Other possible permutations of Mao/mau includes a Maoist cat, a furry cat, kitty-kitty, fur-fur, as well as, whadayaknow, a card game! Once upon a time, in a foggy little town on the border of Germany and Switzerland, I played it with an old gentleman who just recovered from a stroke... Yeah I'm very random. Perhaps this is why I like learning languages and traveling, just looking for random connections... If you are also excited by small things making sense in some nonsensical way, perhaps we can have some fun together

Moved out here from NY a semester ago, a grad student at CU Boulder, making a bohemianly miserly salary by trying to make surfer-dudes talk to each other about history. <---- That was last semester. I'm quite excited about my students this semester. They can talk with out you pushing the buttons, like, real human beings!

For the majority of my time, I'm trying to cope with the who-has-read-more-books competition of academia while sheltering my love for the written words from its onslaught.

Acting goofy and getting lost...

Now my best qualities are out of way, I'm also decent at not backing off from trying out newrecipes, and be open about new things in general (well, I'm pretty open about stinky old dead languages too) staring at the same thing for a loooooong time: a book, a painting, the window, my cat... Bad jokes... hmmm what else...I can't say I can drink people under the table but I usually surprise them B-)

I really hope I'm good at appreciating beautiful things and beautiful people. I also hope that I'm good at making sure people I care about feel loved. But I'm always paranoid that I'm a self-centered egomaniac.. ops, should this have gone to the "most private thing" box?

No clue... My Chinese accent when I say fuck or shit?!! People always seem to laugh their ass off when that first happens...

Chinese always put food first. I'm a sucker for exotic vegetables. But I like trying out anything new. I don't eat much meat but I probably would never be strong enough to be a vegetarian, since I can't resist peking duck :(

Books, German Authors! I learned a darn language for them! Then somehow I feel nostalgic for the time of Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, Virginia Woolf. Then Nabokov... I wish I had read more authors who are still alive, but I can probably only count Murakami Haruki, Stephen King, Margaret Atwood. But of course Nabokov lives forever!

pi'tures: I like my humor dark, and I would collect horror movies if any. I'm a fan of Scandinavian films (Ingmar Bergman!) or the rest of the deified directors like Kubrick, Polanski... But I like not-so-dark comedies too, anything from Woody Allen to Monty Python to Meet the Parents. And of course the BBC Pride and Prejudice Marathon~

Music: this is really hard but... I guess I have to come out ... I'm a die-hard classical music fan. It's not because I have snobbish parents or anything. If you grew up in China before the internet age there wasn't really that much good music going for you, and classical music is some damn good music! But what I really love is when people share with me the music they really care about, so I get to see how they explain to me why they are so crazy over it. That's always good memories. I'm in particular looking forward to getting to know more about jazz and rock.

books, friends, music, colors, scarfs, cats (cats can be good scarfs, by that I mean, living cats). Five years ago I would have said paint brushes and canvas. But indeed I have survived five years without them... Shame on me...

No, actually I can't figure it out. Where are my thoughts? I can't find them!!! I don't exist!!!! Tears~~~

I guess I space out too much. Sometimes I conduct symphonies. Is that thought(s)?

Ideally: a good meal with friends, a movie, chatting over beer and wine. Cuddling!

But any quality occasion that spices up the every-day a little bit would be nice: concert, theater, checking out exhibitions, lingering in cafes, a walk in good weather under stars (Boulder has a shit-load of stars). Yeah, all that cliche stuff. Feel free to surprise me!

I also love to dance crazy and get drunk whenever I can afford the recuperation time, but I'm not a party animal. I'm a pretty good party pet though, when people take me.

my god I put my real pictures on this darn dating webpage. what more do you want!

if you wanna massage me

(it's ok if you don't though)

hokay, it's actually in my first box