i spend a lot of time either reading or staring out windows listening to music. foreign languages are my academic passion. i play the piano. i am fascinated by letters and mail; i write them to people i know and people i don't. i send some and others fill up boxes in my bedroom. i love parking lots and will sit there in my car under streetlights at night for hours sometimes. i am slightly obsessed with umbrellas; i collect them. i love thrift stores and yard sales and other people's old unwanted things.

foreign and independent. and james bond movies

i don't watch much on tv except for sports (red sox and steelers). and the occasional telenovela

i like some 'indie' stuff, classical, opera, bluegrass, gospel, old blues, old country.

the obligatory list of a few random favorites : galaxie 500, the raincoats, low, my bloody valentine, palace/will oldham/etc, the magnetic fields, guided by voices, chopin, shostakovich, prokofiev, puccini, mahalia jackson, patsy cline, doc watson, tom waits

and my brand new work in progress playlist :

a few favorite authors are virginia woolf, james joyce, dostoevsky, vladimir nabokov, milan kundera, marcel proust, kafka, saul bellow

and most russian literature, especially 20th century

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compassion, intelligence, openness, passion for something, escapism, grammar, barrettes, scarves, the ocean, color, aesthetics, windows, precipitation

indifference, insensitivity, pretension, exclamation points

hello all. i used to be on the sas site a few years ago; i seem to gravitate back here every few years. i've had social anxiety as long as i can remember although it worsened significantly 7 years ago. i also struggle with depression and an eating disorder.

other things i am: restless, impulsive, capricious, quirky, oddly secretive

i just moved to the boston area and would especially love to meet anyone nearby. online correspondence is lovely too if you're not in the area.