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Erin

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About Me

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My Interests

mi familia, friends, my cats (Riley & Franny), Veterinary Medicine, all Science, the countryside, wit, forests, books, climbing trees, FIV/FeLV/cancer research, playing in dirt, botany, compassion, irony, swimming, the Midwest, Vegan Vegetable Noodle Soup, libraries, hiking, empathy, lying in the grass, mathematics, humor, insect collecting, operant conditioning, film, autumn, dark energy, tactile/kinesthetic learning, bird watching, recycling, exploration, quietude, curiosity, dusk, ireland, rain, hedonic ethology, thunderstorms, reading, amber, self-teaching, alexander archipelago, investigation, pomegranates, illinois, Hindu & Hegelian dialectics, barley, conserving water, GT's organic raw Kombucha, the seasons, beautiful minds, Malthusian catastrophe, unconditional love, LGBT rights, olives, saving energy, NPR, chlorophyll, my dictionary, ginger, civil rights, feminism, tomatoes, photography (Traer Scott, Martyn Colbeck, my Dad), Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, alaska, considering source habitat as my reason for dispersing from NYC, violin, birth control, thorough & resourceful search engines, snow, forensics, numerical analysis, chicago museum of science & industry, learning latin, my bed, sleeping; dreaming while sleeping; manipulating those dreams, while sleeping; home; traveling the world...& beyond

I'd like to meet:

animals, vegetable growers, raconteurs & witch doctors

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Animal Breed Zip Code

Music:

Sami Rudnick, Deja Vu Mask, Heather Gallagher, Nichole Nichols, Jessica Stodel, Maria Daines, Bob Dylan, Tori Amos, Lou Reed, Janis Joplin, John Lennon, the beatles, Stephen Sondheim, Cyndi Lauper, modest mouse, Nellie McKay, Kurt Weill, broken social scene, Bjork, Tom Waits, smashing pumpkins, coldplay, Hagood Hardy, fleetwood mac, Jimmy Buffett, heart, Gil Scott-Heron, Enya, the cure, nine inch nails, pink, Neil Diamond, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, Ani Difranco, velvet underground, Melissa Etheridge, Billie Holiday, pink floyd, Miles Davis, Danny Elfman, Johann Pachelbel, Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Loretta Lynn, dead man's bones, Ben Lee, folk, 80's

Movies:

HALF NELSON (Fleck/Boden), microcosmos, BBC's David Attenborough, evolution (PBS doc), march of the penguins, wild parrots of telegraph hill, the endurance (Shackleton doc), i heart huckabees, anne of green gables, annie hall, love and death, looking for mr. goodbar, come and see (Elem Klimov), an inconvenient truth, aguirre: the wrath of god (Herzog/Kinski), secretary, donnie darko, the notebook, office space, monster, fear & loathing in las vegas, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, little miss sunshine, amelie, prozac nation, alien(s), freeway, shakespeare in love, glengarry glen ross, forrest gump, gandhi, Ken Burns' civil war, talk radio, wall street, Schindler's list, bowling for columbine, kill bill, good will hunting, juno, beetlejuice, pan's labyrinth, edward scissorhands, bonnie and clyde, no direction home (Scorsese), all that jazz (RIP Roy Scheider)

Television:

animal planet (esp.emergency vets, animal precinct, petfinder, the most extreme); discovery channel (mythbusters, dirty jobs); forensic files; daily show; Seinfeld; the simpsons; family guy; Colbert report; real time w/Bill Maher; history channel; bbc; tlc; twilight zone; Natn'l Geographic's dogtown; the ecozone project; PBS (NATURE & NOVA....rock my world):

Books:

JAMES HERRIOT; marley & me (Grogan); animal farm (Orwell); charlotte's web (White); pets living with cancer (Downing); Nature (journal of science); Veterinary Medicine (magazine); The Merck Veterinary Manual - Ninth Edition; his dark materials (Pullman); jonathan livingston seagull (Bach); the unbearable lightness of being (Kundera); psycho-cybernetics (Maltz); the origin of species (Darwin); essay on population (Malthus); the awakening (Chopin); 1984 (Orwell); franny & zooey (Salinger); crime & punishment (Dostoyevsky); angels in america (Kushner); lolita (Nabokov); where the sidewalk ends/the giving tree (Silverstein); metamorphosis (Kafka); major barbara (GB Shaw); death of a salesman (Miller); dr faustus (Marlowe); slaughterhouse-five (Vonnegut); little house series (Wilder); to kill a mockingbird (Lee); chronicles (Dylan); tartuffe (Molière); infinite jest (David Foster Wallace); hamlet (Shakespeare); macbeth (Shakespeare); the seagull (Chekhov); 'tis pity she's a whore (Ford); shelter/street dogs (traer scott); america, the book (a citizen's guide to democracy); Shakespeare, in general; Robert Frost; Bertolt Brecht; David Mamet; Samuel Beckett; August Wilson; Harold Pinter; Tom Stoppard; Anne Winters; Sam Shepard; Hunter S. Thompson; NYT

Heroes:

My Mum; My Dad; My Sister, Megan; My Grams; Sami Rudnick-Hoover; Geoff Bacci; Paul Smith; Jay & Debra Lynch; Kimani Ng'ang'a; Animal Cruelty Investigators; Alf Wight (James Herriot), Veterinary Surgeon; Henry Bergh; Becky Myers, DVM; Animal Welfare Leaders; James R. Richards, DVM; Dian Fossey; Jane Goodall; Sir Ernest Shackleton; Charles Darwin; Dorothy Segal, DVM; Carolus Linnaeus; Amelia Earhart; Robin Downing, DVM; Jackie Casanova, DVM; Terri Crisp; Emily Weiss, DVM; Comedians; My Dogs: Jessie & Sandy; Laika (1st animal launched into orbit); Riley; Franny; service, guide & therapy dogs

My Blog

Int. 13: Success!

from humanenyc.org: This past Saturday, the League of Humane Voters of New York City, Council Member Tony Avella and nearly 200 advocates gathered on the steps of City Hall to announce Avella's submis...
Posted by Erin on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:52:00 PST

PAWS

Allie Phillips was an assistant prosecutor in the mid 1990s on many domestic violence cases. She said, "One frequent concern I heard was ’If I testify or if I do not go back to him, he will kill...
Posted by Erin on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:16:00 PST

IMPORTANT: Hartz Vitamin Care For Cats

Source: AVMAhttp://www. avma. org/default. aspThe Hartz Mountain Corporation recalls Vitamin Care for Cats because of possible health riskThe Hartz Mountain Corporation is voluntarily recalling a seco...
Posted by Erin on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:02:00 PST

Public health jeopardized

Veterinarians warn Congress about dangers of veterinary shortagePublic health jeopardized by too few veterinariansSource: http://www.avma.org/default.asp "Veterinarians are uniquely positioned to...
Posted by Erin on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:21:00 PST

Allegation of animal abuse by a Marine

AVMA Responds to puppy abuse videoSource: http://www.avma.org/default.asp March 5, 2008General James T. ConwayCommandant, United States Marine CorpsHeadquarters Marine Corps3000 Marine CorpsPentagonWa...
Posted by Erin on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:17:00 PST

Only 18 more days until the Seal hunt begins...

The 2007 Canadian seal hunt left more than 215,378 seals dead --almost all of them were babies as young as 12 days.Last year, before the seal hunt had even begun, hundreds ofthousands of baby seals ha...
Posted by Erin on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:58:00 PST

NYC Transit

All in favor of less crowded buses and subways, raise your hands!Think your commute is bad now? Add a million more people to the equation and we might have a transportation meltdown! We need a plan th...
Posted by Erin on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:51:00 PST

Psycho-Cybernetics

Commentary by: Tom Butler-Bowdon Psycho-Cybernetics, by: Maxwell Maltz (1960) The founder of cybernetics was American mathematician Norbert Wiener, who spent World War Two refining guided missile tech...
Posted by Erin on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:39:00 PST

Breeding

Source: http://www.myspace.com/newyorkercompanionanimals   STATISTICSOnly 1 in 600 Pit Bulls will find a home - For every Pit Bull placed in a loving home 599 die.PBRC is listing HUNDREDS of home...
Posted by Erin on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:33:00 PST

Why Care About Animals?

Why Care About Animals?   By: Dr. Michael W. Fox   People generally care about animals, but for different reasons. These differences reflect a lack of consensus concerning the status of anim...
Posted by Erin on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:38:00 PST