About Me

  • About Me: I'm a Master's graduate student at LSU in the Department of Animal Sciences. I'm working on a masters degree in ruminant nutrition and molecular biology (the interaction of viruses and host nutritional/mineral status, primarily on beef and dairy animals)

More About Me

  • Religion: Non-denominational christian
  • Heroes: intellegent people, mother theresa (i mean, really)
  • Interests: classical dressage, cycling, hiking, dog showing, cows, school (duh)
  • Expertise: cows, horses, a little molecular biology here and there, cows, oh, did i mention cows?
  • Occupation: Graduate Assistant
  • Industry: Agriculture/ Animal Science

Music

  • Favorite Artists: DAVE MATTHEWS!!!! and most anyone else (especially the Eagles, John Lennon, Jimmy Hendrix, Bob dylan, etc...) but definately Dave. My husband and i own every cd he's every produced and every dvd he's ever made.
  • Favorite Albums: Some Devil, Stand Up, Hell Freezes Over (that last one's from the Eagles, ladies and gentlemen)
  • Favorite Genre: classic rock, jazz, rock (NOT punk), country
  • Favorite Songs: Gravedigger, American baby, Watchtower (written by John Lennon, originally sang by Jimmy Hendrix, and remade by the Dave matthews band, just a little trivia for you there), Jimi Thing, Hotel California, Imagine (some John Lennon for you there), Red House
  • Favorite Lyrics: Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son? Oh, where have you been, my darling young one? I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains, I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways, I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests, I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans, I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard, And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard, And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall. Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son? Oh, what did you see, my darling young one? I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it, I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin', I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin', I saw a white ladder all covered with water, I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children, And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall. And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son? And what did you hear, my darling young one? I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin', Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world, Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin', Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin', Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin', Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter, Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley, And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall. Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son? Who did you meet, my darling young one? I met a young child beside a dead pony, I met a white man who walked a black dog, I met a young woman whose body was burning, I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow, I met one man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded with hatred, And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall. Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son? Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one? I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin', I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest, Where the people are many and their hands are all empty, Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters, Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison, Where the executioner's face is always well hidden, Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten, Where black is the color, where none is the number, And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it, And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it, Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin', But I'll know my song well before I start singin', And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
  • Songs I hate: anything punk rock
  • Guilty Pleasure: country music... i guess you can take the girl out of the country but you can't take the country out of the girl...
  • Songs I repeat the most: gravedigger... it just gets me

Television

  • Favorite Shows: CSI, Law and Order (all of them, especially SVU), The girls next door (i know, i know), Nature, Nova (again, i know, i know), Bones, Myth Busters, Dirty Jobs, SNL, House
  • Favorite Channels: INHD (the high def channel), The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, The National Geographic Channel, NBC and E! (for SNL)
  • Favorite Reruns: Seinfeld
  • Most Addictive Show: CSI and House
  • Favorite Late Night Talk Show: ugh
  • Characters you relate to: hmmm...
  • Show I Secretly Watch: American Idol (and now that you know i'll have to kill you (: )

Style

  • Where I shop: American Eagle, Gap, New York and Co., The Limited, Express
  • Brands I love: same as above (except for my breeches... those come from england)
  • I like to wear: jeans, cute girly tees, tank tops, polos, overalls (heehee) ALWAYS flipflops
  • Can't live without: flipflops and jeans for sure
  • Prized Possessions: My wedding dress. The most expensive single piece of clothing i have ever, and will ever, wear. and to think i only wore it once. maybe they can bury me in it. (just kidding)
  • Guilty Pleasure: expensive dress clothes that i might wear twice... and expensive heels- spike heels. nothing makes a woman's legs look better! (well, knee-high and thigh-high boots, maybe. i love them, too) *hmm...i sound like a hooker... but i'm really not, i swear! (: oh, and tattoos.... but i gotta keep those to a "sort-of" minimum...

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: The Boondock Saints, 7 Years in Tibet, The Legend of King Arthur, The Kingdom of Heaven, all three movies in the Lord Of The Rings series, The Hunt for The Red October, all the Harry Potter movies, Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail (now go away or i shall taunt you a second time!), all three star wars movies (i GREW up on that stuff... and NOVA, but we won't talk about that. i was raised by rocket scientists...) and i HATE scary movies! oohh... and crash. and american history x. and Forrest Gump
  • Favorite Actors: SEAN CONNERY!!!, John Travolta
  • Favorite Directors: Peter Jackson
  • Favorite Genre: hm. good question. i think my favs span them all....
  • Favorite Soundtracks: Forrest Gump

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: Japanese
  • Favorite Dishes: all sushi
  • Favorite Desserts: strawberry pie and ice cream
  • Favorite Drinks: amaretto sour (:
  • Favorite Junk Foods: lays potato chips and sour cream and onion dip
  • Best meal ever: tuna steak with horseradish mashed potatoes and steamed broccoli at Sullivan's
  • Favorite Restaurants: Tsunami, Sullivan's, Fox and the Hound (technically a bar)
  • Foods I hate: if i can eat it before it eats me i will (: (well, actually, okay... i don't eat liver. ever.)

Books

  • Favorite Books: Jane Eyre, The Life of Pi, Voyage of the Dawntreader, The DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons, Timeline, The Hobbitt, For Whom the Bell Tolls.... etc etc. i cold go on for days.
  • Favorite Authors: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Laurell Hamilton, Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Terry Pratchett (he has my dry sense of humor), Robert Browning and Alfred, Lord Tennyson (okay, these last 2 are obviously poets, but i really like them both)
  • Favorite Genres: sci-fi, fiction, some bio
  • Favorite Characters: too many to list
  • Favorite Quotes: Lying, robed in snowy white That loosely flew to left and right- The leaves upon her falling light- Through the noises of the night She floated down to Camelot; And as the boat-head wound along The willowy hills and fields among, They heard her singing her last song, The Lady of Shalott. -Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  • Recent Reads: Principles of Virology, Physiology of Digestion in the Ruminant, Selenium in Biology and Medicine, The Mineral Nutrition of Livestock (yeah, i need to do some light reading, if for nothing more than the sake of my sanity!)