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Alyssa

The freedom to bloom....success.

About Me

"I've had too much to think." .... I'm studying to be a braintologist with a speciality in ion channels and rat brains. Sounds yummy huh? In the lab to become a doctor of philosophy, ahhh a scholar I think. I change the color of my hair because I get bored. I need new music...all the time and lots of it! I love to read, but sometimes I can't sit still to turn the pages. I have to move around and talk to people to be happy. I need Yoga and beer drinking at the Thinking Man's Tavern once a week to walk straight. I have to run to be able to stand still. I love lots of simple things...coffee in the morning, walking 'round barefoot as much as possible, going to the park to watch people play, other folks' rosemary plants, the smell of dogs feet (a mix of rain and green, green grass).

My Interests

I am a very kinetic person...yoga (Bikram: weeds out the weenies), rock climbing, running, hiking, and dancing. I am addicted to input, ideas, thoughts in all forms (art, photography, music, books, film).

I'd like to meet:

Friends: creative, artistic, geeks...no freaks please..ok just a little freaky, funny, smart, witty, sarcastic, and dark & twisted

Music:

Alice Smith, Lily Allen, A Girl Called Eddy, Alison Krauss, Annie Lenox, Audioslave, Beth Orton, Bjork, Cake, Citizen Cope, Concrete Blonde, Dido, Edie Brickell, Edith Piaf, Esthero, Ely Guerra, Feist, Fun Lovin’ Criminals, Gwen Stefani, Jewel, John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, Leela James, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Modest Mouse, Morcheeba, New Order, Outkast, Pink, Regina Spektor, Sade, Tegan & Sara, Texas, U2, The Waterboys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Movies:

Pump up the Volume, Office Space, Best in Show, It’s All Gone Pete Tong, Murderball, Junebug, Swingers, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Donny Darko, Amoros Perros, Winged Migration, Decline of the American Empire, Barbarian Invasions, City of God, Hotel Rwanda, The Sea Inside, Keep the River on Your Right, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Thirteen, Amelie, Possession, Personal Velocity, Love Actually, I Heart Huckabees

Television:

Grey's Anatomy, Little Britain, The Office, Simpsons, South Park, Farscape, Firefly, Ally McBeal, X-Files Anime: Read or Die, Full Metal Alchemist, Paranoia Agent, Gankutsuou

Books:

Stiff, The World is Flat, Freakonomics, The Secret History, The Secret Life of Bees, The God of Small Things, The Time Traveler’s Wife...Authors: Chuck Palahniuk, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Barbara Kingsolver, Nick Bantock, Joseph Campbell, John Muir, JD Salinger, FS Fitzgerald, John McPhee, Milan Kundera, Marie Darrieussecq, Sebastien Japrisot, Janwillem van de Wetering, Alexander Dumas, Jhumpa Lahiri, Jean-Paul Sartre, Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Herman Hesse, VS Naipaul, Vandana Shiva, Jorge Amado, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcias Marquez, Isabel Allende

Heroes:

my friends, my mom