About Me
That’s a photo of…me! The little white furball asleep on me is my dog, Sophie Sacagawea (Sofsac, Foofie, and other diminutives also acceptable), and we are lounging at my parents’ house. I graduated from NYU in May 2010, where I double majored in Computer Science and Russian. I also have a background in math and physics. For some general information (copied off of my Facebook), see below:
Interests: books, God of War, food blogs (mine and other people’s), being hyperactive, computers, Law & Order SVU marathons, Netflix on demand, French horn practising at odd hours, piano, weather that is not above 75 degrees, tin whistle, baking, foreign affairs, languages, combinatorics, singing loudly and animatedly while driving, cereal, going places, puppies, clorox products
Favourite Music: …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead, Altan, J. S. Bach, The Beatles, Belle & Sebastian, Blood, Sweat, & Tears, David Bowie, The Byrds, Mariah Carey, Chanticleer, The Chieftains, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Decemberists, Bob Dylan, Borodin, Glenn Gould, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Gogol Bordello, Carole King, M.I.A., Joni Mitchell, the Move, Muse, Edith Piaf, Pink Floyd, The Pointer Sisters, Queen, Rachmaninov, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, Shostakovich, Sigur Ros, Simon & Garfunkel, Spoon, Cat Stevens, Syd Barrett, James Taylor, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Tina Turner, Vampire Weekend, the Verve, Rufus Wainright, The Who, Витас, Серёга
Favourite TV Programmes: Alias, Arrested Development, Be Good Johnny Weir, Big Love, Brothers & Sisters, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Dirty Sexy Money, Heroes, Keeping Up Appearances, Law & Order: SVU, Numb3rs, X-Files
Favourite Films: Amelie, American Psycho, Black Hawk Down, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Chocolat, Elf, Everything is Illuminated, Gosford Park, Hamby, I Capture the Castle, Into the West, Jeux d’enfants, Keeping Mum, Kill Bill, The Life Aquatic, Love Actually, Mary Poppins, Miracle on 34th Street, Mommie Dearest, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pride and Prejudice, Romeo is Bleeding, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Secret of Roan Inish, Silence of the Lambs, The Sound of Music, Star Wars, Waking Ned Devine, White Christmas, Zoolander, Стиляги, Ирония судьбы
Favourite Books: A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Alienist, The Angel of Darkness, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, The Eyre Affair, Freakonomics, Harry Potter, I Claudius, The Life of Pi, LotR, Mendelssohn is on the Roof, Michelin Guides, Over My Dead Body, Poisonwood Bible, Pride and Preudice, Rick Steves’ Travel Guides, Mастер и Маргарита, Sorstalanság, Wicked, Jasper Fforde, Wisława Szymborska, Czesław Miłosz