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Skipping classes at school; honing my gourmet epicurean flair; painting pictures and rooms with bright, funky colors; writing (really, biding time until I will my Pulitzer); gardening (killing plants); running (until it kills me); cleaning and organizing obsessively, or really, doing anything obsessively.
Obsessions:
Anything bio-medical; OCD, he, he, he; Church; Volunteering; Sasha, my Shiba Inu; Skinny, sugar-free, double, mocha java lattes; Water; Live blues and jazz in trendy, pretentious clubs; shopping with friends; shopping by myself; The New York Times Crossword Puzzle Omnibus.
Books I Continue to Read Over and Over Again:
Food Court Druids, Cherohonkees, and Other Creatures Unique to the Republic; 1984; She's Come Undone; The Sound and the Fury; The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; and of course, The Bible.
Favorite Music (technically, isn't a favorite something that is preferred above all others? Hmm. That's a long list of preferences.):
Jazz greats Davis, Parker, Coltrane, and Gillespie; Imogen Heap; Aimee Mann; Elvis Costello; Beck; Mojave 3; Iron & Wine; Beth Orton; New Order; Damien Rice; Elliott Smith; Portishead; Cowboy Junkies; Mazzy Star; Rachael Yamagata; Joni Mitchell; Moby; Feist.
TV Shows I'll Stay Up Late For...
Code Blue, CSI, Medical Incredible, Heroes, Smallville, Monk, Ugly Betty
Movies I'll NEVER Fast Forward Through:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Breakfast at Tiffany's, When Harry Met Sally, Someone Like You, You've Got Mail, Big Fish, Working Girl
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"The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.
 
If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilization, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a necessary part and condition of all those things; there would be no danger that liberty should be undervalued, and the adjustment of the boundaries between it and social control would present no extraordinary difficulty.
 
The case for the primacy of freedom is based upon the goodness of developing individuality and the cultivating of capacities. Having said that individuality is the same thing with development, and that it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well-developed human beings; what more can be said of any condition of human affairs, than that it brings human beings themselves nearer to the best thing they can be? Or what worse can be said of any obstruction to good, than that it prevents this?" -John Stuart Mill
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The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore. Unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible. It is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors, to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown. Ferdinand Magellan
About Me
Name
Christina Romero
Gender
Female
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Married
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Virginia Beach, VA
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Uh, I have abnormally white teeth?! I'm your typical hyperintelligent, overachieving dork with a mean perfectionist streak and behavior tendencies leaning toward the obsessive compulsive. Although I'm a complete liberal, I take my spirituality quite seriously. Oh, and I'm a mysophobic, carnophobic, pesco vegetarian.
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