books, justice with peace, women, music, dancing, physics, literature (classic, serious, comic, and (homo)erotic), homeopathy, nutrition, alternative healthcare, and potassium.
Music
My loves:
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Aimee Mann, David Bowie, Fiona Apple, Ladytron, Eels, Malcolm Middleton, Badly Drawn Boy, Arcade Fire, Hot Hot Heat, Ben Folds (five), Modest Mouse, Bach, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Weezer, and Tchaikovsky.
My top ten for last week:
Here's what I am listening to RIGHT NOW:
Movies
My Beautiful Laundrette, Magnolia, waydowntown, Punch-Drunk Love, Trainspotting, Brokeback Mountain, 10 Things I Hate About You, The Journey, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Mulholland Drive, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Casablanca, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Home for the Holidays, Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, Baryshnikov's The Nutcracker, Clerks, West Side Story, Brown Sugar, The Weather Man
Television
Nip/Tuck. Yay! The L Word. the Closer.
STEPHEN COLBERT I LOVE YOU.
Books
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen), Cosmos (Carl Sagan), Emma (Jane Austen), Mansfield Park (Jane Austen), Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (Jose Saramago), Hamlet, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Michael Chabon), Picasso at Lapin Agile (Steve Martin), Reservation Blues (Sherman Alexie), A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking), the voices (Susan Elderkin), Cane (Jean Toomer), Harry Potter (all of em, JK Rowling)
Heroes
people who know that standing up for yourself means standing up for others.
kyra sedgwick's character on The Closer, and Julia Stiles's character in 10 Things I Hate About You. They are beautiful, strong, and so damn sexy.
Harvard University
Cambridge,Massachusetts
Graduated: 2003
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Physics and Astronomy and Astrophysics
Greek:
Nu Nu Nu
1999 to 2003
Los Angeles Center For Enriched Studies
Los Angeles,California
Graduated: 1999
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: The Environmental Club, The Jazz Ensemble
About me: ***WARNING: I am bad about checking myspace. Find me on facebook. I will get to myspace eventually ... although maybe a month after you tried to get in touch.***
I'm a 2nd year phd student in physics at the university of waterloo in waterloo, ontario, which was recently dubbed the geek capital of canada. hell yeah.
i am a dancer and a theoretical physicist at the same time. yes, kids, it is possible, and it is possible without caffeination. my favorite song is "nightmare girl" by aimee mann. my favorite aimee mann is aimee mann. i like sounds that tend toward the bass end of the spectrum. i have been described as "passionate" and "difficult." men especially like that last one. In real life, I spend a lot of time in my office at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Great Canadian Neighbor to the North of that Loser Nation. In fake life I spend a lot of time on:
my live journal: Chanda's LJ, most of which is friends only. my favorite live journal community is Negroclash! and yes, we talk smack.
I also have a blog, called The Disordered Cosmos. Myspace won't let me link to it, so um, go to disorderedcosmos.blogspot.com.
Once mcsweeney's came with a comb and a story in playing cards. I loved that. (is rock still indie if they are on a major label????)
STEPHEN COLBERT, I LOVE YOU.
If you haven't checked out the wise crackin piano prodigyin antics of Ben Folds, you're missing out. Just check out the lyrics to rockin' the suburbs and the ascent of stan (textbook hippy man). If you love Jon Stewart, I promise, you'll love Ben Folds. Wow, do you think I should be his new publicist? Actually all I want to say is that ya'll don't know what it's like being male, middle class, and white. I'm all alone in my white boy pain.
actually, seriously, I'm pretty sure there is a whiney white boy inside of me. I know this sounds like a joke, but I am not kidding.
Silly? Silly everything.
Who I'd like to meet: HEY PRO-ISRAEL ASSHOLES WHO KEEP TRYING TO FRIEND ME: I'm Jewish but that doesn't mean I support Israel's ghettoizing, genocidal mania.
me, my self, and i.
i dunno. who the fuck do you want to meet?
people who make the word "fuck" sound good when they say it. how's that?
That's good to hear :) School is going well.. I'm looking forward to the end of the semester in a few weeks. Did you get the laces reunion info? Do you think you'll be going? I don't really feel like it...
Wow Chanda... Congratulations! :) I'm sure you guys will be having a beautiful ceremony.. Will you post pictures? I wish you both a lifetime of love and happiness together.
I'll be applying to the Master's program in Physician Assisting.. Hopefully I'll get in! It's pretty competitive. 1.5 years left isn't bad at all! Are you working now? Or do you have some kind of fellowship? I passed LACES today. It was SO wierd.. they have a marquee up now.
heya.. you're welcome for the comment :) I've been good. Just really busy with school and stuff. I'll be applying to a MA program next fall, so I'm trying to get my CV to look as good as possible. Are you almost done w/ your Ph.D?
