People who get me know this... I avoid being labeled, I am regularly in the middle of reading several books and am perpetually late. !

My career path... Currently, nuclear engineering, but I'm beginning to feel confined. !

My spirituality... Humans are fragile and transient amalgamations of recycled elements. !

My relationship status... Single !

My political views... The U.S. is too expansive of a nation, physically and culturally, to function well under a federal system. I have been called a Federalist. !

A link to great art... http://p.giroud.free.fr/manet/olympia.jpg !

A link to funny video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkMHcHQpwlc !

A great song... "Pull Up the Roots" - Talking Heads !

An awful song... most pieces by The Misfits !

A great movie... There Will Be Blood (call me on being trite) !

An awful movie... Zack and Miri Make a Porno !

A great book... Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" !

An awful book... Several pieces of Literature thrust upon me by Institutions. !

A great company... Mission Playground !

An awful company... Any that accepted the $700 billion bail !

Delicious food... Mushrooms !

Terrible food... Steak !

What drives me crazy... Self-perpetuated Ignorance !

My ethnicity as others define it... Caucasian, European, European-American !

My ethnicity as I define it... Half Gallic, half Heinz-57 !

Gender... Female !