Alex

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Gender Female
Industry Education
Occupation English Teacher
Location Austin, Texas, United States
Introduction After two years of teaching English in Asia, I'm back in the States. Follow my new (mis)adventures and spaz attacks.
Interests Rock climbing, French, books (all types), traveling, exploring, Hannah Arendt, political and economics theory...
Favorite Movies Shakespeare in Love, Ever After, Clueless (it's a brilliant, modern rendition of Emma ok, and Jane Austen is amazing), Boondock Saints, Good Will Hunting, Saint Ralph, 10 Things I Hate About You, Amelie, Cyrano de Bergerac, Legally Blond...
Favorite Music The Decemberists, Tegan and Sara, Badly Drawn Boy, The Postal Service, HelloGoodbye, Stephane Grappelli, the Shins, Regina Spektor, Eva Cassidy, Rilo Kiley, Les Nubians, Soko, Panic at the Disco, Dirty Projectors, Vampire Weekend, Bibio, Broken Social Scene, Feist, etc etc
Favorite Books Harry Potter, On Revolution, Catch 22, The Time Traveler's Wife, Portrait of the Arist as a Young Man, To Say Nothing of the Dog, Satori in Paris, American Gods, Good Omens, Thursday Next, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, the unbearable lightness of being, the brief wonderous life of oscar wao, failed states ...