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Amit

A New Yorker in a French city...

About Me

At 19, I'm already an expat and a traitor, not to mention gay and South Asian (oh heavens!) So, in light of my unparalleled accomplishments, I decide to get that fancy degree (International Development) from the fancy school (McGill) - you know, so that I can sip cocktails at some black-tie, big-band, ohsowhite benefit 10 years from now. Well, the real reason is so that I can run off and try and save the world through microdevelopment and the protection of human rights (or at least I hope). I'm more Western that South Asian, but my neverending sense of obligation or guilt sometimes serve to prove otherwise. I can dance you off your feet, lecture you on European politics & human rights, drink you under the table, shop you off your card, and I've been known to pierce a few intellects. We owe each other the world. BOO!

My Interests

I will listen to, enjoy, & sing mostly anything save bad pop and :shudders: country music; mashing garlic (so, cooking), running out of ink (so, writing), hurting my nerves (so, challening myself and others), sitting in a tight space for too many hours (so, traveling), getting pedicures (due, of course, to too many callouses from dancing), and oh god, I'll just admit it...sex, drugs, and rock & rolland last but not least...I have to say I love TV.

I'd like to meet:

Please, no pseudo-intellectual potheads who don't shower for days and spend more money than Paris Hilton. That's so 1996.

Music:

U2, Ani DiFranco, Missy Elliott, Ravi Shankar, Sting, Michael Buble, Celtic, Alabina, RHCP, Punjabi, Lauryn Hill, Jill Scott, too much else...

Books:

Rushdie & Sedaris are personal gods; Arundhati Roy, Franny & Zooey, Rex Brynen

Heroes:

"I want to be just like Neil Armstrong when I grow up - oh yes I do!"