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tovar13
35 / M / straight / Single
Wotton, United Kingdom
The Skinny
- Last Online
- Join Date
- Ethnicity
- White
- Height
- 5' 8" (1.75m).
- Body Type
- Average
- Looking For
- New friends, Long-term dating, Long-distance penpals
- Smokes
- No
- Drinks
- Sometimes
- Drugs
- Never
- Religion
- Agnosticism but not too serious about it
- Sign
- Taurus and it’s fun to think about
- Education
- Working on Ph.D program
- Job
- Student
- Income
- Less than $20,000
- Kids
- —
- Pets
- Likes dogs and Likes cats
- Languages
- English (Fluently), French, Russian
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Your Notes
Edit your notesI am intense, erratic, and alert.
My Self-Summary
If you're ever at a loss trying to understand my weird personality,
just ask yourself 'What would my cat be thinking in this situation?' About
two-thirds of the time that'll give you a clue. I'm usually
tolerant, laid back and comfort loving, but subject to erratic mood
swings - from (reasonably) intelligent and logical to intense and
brooding to whimsically flippant. Toss a coin, and make your
predictions. Energetic in an undisciplined sort of way. I do have a
mild romantic streak (and I may even have a soul lying around here
somewhere), but well protected by the armour of cynicism. I do
believe in loyalty to friends, though. I love music, lively discussions and
interesting people. If they can actually manage to surprise me (in
a nice way!) now and then, that's a plus.
What I’m doing with my life
I've spent the last year or two translating a 500 page
mid-nineteenth century Russian socialist treatise by a guy
called Bervi into English (for the first time I think), and I'm now
working on my PhD on the subject.
(Hey, it's interesting to us Russophiles and history geeks ...)
No idea what I'll be doing when (if?) I finish that. Collapsing into a dazed / enchanted slumber for the next hundred months till awakened from the spell by an adventurous passing princess perhaps?
(Just joking. I think.)
(Hey, it's interesting to us Russophiles and history geeks ...)
No idea what I'll be doing when (if?) I finish that. Collapsing into a dazed / enchanted slumber for the next hundred months till awakened from the spell by an adventurous passing princess perhaps?
(Just joking. I think.)
I’m really good at
I have a very good memory, and I'm fairly observant. Which means,
of course, that my little grey cells are cluttered up with whole
reams of fascinating, but generally useless,information. I listen
well, and I'm fairly good at learning languages (but hideously out of
practice at using them!). I love sitting in the sun (when we have
any) in some city, listening to the music of all those accents and
languages (don't guarantee to actually understand a word of it,
mind). Sense of rhythm. What? You want more than three talents??
The first things people usually notice about me
My quiet feline moves (well, actually I suppose that would be
something they wouldn't notice until I appeared two feet away,
wouldn't it?) My eyesight, hearing and general edgy alertness
(again, think cat. And possibly "too much" coffee.) My flippant
(and sometimes obscure) sense of humour. Assuming they're not just
being nice when they mention it?
My favorite books, movies, music, and food
(a) Fav authors: Dorothy Dunnett, Ellis Peters,
Sharon
Penman, Agatha Christie, private eye
series, Grisham, Ludlum, Le Carre (esp. Smiley's People, Russia
House, Drummer Girl), Tolkien, Guy Gavriel Kay, Dune, Greg
Bear's Songs of Earth and
Power.
Anything historical, some fantasy, sci-fi, science, current affairs, politics, thrillers, whodunits. I read a lot (time permitting!).
Currently reading Sergei Lukyanenko's Night Watch series. The films aren't at all bad, but the books are better.
(b) Chocolat, Horseman on the Roof, Crouching Tiger, Three Colours Trilogy, Bladerunner, Empire Strikes Back & Revenge of the Sith, LOTR trilogy, Gladiator, Bond, numerous others. Recently saw the two Kill Bill films on DVD. They're great.
TV: just about anything Josh Whedon (Buffy, Angel, Firefly), X-files (esp the earlier seasons), Roswell, Babylon 5, Farscape, Highlander (TV series and first movie; later movies not so much), Lost, 24, Veronica Mars.
(c) Mostly classical, especially Russian / East European - Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Khachaturian, Stravinsky). Don't mind other types, if the rhythm's interesting enough.
(d) Italian.
Anything historical, some fantasy, sci-fi, science, current affairs, politics, thrillers, whodunits. I read a lot (time permitting!).
Currently reading Sergei Lukyanenko's Night Watch series. The films aren't at all bad, but the books are better.
(b) Chocolat, Horseman on the Roof, Crouching Tiger, Three Colours Trilogy, Bladerunner, Empire Strikes Back & Revenge of the Sith, LOTR trilogy, Gladiator, Bond, numerous others. Recently saw the two Kill Bill films on DVD. They're great.
TV: just about anything Josh Whedon (Buffy, Angel, Firefly), X-files (esp the earlier seasons), Roswell, Babylon 5, Farscape, Highlander (TV series and first movie; later movies not so much), Lost, 24, Veronica Mars.
(c) Mostly classical, especially Russian / East European - Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Khachaturian, Stravinsky). Don't mind other types, if the rhythm's interesting enough.
(d) Italian.
The six things I could never do without
1 Coffee (can there ever be too much?) 2 Chocolate (it's not
addictive or anything is it?) 3 Late nights, preferably with clear,
starry skies (I'm a night owl, and positively hate early mornings -
grrrr ghastly invention!) 4 My computer (yeah, I know, I know, but
nobody reading this can actually look down on me for that - too
much! - can they?) 5 Comfy armchair (essential for proper enjoyment
of 1 and 4) 6 Pacing room (helps the thinking. Or at least that's
the idea ...)
I spend a lot of time thinking about
Anything and everything. Often anything and everything except what
I'm supposed to be doing. (I did mention the erratic part, right?
Master Yoda would never let me into the Jedi academy.)
Anything from amateur schemes for better space travel to wondering why climate CHANGE should make the British weather WETTER (And I was so looking forward to joining the Club Med. "It's so much nicer in Nice ...").
Or wondering why my favourite foreign countries seem to spend most of their time squabbling with each other. And whether a world without evil would be an improvement or not. And Death, what's it good for?
Little things ...
Anything from amateur schemes for better space travel to wondering why climate CHANGE should make the British weather WETTER (And I was so looking forward to joining the Club Med. "It's so much nicer in Nice ...").
Or wondering why my favourite foreign countries seem to spend most of their time squabbling with each other. And whether a world without evil would be an improvement or not. And Death, what's it good for?
Little things ...
On a typical Friday night I am
Playing the violin / surfing the web / chilling in comfy armchair /
desperately scrambling through into the wee small hours to finish
off another 30 pages of notes for my PhD.
I suppose I could also add in hanging out in bars. But that would require the giddy metropolis of Wotton-under-Edge to actually have some. (Where's that?, you say. My point exactly. We're somewhere on the edge of two maps, on the side of FAR too many hills, and often in the pouring rain.)
I suppose I could also add in hanging out in bars. But that would require the giddy metropolis of Wotton-under-Edge to actually have some. (Where's that?, you say. My point exactly. We're somewhere on the edge of two maps, on the side of FAR too many hills, and often in the pouring rain.)
The most private thing I’m willing to admit here
Well, I could tell you about my devious three-year six-stage scheme
for total global domination, but there's a 0.497% chance that I
might actually need it one of these days, and then I'd have to ...
("In the end, there can be only one.") No, seriously, I like to
know people a bit better before telling them stuff like that.
You should message me if
You think our senses of humour might gel, and want to have a (semi)
intelligent chat about anything. (Or we could try everything, but
it might take a while.)
