Interests

misadventures, basement apartments, troublewenching, fenway park, harlem, diet coke, going barefoot, middle east, public transportation, writing passive aggressive emails, chinatown, 4 a.m. conversations, red wine, corruption, thrift stores, office supplies, new york city, thinking, dirty beaches, blowing bubbles, eminent domain, tea, spanish, genocide prevention, frolicking, baseball, sleep, africa, beauty, ehtiopian food, passionate people, used books, nuance, institutional memory, sitting in the grass, newsrooms, red sox, cb9, race relations, laughing, lipgloss, politics, bitching, dear colleague letters, indian food, human rights, winnie the pooh, carnival folk, buying things on the street, euro fanta, nerds, arguments, purple pens, hot air balloons, prague, freedom, making people angry, curly hair, colorblind societies, schnitzl, fountains, not sleeping, marathon meetings, arabic, boston, the new york times, old school nickelodeon shows, messiness, wanderlust, caffeine, dogs, cnn, snapple, acronyms, ireland, drunkenness, cities, disney, song shus, hugs, chocolate, chutzpah, ducks, whimsy, hedonism, chopsticks, jolly ranchers, skiing, elitism, interstate bus travel, catholic guilt, hutongs, holding babies, the kindness of strangers, old elevators

• dogs
• writing
• books
• beauty
• human rights
• dining
• chocolate
• wine
• red wine
• indian food
• dieting
• marathon
• thrifting
• politics
• traveling
• skiing
• baseball
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: L'auberge Espagnole, Chicago, Finding Nemo, Garden State, Dr. Strangelove, Igby Goes Down, Napoleon Dynamite, The Hours, Amelie, Y Tu Mama Tambien, 13 Conversations About One Thing, 21 Grams, Schindler's List, The Shawshank Redemption, The American President, Hotel Rwanda, La Mala Educacion, Mad Hot Ballroom, The Paper, others...

Music: American Pie, Beatles, Chinese children's songs, Avenue Q, Bob Dylan, Tupac, Chicago, U2, Simon & Garfunkel, Pogues, Rolling Stones, Weakerthans, Bright Eyes, Billy Joel, Counting Crows, Dar Williams, Belle and Sebastian

Books: 1984, Inherit the Wind, The Giver, The Things They Carried, anything by Kurt Vonnegut, Cannery Row, The Nuclear Age, A Painted House, The Stranger, A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, From Beirut to Jerusalem, Candide, A Problem from Hell, The Awakening, Brave New World, Catch 22, Fahrenheit 451, Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead, America: The Book, others...

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Palestine, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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