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Bonjour Geneve! Yesterday
It's 3am. The next 24 hours will be spent entirely in transit to Geneva, Switzerland. I'm excited, but oh the pain.
Movies
The Chipmunk Adventure, Fight Club, The Fountain, Happy Accidents, Jean de Florette, The Last Unicorn, Milo and Otis, My Cousin Vinny, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, La Vita è Bella, Pride and Prejudice, Star Wars.
Music
National anthems - particularly those of Iceland, Soviet Union/Russian Federation, Albania, Hungary, Romania, Bangladesh, Turkey and Mexico. Also, the haunting voices and passion of Ofra Haza, Jacques Brel, Emiliana Torrini, Bic Runga, Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos, Rufus Wainwright, and Dave Matthews.
Books
The Complete Book of Knots, The Complete Book of Locks and Lockpicking, The Complete Book of Bookbinding, The Thomas Cook Overseas Timetable (for rail and public transportation abroad).
Activities
A lot of math and programming interspersed with piano and travel lusting. And soon, travel-lust fulfillment!
Interests
24-hour diners, airports, antarctica, blink tags, book-binding, boots, bridges, bright eyes, camping, chopin, coffee, danish, dave matthews, dogs, family, french and hungarian rock opera, good books, good company, grammar, hand written letters in the mail, headlamps, image processing, jacques brel, jasmine tea, knots, knitting, liszt, locks, logic, macgyver, mechanical calculators, medeco, musicals, musicians, niche markets, noir fiction, nonlinear dynamics, passionate people, photomatons, piano tuning, pride and prejudice, puzzles, red, rituals, romantic-era opera, rope, shibboleths, sorbonne IV, stars, syntax, travel, trees, trumping the system, tunneling, vastness, WD-40, wilderness, wookieepedia, yarn