About Me

A little bit about me so you have some frame of reference when the four of you actually reading my blog start the infamous eye rolling.  I live in Woodridge, Illinois, which is a suburb of Chicago.  Excellent.  I recently moved from my life-long home of Peoria to take a job at Argonne National Laboratory, where I make sure the people helping uber-smart scientists don’t get sick off of all the bad stuff that makes people sick at nuclear research facilities.  My education is in Environmental Health, where I actually wanted to get into commercial pollution prevention before joining some federal organization and working my way to President of the United States.  (I already have a campaign slogan:  Doomsday for the Deciever.  Thank you, Flotsam and Jetsam.)  However, I decided I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to work for a national lab, so I took the “less interesting” position of Industrial Hygienist.  Started here with an internship in the beginning of the summer, and was hired on full time in late August, and so far I love it more than I ever imagined I would.  Definitely not “less interesing” at all.

I am engaged, so all you hotties out there will have to go somewhere else for lovin’.  I have been with the gorgeous Emily Rae for over three years now; since I have (finally) graduated college, we will hopefully be married next summer.  I have four cats; Gypsie, Bug, Atticus, and Okichi, and will someday have a Jack Russell terrier which I will dress up as Robin Hood.

A huge Chicago Cubs and Chicago Bears fan, I wait patiently for the Cubbies to provide me with eternal bliss.  I was too young to remember the ‘85 Bears, though I do have the Super Bowl on VHS.  Further, though I am disappointed with the current season, I appreciate the fact that I was able to celebrate an NFC Championship and Super Bowl festivities not one year ago, and do not feel the need to condemn the current squad for being the worst thing to happen to the Chicago since Steve Bartman.

Finally, I am a pretty large liberal elitist.  I used to take offense to this term, feeling that it was a rather unfair characterisation to paint all liberals as thinking they’re better than everybody else.  And I still do not think I’m better than everybody else.  I merely think I’m better than all non-liberals.  Coming to grips with the fact that there’s obviously something mentally and socially defective with those who do not share my same points of view, I now embrace the term.  I mean, if you still think that global warming is a hoax and the Iraq war was a great idea and Saddam and Osama loved each other and decreasing taxes for those who earn the most will cause an increase in tax revenues - I’m sorry but you’re kinda stupid.

No offense, of course.  I do enjoy some conservatives.  Mostly ones who are Cub fans.