Aside from a dancer, who is Aleta?
				I live in Takoma Park, MD, with two wacky housemates, Flaming Pants Frank and an Englishman named Michael.  Currently I work primarily as a Raks Sharki dancer and in a music store.   But aside from that... I graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.A. in philosophy and a B.S. in Biology (Behavior, Evolution, Ecology, and Systematics).  I have spent several pleasant summers working with Don E Wilson and Kris Helgen at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, mainly in the library and the mammal specimen collections.  I measured several hundred skulls and described skin specimens; it was necessary to literally split hairs in the descriptions.  From this work I have published two papers to date.
				I've been fortunate to have travelled broadly, mainly in Europe, Egypt, and Turkey.  Some of my favorite experiences: watching the whirling dervishes perform in Konya, Turkey; an aye-aye infant in North Carolina; a lovely IMF protest in London; a space shuttle launch in Florida; seeing Comet Hale-Bopp in the sky above Venice.
		I appear in cartoon form in a kids' book, Mission to Madagascar, by Amanda Lumry.  The book won an award! One of my anecdotes appears anonymously in a Dilbert Book, The Joy of Work, by Scott Adams. Most importantly of all, I am a member of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists.
		Other links that are completely unrelated to dance: The Duke University Lemur Center (formerly Duke University Primate Center), which also has non-lemurian prosimians, in Durham, North Carolina. ThinkGeek.com has great gifts for nerds like me. The talk.origins archive is the best place to find clear, concise, thorough information about evolution and Creationism. The James Randi Educational Foundation