I'll try to make this seem effortless, and slightly charming. Maybe it's best if you'd get yourself a drink...I'll wait here.

5 minutes later:

I have a tendency to mesh words together, and/or blank out a lot-It's a sort of absentmindedness that occurs when my brain is going a million thoughts per second. It makes for an interesting show, really. At least a lot of my friends tend to find it amusing...

I also have a tendency to curse like a sailor at times. It really confuses people who assume I'm sweet and innocent. I can be badass when I want.

I can be incredibly random at times, and I'm perfectly fine with it.

I'm not completely detached from reality, I'm sort of an insouciant realist: keeping one foot firmly on the ground while the rest of me is spinning wildly.

I've lived abroad in Italy and England, (yes I'm fluent in both Italian and English) and spent some time in Seattle, too (there's no regional language there, except maybe for Cobainian [of the Kurt clan]). I just like being out on the road. Even if it means riding a donkey to reach a town in rural Portugal (I named him Pablo).

So there you go. Interpret it how you will.

Graduated UCLA back in '08, and I was at the brink of moving to the East Coast to pursue my PhD in Literature, but decided against it (and again just recently for this coming School Year).

I worked in Film Development and Production as an Assistant/ Script Editor for two bigshot producers. It was awesome while it lasted, but I'm looking for something bigger now.

I'm not doing anything substantial to change the world, let alone win a Nobel prize...but, Im keeping busy.

Coming off far more witty and clever than I initially intend to.

I'm prone to making awkward noises during awkward moments to make things extra awkward.

But apart from that, I'm pretty good at picking up languages. I'm in the process of learning Russian, and brushing up on Sign-Language.

I've been getting a lot of compliments for my hair recently (even random strangers stroking my hair). It's a bit awkward, but whatever. Im letting my hair grow out so i can donate it. I donated 15" earlier this year, and plan to do the same early this new year. Hopefully the shock of being buzzed won't be as tough the second time around
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Also, I tend to look slightly serious at times-I do it as a precautionary measure because, when I smile, people instantly see my dimples and feel compelled to pinch my cheeks.

People also notice the tattoo on my wrist-then go to great lengths to figure out what it means. It's both interesting and annoying.

I've shortened this list quite a bit. So as you can see, in addition to the various aforementioned qualities I posses , I am relatively incapable of making short lists of things.

(I would like to point out that I'm not nearly as pretentious as my list of books might imply. I was-and still am--a literature geek)

Michael Cunningham: Flesh And Blood, The Hours. Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex, Dave Eggers:You Shall Know Our Velocity, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Ian McEwan: Atonement, Amsterdam, Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed, Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises, A Moveable Feast Virginia Woolf:To The Lighthouse, The Waves, F.Scott Fitzgerald: Tender Is The Night, The Beautiful & The Damned, Paradise Lost, Italo Calvino: If On A Winter's Night A Traveler, Cosmicomics, Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Things Past/ Swann's Way, James Joyce: Dubliners, Finnegan's Wake, William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying, Go Down Moses,Light In August, The Sound And The Fury, Absalom! Absalom! William Shakespeare: Hamlet, As You Like It, King Lear, Midsummers Night's Dream, Henry James: The Ambassadors, Daisy Miller,Umberto Ecco: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Name Of The Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, Christopher Isherwood: A Single Man, Goodbye To Berlin, The Dog Beneath The Skin, Henry Miller : Tropic of Cancer, Rosy Cruxifiction Trilogy.

Other books I ♥ : One, no one & One hundred thousand, Brideshead Revisited, The Day of the Locusts, Never Let Me Go, Little Misunderstandings Of No Importance, Catch-22, White Noise, Native Son, Manhattan Transfer

Movies:
Before Sunset & Before Sunrise, Love Me If You Dare (Jeux D'Enfants), La Vie En Rose, Shortbus, Everything Pedro Almodovar, Amorres Peros, Evening, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Interview With The Vampire, Barbarella, Black Book, The Piano, Everything Is Illuminated, Clue, 4 months 3 weeks and 2 days, Stardust, Midnight Cowboy, Paris Je T'aime, La Finestra Di Fronte, Clapham Junction, Tutto L'amore Che C'é, Italian neo-realism, Roman Holiday, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Tiger And The Snow, L'Auberge Espagnole, Bringing Up Baby, Funny Face, The Lady Eve, All About Eve, Teeth, Junebug, Breaking And Entering, 2 Days in Paris, Cape Fear, Empire Records, Death At A Funeral, The Squid And The Whale, Fargo, The Good Girl,The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Interview, Notes On A Scandal, Black Snake Moan, The Dreamers, Noises Off...

Music: !!Jason Mraz!!, Bob Dylan, Rufus Wainwright, Fiona Apple, Brandi Carlile, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Arcade Fire, Franz Ferdinand, Muse (Matthew Bellamy makes my knees go weak),Phoenix,Regina Spektor,Ladyhawke, Ratatat, The Killers, Maroon 5, Radiohead, Bright Eyes, Adele, Lauryn Hill, Sara Bareilles, Sia,Santogold, The Klaxons, Arctic Monkeys, Edith Piaf, Dalida, Devendra Banhart, Mika, The Bee Gees, Yelle, Lykke Li, April March, and many others...

Food: Italian, Spanish, Brazilian, Indian, FUSION!

Friends

Music/Film/Art

Literature

Languages

My Goals

The undying curiosity to find the sixth 'thing' I could never do without

The questions that can only be answered through experience, and the reality of life...

The lingering scent of fabric softener...

...if that cute guy barrista was flirting or just fishing for tips.

It largely depends on who I am with at that moment. Some times, I just veg out watching The History Channel, or maybe even contribute to the rapid deterioration to my liver with cheap wine and good friends.

But I'm completely open to suggestions.

I try to make Fridays as atypical as possible-and what better way, than with new friends! (hint hint)

Sometimes, I get a little too much pleasure out of cleaning my ears with Qtips.

You've made it this far, and weren't completely bored with my nonsensical ramblings.

Also, if you don't think I'm a complete loser, that'd be great.

Just do it.