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Carla

Forget regrets or life is yours to miss

About Me

I'm Carla,I'm 27 years old and kind of a geek...I teach at the University and I'm developing my PhD in Cognition and decision theory...Other than that I'm pretty normal.... Movies and music are my passions and no I can't sing or act...wrote a screenplay once didn't work so well... I think of myself as a calm, centered person but deep down inside I know I have an inch of craziness...ok more than an inch..hahahahaha

My Interests

I have many different interests from movies to working with social projects...

I'd like to meet:

There is a long list of people I'd like to meet..sure you are on it....kidding....I get along very well with all sorts of people...feel free to send a request if you like the profile...View All Friends | View Blog | Add Comment

Music:

I have an ecletic taste: rock, alternative rock, brazilian music, of course,pop. Just to name a few Anarbor, Bad Company, Led Zepelin, AC/DC, Sherwood,Steve Miller Band, Queen, Bon Jovi,U2 yeah... a lot of old stuff mixed up with new... to name some brazilians Leoni, Milton Nascimento, Caetano...and so on...I keep changing everyweek my favorite song....the last one from Kiss Sure know something...it's on my playlist

Movies:

That's even harder to choose...but let's name some recent ones The departed, Blood Diamonds, Babel, The last king of scotland, The Holiday, so many and of course brazilian ones... Zuzu Angel, Redentor, Cidade de Deus... I was almost forgetting Hi-fi was also fun to watch it's a bit old but I never get tired of watching... Last but not least all Gabriel Macht's movies....he is one of the good guys...

Television:

I have to say I'm little bit addicted to the small screen... I watch a lot of tv shows like Supernatural, Smallville, GIlmore Girls... I know, I know I'm a PhD student I should't be watching tv it destroys your brain cells but it's harmeless fun...:)

Books:

The Sources of Power by Gary Klein about intuition, Guns, Germs and Steal by Jared Diamond, The World is flat by Thomas Friedman, The Moral Consequences of economical growth by Benjamin Friedman....just to name some books that really had an impact on me... but one of my all time favorite is a Carl Sagan's book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.. it really got me thinking about life and the way we define our faith in people...

Heroes:

#1 My mother for being so brave as long as she could #2 My dad for being there for her when she most needed #3 My geek brother for being him....hahahaha #4 Ann for being such a good friend... thanks for being there when I needed and thanks for not always agreeing with me... that gives me perspective...I keep changing my heroes section... I mean we meet them everyday....lets hope the list gets bigger...

My Blog

Why more is less?

Hey all, I was just watching this interesting video, a lecture with Barry Schwartz- sociology professor- he has this daunting theory about Why more is less? Freedom of choice is good, more choice is ...
Posted by Carla on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:03:00 PST