Hi #Mensa folk,

I am new. The information below is my Official Bio. I'm not quite that glorious, and I'm not quite as pretty as the picture, but inside, , , inside, I hope I am. I don't like religion, though my religion is kindness; I am an "ethical Buddhist"; I have a small Buddhist practice involving prayer and practice of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path.

In the bio, my new career in medicine is remarked upon. Though I love the medical part of it, the political part of working in a hospital has veritably bitten baboon butt for the 18 mos. I've been in the career, and I experience daily distress and despair over this. Was it a mistake to attempt to change my life to serve people more? What's UP with that? If you have answers, please put a message in a bottle, or email me at the address below. Please!!

For those of you in the San Francisco Bay Area, I frequently perform in classical music concerts and would be happy to invite you. Please write timbre440@yahoo.com

KATHLEEN COMALLI DILLON, Concertmaster (soloist 11.19.06 with Vallejo Symphony)

Kathleen was born in Sonoma County, California. She started her musical life as a pianist, performing recitals by age 6 and accompanying opera singers and winning piano competitions during her teens.

She began viola studies at age 13, and after studying at the San Francisco Conservatory, in New York, and in Europe, won positions in the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and the Oakland Symphony at age 19. She left viola in favor of the violin in 1989, when she successfully auditioned for a violin position with New York City Opera National Company. In her 10 years of service to the Company, she was privileged to serve as concertmaster for the last four.

Ms. Dillon has two college-age children and a kind husband whom she met on the Internet.. In 2002 she began expanding her career by studying medicine. She attended a medical diploma program in ultrasound and has become a Diagnostic Medical Sonographer, medical editor, and medical transcriptionist. Her first article was published in 2006 and is at http://www.thefetus.net/page.php?id=1847.

Ms. Dillon's artistic activities include performing as associate concertmaster of Festival Opera, playing in the first violin sections of the Santa Rosa, Marin, and Oakland East Bay Symphonies, and as a substitute player with San Francisco Opera Orchestra in the winter. On the soundstage at Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, she recorded soundtracks for Predator II and Ricochet, and the upcoming 2007 motion picture Zodiac. Her violin is a copy of "the Nightingale" Stradivarius, made in 1993 by noted violinmaker Thomas Croen (www.croenini.com). It was first heard in public on the Vallejo Symphony's trip to Akashi, Japan, in Novermber 1993.

Ms. Dillon's musical interests are lieder and chansons, opera, chamber music, and performing as concertmaster. Her other interests include kayaking, swimming, Hawaii, literature, languages, rescuing cats and dogs, medicine, medical editing, nature, and her wonderful family and friends.