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ThisAmerican

30 / M / straight / Single

Chicago, Illinois

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Ethnicity
Height
5' 7" (1.70m).
Body Type
Skinny
Looking For
New friends, Long-term dating
Smokes
No
Drinks
Sometimes
Drugs
Religion
Judaism and somewhat serious about it
Sign
Education
Graduated from college/university
Job
Science / Tech / Engineering
Income
Kids
Likes children
Pets
Likes dogs and Likes cats
Languages
English (Fluently), Hebrew (Poorly), C++ (Fluently)

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I am wiry, inquisitive, and self-efacing.

My Self-Summary

I've been in Chicago about a year (since late Summer 2008). Before then, I worked on Wall St for a number of years and spent 18 months backpacking across Asia looking for self knowledge, inner peace, and other stuff money can't buy. I feel lucky to be able to live well, but I also have ambiguous feelings about the materialistic habits of our culture. I try to be conscious about the environmental impact of my habits, though I am no saint and I waste no time with guilt.

I'm socially outgoing and make fast friends. It saddens me that I can't keep them all. Luckily, I live with an eccentric mix of grad students and almost always have an abundance of good company, conversation, and home baked cookies.

I recently started rock climbing in gyms and in WI when I can get away for some camping.

What I’m doing with my life

computer math stuff. can't complain. I just feel bad for all the artists out there who are getting hit by the recession.

I’m really good at

having genuine conversations with new people, helping grumpy people to smile, admitting when I'm wrong, reading myself to sleep, guarding my chastity, and thinking abstractly.

The first things people usually notice about me

I have no idea! But man I wish I did, because then I might be able to stop obsessing anxiously about whether or not people think I have the same condition as woody allen.

also, i look young.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food

Reading Materials: American Pastoral, The Great Gatsby, The Razor's Edge, Ender's Game, Life of Pi, essays, news for nerds, stuff that matters.

Tv Shows: my BitTorrent Statistics tab, 30 Rock, The Wire.

Radio: NPR

Movies: P.S., The Princess Bride, Big Lebowski, Little Miss Sunshine, Eternal Sunshine, Stranger Than Fiction, Pulp Fiction, Superbad, Beufort, Pan's Labyrinth, The Jew of Tibet.

Music: Sufjan Stevens, Bishop Allen, Talking Heads, Locksley, Dar Williams, Robert Zimmerman, Decemberists, Elliot smith, Imagin Heap.

The six things I could never do without

long underwear,
good friends,
treo,
spicy seitan (i'm not veg, but my housemates are)
sunrise yoga,
shanti.

I spend a lot of time thinking about

how I can integrate Buddhist perspectives/practices into my life in order to subvert my neurotic jewish upbringing.

Also, what is the meaning of this word "God." Hearing my initial views, most people consider me an atheist, but that disregards an entire dimension of understanding. As a culture, it pains me how we lack a lot of the vocabulary necessary to express the subtleties of our experience.

On a typical Friday night I am

definitely not at a bar. More likely, eating a home-cooked dinner with friends. I love to cook Indian, middle-eastern, japanese, korean, and Italian.

The most private thing I’m willing to admit here

I modeled nude for a sculpture artist when I was in college.

You should message me if

You know how to get a good deal on a pair of shoes... you like to smile... or you just think we might click.