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LMccarth

go hard or go home (In everything you do)

About Me

I live for late nights that turn into early mornings-and frequently don't realize the time until the sun is rising. I am destined for propositions of late night walks in the city or rock climbing etc. I have come to terms with the fact that I am going to be an academic for life- academia just sucked me in and I can't bare to part with it. I moved to Korea in July to do research and teach some for 13 months. Hopefully something productive like a comparative analysis of schooling (specifics to be determined) will come from this global move. I like dancing when no one else is, typically in public spaces not meant for dancing. I frequently fall in love with characters from Tom Robbins' novels. I love jinjibangs (the Korean bathhouses) and wish that Americans were more prone to public nudity, in turn accepting these institutions with open arms. I am living on an island in the middle of the pacific and am currently pursuing a black belt in Tae kwon do. I miss the highly politicized conversations and debates that frequently took place in every crevice in the town of Northampton. I like biking. I especially like biking to bars in evening attire consisting of dresses. hard not to notice that i have a severe case of ADHD, which i have wholeheartedly embraced.

My Interests

music, interesting people, coffee and computers *preferably in the same location, my macbook, knitting, the Red Sox, exploring new places, camping, public transportation, bike riding, impromptu rock climbing, good conversation, theater, art, field hockey, kyaking, canoeing, reading, shopping, eating spectacular food, spontaneity, driving alone for long amounts of time.

I'd like to meet:

"Not your band, and only people I know in real life."- S. CoburnTom Robbins

Music:

I'll listen to anything if it's good.Erykah Badu, Coldplay, Ani (the earlier years), Grateful Dead, Bjork, Herbie Hancock, String Cheese, Bela Fleck, Ratatat, Outkast, Simon and Garfunkel, Radiohead Phish, Regina Spector, tegan and sara, Dandy Warhols, Zero Seven, Massive Attack, Trey, Bonobo, chemical brothers, basement jaxx, apostles of hustle, rjd2, ladytron, lcd soundsystem, jaime cullum, nora, Sinatra/big band swing, Aimee Mann, Arrested Development, Tori Amos, Scofield, Grandmaster Flash, Franz Ferdinand, Elliott Smith, Lauryn Hill, Ray Lamontagne, Moby

Movies:

Mary Poppins, Empire Records, Dazed and Confused, Pete's dragon, Magnolia, L'auberge Espanol, Igby Goes Down, Vanilla Sky, Bowling for Columbine, me and you and everyone we know, the squid and the whale, American Beauty, mulholland drive, Bedknobs and broomsticks, Garden State, Secretary, Requiem for a Dream, Amelie, Boiler Room, Almost Famous, Bittersweet Motel, Shop Girl, Michel Goundry/ Chris Cunningham videos

Television:

Sex and the City, The L Word, Curb Your Enthusiasm, I love the 70's, Arrested Development, Law and Order SVU.

Books:

Educational theory books, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Fugitive Days, Into the Wild, Girls on the Virge, Bukowski, Gender and Jim Crow, A People's History of the U.S., Shakespeare (King Richard III specifically), into the forest, anything tom robbins, transcendentalist writings, The Body Project, Poisonwood Bible, and lots others