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Searching for the Salmon

and I shall go in the Lady's name / all to fetch thee home again

Created on 2007-02-16 16:12:16 (#12299399), last updated 2009-11-24

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Name:Aine
Birthdate:1972-12-13
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I'm a veterinary pathology resident and PhD student (DVM class of 2006), artist and pagan. The trick is to find a way to integrate science and faerie, without losing the wonder and beauty of either one. I want to know how things work- what the cells are doing in health and disease, and why. By 'why', I mean the adaptive, evolutionary history as well as the proximal signals and responses. I completed a MS in arachnology before vet school (thesis on the evolution and adhesive mechanism of cribellate spider capture thread). Invertebrates (and for some reason, especially spiders) fascinate me; their strategies for dealing with living are so different from ours, which makes them fantastic teachers of evolution- they are our outgroup, and we are theirs. Before that, I was an art student (as well as biology), and I still throw on the wheel when I can get studio space. I have plans, so far unfulfilled, to do some paintings based on photomicrographs and inspired by Georgia O'Keefe's flowers (nobody really *looks* at a cell...) but we'll see.
These things sustain me: running water, dancing flames, true lovers, unspoiled places, live growing things, new discoveries, faithful beasts, wild animals, uncovering secrets, finding answers, making things, good friends, winds, starlight, sunlight and moonlight.


I also use this as a dream journal, and have the dreams filtered. I have a seldom-used 'relationship stuff' filter as well. I'm not expecting folk to be particularly interested in that stuff, but if you are, say so and I'll probably add you.
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Scattergood Friends School - West Branch, IA (1988 - 1990)
Antioch College - Yellow Springs, OH (1990 - 1992)
Radford University - Radford, VA (1996 - 2000)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Blacksburg, VA (2000 - 2002)
Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine - Blacksburg, VA (2002 - 2006)
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