Mel the Crafty Scientist

My blogs

Gender	Female
Location	Maryland, United States
Introduction	I live in the Maryland/DC area with my boyfriend and our two incredibly adorable puppies (Max the black lab + cocker spaniel and Bella the pug + chihuahua + Yorkie). If you've been reading the blog for awhile, you know that I started this thing when I was teaching and finishing up my Ph.D. in South Carolina. We moved up north in the summer of 2012 for a whole other adventure...
Interests	laughing, elliptical machines, sports (especially football and baseball), crafty stuff, speaking with a Southern accent, pizza, napping, edamame and boiled peanuts, beer, watching bad TV with my beloved TiVo, my super-cute dog, the beach
Favorite Movies	Now and Then, Elizabethtown, Steel Magnolias, Pretty in Pink, Can't Hardly Wait, The Interpreter, Empire Records, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Talladega Nights, Zoolander, High Fidelity
Favorite Music	Brooks and Dunn, Guster, Jump (Little Children), Miranda Lambert, Outkast, Lady Gaga, All-American Rejects, Decemberists, Cowboy Mouth, Cheap Trick, Tori Amos, 80s music... I love it all!
Favorite Books	Slaughterhouse-Five, Summer Sisters, What We Keep, The Red Tent, Pride and Prejudice, the Harry Potter series, anything by Douglas Coupland, Linda Fairstein/ Kathy Reichs/ other crime semi-fiction paperbacks