Profile
|
||
| User: | toasteronfire (7521885)  Burnt Toast
Ramblings from the depths of insanity |
|
| Name: | toasteronfire | |
| Location: | Rochester, Minnesota, United States | |
| Bio: | NEW! Please see my nature photography on my new SmugMug account! http://rjphotography.smugmug.com/ I am: A molecular biology scientist in postdoctoral training at the Mayo Clinic. My major project consists of determining how cells are resistant to a new anticancer drug currently in human trials. I obtained my PhD last year by studying protein phosphorylation. This summer I plan on becoming a fellow and training to My boyfriend is about to finish his MD/PhD training at Mayo and plans to continue with residency training in radiology. We live together with a two-year old parrotlet named Kiwi. Cute bugger! I lived in Phoenix, Arizona most of my life until moving up to MN for grad school. I've been through 120 degree summers and -40 winters so far. I'm not sure which one is worse. Politics: I had a huge description here before, but I'll narrow it to liberal, pro-choice, pro-environment, pro-govt. regulations of corporations, pro-education, pro-consenting adults can do whatever the hell they want, pro-gay marriage, anti-rhetoric and political buzzwords, anti-my country right or wrong, anti-political dissent=terrorism. Religion: I do not subscribe to a particular religion. I don't believe in gods that require worship to save you. I don't believe in gods that would trick us. I don't believe in gods that would create us to ban a good number to everlasting torture. I don't believe the human race was born into sin and must do something to redeem themselves. I don't believe in gods that watch us, listen to us, or know exactly what we're going to do. I appreciate the humanism belief that if there is no god watching over us then we only have each other. Therefore, we should take matters into our own hands and work toward making the world a better place for everyone. Friending policy: I don't really have one. Feel free to friend me if you want and I'll be more than glad to friend you back. More friends = more POVs = expanding your horizons = good! For the record, almost all of my entries, save the really personal ones, are public anyway. ;) Things I like to do: Cooking. Anything and everything. I read cookbooks for fun. I think a multi-day recipe is something to look forward to. I often think about fleeing science and opening a bakery instead. I enjoy baking bread, making homemade ice cream, and making food look pretty on the plate. Anime. I've watched 200+ anime series and counting. I'll watch just about anything except the harem styles ones (Tenchi), the overly-cute and vapid ones (Bottle Fairy), and the ones that are over 52 eps long. I have a fondness for anything by Ghibli and I especially like serious, modern anime like BoogiePop Phantom, Lain, and Paranoia Agent. Always looking for more anime to watch. Photography. I'm currently shooting with a Canon 20D and the bf is using a Canon 1D Mark III. Our current collection of lenses includes the 10-22 mm f/4, 17-40 mm f/4, 70-200 mm f/4, 24-105 mm f/4 IS, 300 mm f/4 IS, and (to be purchased within the next couple of months) the 500 mm f/4 IS. We use Think Tank gear to haul around all of it. Rock climbing. I'm an indoor climber but I've done a bit outdoors. I prefer the safety of top roping but I also like bouldering. Haven't climbed in a while though. Snowboarding. I started about six or seven years ago in Arizona of all places. I moved up to Minnesota with lots of snow, DAMN COLD temps, and what the locals call "mountains". I bet I'm the oldest gal out there. I can carve runs just fine and even pop some jumps now and then. I haven't had much of a chance to snowboard recently, thanks to school and losing my boarding buddy. Fandoms I'm currently digging: -BSG: The best sci-fi show on the air right now, period. Great writing, great directing (okay, forget about the shaky camera bit), great special effects, but most importantly, great characters. I love Adama. I love the pres. I love Starbuck. Writers looking for tips on how to write strong, complex women need look no farther. I have a complete and total fascination with the Adama/Roslin ship. No spoilers please! -Stargate Atlantis: I was in love with this show for its first season. It was the first show to get me into internet fandom, fanart, fanfic, the whole shebang. Unfortunately, the show took a downward turn in quality starting in the second season and I don't think it ever fully recovered. I didn't take well to the recent changes to the cast in season four and, unfortunately, I may not stick around for season five. I'm still a die-hard McKay/Weir shipper and I keep on hoping for some great eps featuring Teyla. I'm a total spoiler whore for this show, so have no fear spilling the beans around me. -30 Rock: The best comedy on TV right now, period. I have such a girl-crush on Tina Fey and Baldwin's dry insults make the show. -Heroes: I loved the first season, but unfortunately the second season suffered because of the writer's strike. Hiro is my favorite, followed closely by Clair and HRG. -Stargate SG1: I was a faithful fan of the show up until season nine, where drastic cast and direction changes proved too much for me. I didn't finish season ten and I'm rather hesitant toward the direct to DVD movies. -Good Eats: So there's this show called "Good Eats" on the Food Network. And it's hosted by the extremely geeky yet stupidly adorable Alton Brown, who flawlessly combines science and cooking, two of my most favorite things. His recipes are simple yet taste fabulous (try his fried chicken, you'll never go back). And he's adorable. I own two of his cookbooks and read them often. You should too. Websites I frequent: Gateworld - your one stop source for Stargate. Posting in the forums under the same username. :) McWeir Central - the ultimate resource for the McKay/Weir ship on Stargate Atlantis. Has a forum, icons and other graphics, and fanfic archive. Television Without Pity - snarky reviews of a wide variety of current shows, plus a HUGE forum with almost every show on TV. Best forum posts about BSG, hands down. Hardcore fanboys beware - criticisms of shows and characters are often downright cruel. Tomato Nation - great advice column from a gal reviewer on TWoP, coupled with everything you could ever want to know about baseball and proper grammar. Slashdot - tech and entertainment news for ultra geeks. Everything2 - like Wikipedia except it also contains opinions, poetry, non-English insults that rock, and advice like how to piss off the fire truck guys and how to be the first one off a four-way stop sign. Over there I go by the username "peanut". | |
| Memories: | 32 entries | |
| Interests: | 58: 30 rock, adama/roslin, alton brown, anime, apple, armin van buuren, atheism, avatar, babylon 5, baking, battlestar galactica, birding, birds, bsg, bt, cameras, canon, clinical chemistry, cooking, downtempo, elfquest, fanfiction, fantasy, feminism, gardening, geeks, gimp, graduate school, heroes, icons, macs, mckay, mckay/weir, mcweir, molecular biology, morcheeba, mountain biking, nature, organic, parrotlets, parrots, pharmacogenomics, phd, photography, rock climbing, science, science fiction, snowboarding, stargate, stargate atlantis, the wire, thievery corporation, trance, vegetable gardening, veronica mars, weir, zero 7, zutara | |
| Schools: | None listed | |
| Friends: | ||
| Mutual Friends: | 64: aaobuttons, alyssa22, anyrei, arlessiar, astropoet, autumn_whispers, balikpulang, bellalarina, blossyn, courtknee, crayola_girl, darthcorrie, doylefan22, drowning_spirit, eldareth, ellymelly, fififolle, firefly_827347, flowerbud2, freifraufischer, fritters, groovekittie, hypercaz, indefatigable42, kajcarter, karihan, khohen1, lelianamckay, littleknux2008, loveanddarkness, mari4212, mcbeckla, meakik, million_moments, minimiles, missyvortexdv, mplugo, murdocsangel, ohsmartone28, parisindy, pavaneofstars, phexithors, purple_cube, red_ajah, return2zero, roguenebulan, rolleson, sage_theory, shrill_lemming, sk_photography, spock74, stargater_gal, suekay_87, tempestmir, thesavagegenius, tringasolitaria, ubiquitous_girl, velvet_midnight, weezerthe1, weirfan, wisdomeagle, xfkirsten, yobubba, zerofantasym | |
| Also Friend of: | 2: collswan, starbuckisdead | |
| Member of: | 23: adama_roslin, anime, atlantis_icons, bird_photo_test, birdlovers, dgray_icons, fandom_counts, food_porn, galactica_icons, gimp_users, joemisaprat, lab_gripes, lol_gate, mckayweir, paidmembers, photographers, pstogimpbrushes, quality_icons, sciencefiction, sg_lonelyship, sga_ships, teylafen, veggie_gardens | |
| Account type: | Paid Account | |
