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My self-summary Propose an edit

I think my previous version of this sucked. I'm going to rewrite it to make it sound more normal, less pretentious etc.
Professionally, I'm a graduate student in engineering seeking a PhD with a BS in physics (if you can call that a profession... ha!)

Even though my pictures don't show me smiling, when I'm interacting with other people I usually do wear a big, dopey smile.

I'm biracial-- half of my family is south Indian upper-caste Hindu, and the other half is central and southern Italian Catholic of peasant extraction. I was raised a Catholic, and in the end, my attitude towards Catholicism is pretty ambivalent, though as I said I'm a firm non-believer. If you want to know more, feel free to contact me, though it's something I haven't completely worked out myself.

E parlo un po' d'italiano. Je parles francais aussi ma je le parles tres mal :-P

I like things and places that are a little off-kilter, like coffee houses with an indie vibe, street fairs, events that might be described as "multicultural," and the like. As banal as it sounds, I really am open to new experiences and am hoping that you can expose me to some.

Also, I like connecting seemingly disparate ideas and making something new. I'm crazy about synthesis, and I love frameworks that take a variety of things and fit them together in a logical way (for example, Douglas Hofstadter with Goedel, Escher, and Bach).

Though I don't do it much right now, I have done a bit of traveling, having visited both my relatives in India and Italy as well as traveling to China (including Tibet). I've also visited a large number of the states as well as Canada and Mexico.

I also sing. In terms of choral range, I would classify myself as a tenor 1, though I can't hit the high notes as easily I hope to be able to someday. Other vocal talents include being able to pronounce words in languages I don't speak better than most people can as well as having a voice that naturally carries, which can be inconvenient sometimes.

I love music, mostly classical. In fact, if you catch me in a candid moment, I might be whistling a tune I'm making up off the top of my head (usually they come out sounding Baroque...) From the relatively little bit of visual art I've been exposed to, some artists I am particularly fond of are Vermeer, Monet, Chagall, Goya, Caravaggio, Giotto, and Cimabue (in no particular order).

If you would enjoy cuddling naked while making ironic and maybe insightful comments about people, life, and other variegated topics, I think we would get along swimmingly.

Finally, I'm new to being gay (thanks to the stifling embrace of Holy Mother Church), so as Dan Savage would say, I'm only about 16 years old socially.

Geez... I don't think I'm as dry and boring as I seem from this profile, or at least I hope I'm not :-P

Oh right... once, a big drunk southern guy thought I was Sanjaya from American Idol. Yes, there are actually two young half-Indian, half-Italian skinny gay males in US that are perpetually in need of a haircut, go figure...

What I'm doing with my life Propose an edit

shuffling around the instruments in my lab pretending to be a dutiful lab rat, being thankful that my adviser thinks enough of me to be patient, and trying to find distractions that will take my mind away from the stresses of coming closer and closer to graduation...

I'm really good at Propose an edit

physics I guess (or at least that's what I've been told; I hope it's true), bsing well enough in physics to survive, as well as other stuff. For example, I can sing decently in the tenor to alto range if I take care of my voice.

I can pronounce words in foreign languages that I can't speak much better than most people can.

I also cuddle like no one's business.

May I lick you?

The first thing(s) people usually notice about me Propose an edit

after my my brown skin would probably be my eyes and enormous nose. After that would probably be my hair, which hopefully is not too messy...

My favorite books, movies, music, and food Propose an edit

I'm too indecisive to pick favorites, and laundry lists are boring, I guess. As far as literature goes, I like old poems and new novels. I mostly listen to Classical music, and I eat pretty much anything placed in front of me (though I will have snooty things to say about it if doesn't taste good.)

The six things I could never do without Propose an edit

what little I have left of my mind, my body, the few friends and close family members I have, a computer with access to the internet, music, and some sense of purpose towards an indefinite goal.

Oh right, and physics I guess. Hopefully that'll bring in the bacon and make me feel useful enough.

I spend a lot of time thinking about Propose an edit

whether everything's going to be alright or not, my regrets, music, making sense of the tiny fragments that make up modern life, how different things are from the past and whether these differences are positive or not, and physics (but not hardly enough) among other thoughts that swirl around my brain like a noxious cauldron of bubbling suicide drink; you know, the concoction you used to make as a kid by mixing all the different fountain drinks together in a single cup.

On a typical Friday night I am Propose an edit

probably at home alone and not concerned about it.

The most private thing I'm willing to admit here Propose an edit

is that I pretty much have only one real friend at this point, and he is my best friend who I've known since childhood.

I'm also still working out my feelings about being gay, as I have only accepted my sexuality about a year and a half ago. I would add too that I'm still rather ambivalent about my sexuality, but that's no secret since I'm sure a lot, if not most, gay folks are as well.

I'm still fairly intimidated by graduate school, but then again I'm hardly alone in this. I am, however, way too lazy and way too much of a procrastinator, but I'm going to seriously work on fixing that.

Oh-- and finally, I can touch every square inch of my back with my hands thanks in large part to my unusual proportions.

When I was a child, I had an irrational fear of computers... I Google'd it, and apparently (but unsurprisingly) it's called "cyberphobia," another misuse of the suffix "cyber-".

You should message me if Propose an edit

and only if you can identify one or more of the drinking songs in Brahm's "Academic Festival Overture."

Nah, I'm just kidding... message me if you want to.

PS If you know what I mean when I ask you to be my Walter to my Perry, you get bonus points.

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