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About Me

About Me: On my way to be an optimist... I know I'll get there, eventually. It must be just around the corner from here.

Favorite Artists: Regina Spektor, Juliette Greco, Jacques Brel, Gilbert Becaud, Damien Rice, Madeleine Peyroux, Pulp
Favorite Genre: Random sounds with words that don't match the sounds. Especially is it's depressing.
Favorite Songs: Fellini in New York - Chava Alberstein Une derniere semaine a New York - Patricia Kaas Ding-dong sonnez - Gilbert Becaud Older Chests - Damien Rice Bar Italia - Pulp
Favorite Lyrics: Fellini in New York, at least if the English translation is correct. I will let you know as soon as I learn Hebrew.
Songs for Roadtrips: I don't go on roadtrips. I commute.
Songs I hate: The song about far girls by Mika. And anything that sounds too much like disco.
Guilty Pleasure: Patrick Bruel
Songs I repeat the most: Chemo Limo - Regina Spektor Une derniere minute - Carla Bruni Burn It Blue - Lila Downs and Caetano Veloso Mother - Tori Amos Ne me quitte pas - Jacques Brel
Band I wish I was in: None. I would sing without a band if I could sing.

Favorite Cuisine: Japanese. Chinese. Italian.
Favorite Desserts: Honey cake. Creme brulee.
Favorite Drinks: Any kind of coffee. Sparkling water. And champagne, of course.
Favorite Junk Foods: Does Chinese take-away count?
My Original Recipes: New cuisine things
Foods I hate: Boiled vegetables. And most Czech cuisine.

Places I love: All of France. All of England. Copenhagen and Helsinki and Amsterdam and Vienna and Saint-Petersburg.
Places I've been: Around Europe.
Places to see before I die: Portugal, New York City, Israel and Vietnam. And more of London...
Dream Vacation: In the presidential suite in Negresco in Nice. For about a month. With someone else paying for it, of course.

Nicknames: Misha. Mickaela.
Nationality: Czech. Or European, if that counts.
Religion: TBA
Heroes: Shereen Ebadi. Sir Nicholas Winton. And the suffragettes.
Interests: Oh, so many things! Reading. Listening to music. And dancing to it sometimes. Going places and hoping I won't ever have to go back home. Running down our street. Shopping for earrings and books. And I love French grammar.
Expertise: Silly things, mostly. Gazing out of windows, spending hours in the library without choosing a book to borrow, neglecting school work and counting my earrings.
Occupation: Ich bin Studentin.
Industry: Non-profit, what else?

Favorite Books: White Teeth - Zadie Smith, La Petite Bijou - Patrick Modiano, Die Klavierspielerin - Elfriede Jelinek, Love in a Blue Time - Hanif Kureishi, Kytice - K.J. Erben, Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy, Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf, Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part - Anna Gavalda, London - Edward Rutherfurd, On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
Favorite Authors: Zadie Smith, Thomas Hardy, Leonard Cohen, Amelie Nothomb, Ian McEwan
Favorite Genres: Stories that take place in London. I don't know why.
Favorite Characters: Too many... I usually have a favorite character in each book I read (provided it's not a dictionary).
Favorite Quotes: None. I only ever quote myself.
Recent Reads: Service clientele - Benoit Duteurtre, Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi, Wanderings - Chaim Potok

Favorite Movies: Anything that's on TV. I'm not a very demanding spectator, I'll watch anything. Especially if it's subtitled.
Favorite Actors: Anyone French. Oh no, not anyone. But most French actors.
Favorite Directors: Woody Allen.
Favorite Genre: Black-and-white psychological films with no sound.
Favorite Soundtracks: 8 Femmes.
Movie Quotes I say all the time: I don't have good enough memory to remember any.
Movies I can watch over and over: Amelie Poulain.
Actor that would play me in a movie: Thora Birch. Or Claire Danes. Or Valerie Bruni-Tedeschi. I wish.

Where I shop: Those huge shopping malls everyone claims to hate. But if everyone hates them, then why are there always so many people?
Brands I love: H & M, Camaïeu (although it's too expensive for me most of the time) and Orsay.
I like to wear: Skirts and dresses, as long as it's not winter.
Can't live without: My green M & S cardigan. And the black-laced ballerina shoes from New Yorker. Oh, and the black-and-white Sparkz T-shirt.
Prized Possessions: Prized? Oh, none. I just love all of my clothes. Although maybe the black-and-white tunic with flowers from Linea Cero in Madrid.
Guilty Pleasure: Headscarves.