I'm sure others could talk about my personality traits more efficiently; I, on the other hand, am at a loss. Not because I don't have a personality, but because I just don't see how one can say about himself that one is this thing or other, easy-going or funny, stable or intelligent. I'm sure we would all like to believe ourselves to be in possession of the best human qualities possible, not those other ones, like selfishness, closed-mindedness, irritability, misanthropy, __________. We would all like to be the best we can, especially here, in these tiny boxes, under so much pressure to be better than we are (even if we try honestly to write the total "truth" about ourselves). The truth is that when I think about my qualities, antinomies spring to mind: I'd like to think that I'm kind, but immediately remember things that I've done and said that were rather cruel. I would love to consider myself witty and funny--often I am--but I've also had more than a fair share of moments when I felt inhibited and unable to utter a single word. Intelligent? Sure. Stupid? Irrational seems to be a more stable quality, but I also tend to over-analyze things.
Maybe instead I can tell you what I like to do; perhaps some of those things we could do together?
First of all, I read and write. I've been doing the first since I was four and it's all pleasure. The second is rather painful, but I can't get by without it. I am a domesticated animal and I love to spend hours in an arm-chair reading. I'm also rather restless (here we go again) and try to spend as much time outside of home as possible. Hence, traveling (camping, if possible), but walking for hours and getting lost in Chicago works as well.
I love to watch movies -- real movies, for sure, but every so often (more often than not, actually) I find myself in front of something incredibly insignificant and enjoyable. I love sports, especially volleyball, although my favorite one--chess--hardly qualifies as such.
I like painting and gathering mushrooms in the forest (but not necessarily in that order).
I like to do things with my hands -- gardens, fixing the house -- my grandparents have taught me well.
I play ping-pong in a bar and I argue intensely.
I dance in a disorganized way.
I swim in Lake Michigan during the summer and if we hit it off you will have to as well, even if that means me carrying you into the water.
On an irregular basis I translate Russian poetry with friends.
I drink five thousand cups of tea a day. But the road starts with the first one, I know.
I don't like: onions... belonging to any kind of club... trying to save the world.
My Ideal Person:
Someone who doesn’t view people as interchangeable, can’t be with just anyone. Someone who responds to books and music with genuine emotion and has something she is really dedicated to. I like someone who is down to earth, human, intelligent, unconventional.
The last great book I read
Cathedral by Raymond Carver Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
My most humbling moment
the one I don't remember
The best or worst lie I've ever told
I pretended to speak Russian--my native language--badly
when I lived in Moscow for seven months in order to get a job
teaching English. Ended up dating a person from work while
speaking with a horrible English accent. Couldn't
take it after a while and one day stopped speaking with an
accent. This is the end of the relationship, I thought.
She didn't even notice.
If I could be anywhere right now
here
Five items I can't live without
tea, lemon, sugar, spoon, cookie
Fill in the blank: _____ is sexy; _____ is sexier.
smart is sexy; kind is sexier
In my bedroom one will find...
eternal happiness with moments of extreme unrest
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