I'm a Northwestern University Graduate student studying crystallography and solid state crystal engineering. I've recently moved from Minneapolis where I spent the majority of my first 21 years in Minneapolis. I went to school in Minnesota and Chicago and now work in Boston.

PHILOSOPHY: postmodern.

Interests

Economics, Politics, learning Spanish / German, reading.

• photography
• perfumes
• politics
• reading
• chemistry
• economics
• engineering
• religion

Music, Movies, and Books

Egads, I'm terrible an singling out favorites so

Music: IMOGEN HEAP, BEATLES, DANIEL JOHNSTON, ATMOSPHERE, PEACHES, BOB DYLAN, SEX PISTOLS, RADIOHEAD, THE SHINS.
TV:
Lost, Simpsons, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Globe Trekker, Nova, South Park, ER, Futuruma, Late Night With Conan O'Brian, Square One, Ali G Show, Jack Van Impe Ministries, SNL, Strangers with Candy, YouTube, Robot Chicken, Kenny Vs. Spenny, Twin Peaks, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA.
Movies:
American Beauty, Empire Strikes Back, Pi, Battle Royale, Domino, A Clockwork Orange, Lion King, Kill Bill Vol 2, TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET, Fight Club, Memento, Requiem for a Dream, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, ERASERHEAD, I Heart Huckabees, Trainspotting, Run Lola Run, Escape Through Time, Lost in Translation, Citizen Kane, ET, Mulholland Drive, David Lynch, Proof, DEATH RACE 2000, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Big Lebowski, Waiting for Guffman, Ong Bak, Garden State, Nosferatu, Shaun of the Dead, Ed Wood, Glen Not Glenda, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Santa's Slay, Sin City, Spellbound, Dr. Strangelove, Hotel Rwanda, The Graduate, Old Boy, Sweet Land, Brick, THE ROOM, Stranger Than Fiction
Favorite Books:
House of Leaves, Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1984, Measure for Measure, LoTR, Harry Potter, Don Quixote, A Seperate Peace, Through the Looking Glass, Animal Farm, Sophie's World, Frankenstein, Utopia, Battle Royale, The Stranger, Wrinkle in Time, A Good Man is Hard to Find, Choke, Fight Club, The Awakening, Metamorphisis, Fountainhead, I Lucifer, Moby Dick, The Natural, One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest, Slaughterhouse Five, Candide, Catcher in the Rye, Chronicles of Narnia, V for Vendetta, Physical Chemistry: A Molecular Approach, The Great Gatsby.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Visiting the Dom in Cologne and the few buildings in Duisburg, Germany that made it through World War II - really intense.

Seeing Scotland from the Arthur's Seat (a large hill / small mountain)

Teach, Learn, Share

I did my PhD in chemistry and have interests in welding, philosophy of religion, photography woodworking.

Countries I’ve Visited

Mexico, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States