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Viktoria

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Born in Beijing, grew up in Wilmette, IL/Tallahasee, FL...yes, a strange, dichotomous childhood, and now living in Chicago.

My Interests

Finds yummy: working/living in the Loop. Financial system safety and soundness. Sushi, apples and mango sorbet. Figurative sculpture, cool architecture. Gehry, Rodin, Brancusi, Noguchi. Lanvin, Dries van Noten, Chloe, Balenciaga, Marc Jacobs. Swimming and yoga. Gizmo, my Shih-tzu. Finds yucky: fake handbags, steaks, Medieval art.

I'd like to meet:

childhood friends, fellow Northwestern alumni, Pierce Brosnan, Sallie Krawcheck (please do not message me looking to date; I do not find online stalkers appealing)

Music:

Opera (Don Giovanni, Carmen, Manon Lescaut, Cosi Fan Tutte), ambient lounge music, (Keren Ann, Isobel Campbell, anything from Hotel Costes), Counting Crows, Britney when she was hot, classical (Satie, Debussy, Bartok, Ravel), and a dash of Coltrane.

Movies:

The Great Gatsby, Amelie, Lost in Translation

Television:

what's that?

Books:

Shopgirl, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Disgrace

Heroes:

Amnesty International, MacArthur Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Doctors Without Borders