(Living in Brooklyn, moving to the Cambridge area in June 2013. Will be in Cambridge, England for the month of April 2013.)

I am trying to understand.

I believe in small things. I would rather run with the hunted than pass as a hunter. I think climbing a learning curve is usually worth the effort. I have realized that I love pushing my body to its limits, and I hate measuring those limits with numbers. I am afraid. Hard, "honest" work is important to me, but I don't mean efficiency; I want to compete with myself, not with you. Seems to me that anything one can do has an art to it---tell me about yours. Family, community, and love are super important to me. I am not a perfectionist: if I can get 80% of the desired effect with 20% of the effort, chances are I'll be happy. I get a lot of pleasure from feeding people.

If I must die, I want to die all used up.

writing my dissertation, yoga, weight lifting (recent), eating sunshine, learning to give up fear

making sandwiches. no really. i'm a fine cook, but sandwiches are my super-power.

my hair is always just getting back from crazytown, i guess?

Ursula LeGuin is a hero and role model. Her novel The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia is worth a read, and she takes up two spots on my favorite short stories list: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, and Solitude.

Macklemore is a hero and role model.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlVBg7_08n0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvDQy53eldY&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAZ0kA-KvWg

if someone worked so i can eat, i prefer they were treated in a way no less dignified than i would tolerate for myself. if someone was murdered for my dinner (nonhumans only), i prefer that they had what i can imagine was a nice life. sometimes i eat things that are too spicy, and i'm in love with jojo's sriracha.

here's a few snapshots:

"You're gay. Shouldn't that help you be less racist?"

"In this section, we construct an endomorphism operad of a simplicial diagram $K \xrightarrow{D} \Chk$ (a simplicial functor between simplicial categories). First we will recall the simplicial enrichment of the category of algebras; to do this, we will need the polynomial differential forms on the $n$-simplex, the collection of which form a simplicial differential graded commutative algebra."

"how can i make this puppet throw up more realistically?"

"En homologie entière, pour toute classe d'homologie z de la variété orientable V, il exist un entier non nul N tel que la class multiple N*z soit réalisable par une sous-variété."

unaware of what day it is.

for the same reasons that i have never taken an iq test, i have never taken measurement of my penis.

I'm writing my dissertation and don't get out much these days, so I'm much more likely to hang out if you suggest something that would be fun even if we don't hit it off right away (a few examples: art, gymnastics class, delicious food, yoga)