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bandra

29 / M / straight / Single

Berkeley, California

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I am sardonic, impassioned, and anti-kitsch.

My Self-Summary

So I have trouble getting my mind around internet dating, as I tend to fall in love with those bits of people that are harder to capture in a short blurb. But I'm just romantic enough to be curious about the little scraps of life we paste on here, and hoping they will lead to discovering magic and beauty in the manner of deep wells and icebergs.

I'm pretty introverted, old for my age for all sorts of reasons, but also open enough to believe myself to be not a completely hopeless case. There is someone out there for me, and I hope it's you.

What I’m doing with my life

I've just gotten back from India -- I was there for a year on field research -- and now I'm trying to write my dissertation (for fun and profit!) and attempting to stay sane, getting back in touch with all my beautiful and wonderful people in the Bay Area, and reconstructing my life generally.

I’m really good at

I am a fair writer, a better listener, I cook, I dance, I travel, but I think I'm best at seeking out truly great people, my friends.

The first things people usually notice about me

Someone once told me I was overwhelming... I hope that's not completely correct.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food

Let's say one each, but please ask me for more:

Sacred Games, by Vikram Chandra

the Shawshank Redemption

the Pogues

South Indian breakfast food (uttapam, upma and idli)

The six things I could never do without

the New Yorker, altoids to calm me down, good walking shoes, my bus pass, a comfortable bed, television on the internet.

I spend a lot of time thinking about

How the market forces us to objectify the people around us, in ways that are insipid and pervasive. I think a lot about how I can live and love and learn in such a way as to stop that a little bit.

I think I spend too much time pondering the arcane mysteries of the 21st century relationship, to no useful effect.

On a typical Friday night I am

laundry?