"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first
invent the universe." --Carl Sagan

I am a kung fu panda with a minor in ninja. I do a lot of things, and have a lot of passion for everything I do. I'm trying to get back into karate and climbing after a 6 month hiatus because of a torn ACL and torn meniscus (its a pretty good story if you want to ask me about it :). I was also in a theatre troupe at school and almost managed to been in at least one play a year.

If anyone is up for some West Coasting on Friday night, I am totally down. :)

Unfortunately there's only 24 hours in a day, and no matter how hard I try to get by without it, I need to sleep sometimes. *sigh* This being the case, I am also one of those people that will immediately fall asleep if I am in a prone position. Anywhere. My friends can attest to this.

I think I'm pretty flexible, but I don't know if I actually am or it seems so because I have short limbs.

A smattering of my interests are
karate,theatre,biotech,politics, the
environment, computers, and eating/food network.

I am fun, kinda nerdy, and awesome.

I just graduated from University of Maryland College Park with a B.A in Linguistics and minors in Spanish and Neuroscience, and now I am currently working as a semi-codemonkey at a nonprofit in Georgetown.

In the meantime I'm tutoring, teaching karate to little kiddies, doing INSANITY, and going down the reddit rabbit hole. I was also in a little Bengali community play recently. :D

I generally go to bed really late and wake up really early. This often led me to take naps during classes where I was sitting across from the TA. :P

Aseptic technique, slicing brains, mounting microscope slides with said brains, pH-ing solutions, learning languages, knowing random facts, learning new software, making people believe whatever I tell them, baking killer raspberry dark chocolate brownies, making friends, and being extremely comfortable in what normal people think are extremely awkward situations.

I also have a strange knack for being rather snarky while at the same time maintaining really close friends who love me anyway. :)

More recently, I have become excellent at hiding a limp.

Pretty eyes, cute butt, and hey! She's really short. But we'll overlook that because she seems awesome. :)

Recently I've been reading all nonfiction, but here's a short list of things that I could reread several times:

Books: Ender's Game, A Girl Named Disaster, The Giver, Harry Potter, Talisman: Secret Cities, Secret Faith, War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Vampire Chronicles, Men's Health Magazine.

Carl Sagan makes me jizz in my pants. I've recently gotten into reading a lot of theory of knowledge stuff, and I love it. :D

Movies: Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Rush Hour, Pirates of the Caribbean, All of the Bourne movies, MULAN

TV Shows: Dexter, THE DAILY SHOW, The Colbert Report, Good Eats, Unwrapped, I love the __'s on Vh1, Mythbusters, Real World, MANswers, Gangland, Ace of Cakes, True Blood, Glee

Music: everything (yes EVERYTHING) from hip-hop to opera to techno and of course, showtunes. A random selection: Florence + The Machine, Hollywood Undead, N'Sync, Ellie Goulding, Andrea Bocelli, Sarah Brightman, Yelle, TTC et Cuizinier, John Vanderslice, Regina Spektor, Panic at the Disco, Julieta Venegas, DJ Arash, Celldweller, Zeromancer, La Roux, Tiesto, Death Cab for Cutie, Evanescence, Linkin Park, The Postal Service, MGMT, Basshunter, and a lot of random a capella - Penn Masala, Tonic Sol Fa, Pennyloafers, Sonos, Vocal Adrenaline...

1. My brain
2. Water
3. Food
4. Physical activity
5. The ability to be creative (life would suck without creativity)
6. People (Why do you think hermits end up the way they are?)

I've realized most people have more frivolous lists, but I was trying to be logical.

Sex. Don't we all?

But seriously, I really spend a lot of time thinking about how everything in the world boils down to math, chemistry, and applied physics, and being sad that most people don't see the wonder in our world. :_(

Other than that I spend my time thinking about how much I don't want to fill out another job application, why this job application needs to be formatted in html, how many calories eaten today and how difficult it is to calculate calories in homecooked Indian food, whether my head instructor will be at class this week or whether I'll have to teach alone, and what karate classes I should go to this week.

Once I get to karate, I spend intermittent periods thinking about how when you feel like you've got no more left in you to give, there's more to give.

There's always more to give. Even with a torn ACL.

I've also recently realized how many things I will die not knowing. THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS TO KNOW.

At Friday night karate workout, and then usually going out to eat after.

I'm beginning to think putting up a professional headshot on this site might be making me look like a tool.

You're smart, not a douchebag, and write with good grammar.

Seriously- if you send me a message written with bad grammar, I'll tease you about it, and then delete it. So don't.

And by smart I mean with an IQ of 110 or higher. Please don't take this as pretentious. I need to have a cutoff somewhere, right?

So basically, if you're a really manly nerd, you should definitely message me. Because that's a winner winner chicken dinner right there. :)