Two things you should know:

- I'm very happily not married to fauxazn, and the only thing that may change about it is the "not". Just so you know.

- I am one of these: gorgeous people

In other news:

I am slim and hidden behind my notebook when I'm not out trying to climb, running or doing other stuff. I'm terrible at making first impressions but subsequently good at convincing people that I'm not how I initially appear to be.

I don't take myself seriously, looking at my life as if it were a movie and laughing about me running into glass doors, drowning my cell in the Mediterranean, smashing my laptop with a volleyball.. ..my life is a cheap slapstick movie.

I can smile about an absurd angle of a horrible situation until the very end. I refuse to be serious about things just because I should be, and I scoff at people who believe that the absence of a sense of humor equals maturity.

I'm understated and quite shy, but will talk far to much once I start talking. I am very, very random at times.

I like words and if you don't stop me from doing it, I will invent my own. I like photography and architecture.

I'm brutally honest and sarcastic, but never mean. I have strong opinions and always, always end up playing the devil's advocate. Discussions are fun.

I am, apparently, immune to jet-lag.

Born in Ukraine, grew up in Germany, lived in France for a bit. Now haunting the populace of the U, S and A.

I'm a PhD student and haven't been in grad school long enough to stop loving it. I'll let you know when that happens. I love languages and I have a massive list of them that I have to get around to learn.

Procrastination. Making people laugh when I talk to them one on one. Pulling silly, absurd stunts to make someone smile. Or drop their jaw. Or both (which looks funny).

Listening. Talking. Writing insanely long emails.

Tall. Slim. My big red headphones. I don't smile without a reason. I don't think I ever met someone who didn't completely misjudge me based off my appearance. Sarcasm.

I don't keep lists in my head, so here's some random stuff:

Books:

I'm very particular about style, language and storytelling. For instance, I like the Harry Potter books, but despise Artemis Fowl for the writing. Star Wars books are no books to me, but mostly re-packaged toilet paper. I have read Dan Brown books when I did a lot of flying about and I'm ashamed of it.

Some books/authors I like: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Young Lions, H.P. Lovecraft, Lem and the Strugatskys, Mankell

Movies:

I mostly like to go see fun movies. I like epic stuff, ridiculous action, Hugh Grant movies (I know, I know), Keira Knightley and movies that clearly don't take themselves seriously. They still have to be well executed. I am perpetually disappointed by movies that don't live up to the trailer, and that's most of them. A lot of the Hollywood screenplays make me want to fly over there and beat those people up for producing scripts that a five-year-old could have written better. Dubbed movies make me cringe and squeal.

It takes a bit of a push to make me go see serious, philosophical movies, but I often end up liking them.

I like: Amelie, The Royal Tenenbaums, Lucky Number Slevin, Casino Royale, Love Actually, Woody Allen

Music:

I'm a rock person mostly, but I also like well done beat-heavy stuff for dancing, a lot of the singer-songwriter stuff I've been introduced to (Jem, Dido and such). I am not ashamed to admit that one of my favorite music styles to go dancing to is probably best described as "very, very gay". I'm a self-taught and thus terrible dancer, and I like it. I dance while sitting in my chair and working if someone plays the right music :)

I like: Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, Dire Straits, Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry and a huge lot of other stuff that I can't even name.

Food:

I like almost any food. My favorite is probably a mix of various mediterranean cuisines. I had a traumatic run-in with pumpkins and am very cautious around them.

My friends. Tea. My computer. Crazy stunts. Optimism. Cozy places to sit and talk.

How my life looks from the outside.

It varies.

I might tell everybody I need to work only to end up wasting my time on the internet or chatting with friends.

I might have a fit of panic and actually work.

I might be out, pestering my friends to go dancing.

I might be hanging out with a friend, slumping on a couch, talking or watching a movie.

(a) You sell viagra, fake swiss watches and used Russian weaponry.

(b) You are sitting on a huge amount of money with my name on it, sadly frozen on a Nigerian bank account until a minor transaction fee is payed.

(c) Your name is Natasha and I should CLICK HERE for your naughty pictures.

(d) You have a big, throbbing truck and you want to drive me around America.