Welcome to my humble page! I'm a 25 year old with a Master's Degree in Biological Sciences (yes, I'm a mad scientist or hoping to be one someday). I want to get into genetic engineering someday. It is my ultimate goal to be able to help those who suffer from genetic disorders like Down's Syndrome, Systemic Lupus, and Sickle Cell Anemia, just to name a few.

Other stuff about me:

Nicknames: skiffy (a sad little nickname that came from the fact I have a strange affinity for picking out the science fact in science fiction), Gollum (because I do a really good Gollum impersonation), and the Mad Scientist (for many reasons)

Hobbies: I've been dancing for 22 years (at the same studio no less) and hold the studio's record for never missing a ballet class (stands at 17 years now). I take lessons in ballet, tap,and jazz. Recently, I've started dancing modern too. I use to be an acrobat until my sister tore her knee up. Then I stopped since seeing a family member go through knee therapy does that to a girl. Though, oddly enough, I'm still double jointed and strangely bendy (yes, I like to sit in splits and straddles for no good reason other than the fact it's nice and comfortable). I'm a Daisy Girl Scout Leader. That means I work with the youngest scouts in the troop (kids between the ags of 3 and 7). By the by, I have a brown belt in Tae Kwan Do.

Favorite books: (I really, really, really like to read)

Basically anything by Robin Cook (Personal Favorites "Mutation," "Chromosome 6," "Contagion" any books with Jack and Laurie as the main characters, actually)

Michael Crichton (Personal Favorite "Jurassic Park" I'm badly attached to this book and movie because it inspired me to go into genetics.)

JK Rowling (Favorite books from the series "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" and "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince...I like Sirus Black, Remus Lupin, and James Potter)

JRR Tolkien (Favorite Book out of all his works "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers"...I like Legolas Aragorn, and Gollum)

CS Lewis

Lewis Carroll

Stephanie Meyers

Books from the Star Wars Series (Favorite Book ever "The Crystal Star" by Vonda McIntyre)

Anything by William Gibson (Personal Favorites "Neuromancer,""Mona Lisa Overdrive")

The Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter Series/The Merry Gentry: PI Series

Anything by Dan Brown (though I am partial "Angels and Demons" because of the Italian)

The Dragonriders of Pern Series

Favorite Book-like Things: Manga...Bleach, Naruto, Claymore, Knights of the Zodiac, Angel Sanctuary, Alice 19th, Ruruoni Kenshin, .hack// (any form), Yu-Gi-Oh! (any form), Dragon Drive, Blood, Trinity Blood, Prince of Tennis, M.A.R-Marchen Awakens Romance, Inuyasha, Samurai Champloo, s-CRY-ed, D.N. Angel, Ghost in the Shell, Fullmetal Alchemist, One Piece

Favorite Movies:

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (I'm an origional trilogy fan all the way and this happens to be my favorite of the three)

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

The X-Men Trilogy

X-Files:Fight the Future/The X-Files: I Want to Believe

Major League 1 and 2

Pirates of the Carribean Trilogy

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

A Knight's Tale

The Matrix (the Origional)

The Animatrix (I'm partial to "Dective Story" and "Final Flight of the Osiris")

National Treasure/National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Jurassic Park (It's what inspired me to go into genetics so I owe a lot to those dinosaurs...as with most things, the origional Jurassic Park is the best of them all!)

Inuyasha The Movie 3: Swords of an Honorable Ruler

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children/Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Bleach: Memories of Nobody

Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa

Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Castle in the Sky

Alice in Wonderland

Happy Feet

Music:

John Williams

James Horner

Howard Shore

Klaus Badelt

Don Davis

Danny Elfman

Joe Hisaishi

Nobuo Uematsu

Hitoshi Sakimoto

Masashi Hamauzu

Yoko Shimomura

TV: House M.D., Bones, Fringe, Bleach, Naruto, Chrono Crusade, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Inuyasha, Yu-Gi-Oh! Prince of Tennis, M.A.R.-Marchen Awakens Romance, s-CRY-ed, Code Gaess, Samurai Champloo, One Piece, Claymore

Quotes (I collect Quotes...a bad habit I picked up in high school):

"God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs, God creates man, Man destroys God, man creates dinosaurs, dinosaurs destroy man, women inherit the earth" Ian Malcom and Elle Sattler in Jurassic Park.

"Mutation. It is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow and normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward." (Jean Grey from X-Men 2: X-Men United)

"Change your stars." (Master Thatcher from A Knight's Tale)

"I solemnly swear I am up to no good!" (MWPP--Harry Potter)

"I've seen the truth, Mulder. Now what I want are the answers." (The X-Files)

"The truth is out there but so are the lies." (The X-Files

"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future." (Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings)

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." (Bilbo Baggins from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)

"I am on Nobody's Side. Because nobody is on my side..." (Treebeard from Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)

"Rock and pool, is nice and cool. So juicy sweeeeet. I only wish to catch a fish so juicy sweeeeet!" (Smeagol from Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

"The Force will be with you...always." (Obi-Wan)

"We are but visitors on this rock, hurtling through time and space at 66 thousand miles an hour. Tethered to burning sphere by an invisible force in an unfathomable universe. I believe... The truth is rock...I believe visitors...the truth is out there!" (The X-Files: The Truth and the Light)

"Love is a many splendor thing, Love lifts us up where we belong, all you need is love..." (Ewan McGreggor as Christian in Moulin Rogue)

"Live right now, just be yourself; it doesn't matter if it's good enough for someone else!" (The Middle by Jimy Eat World)

"It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they are going to do something incredibly stupid." (Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)

"The only rules that really matter are these: what a person can do and what a person can't..." (Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)

"The Matrx is everywhere, it's all around us, even here in this room. You can see it out your window or on your television. You feel it when you go to work, or go to church or pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth." (Morpheus in The Matrix)

"What do I do. I'm a key figure in an ongoing government charade. An annoyance to my superiors. A joke among my peers. "Spooky," they call me. Spooky Mulder. Whose sister was abducted by aliens when he was a kid. Who now chases little green men with a badge and a gun, shouting to the heavens and anyone who'll listen that the fix is in. That our government's hip to the truth and a part of the conspiracy. That the sky is falling and when it hits it's gonna be the storm of all time." (Mulder in The X-Files: Fight the Future)

"Lilium inter spinas, The Lily Among the Thorns." (Geoffry Chaucer in A Knight's Tale)

"We are who we are, we will become what we will become. Beware, take care because the freaks come out at night!" (Edge)

"The secret to managing is to keep the players who hate you away from the players who are undecided." (Former Mets manager, Casey Stengel)

"The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game" (Glenn Dickey--how true is this!)

"Baseball is alot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game." (Rod Kanehl)

"Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it's absolutely necessary." (Rey Knight)

"Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move." (Satchel Paige)