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User:jillofthejungle (603979)
Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to sing...
Jill, Jill, Jill of the Jungle!
Name:Jillian
Birthdate:1983-02-05
Bio:


A Crazed Girl

That crazed girl improvising her music,
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,
Her soul in division from itself
Climbing, falling she knew not where,
Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship
Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare
A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing
Heroically lost, heroically found.

No matter what disaster occurred
She stood in desperate music wound
Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph
Where the bales and the baskets lay
No common intelligible sound
But sang, 'O sea-starved hungry sea.'

----- W. B. Yeats




Who I Am, In A Nutshell: I am one of the many 20-somethings out there who is learning what it takes to make it in the real world, battling everything from creating secure financial status (an oxymoron) to simple things like 'What do I REALLY want to be when I grow up?' and trying to decide where I go from here. I have spent the past near-decade in research, working almost exclusively in the endocrinology and immunology fields (hormones are my passion, especially such nifty ones like triiodothyronine) and would like to find a decent research position in Austin, TX at some point in the near future, one which will, at best, fund me to get my PhD...although I'll probably end up having to pay for that myself, seeing as that's simply how life works.

Despite so many setbacks and upsets in life, I remain stupidly optimistic and continue to believe that I am no one special, nothing spectacular, and, if I'm lucky, I may do great things in the future. In all honesty, I'm happy that way and will continue to be happy so long as I can continue to trudge along.

All I really want out of life is good company and good memories.

My Goodreads

Memories::13 entries
Interests:31: adventure, alcohol, archaeology, astronomy, books, calvin and hobbes, camping, cartoons, concerts, drums, dune, edgar allan poe, elvis, evolution, fantasy, frank herbert, guitars, hiking, horses, jim henson, motorcycles, music, piercings, poetry, rain, riding, shakespeare, south park, tattoos, transformers, video games
Schools:Los Lunas High School - Los Lunas, NM (1998 - 2001)
New Mexico State University - Las Cruces - Las Cruces, NM (2001 - 2006)
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People28:_guitarzan_, almalthia, ataricat, audreypuppy, ayradyss, balana, blooper, cmdrnapalm, cutcarne, dazedxconfused, drabheathen, entropic_kitten, frisket17, incompositus, jessierarr, ldark, lilybook, lilychild, nachitor, narwhale, quackerbuehrer, shahila, sidhecaracal, sixstringpsycho, sonofberkowitz, southernspice, tm_megatron, tumblecoyote
Communities1:1word1day
Mutual Friends:28: _guitarzan_, almalthia, ataricat, audreypuppy, ayradyss, balana, blooper, cmdrnapalm, cutcarne, dazedxconfused, drabheathen, entropic_kitten, frisket17, incompositus, jessierarr, ldark, lilybook, lilychild, nachitor, narwhale, quackerbuehrer, shahila, sidhecaracal, sixstringpsycho, sonofberkowitz, southernspice, tm_megatron, tumblecoyote
Also Friend of:4: hufish, madamjuggernaut, mattwo, relentlessj
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