Profile

Okay... gonna go for something more useful here. We'll see how it goes.

If you're reading this it's likely you know me from either CMU or the SCA. Very few folks I knew before college seem to be interested in blogging. *shrug* Their loss.

Anyway, I graduated from CMU in 1998 and got my Masters in Genetics and Biochemistry from Pitt in 2003. I'm currently working in a lab at Pitt and contemplating whether I want to be a lab manager for the rest of my life or look into other career paths.

In my spare time I have a couple of hobbies. For one thing, I bought a house in the summer of 2004. I spend a lot of time trying to make it prettier and/or easier for my boyfriend and I to live in. We've re-painted almost the entire living area and planted the front garden with something other than weeds ^_^ As I write this we're trying to completely re-finish the wrap-around bannister. We should be finishing that soon. But there are always more projects. Oh, and speaking of projects, I also love to cross-stitch. Again, there's always more to do than time to finish it in ^_^

The other main hobby I've got is the SCA, where I'm known as Ailis Linne. I've been less involved recently (see hobby #1 (http://www.livejournal.com/rsearch/?tags=%231)), but I still enjoy being involved in heraldry and helping in the kitchen when I actually make it to events. And I take an annual vacation to Pennsic for 2 weeks every August ^_^

Generally, I'm a very open person in what I write, but I'm also a little paranoid about it. So most of my entries are Friends Locked. And I don't tend to refer to my family with any specifics. *shrug* It's just a little oddity, but I figure this is the best place to put it if I want people to know that it's a purposeful omission.