I'm a graduate student, finishing my PhD. I like to go to movies, listen to music, read, workout, occasionally practice martial arts, play pool, salsa dance, try different restaurants, and learn new things. I would say I'm looking to connect with some people and see what happens from there.

I am laid back, inquisitive, and classic.

I tend to have a very positive attitude and try to make the best of things. I like to laugh and smile a lot.

Working on the dissertation... in an effort to get myself into academia.

Enjoying the occasional out of country travel opportunities.

Prepping my classes and endlessly grading.

Pipetting, a lot, I know sounds exciting right?

Part-time ethnographer

Trying to have a little fun in between all of that:-).

Coming up with great ideas for other people's work.

Background research and field work.

Writing succinctly (except for this profile...).

I have an excellent memory, not so much for things I should be memorizing in school or raw lists of facts (especially numbers), but for stories people tell me. Random facts/odd trivia that I probably don't need to know also tend to stick.

Playing pool (well maybe not really good, but I'm at least pretty good and I enjoy it)

Making omelets, more recently poached eggs... I like learning how to cook things.

I've also been told that I'm good at figuring out what gifts to give people.

And apparently pretty good at moving couches, although not always successfully in the end.

Probably that I seem very laid back and reserved. Then if they are lucky they can find out how excited and passionate I can get about things.

Books: Lord of the Rings, Art of War, Frankenstein, Brave New World, George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, About a Boy, Survivor, House of Leaves. Lovecraft.

Graphic Novels/Comics: Locke and Key, Walking Dead, and Y: The Last Man.

A lot of nonfiction involving anthropology, biology, and health books.

Movies: Office Space, Fight Club, High Fidelity, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Three Days of the Condor, Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog. A lot of old samurai movies (Seven Samurai, Sword of Doom, Yojimbo, etc). Pretty much anything Edgar Wright has done, including Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Movies that involve Time Travel.

Just watched Wreck-it Ralph, really should have won the Oscar over Brave.

TV: Breaking Bad (best show on TV), Mad Men, Community, Archer, Homeland, Doctor Who.

Past TV: Rome, Deadwood, The Wire, Six Feet Under (HBO rules), Dead like Me, Twilight Zone, Farscape, Battlestar Galatica, LOST.

Music: David Bowie, Warren Zevon, Bare Naked Ladies, Gorrillaz, Tom Petty, Herbalizer, Keb' Mo', The Flaming Lips, Jonathon Coulton, Aimee Mann.

Food: Sushi, Thai, Steaks, Seafood, Bubble tea, Cupcakes (especially red velvet). Saltenas, the best food I had when I was in Bolivia. Udon noodles, how does everyone not love these things?

Good friends/family of course :-).
My Passport
Email/Internet
Books
Movies
Ipod (I love listening to podcasts, especially the Tobolowsky files)

Human Biology, statistics, my next lecture, traveling to far off places. Movies.

How the internet is changing the world.

Why people conflate genetics and biology.

How to best survive the zombie apocalypse (well not a lot of time, but it comes up...)

Rule #32: Enjoy the little things.

For the most part I make my own schedule these days, so I usually have fun on whatever night something interesting is going on in the city or my friends are free. That can make Friday nights pretty variable: I could be having fun with friends, seeing a new movie, playing pool, or doing work.

I'm a gumaholic, Shhhhhh don't tell anyone. Have to wait to find out anything more private.

I actually am 175 cm without my shoes on, which is just shy of 5'9''. I've had it measured many times as part of my job. I have heard some women complain that men lie about this, I wonder if they are actually lying or if they actually do think they are taller than they really are.

If you know a good indoor climbing place and want to go. I went in January 2013 while visiting Colorado and had a blast.

If you want to play some pool, go see a movie, or check out a play.

If you would like to take a cooking class together. Or some other type of class, I'm open to suggestions:-).'

You want to join me for bar trivia.

You want to edit my profile for me.

Most of all: We have some stuff in common and you want to hang out and get to know each other to see how well we click.

Also, just for a PSA: The sun is bigger than the earth.