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torpid_smoke

28 / M / straight / Single

London, United Kingdom

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Ethnicity
White
Height
5' 11" (1.80m).
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New friends, Long-term dating, Short-term dating, Long-distance penpals
Smokes
No
Drinks
Sometimes
Drugs
Never
Religion
Agnosticism
Sign
Aries
Education
Graduated from college/university
Job
Clerical / Administrative
Income
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Languages
English

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I am humorous, bookish, and quiet.

My Self-Summary

I work as a library assistant in London. I'm into reading books, sitting around talking, soulful walks, and writing/thinking about writing.

I'm looking for pleasant, interesting people who like similar things.

What I’m doing with my life

I currently work as a Library Assistant at a University Library in South London. I hope to study for a librarianship qualification at some point, but would like to go back to studying literature in some capacity too. I live in Highgate, North London.

I’m really good at

Telling humorous stories (or so I am told), looking things up, listening.

The first things people usually notice about me

Red hair. I'm also quite thin.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food

Books: Nabokov, Joyce, Tolstoy, Dickens, Philip Roth, George Eliot, John Donne, Philip Larkin and many others.

Movies: Woody Allen, China Town, Stanley Kubrick, Powell and Pressburger, Charlie Kaufman, Ingmar Bergman.

Music: Bach, Schubert, Miles Davis, Galaxie 500, Bob Dylan, Pulp and Jarvis Cocker, My Bloody Valentine, The Beatles, The Smiths.

The six things I could never do without

A pen. London A-Z. A pocket-sized notepad.

I spend a lot of time thinking about

Painful memories that won't go away. Writing.

On a typical Friday night I am

Reading, watching a film, getting mildly drunk.