maureen's Journal

I'm your basic crunchy nerd. I've been in Arizona about ten years now and I'm in love with the place. I work for an independant living community for seniors. I have deep respect and love the elderly. I went into this work thinking I could help them and the reality of it is they give me SO much. It's awesome.

In my free time I watch too much tv, heavy on the sci-fi and action stuff...I also do yoga and am working on a life-long dream of learning to play the guitar. Well, I mean to be working on it. Mostly, I look at my guitar case and think about how I need to get back to that. I looooove music (folky rock, blues,jazz), the history of music, talking about music and so on. In my daily life, I'm a bit of a loner... my circle of friends is small and solid (spans many years).

My biggest short term goal, like for the next year, involves getting outside more. I used to go hiking all the time when I moved here and then I got away from it. I've recently joined a new gym. That used to be against my religion but I've found that the size of my ass is a bigger problem so I've sold out a bit. I'm interested in the religions of the world as well as the philosophy behind both science and religion. My favorite authors include Joseph Campbell, Robert Pirsig, Edward Abbey, Ray Bradbury and Cheri Huber. My fandoms range far and wide but include Firefly (that's what got me here to begin with), all things Star Trek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, NCIS, House, Weeds, Leverage, The Closer, Supernatural, Burn Notice, The Sopranos, Wonderfalls, Dollhouse and Sons of Anarchy. If I started talking about bands and musical artists I like, I'd never stop.

I like to consider myself both grounded in my own beliefs/opinions and open to those different than mine. I tolerate just about anything except intolerance. I don't like schreechy or bullying attacks, defensiveness or other emtionally charged bullshit. If you are an adult, act like one. Live and let live and all that. About the only thing that gets my dander really up is when I see someone picking on someone or something that cannot defend itself. I continue to be shocked by the quality of people I meet on LJ. Generally being anti-computer (you'd never know that from this thing), I've had to eat crow about social networking. At least when it comes to this place. I really like it here. This LJ thing is as far as I go, though. I don't chat or IM and can count the number of text messages I send and receive each month with one hand. I like it that way. Email me if you want to talk, or (gasp) pick up the phone.

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