About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Non-Profit
Occupation	Development Associate
Location	Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Interests	Foreign languages, vintage clothing, accessories, and decor; high quality dining establishments, belly dancing, yoga, reading nytimes.com, crossword puzzles, Sudoku, chess and other intellectual pursuits, homebrew!, red wine, gin and tonic with olives, international food and film, supporting the little guy while trying to avoid anything corporate, organic and sustainable agriculture, caviar, oysters, dark chocolate, African violets, jasmine, roses, rosewater, travel, Hedonism, being incredibly charming, anything that appeals to the Sensualist in me.
Favorite movies	Anything that's not produced for mass viewing by Hollywood. I like off-beat, arthouse films. Love foreign films as well. El sexo i Lucia. The Unbearable Likeness of Being. Kolya. Tinto Bras, Pedro Almodovar.
Favorite books	Let me first say that I am a chronic book purchaser... it's a filthy habit. My habit is seeping into the purchasing of Russian books, especially textbooks. On my list: Evgeny Onegin, Brothers Karamazov, Idiot, Notes from the Underground, Zapiski iz Mertvogo Doma. Animal Farm, 1984, Catch-22 and Something Happened by Joseph Heller, Crime and Punishment, Anna Karenina, Brothers Karamazov, Demons, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Oil!, Jane Eyre, Clockwork Orange, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Don Quixote, The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Hollow Men, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Dead Souls, Hero of Our Time, Oblomov, Rebecca, The House of Sand and Fog, The World According to Garp, any book about Aphrodisiacs or cooking in general, books about consumerism, the environment, or the effects of consumerism on the environment. The Slow Food movement, organic farming, organic living, etc. Loved "The Sinner's Guide to the Evangelical Right". Trading Up: The New American Luxury.