I'm on the fast track to being an absent-minded professor - I absolutely love my work, and I mastered the absent-minded thing a long time ago, as any of my friends can tell you. I'm just a live-in-the-moment type, I do what makes me happy whether it's my work (yes, I really do enjoy it), watching TV, trying a new restaurant, or whatever. I'm an introvert, which sometimes makes people think I don't like them (when really I can count the people I really dislike on the fingers of one hand), but I love a good night out with my friends.

i also love terrible, terrible tv...not totally bottom-of-the-barrel stuff but pretty close. i feel it gives balance to my intellectual day job - can't be serious all the time, can i?

I also just got back from a trip to India with my mom, my sister, and 9 other women - completely amazing and reminded me why I love traveling! So much to see and think about...

Grad student getting a PhD in Classics

Remembering weird facts and details, cooking, learning how to fix things in my apartment from youtube videos, sounding totally confident about the answer to a question when i have no idea

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Books:
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Jane Eyre
I, Claudius
The Emperor of All Maladies
Wolf Hall
John Adams

Movies:
Young Frankenstein
Monty Python & the Quest for the Holy Grail
Dogma
Thank You For Smoking

TV:
Arrested Development, the best show ever made
Bones
Game of Thrones
True Blood
Smash
Top Chef (especially Masters)
Colbert Report

Music:
The Decemberists
Kate Miller-Heidke
Oh Land
Classical music - my favorites are Beethoven and Copland, but the best concert I ever saw was the Philadelphia Orchestra doing Brahms' German Requiem

Food:
I have dreams about FedNuts.

Pasta
The Phillies
My family
Horseback riding
Useless trivia
Laughter

Mostly my dissertation, but also how I wish "Newsroom" were nonfiction...and how I wish liberals were better at rhetoric...and what I should make for dinner