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Whitney

"We are always in our own company" ~Nietzsche

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I just finished up my B.S. in Geology at Cal State Northridge. This Fall I'll be starting a five-year PhD program at USC (Go Trojans!). My interests outside of school include camping, hiking, traveling, playing softball/tennis and anything else that keeps me active.

My Interests

Camping
Hiking
Jogging
Walking
Traveling
Playing tennis
Playing softball
Reading
Watching movies
Bickering with my 3 siblings
Playing with my 9-year-old nephew
Engaging in amateurish philosophical and/or political discussions
Playing one of my four guitars
Listening to music

I'd like to meet:

People with similar interests that are living in the Los Angeles area.

Music:

10,000 Maniacs
Natalie Merchant
Sara Mclachlan
Death Cab for Cutie
Karate
Postal Service
the Used
Gipsy Kings
Chopin
Debussy
Dvorak
Beethoven
the Butchies
Disappear Fear
All-American Rejects
Anna Nalick
Beatles
Billie Holiday
Citizen Cope
the Cure
Dave Mathews
Electric Six
Queen
Sade
Smoking Popes
the The
Diana Krall
Tom Waits
Portishead
Ours
Papas Fritas
Nada Surf
Melissa Etheridge

Books:

Dune, all of them written by Frank Herbert. (I never knew I could get into SciFi until reading these!)

The Mists of Avalon: by Marion Zimmer Bradley. (Greatest fantasy novel ever, based on Arthurian legend.)

Atlas Shrugged, the Fountainhead: Ayn Rand

Annals of the Former World: by John McPhee. (This guy thinks geologists are God's gift to mankind, thus his book deserves mention.)

A Brief History of Western Philosophy: Bertrand Russel. (Good ol' Bertrand!)

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: by Friedrich Nietzsche (Yes, yes... I know, Nietszche was a crazed lunatic with syphillis, but I still love this book!)

My Blog

Hurray for Remote Sensing

So Im working on something completely new (to me) this summer, and Ive decided to write some blogs on my progress over the next couple of months. This is thanks to Beau Tinnin who already started blog...
Posted by Whitney on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:00:00 PST

Alaska so far...

is cold! (Imagine that)Here are a few pics:This is Alaska's "spring":We are so dorky it's almost cool:Meta-sandstone and slate with refractive cleavage. (Yay!)Keyhole into another dimension:(We saw ...
Posted by Whitney on Tue, 09 May 2006 11:37:00 PST

Saguaro cup: Wicked Women

We had a tournament in Arizona this past weekend... we lost every game, but it was still a blast! Here are a few photos:...
Posted by Whitney on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:38:00 PST

Christian slogans...

I usually find slogans like WWJD mildly amusing, but this one really made me chuckle: "I am coming to get you. LOVE JESUS" I saw this in big black letters on the back of a cement truck today. ...
Posted by Whitney on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:34:00 PST

Useless fact of the week

I have always wondered whether it was correct to call those pesky little marsupials that eat all of my cat's food 'possums' or 'opossums'... Well, it turns out, if and when I visit Australia, they ...
Posted by Whitney on Fri, 06 Jan 2006 07:43:00 PST