Floyd B Pishko

Kennedy School of Government, Duke University, Altes Kurfuerstliches Gymnasium, Jeffersonville-Youngsville Central School

Harvard University, Attended 2005 - Present, Class of 2007, Master's Degree, International Development
Duke University, Attended 1997 - 2001, Class of 2001, Bachelor's Degree, Economics, English. minor: ethnomusicology

bon-vivant, economist, GADS Master.

American Economic Association, Brattle Film Foundation, Brattle Economist Club, Roundtable, Freewater Presentations

film, macroeconomics, Argentina, traveling, bookbinding, British Romanticism, jazz (feigned), hair dying, spectacles, Selin lemon cologne, grammar stickling, reading Savage Love

irving, hesse, high fidelity, white noise, some tom robbins, midnight's children, love in the time of cholera, wuthering heights

run lola run, ignorant fairies, amores perros, army of darkness, high fidelity, the big lebowski, in the mood for love, indochine, The Dinner Game, Amelie, As Good As it Gets, Enchanted April, The Wonder Boys, American Beauty, To Die (or Not), Cinema Para

Pink Floyd, Oingo Boingo, Carlos Gardel, Die Aerzte, German Hip Hop, Stanton Moore, Skanin Pickle, TMBG, I always wish I was more into music but it's terribly hard for me. Divididos, Ratones Paranoicos, Charly Garcia

don't watch but if I did: simpsons, seinfeld, futurama, west wing

I like:
- punctuation. favorite punctuations: ampersands, elipses, em-hyphens, en-hyphens, &c The semicolon is overrated. "Ooooh, look at me, I am a semicolon, I am sooo cool. Nobody knows what the fuck I am for but everybody likes to use me and look all smaht..."
- turtles
- offensive remarks ("Person XYZ should be decapitated and it should be shown on Arab television.")
- mate
- massages
- tea, coffee
- playing frisbee & eating icecream
- travel
- warm sand
- humid weather
- the open-source movement
- misspelling

I do not like:
- the alphabet
- combination locks. "Turn right three times... 42, then left twice... 21, then 12. FUCK!"
- getting lactose-intollerant reaction from icecream
- being cold
- the gastroinstestinal tract
- gunners

people impress me if they:
1.) have excellent dental hygiene (i.e. floss, brush at least twice a day, use mouth wash, a gum stimulator, and chew gum)
2.) go to conferences
3.) have been above 5,000m (NOT in a plane)
4.) mail letters
5.) wear freshly washed jeans
6) have a soapdish and dry soap
[7.) are good at math or have published a novel (this one's under review)]

Um, I try to be into experimental and experiential living but I don't kid myself.
Potential jobs: Economist, screenwriter, film producer, hobby massage therapist, long-distance truck driver, chef at the Waffle House

loose ties are for people with loose morals while loose hanging is for people with loose stool.

the other day I was thinking about:
- who invented liquid soap and why.
- why I only like half the people in my program (don't worry, you are among them)
- why they can't make a stapler that ALWAYS works. It's not rocket science, I would imagine.
- how old Horatio will prolly get
- if he'll get married
- how did I manage to waste three pairs of glasses in as many months?
- are caffeine pills bad?
- why does hair on some parts of your body stop growing after a while but not on your head (I mean, except for

Oh come on! Puh-lease...

People who:
- want to talk Spanish with me
- like watching movies
- like getting paralytic
- like shooting people from the window with a tranquilizer gun
- are part of the boston buddhist intelligentsia (sp?)
- think liking apple because they are "cute" is hotarded
- know what a hotard is (as well as a hotart)
- regularly give money away
- know how to:
hotwire a car
dye hair
name all bones in the body
know how to break all bones in the body
can get me a tranquilizer gun

additionally, people who:
- understand that i am a peaceloving citizen, though not of this or any UN-recognized country
- do the dew
- scoff and quoff
- razzle and dazzle
- ying and yang
- cheese and whiz
- whiz and kid
- marry and poppins
- yodle and eat yodles (maybe even while doing it, even though that prolly sounds nasty)
- do intergrals in their head when they get bored in a conversation with someone


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