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lankanov

28 / M / straight / Single

Sydney, Australia

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Ethnicity
White
Height
6' 1" (1.86m).
Body Type
Skinny
Looking For
New friends, Long-term dating, Activity partners
Smokes
No
Drinks
Sometimes
Drugs
Never
Religion
Atheism but not too serious about it
Sign
Pisces but it doesn’t matter
Education
Working on Ph.D program
Job
Education / Academia
Income
Rather not say
Kids
Likes children
Pets
Likes dogs and Likes cats
Languages
English (Fluently)

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I am gentle, shy, and compassionate.

My Self-Summary

Total rewrite ahoy!

I'm still a student living in Sydney, thankfully having graduated one degree at last; now studying towards a PhD in applied maths. Right now I think I'm going to be classifying orbits of the three body problem and figuring out by how much a system of three bodies can rotate even without angular momentum. Fun stuff. Probably more fun if I understood it.

I've been studying Tai Chi for the better part of a decade now, and have recently taken up photography. Given such pursuits, I spend way too much time sitting in front of my computer reading web fora, web comics or playing Windows Freecell. I also enjoy riding my bike and climbing. I would climb a lot more, but I'm usually too self conscious to climb the things I would like to climb if I'm in civilised company or even by myself.

What I’m doing with my life

Hiding from the real world for at least another three years and maybe putting a further three letters after my name at the end of it. Wondering idly ("idly" is the important part) what it would be like to earn a real income and have a real job.

I’m really good at

Maintaining my autonomic functions. So food at it, in fact, that I don't even have to think about it!

I guess I'm ok at understating my value...

The first things people usually notice about me

They don't. I'm invisible.

Umm, people don't tend to make it plain what they first notice about me. I guess the first thing technically is that I'm there and after that that I am a human, male, probably with messy hair.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food

I might add things as I think of them...

The Winter of the World Chronicles.
Dare I admit it, Lord of the Rings.
Most things by Robin Hobb, Neil Gaiman or Peter F Hamilton.

District 9 was the last standout movie I saw. I usually enjoy anime - subtitled, of course. In particular it's hard to go wrong with Miyazaki or Studio Ghibli.

The Cure, Armada/The Tea Party, Sunwrae, Ben Folds (Five), Massive Attack, Pink Floyd, Los Amigos Invisibles, Joe Hisaishi, Lamb, Jesse Cook, Portishead. More, but "meh" to writing them for now.

I'm a dedicated omnivore. I will try most things and dislike few.

The six things I could never do without

\dot{x} = -J \nabla H (I'll be impressed if OKC has a LaTeX parser. Moreso if everything I just wrote is valid code).
Quarks and leptons.

Actually, that last one covers most things. A few specific configurations of quarks and leptons that would make me very unhappy not to have are food, trees, friends, family, fresh running water, home, clean air, good tea and decent coffee. Yes, that's about 50% over budget, but what are you going to do about it?

I spend a lot of time thinking about

"What the hell am I going to tell my supervisor this week? Crap, I'd better get some work done. Oh, and marking. What's wrong with those kids? That quiz was simple. Agh!"

Fooooood.

LOLcats. No, that's a lie. If I think about them too much I come to and it's 2am and I realise I need to be awake and functioning in less than six hours.

"Ooh, pretty flowers. Damn - the camera's at home. Next time..."

Sleeping.

On a typical Friday night I am

Not out and about because Tai Chi is at nine the next morning. No wonder I have no social life.

The most private thing I’m willing to admit here

That I'm too self conscious to admit to much. No really, you'll at least have to buy me dinner before I tell.

You should message me if

You don't want to not message me? Well, no... you should only message me if you want to; there's no point doing it half-heartedly.