In Germany with my ex's 1972 Porsche 911. There's nothing quite like driving a Porsche on the autobahn - everyone gets out of your way. |
My favorite pic of myself: at the grave of the poet John Keats in Rome, assisted by the cemetery cat, wearing the dress that literally stopped traffic. |
I'm a 24-year-old bisexual woman living in Philadelphia. I graduated from Yale with a B.A. in film studies in 1997, and I'm currently pursuing an M.F.A. in film at Temple. I'm concentrating in computer graphics and editing and streaming video for the Web, and hope to find employment doing what I do for fun in my spare time anyway - playing with computers and designing Web pages!
I'm more or less half Irish and half Slavic (it breaks down to 1/4 Ukrainian, 1/4 Czech, 1/4 Irish, 1/8 English/Scots, and 1/8 French Canadian, with some unspecified Mediterranean and Asian). I speak Ukrainian well, Czech passably; I can read Latin and heiroglyphic Egyptian (not that it comes up every day, but it's a cool thing to know).
As you can probably tell from the pictures, I'm kind of on the femme side, and I do have a ridiculous domestic streak. I love to cook (I make my own pasta and grow my own herbs), and I do counted cross stitch when no one's looking.
Before the nervous breakdown which you can read about in my coming out story I was a very good, very driven writer - novels, plays, poems, you name it. I haven't been the same since but I've written a few short screenplays and short stories. I still love to read, especially 19th century novels, Romantic and 20th century poetry, and, for some reason, ghost stories. I'm currently working on a screenplay about the witch hunts in 17th century Scotland, and am also creating a companion website that I'll link to from here when I get further into it. I've been doing research and writing 2-4 hours a day for the past three weeks (basically chaining myself to a desk at the Temple Library every morning - the only way to write is to write!).
Now that I'm finally at a school with a decent sports team I'm a moderately intense NCAA basketball fan - though my heart was thoroughly broken by Temple's loss to Seton Hall in the playoffs this year. But don't worry, I'm not too rabid a fan - I won't bite your head off if you don't like my team. (Well, unless you like Harvard. It's true about the rivalry between Yale and That Other School!)
Poets: W.H. Auden, Emily Bronte, A.E. Housman, John Keats, Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
Music: Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Alanis Morrissette, Liz Phair.
Artists: The entire Wyeth family, late Matisse, Jasper Johns
Filmmakers: Bertolucci before he got sappy, Martin Scorcese, Agnieszka Holland, the Coen brothers, Merchant-Ivory
Movies: Citizen Kane, Elizabeth, Heavenly Creatures, Gilda, The Conformist, Kenneth Branagh's Henry V, L.A. Confidential, and, because I do not deny loving children's movies, Babe.
Places I've actually been: Rome, Tuscany, Yalta, London
Car: Porsche 911
Fabric: chenille, cashmere
Color: that golden-orange of embers, amber, autumn leaves, and auburn hair
Food: Northern Italian, Japanese
Vodka: Stolichnaya (if it's made west of the Carpathians it doesn't count)
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