Hi, Everybody --

I've been lurking here for months, planning to join "someday", and the discussion of the Mahler symphonies finally tipped the balance and got me moving. I hail from the upstate New York area.

I met some of you (including Michael and Kat!) at the TOC seminar this summer; I attended this year's and last year's, and plan to keep on attending them in future years -- they're wonderful! Maybe some of you will remember me.

I've been an Objectivist since 1982, when I picked up Atlas Shrugged and couldn't put it down, despite the fact that I was supposed to be studying for my Ph.D written prelim in chemistry instead. (Yes, I passed the exam, but not by nearly as comfortable a margin as I should have!)

My other interests include classical music, choral singing, dog showing, horseback riding (dressage), travel, and shotgun sports.

Judith

Welcome! I remember you from the Summer Seminar. Good to have you with us

Hey Judith!

Great to see you here!

Michael

Hi Judith,

Thanks for joining us. Please, make yourself at home. I really enjoyed meeting you at the Summer Seminar. It's nice to see you here, too.

Kat

Hi Judith,

I have just arrived in this forum and also reside in Upstate New York....Rochester. Maybe I'll paint a great picture of you in action on the horse or sporting a shotgun. How about 6' high and with me, the painter staring right down the shotgun barrel. Un-loaded please.

Wow. Sounds great! Down the barrel it is! (Shotgun videos are shot [ouch -- pardon the inadvertent pun!] that way all the time! The shooters just go through great pains to show the audience that the gun is unloaded first. I guess we won't be able to do that in a painting, so the world will have to believe that I WASN'T about to shoot you from horseback while you painted me. It WASN'T a shotgun painting!)

Welcome!

Judith

Find a picture or two and I'll compose an illustration. Let's see if we can imagine a dynamic depiction of you that all true individuals will admire and will be a welcome challege to paint. Thanks for the welcome and the humor.