I recently moved to princeton. I am mostly looking for someone who's earnest, open, willing to go on adventures, likes talking and arguing.

I'm currently doing "research" (oh ye nebulous research) at Princeton before heading off to architecture graduate school next fall.

I recently graduated from Oberlin College, which might mean something if you've heard of that place (and which I am beholden too and will talk about endlessly).

I've worked as an astronomer and spent most of college studying mathematics, physics, and astronomy. I think a lot about belief systems, religion, and spirituality. Once upon a time I was spent all my time in the studio making art. I'm hoping to merge my technical and artistic loves in anticipation of architecture graduate school. I'm passionate about ecological design and environmentalism and love to cook. Who knows, I might even be opening a restaurant with some friends.

Cooking, drawing, sometimes fermenting, trying to understand others and generally be compassionate.

I used to wear a lot of purple. I have fine blond hair, which might be long depending on the time of year. I also have bright blue eyes which tint green in the winter (means I'm full of recessive genes!).

Maybe my voice. Some people think I'm from california, I really have no clue why.

FOOD
Bread and butter maybe cheese. Yogurt. Tea, especially Darjeeling. In college I cooked for over a hundred people each week in a co-op with three of my best friends. I will cook for you, or better yet we can cook together!

BOOKS
Most anything by Alain de Botton: Consolations of Philosophy, Religions of Man by Huston Smith, Karen Armstrong (Through the Narrow Gate), John Irving especially The World According to Garp and A Prayer for Owen Meany and Water Method Man, Charles Dickens, Kurt Vonnegut, Alexander Thoroux. Also the architect/scientist Christopher Alexander. Alice Waters' and Julia Child's cook books, also Sandor Elix Katz's books Wild Fermentation and the Art of Fermentation and Sally Fallon's Nourishing Traditions. I also love Edward Tufte's books. Islamic Aesthetics: An Introduction by Oliver Leaman is great. I'd love to find a copy of D'arcy Wentworth Thompson's "On Growth and Form". James Frazer's "The Golden Bough". I'm into eccentric and offbeat non-fiction, like Rudolf Steiner ("The Secret Stream"), Aldous Huxley, Paul Kammerer (wrote a book about coincidences, only in german I'd like to translate it). Also like: Chris Hedges, Mortimer Adler, Graham Greene, Alexander Theroux (Darconville's Cat), Neil Gaiman (Graphic Novels: "A Dream of a Thousand Cats"), Buckminster Fuller. I also like to read the atheist writings of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett even though I don't agree with most of what they say.

MUSIC
Anything from the 80s, both in sincere and ironic ways. Cat Stevens, Bela Fleck & Flecktones, The Who, Elliot Smith, Fleetwood Mac, Fleet Foxes, Herb Alpert, Shins, Phil Collins, The Police, Paul Simon, Wham!, Tracy Chapman, Dave Brubeck, Sufjan Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, Takillakta, Ennio Morricone, Stevie Wonder, Randy Newman, Philip Glass, Kronos Quartet, Penguin Cafe, The Clash, Benjamin Britten, Francoise Hardy, Rachel Portman, Eric Clapman, The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan, Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits, Victor Wooten, The Proclaimers, Andrew Bird, Ravi Shankar, Starship, Pete Townshend, Daft Punk (in certain circumstances), The Velvet Underground, NICO,

+ Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Domenico Cimarosa, Ravel, Rachmaninov, Schubert, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Tchaikovsky,

FILM
Matilda, Benny & Joon, Good Will Hunting, The Mission, The Cider House Rules, Woody Allen (love/hate relationship), Wes Anderson, 2/3s of French New Wave, Forrest Gump (that beautiful scene at the end where he asks "Jennay" if their son is like him, where he, for the first time in the film, shows he is aware he is different. This began my love of cinema.)

TV
Seinfeld, Star Trek TNG (not in the convention way), Mad Men, The Hour (BBC), Downton Abbey (even though it's a glorified soap opera, and beautiful at that), West Wing, and many more, but I really don't watch TV. I tend to spend a weekend every 3 months gorging down an entire series.

tea, ink & paper, people, interacting with random strangers every day.

Food, people I see around town, art and architecture, philosophy / spirituality and belief, and how things work, practicalities of our daily lives, and habits (its a habit of mine, ha ha ha!).

Either with friends joking around, dancing like crazy, writing in my journal, cooking. Sleeping. Maybe just walking around staring at the stars. Or at an art show, concert, or square dance in a co-op. I also like sitting around doing nothing, reflecting. Bon fire! Sometimes "partying", but not recently.

I'm highly sensitive to light and how light fills a space including mirrors. I can sense UV, especially on overcast days – I hate overcast.

My energy is highly sun dependent – another blow to the old overcast.

I have a mirroring personality at times. Meaning, when I barely know someone I mirror their personality. This tends to mean that I can appear coy and shy to some people while seeming bombastic and jubilant towards others. But the real me is there – at least I hope he is (or is he a she?).

You'd like to talk, get tea/coffee, or maybe drinks. Do you like to talk about your beliefs, religion, politics, philosophy, food/cooking, your and future aspirations. You want to cook together or just enjoy food, sushi or thai food?

We could always talk about the weather, in case it gets awkward.