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Carmen
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About me

GenderFemale
IndustryEducation
OccupationSociologist
LocationLondon, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
IntroductionSociologist. Expat. Adventurer. Etc.
Interestswriting, travel, books, yoga, hiking, swimming, gender/class/stigma, water, the desert, wind, woodsmoke, fondue, almonds, all things Swiss, Switzerland, picking blueberries, museums, hole in the wall bars, pretty dresses, the blues, cynicism, history, the smell of freshly cut grass, long dinners in good restaurants, screened-in back porches, Chagall, loners, independent bookstores, World Cup soccer, my mom's food, trees, dictionaries, Spanish moss
Favorite moviesAlmodovar, von Trier, Wong Kar-wai, Petzold, Breaking the Waves, City of God, Amores Perros, The Fisher King, Sex and Lucia, A Walk on the Moon, Goodfellas, Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, Parasite, etc.
Favorite musicNeil Young, Jeff Buckley, GN'R, The Beatles (esp. Paul), The Kinks, Curtis Mayfield, Son House, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Motown in general, Lee Hazlewood, Leonard Cohen, Coltrane, R.L. Burnside, Lightnin' Hopkins, Springsteen, Joe Cocker, Van Morrison, Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone, Edith Piaf, Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris, Bach, etc.
Favorite booksSaramago, Camus, Richard Yates, Javier Marias, Elizabeth Strout, James Baldwin, A Confederacy of Dunces, At Play In The Fields of the Lord, Into the Wild, Joyce Carol Oates, Sylvia Plath, Raymond Carver, Feast of Snakes, Nabakov, Kundera, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, Breakfast of Champions, Vonnegut, Hardy, Dickens, etc.
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