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polymergirl

30 / F / straight / Single

New York, New York

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Ethnicity
White
Height
5' 1" (1.54m).
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Looking For
New friends, Short-term dating, Activity partners
Smokes
No
Drinks
Sometimes
Drugs
Never
Religion
Judaism but not too serious about it
Sign
Virgo and it’s fun to think about
Education
Graduated from Ph.D program
Job
Science / Tech / Engineering
Income
Kids
Pets
Likes dogs
Languages
English

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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.