i know this is kind of fucked up and everything, but somehow i justify dudes paying for my drinks as compensation for patriarchy.

I like: sleeping nine hours/night; wine; queer people and those that have heard what the hell queer means; apparently over use of parentheses (see below).

I hate: flaky people; people who do not type their phone numbers with dashes or periods [a string of 10 numbers in a row is extremely difficult to decipher! give your reader (esp if you like them!) a break!]; text conversations that are incredibly inefficient (we should probably just make plans by phone call. so old fashioned!) UPDATE: This is no longer true, but I'm keeping it in here bc/ I'm nostalgic for the days before my smartphone, which is still super new.

meeting strangers next to me on airplanes or bikes, statistics, and baking

Sometimes I smile an unnecessary amount. In middle school, some kids would walk up to me and ask what my problem was. You might also notice that I've got curly hair and Semitic good looks.

Joan Didion, Dorris Lessing, Dave Eggars, Franzen, Hemingway, Salinger, Bittman's How to Cook Everything Vegetarian

The Birdcage, Reality Bites, Kissing Jessica Stein, Moonrise Kingdom, Jules and Jim

Friday Night Lights, Girls, My So-Called Life, Mad Men, RuPaul's DragRace

The Pipettes, Magnetic Fields, Frank Ocean, the Mountain Goats, the XX; NPR podcasts

All veggies minus the olives, stinky cheese

lipstick, Luna Bars, my pup, working out, siblings, corrective lenses

endless To Do lists and what I'm going to do with the massive amount of zucchini I bought at the farmer's market. Oh, and social justice and shit.

out for cocktails or cooking some good food and snuggling with my pup.

You know how people usually claim that they are either a "face" or "name" person? Well I'm neither, and that may result in me introducing myself to you more than once.. in the same night. Especially if I've had something to drink. A decent person is to summon as much social grace as possible. That is, don't say: "You don't remember me?" This likely wouldn't have happened if you had told me something remarkable the first time around.

you're fun, regularly read a credible newspaper, like to ride your bike around Chicago, and can stomach my affinity for Martha Stewart. Or want to speak Arabic with me!