I'm a Southern California native, academia and pop-culture lover with a passion for a good welfare state and a dependency on mild climates. I've spent short stints on the East Coast, in Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, but the Bay Area remains my favorite place I've ever lived and am currently committed to being here for awhile. I'm warm and outgoing, but introverted in my own ways (which may explain why I like reading in my bed so much). I'm also competitive but not caddy, compassionate but not too sensitive, and am most happy spending time with people who are smart and make me laugh. Like almost everyone else you know, I travel and attend outdoor festivals. I really love hot yoga and hot drinks.

Graduate school, primarily.

Sleeping on airplanes and trains, being fashionably late, carrying too many things at once, losing myself in youtube, spending egregious amounts of money at Berkeley Bowl.

Freckled.

Toni Morrison, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Joan Didion, Milan Kundera, Catcher in the Rye, sometimes Steinbeck, and a little bit of Safran Foer. I've seen every Arrested Development episode ever made. I also love Louie, The League, and House of Lies. Dexter, Damages, and Homeland on the non-comedy front. I think sushi is delicious.

Transit Tracker/Clipper Card
Coffee/Tea
Dailybeast/Dailypuppy
Terry Gross/Ira Glass
Clear Eyes/Full Hearts
Spandex, Sports Bras

The fact that I'm probably going to be fine despite North Korea's current nuclear threats. The plusses and minuses of car ownership. Whether or not I think the world would be a better place without religion. How happy puppies and kids and puppies and kids together make me. Which coffee shop I want to do my homework at. Why burrata is so delicious. Should I bus or bike or walk? Social Welfare.

Relieved.

In his youth, I think Stalin was a pretty good looking guy.

You think we could talk, or not talk, for hours. You learned, at a fairly early age, to hide your insecurities behind some-now-highly-honed charisma and wit. You have nice things to say about all the people who raised you. You hate generic messages, you love transparency. You have health insurance and a history of healthy breakups.

And (sort of exclusively) I could get to your house from Berkeley without a car in about an hour or less.