I am geeky, bookish, and witty.
My Self-Summary
I'm still figuring out who to become, but right now I'm a
scientist. I spend my workdays thinking about polymers (long,
flexible molecules that nobody understands too well) and writing
Fortran code. In my spare time, I read and go to the gym and take
long walks around the city, attend dance and theater performances,
try to digest the Sunday New York Times before the following
Saturday, and teach myself about finance and economics. I cannot
cook and I have absolutely no sense of humor, but I've always read
something interesting and I'm usually up for a new experience.
What I’m doing with my life
In general: Trying to make it interesting, reasonably
non-pointless, and hopefully also fun.
At the moment: Setting up my new apartment, which is surprisingly
spacious now that most of the boxes are gone. Probably that's
because I have been stripped of my couch.
I’m really good at
math, by non-mathematicians' standards.
writing, when i'm on.
choosing gifts.
My favorite books, movies, music, and food
Books:
1) A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle)
2) Emma (Jane Austen)
3) High Fidelity (Nick Hornby)
Movies:
- Back to the Future
- You've Got Mail (Yes, it's a chick flick. It's also a brilliant
retelling of Pride and Prejudice. Do not get me started.)
- Anything with Diane Keaton or Audrey Tautou
Music:
You don't want to know. Really. My playlists are disastrous mashups
of the Sad Poetic Boy genre (Matchbox 20; Counting Crows) and the
Girl With Guitar genre (Sheryl Crow; Leona Naess). Also, I have
been known to listen to country.
The six things I could never do without
Never is a pretty strong word and makes me think of things like
oxygen and water. But my life would be much less happy without the
following:
- Books. Also, bookstores.
- Coffee, cheese, and ice cream
- My iPhone, and Google Calendar
- Yoga, running, spinning, and other ways of exorcising my stress
through motion.
- Netflix
The most private thing I’m willing to admit here
I'm doing Nanowrimo this month. I decided to do it after the month
had already started, and I needed an idea fast. I asked the Nano
community for story starters, and of the ideas they gave me I
picked "love triangle between terminally ill patient, her surgeon,
and a necrophiliac mortician". That is not the kind of thing I
would ever write about, which is why I chose it. The
novel-in-progress (about 12,000 words as I write this) is called
The Mortician's Assistant.