Russia -> Brooklyn -> Florida -> Brooklyn -> Bronx

Sarcastic, random, self-deprecating, optimistic, "everything is an adventure" kind of gal.

Can take me anywhere

exploring NYC, learning French, cooking, volunteering, making jewelry, staying up late, reading anything I can get my hands on, improving

drinking vodka, teaching myself new things (recently: knitting, if you are nice, I'll make you a pair of very oddly shaped mittens) fixing it even if it's not broken for the fun of it , keeping my cool in tourist traffic & IKEA furniture assembly. I am told my handwriting is exquisite.

Usually people will comment on how blue my eyes are. I especially appreciate it when the comment is "are those real?"... So for a split second I can pretend they are asking about my sweet rack

--- Recently finished: Less than Zero, Jane Austen: her life and letters, No One Belongs Here More Than You, Bossypants, Candide for the 10th time ---We Need to Talk about Kevin, Cutting for Stone, How to Archer, Bill Maher, the autobiography of Hilary Clinton, the entire Hunger Games Trilogy, everything by David Sedaris.

Watch: Mad Men, Downton Abbey, Arrested Development, Archer, Louie, Six Feet Under, It's Always Sunny ..., documentaries, American Dad, The Simpsons, Parks and Rec, Stand-up

Listen: Drake, the Weeknd, Frank Ocean, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Atmosphere, Rihanna, Adele, Ray Lamontagne, Ray Charles, the national, Walkmen, TV on the radio, Fugees, Mos Def, Wale, Sleigh Bells, Spoon, John Legend, Amy Winehouse

Headphones
Sarcasm
Library card (that's right)
Espresso
Hot 97
Those mechanical pencils that look like #2 pencils

music, movies, people, ideas, how much i love NY, going back to Russia, getting a little color in my wardrobe, battery life, coffee, patterns & colors for jewelry, if I will EVER finish reading Anna Karenina or if I am fated to read it one page at a time and fall asleep for the rest of my life

One or a number of exotic things, I am sure: reorganizing my shoes and clothes by color, getting drunk at a dive bar and begging the DJ to play "Mercy" while I get dirty looks from the regulars (also, my dream is to be a "regular" ... with a nickname and everything)

I would rather run naked through Times Square than let anyone see my Google search history

I use Pinterest, send 'someecards', and follow Rick Ross on instagram #maybachMusic

you can dish it and you can take it
you like lazy Sundays, coffee, and Crossword puzzles
you also like to stay out all night, bar-hop, and get into trouble
NYC makes you feel romantic and not hopeless