Peter Friedman

Freehold Township H.S., Yale, Northwestern, Columbia

Columbia University, Attended 2004 - 2006, Class of 2006, Other, Law
Yale University, Attended 1996 - 2000, Class of 2000, Bachelor's Degree, Ethics. Politics, Economics

Waiting to be sworn in

ACLU

Reading, Running, Traveling, Lifting, Cunctation, Mandarin, Coffee, Commuting, Cake, China, overpriced organic grocery stores

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Midnight's Children, Middlesex, Catcher in the Rye, A Suitable Boy, The Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, the Swimming Pool Library, Kafka on the Shore, At Swim, Two Boys, and while not a book, the Financial Times so I know what's going on in the world

Office Space, High Fidelity, Lost in Translation, Cruel Intentions, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Saved, Mean Girls, Clueless, Heathers

The Killers, Something Corporate, Weezer, Athlete, R.E.M., Radiohead, Idlewild, U2, Travis, The Boss, Snow Patrol, Kelly Clarkson, Indigo Girls, Sugababes, Dashboard Confessional, Robbie Williams, Guster, The Fray, Madonna, Howie Day, 80s music

Degrassi: TNG, Grey's Anatomy, Brothers & Sisters, Ugly Betty, The Family Guy

Scorpio

After traveling around the block from New Haven, to Hong Kong, New York, Chicago, and now back in NY, I finished law school this May and now I've joined the ranks of thousands of other lawyers in this city. Ask me the eternal question "What type of law do you want to practice?" or "Where are you going to be in five years?" and I just don't know, but maybe someone could tell me how to use my JD to put this country's foreign policy on the right track.

As for me, I'm tangential, talkative, exhausting, intelligent, love my parents and friends, and the lady who gave me my flu shot told me I have nice arms.

I'm loyal to those who have earned my trust and respect.

While I don't really beleive in astrology, I'm a Scorpio and that elicits some gasps, but there's no hiding behind signs, so all the quirks, good and bad, get lumped into my catch-all category known as "overall charm". I just ooze charm.

Plus, how many people can say they were almost fired from
their corporate job for having too much facial hair AND
were on Teen Jeopardy back in the day?

Oh yeah, and I really like to run...even outdoors when it's warm enough.

Long lost and far-flung friends, that girl Melissa from the second grade that I had a huge crush on, and the lady with the soothing voice who does the English announcements on the MTR in Hong Kong.

And for the man of my dreams or close to it, someone who will come up behind me to give me a hug, occasionally hears his inner dork urging him to play Scrabble or Boggle, knows all the words to R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World As We Know It," sometimes gets the urge to go for a run or to the gym, let's me give him a massage as we're watching TV, is not afraid to tell me I'm being stupid, can pick a restaurant for dinner that I've never been to and would want to go back to, is content with his life, will drag my ass to a museum every now and then, and enjoys dessert.

And I'm always looking for someone who will make me run further than I do on my own, maybe even over the Brooklyn Bridge.