Joy M. Barnes

    Hi!  I am (as you may have seen) 

Joy Barnes.  I am an undergraduate of

Arizona State University.  I love reading and 

writing, and (as you probably can tell), I am an

amateur photographer.  I am a recent resident

of Arizona, since I moved here in 1999.  Before

that I lived in upstate New York (for all of you non-east-coasters, that means all of New York except the

 city), only five miles from the Pennsylvania border.  I have also lived in Austin, Texas and Salt Lake

City, Utah.

    The pictures above are (from top left, going clockwise): A valley in Utah, near Price; Petrified tree, in

Northern Arizona; Native American round house ruins; My dog, Wick.

I also enjoy hiking, camping, swimming, and other outdoor stuff.  The photo to the

right are hieroglyphs that I saw during a field trip for my college archaeology class.  I have gone kayaking,

skiing (I hate downhill, but love cross-country), boating, and I even worked at a Girl Scout Camp

(professionally) for a summer.  My indoor activities are reading, writing, cross stitching, piano playing,

painting, and drawing.  Goodness, I sound like an all around do-it-all!  I'm not, I promise.  I have issues

with computers.  (My brother is my personal Computer Expert.  Thank you, Miles!)    I have a very

wacky sense of humor, and I get silly after I hit Pumpkin Hour (which is not necessarily at Midnight) without

any kind of drugs, except perhaps sucrose.

    Well, just to sum me up, I think I am interesting, if sometimes over worked and underpaid, so everyone

else can just live with it.  Thanks for visiting!