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te_la_you_know

25 / F / straight / Single

San Diego, California

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Ethnicity
Undeclared
Height
5' 4" (1.62m).
Body Type
Looking For
New friends, Activity partners
Smokes
Trying to quit
Drinks
Sometimes
Drugs
Never
Religion
Catholicism but not too serious about it
Sign
Gemini and it’s fun to think about
Education
Graduated from masters program
Job
Medicine / Health
Income
Kids
Likes children
Pets
Likes dogs
Languages
English (Fluently), Spanish (Fluently), Portuguese (Okay), Polish (Poorly)

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I am down-to-earth, funny, and analytical.

My Self-Summary

I moved to San Diego to do a Master's program, and now that I've graduated, I've decided to stick around for a bit. I love to travel and try/cook food from all over the world. My friends and family are very important to me, and I've realized that humor is a crucial element for me in any relationship, friendly or otherwise. I'm usually shy or really nervous when I first meet people, which according to some comes off as disinterest... but fear not, thats just me being awkward, which I also do very well. Not much of a small-talker, and a terrible flirt unless I really make an effort or have had a lot of coffee. But once I feel more comfortable I can definitely hold up my end of a conversation.

What I’m doing with my life

Hopefully someday I will be a program manager for an international non-profit, but for now I work in public health research, which I really find meaningful. I just hope I can go through the next few years without losing any of the fun statistics, accounting and finance I struggled to learn getting my masters. 'Cause I like being able to do those fancy things, makes me more "employable."

I’m really good at

Cooking for my friends, singing along to the car radio, making obscure references to commercials, speaking in accents...

I'm also pretty good at tolerating somewhat sketchy or absurd situations, probably from putzing around in Mexico for a few years.

The first things people usually notice about me

Eyes, smile... ethnic ambiguity. Or my earrings. Whatevs.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food

Movies/TV: Slumdog Millionaire, Ace Ventura, the new Star Trek, Spun, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Sling Blade, Swingers, 300, Everything is Illuminated, Monty Python, Law and Order, Dirty Jobs, Deadliest Catch, Daily Show/Colbert Report, and I recently started watching the Rachel Maddow Show.
Books/Authors: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Hemingway, East of Eden by Steinbeck...
Music: Beatles (Rubber Soul and Revolver, to be precise), The Killers, Mana, Bersuit Vergarabat, Calle13, No Doubt, RHCP, CUMBIA, (and banda, norteno, mariachi... quebradita), bluegrass/folk music
Food: Thai, sushi, Indian, tacos al pastor, tostadas de pulpo, pozole, luna bars, coffee, mangoes, cheese, Polish food

The six things I could never do without

I recently lost a piece of luggage that had a lot of the material things I cherished in it. It got me to thinking about attachments I had to people, some of which are no longer part of my life, that were being carried on through things I continued to treasure. Despite this semi-deep thought, there are a few things I can't do without (kind of in order, and after water, food and shelter on Maslow's hierarchy of needs):
1. Family
2. Friends
3. Coffee... or beer.
4. Traveling (screw you American Airlines!)
5. Music/my Paracho guitar
6. ..... I think thats all I got. Self actualization? Netflix? The Internets?

I spend a lot of time thinking about

...how I can turn my backyard into a horticultural masterpiece.
...how I can get data for ________ to solve me some global quandaries.
...what I can make for dinner with what I have in the cupboard.
... code-switching.
...where I will travel to next.

On a typical Friday night I am

Making dinner for my friends, having drinks and/or going out dancing... or not. I do what I want! :)

The most private thing I’m willing to admit here

I am really entertained by LOLcats. And "thats what she said" jokes, in moderation.