<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>The Ecologist</strong></span></span><br/><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Corina A. Selks<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Date of Birth:</strong>June 1st<br/><strong>Age:</strong>26<br/><strong>Occupation:</strong>Ecologist<br/><strong>Place of Residence:</strong>Poughkeepsie, New York<br/><br/><strong>Appearance:</strong><br/><div class="floatright">(http://i1364.photobucket.com/albums/r740/Lemon__Lime/fd52a781-c3dc-471e-8335-29f5519cc120_zps6f9a9080.jpg) (http://s1364.photobucket.com/user/Lemon__Lime/media/fd52a781-c3dc-471e-8335-29f5519cc120_zps6f9a9080.jpg.html)</div>Corina has a runner’s build with long legs, a nice posterior but not real curvy. She keeps in fantastic shape swimming with a strong body but not the same as when she was in college. Her wavy, somewhat curly, red hair reaches the bottom of her shoulder blades and is often pulled back into a bun or ponytail. Her skin is pale with a few random tan lines on her shoulders (from swim suits) and her wrist from her watch. But is relatively pale with a few freckles on her shoulders and arms.<br/><br/><strong>Hair:</strong>Long red and wavy.<br/><strong>Skin:</strong>Pale with some freckles dotted about.<br/><strong>Eyes:</strong>Brown<br/><strong>Height:</strong>5’9”<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>141 lbs<br/><strong>Body Build:</strong>Gently muscled but generally slim and slender.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>She is generally easy to get along with. She has a great business mind and a drive to be the best at what she does. Her “accident” turned her a bit negative and a little less social but she still knows how to have a good time. She hates just sitting still and doesn’t understand how people can just sit there and watch tv or play video games for hours. She can work well with others as long as everyone does their duty.<br/><strong>Postive Personality Traits:</strong>hard worker, organized, trusting<br/><strong>Negative Personality Traits:</strong>bitter, a little high strung, impatient<br/><strong>Motivations:</strong>She works hard to stay in shape and teaching. Helping a younger generation with protecting the environment and helping youth swim and dive programs.<br/><strong>Outlook:</strong>She would say she is a realist. Her friends would call her a pessimist but her work calls her logical. She understands empirical data and can’t believe in the power in positive thinking. You don’t get things if you “will them” to happen you have to work to get it.<br/><strong>Sexuality:</strong>Straight<br/><br/><strong>Interests/Hobbies:</strong>Swimming, diving, gardening, cooking, yoga, pilates.<br/><br/><strong>Likes:</strong>Being active, exercising, stretching, reading, gardening, action movies, coaching.<br/><strong>Dislikes:</strong>Laziness, whining, sitting at a desk, doctors.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong><br/>Corina is a smart girl that had a lot going for her in her younger years. Since she was little she was a champion swimmer and diver and excelled in school. Her family life was rather normal, her parents worked hard and she knew they didn’t always have a ton of money. She grew up knowing that if you work hard, you will get what you want out of life. A statement that she lived by. In high school, she had friends but spent most of her time swimming, diving and training. Her coaches told her she would be able to get a scholarship (something her parents were also hoping for). She made straight A’s and was scouted by many schools for their athletics programs. Because she spent so much time studying, training, or sleeping she was not the most social with anyone that didn’t swim.<br/><br/>Her senior year she accepted a scholarship to Cornell University to be on their swim and dive team and she quickly proved to be one of the best. She studied Environmental Studies with minors in business and biology. Corina believed in helping keep forests and plant life in an ever-growing industrial age. She continued to swim, and joined the ecology club at school. Things were going great until her senior year.<br/><br/>It was the qualifying meet for nationals and she was practically guaranteed a spot. It was her final year and she could taste the gold medal. Corina was never cocky and always kept herself realistic, knowing that nothing was EVER handed to you. She went to do her dive but as she climbed the ladder her hand slipped causing her to crash to the ground, dislocating and destroying her left shoulder and breaking a few fingers and giving her a concussion. Her dreams were dashed – everything she had been told she could achieve with hard work was gone.<br/><br/>Once she could no longer swim at the same level, with national and international dreams gone, she became a bit more bitter about life. Floating through her last semesters she graduated with honors but her general life view of had become more pessimistic than it had before. Once she graduated she got a job working for an environmental agency that often worked with the EPA. Her job was fine and she was often trapped indoors at a desk going over reports and paperwork and is often asked to go into the city for conferences and meetings. In her spare time she keeps active running, swimming (as much as she can without hurting her shoulder), yoga, pilates, and other strength and flexibility classes. She also coaches a local youth swim and dive team.<br/><br/><strong>Equipment:</strong>(She will be in the city for a conference at the beginning so she’ll have things in a suitcase in her hotel room) What she actively carries with her in her hand bag: wallet, cell phone, lipbalm, protein bar, eye drops, lipstick, hair pins and ties, swiss army knife, water bottle, and sunglasses.<br/><strong>Theme Song(s):</strong>In keeping secrets of silent earth 3 by: Coheed and Cambria (http://youtu.be/Wp_Now6WDRc)