Friends

Jan 2005

exceedingly bland suburb of Milwaukee WI

does the medical-industrial complex that is UPenn count?

http://profiles.friendster.com/15346406

University of Chicago, Lawrence University

med student - finally!!!

The St. James Trio - old and new lineups (I could admit to the International Union for the Statistical Study of Populations, but doesn't that make me sound deliciously dorky? Ah, only too true. Add in Population Association of America and none of you will come near me), Mistresses of the West Virginia Turnpike!

Max, the greatest kitty cat in the whole wide world, swimming in the lake! (really, you must all try it), giving my sister someone to chase after, long road trips, playing with Ipods (fake or otherwise), unraveling the Russian language, running, reading, hiking, traveling, art, lost causes, roller skating, exploring new cities, camping, NPR & WFMT, pretending I live part-time in London, hot Polish DJs, dining with friends, drinking coffee (or tea, when it's rainy), nostalgia, adventures, procrastination, tasty drinks, politics, visiting with friends, seeing plays, swimming, writing, talking! (specjalny po polsku -- prawdy jezyk miloscowy, tak, Ronnie kochanie?), Eastern Europe in all its incarnations (esp. a certain small town in southern Poland), Halloween, ligers (not tigons), my friend Steph's daughters Emma and Maddie (and Sophie!), Michael Abern [even though with him comes the Sisyphsean task of wedding planning :) ]

Currently reading: BRS neurobiology, the rough guide to India, NY times, www.aviewfromtheground.com

Before Sunrise & Before Sunset, the Mikey video, Wedding Crashers!!! (quote from Bekah: Thanks Dude, you were laughing so hard I couldn't hear the movie), the Big Lebowski, The Princess Bride, the long version of Pride and Prejudice, Best in Show, earlier Robert Altman, Iron-Jawed Angels, Moulin Rouge, Hitchcock films, Old School, Casablanca, earlier Kubrick, Goodbye Lenin, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Zoolander, Amelie, Pretty in Pink, any film featuring cities I love and/or have lived in

Five Degrees of Freedom, Beethoven & Chopin, Bon Jovi!, bad 80s dance music, Mat Kearney!, Pete Yorn, Nina Simone, Billie Holliday and other songstresses of yore (esp. singing Kurt Weill songs), a healthy dose of angry rock chicks, anything they would play at Hairbanger's Ball at Joe's bar. Bekah never fails to make me laugh as she croons 'I love it when you call me Big Papa' to me. The soundtracks to Rent and Garden State. Elgar's cello concerto.

i haven't watched tv regularly since 1993.

Leo

wow, almost a year down and last monday i've conquered both the thalamus & my thesis committee - have i arrived? going to india has me a bit freaked out, for sure, for sure, but it's one of those things i do because i can't not do.

Duckie Dale, J. Alfred Prufrock, Timothy Garton Ash, Vaclav Havel, Anna Akhmatova, Hannah Arendt, Helene Gayle, Eleanor Roosevelt, Alice Paul, Anna Quindlen, Atul Gawande, Barbara Kingsolver,Gloria Steinem, Simone de Beauvoir, Will Ferrell, Wallis Simpson, another Bekah [since she moved :( ], Hillary Clinton. My other grandmother. Me, circa 1995, and me, circa 2025. People from novel places, people who teach me things. Running buddies, traveling companions, people who tell stories (quicker than Jennie). People like my sister's Chinese protege Bill, who reassure me I'm not the nuttiest person on earth...maybe. People who make me laugh until I have asthma attacks. People who go 'whoa' when they see me. Anyone who loves Chicago as much as me.