I'm Aimee. I'm 36. I have a BS in Microbiology and another in Mol Biology and Biochemstry. I do leukemia research for a living. sometimes I make mice glow, but mostly I play with radiation and sometimes lasers, and do a lot of injections into very little veins. I've also worked in public health, and I used to make toxins from MRSA.
I have two dogs, an old lady lab mix (Zoe) and an obnoxious young dobie/german shepherd mix (Simon). I also have a cat that's about a year old (Roshario).
I was always "that kid" catching garter snakes and turtles, but I grew up in a small town (before the internet, lol) and didn't know you could keep pet snakes and feed pre-killed food. the minute I found out about that, I did some homework, joined a herp society, and adopted my first one, my ball python Henry. this was almost 7 years ago now.
I made up for lost time by fostering for over 6 years and serving as Adoptions Coordinator a total of 3 years; I can't even recall all the species that have been through my QT room, but any snake under 7 feet and every lizard species that came through the herp society's Adoptions program spent some time at my house. I saw a lot of illness and know some decent first aid; although my skills are better overall with snakes than geckos, fortunately most of it translates.
I have 4 tattoos (a black widow, Hobbes, a dart frog + hibiscus flowers, and a dragon) and am working on flash for a 5th that will be epic.
I really like garlic. I read books over again if I think they're good.
those are all the important things, really
