jan 2008
I'm a senior biology student at Seattle University. I like to learn just about anything and I like to discuss ideas and analyze things...I like meeting new people and learning about who they are and hearing all their stories.
Photo Albums:
Spring Break 2008: I flew down to Oakland to meet up with my family and visit some friends of my parents in San Jose including Mike and Robin. We visited San Francisco and also went to Napa Valley (where there are awesome flowers and cool things like snakes, lizards, tadpoles, and snails).
Winter Break 2007: I made hardcover books with Katie and Nat, then went on a retreat for five days. The coolest part was when I had time to go outside and look at all the slugs and mushrooms in the forest.
Summer Vacation to Michigan 2007: My family visited my mom's extended family in Michigan, where she grew up. It was awesome--we saw mostly my mom's cousins and their families.
Summer Visit to Idaho 2007: Adria and I visited our parents house, saw Katie and the dogs (Tilly broke her foot, *cries*) and Sid the koi, and witnessed some construction of the new garage/apartment.
Seattle Summer 2007: I did research in Seattle and took these pictures of flowers in people's gardens, the cat that sleeps on my bed, the shirt I made for Katie's birthday (yeah Ros!), Adria's homecoming from Japan, etc...
I also have a facebook account:

My Interests

Updated Jan 2008

My numerous and ever growing list of (mostly nerdy) interests:
ASL (American Sign Language), aquariums, bike riding, Buddhism, ecology, film-making, classical music, creative writing, Deaf culture, DI (Destination Imagination), dogs, drawing, ecology, Guitar Hero III, Hayao Miyazaki, the Holocaust, Indiana Jones, kinematics, Latin, mythology, NPR (National Public Radio), origami and paper models, PC games, philosophy, poetry, psychology, Pixar films, reading, science, Sherlock Holmes, The Sims 2, slugs, TAL (This American Life), vegetarianism, women's studies, world religions, zazen (zen meditation)...

I'd like to meet:

People who are kind, have a good sense of humor and like to laugh, people with integrity and who look at the world with open eyes.

Music:

Beethoven, Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Philip Glass, Mozart, Mendellsohn.

Alexi Murdock, The All-American Rejects, Coldplay, The Darkness, David Gray, Death Cab for Cutie, The Goo Goo Dolls, Guster, Head Automatica, Heart, The Killers, Led Zeppelin, Madeleine Peyroux, MARC BOLAN, Maritime, Muse, The Police, Queen, Radiohead, The Shins, Simon & Garfunkel, Snow Patrol, Sting, The Strokes, Styx, Sufjan Stevens, T. Rex, Third Eye Blind, Tonic, The Voice Squad, The White Stripes...

Movies:

Top five: Ordinary People, The Incredibles, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Constantine, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Adaptation, Amelie, Boondock Saints, Blues Brothers, Catch Me if You Can, Constantine, Contact, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ghost in the Shell, Hot Fuzz, The Incredibles, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Lady in the Water, Koyaaniqatsi, Ordinary People, Powasqatsi, Ratatouille, The Sixth Sense, The Shawshank Redemption, Stranger Than Fiction, What Dreams May Come, When Harry Met Sally ...

Television:

Arrested Development or Sherlock Holmes (with Jeremy Brett) on DVD. I hardly ever watch TV, but sometimes I'll catch nerdy stuff on the Discovery channel.

Books:

A very incomplete list:
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Padraic Colum, The King of Ireland's Son
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Natalie Goldberg
Madeline L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams
Edgar Allen Poe
Chaim Potok, The Chosen
Philip Pulman, His Dark Materials trilogy
JK Rowling, Harry Potter series
David Sedaris
Huston Smith, The World's Religions
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
JRR Tolkien, Lord of the Rings trilogy
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Ken Wilber

Heroes:

Marc Bolan, Rosalind Franklin, Mister Rogers, Ira Glass (above), Gandhi, Henry David Thoreau, Sherlock Holmes, "Batman," my mom

My Blog

tidbits: catching invertebrates, slug lunch, death list, older friends, bikers

LW catching the spider crabs with his net. Last week I got to go with Dr. Whitlow to the Marina and collect marine invertebrates. There's all sorts of stuff growing on the pilings under where rich...
Posted by Hillary on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:27:00 PST

Simulated Earthquake

Wednesday, the safety people on campus had a "simulated earthquake" at 8 in the morning. How many people are on campus to participate, anyway? I had lab, but went into the building even though everyon...
Posted by Hillary on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:08:00 PST

Question: Friendship vs. Relationship

So this is something I've been thinking of for some time: What makes the difference between a relationship and a friendship?Often when I read about relationships (often scandalous, for those are the...
Posted by Hillary on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:43:00 PST

Phenomenology or The Time I Punched Someone

Matthew asked me to write an answer for his question for an assignment for his Phenomenology class. It was kinda fun to think about, so I'm posting it here. Can anyone else answer the question for the...
Posted by Hillary on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:18:00 PST

Hillary kinda wants to quit her job...

So working for the scene shop has reached an all-time low point of boringness. I don't get to make anything for this quarter's play (no globe, no telescopes, *sniff*) and everything is minimal props a...
Posted by Hillary on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:08:00 PST

Say What You Mean: Social and Interpersonal Observations

I've been paying attention to what people say recently--what they say to me, to other people, about other people, etc. Some summaries of stuff you probably already know:(I've mentioned this one before...
Posted by Hillary on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:06:00 PST

A stud is a lamb with the thoughts of a tiger

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Posted by Hillary on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:53:00 PST

Some New Things I’ve Learned Recently...

...and Some I Already Knew But Had Forgotten: You know your field of study is obscure if all the good books on the subject are kept in the "stacks," i.e. basement, of the library and can't be checked ...
Posted by Hillary on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:53:00 PST

heres a cryptic M Wolfe blog

I did something no one should do: looking in someone else's past and seeing my own.Things I thought were forgotten reappear in a different form, memories with me erased out and another person inserted...
Posted by Hillary on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:12:00 PST

What’s my daemon?

If you've never read The Golden Compass series, you are deprived, but in case you have, you'll know what I'm talking about. I took a test for the upcoming movie, and it picked a crow... do you agree?I...
Posted by Hillary on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:43:00 PST