postdoc at ucla
How about we… go see Manhattan at cemetery movies saturday night, and wonder what we're doing in LA.
How about we… take Ryan Gosling's advice, and go explore the LA River: http://laist.com/2012/07/31/how_the_la_river_scene_in_drive.php.
How about we… do the following, but just this once, as an experiment, for science: go play glow-in-the-dark mini-golf. (Motivation: one friend is suddenly head over heels for "activity dates"; another said she thought they sounded like a horrible idea, unless of course it was...mini-golf.)
About eventhewicked
My self-summary:
I'm the angsty intellectual type--intense when I'm not still asleep, sensitive when I'm not evaluating an argument, a "sad young literary man" except without the literary ability, and getting less and less young. You know, that sort of thing. You're smart and thoughtful and will argue (with pleasure) when you think someone's getting things wrong; equally important, you're sensitive and affectionate and you develop strong emotional attachments that have consequences; you're ambivalent about all sorts of t
An awesome place I've visited:
I'm the angsty intellectual type--intense when I'm not still asleep, sensitive when I'm not evaluating an argument, a "sad young literary man" except without the literary ability, and getting less and less young. You know, that sort of thing. You're smart and thoughtful and will argue (with pleasure) when you think someone's getting things wrong; equally important, you're sensitive and affectionate and you develop strong emotional attachments that have consequences; you're ambivalent about all sorts of t
My perfect Sunday:
sleep late, brunch, lament that the hardcopy Sunday Times is no longer delivered to my door, work on a problem for awhile, go see a movie (for the first, second, and sixth parts, "with someone I like" is implied)
The movie I've watched the most times:
Manhattan, My Dinner with Andre, Magnolia
My life history in 5 sentences or fewer:
Humble beginnings, irritation, college (smart people!), New York, grad school, (smarter people!; lots of intersting travel), time passing, disappointment, excitement, ravages of time; LA (beautiful people!), ???.
Obscure knowledge I possess:
I can prove to you that there are "more" real numbers than natural numbers. And other important things.
I have a weakness for guys/girls who:
Are academic(ish) or artistic or scientific, that sort of thing (you know how Jane Gallop says her "sexual preference is graduate students"? of course you do), and have (detectible) feelings. That is, they're thoughtful but emotional but analytical but sensitive. Not grimly upbeat, but not suicidal.
For me, a first date no-no is:
maybe "first-date no-no"s? or: fun (cf. Susan Sontag: "'Fun'--the American substitute for pleasure.") just kidding.
What I would bring to show and tell:
Myself, at least in another decade or two. ("At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.")
I secretly want to be:
Stephen Metcalf.
I want to be with someone who wants to be:
serious, fascinated, alive
