Carmen

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About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	Sociologist
Location	London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Introduction	Feminist. Sociologist. Expat. Adventurer. Etc.
Interests	writing, TRAVEL, books, yoga, hiking, poverty, running, swimming, gender/class/stigma, water, the desert, wind, woodsmoke, fondue, almonds, all things Swiss, Switzerland, picking blueberries, museums, hole in the wall bars, pretty dresses, the blues, cynicism, history, the smell of freshly cut grass, long dinners in good restaurants, screened-in back porches, Chagall, Mr. Cello, loners, independent bookstores, World Cup soccer, my mom's food, trees, dictionaries, spanish moss, Ralph Nader
Favorite Movies	Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, Almodovar, Salles, von Trier, Breaking the Waves, City of God, Amores Perros, The Big Lebowski, The Fisher King, Last King of Scotland, Brazil, Sicko, Michael Moore, Sex and Lucia, A Walk on the Moon, Goodfellas
Favorite Music	Neil Young, Wilco, Mr. Cello, The Handsome Family, Nirvana, Old Crow Medicine Show, Okkervil River, Jeff Buckley, GN'R, The Beatles, The Kinks, Curtis Mayfield, Son House, Neko Case, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Motown in general, Lee Hazlewood, Leonard Cohen, Coltrane, R.L. Burnside, Lightnin' Hopkins, Springsteen, Joe Cocker, Van Morrison, The Band, Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Dylan, Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone, Edith Piaf, Gillian Welch, Neko Case, Emmylou Harris, Bowie, etc.
Favorite Books	A Fool's Progress, Ed Abbey, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Hardy, Our Mutual Friend, Dickens, 1984, Saramago, A Confederacy of Dunces, At Play In The Fields of the Lord, Into the Wild, Joyce Carol Oates, Sylvia Plath, Raymond Carver, Feast of Snakes, anything from Nabakov, Kundera, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Camus, Hemingway, Anais Nin, Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, Wilde, Breakfast of Champions, Vonnegut, Bukowski (sometimes)