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. On the couch. On the floor. In the bathroom. While eating. I'm also rather restless 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 teach and I love it, but academic life-style can become rather solitary at times, so I figured this was worth a try.
Im introspective and very good at sensing the moods and feelings of people around me. I value intimacy.
My favorite sport is chess. I hate running just before and love it just after. 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 argue intensely and 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 doesnt view people as interchangeable, cant 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 you'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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