These are, in no particular order, some things about which Chandra had strong opinions.
| Things Chandra liked
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Things Chandra disliked
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- Drag queens
- Hallowe’en and Thanksgiving
- Grey, drizzly weather
- Doing edited volumes
- London City Airport
- Sending text and email replies consisting solely of “Ha”
- Evidence-based insight
- Bullshit bingo
- Vodka martinis made with Cîroc or Grey Goose
- Other cocktails, especially a Bloody Mary or Cosmopolitan
- The champagne bar at St. Pancras Station
- Brunch
- Lamb
- St. JOHN restaurant, for nose-to-tail pork dishes
- The Ginger Pig
- The Bistrotheque
- Dosas
- Fizzy water
- Phở and Sichuan hot pot
- Magnetic spice tins
- Mentoring graduate students and junior scholars
- Reykjavik
- Björk
- Bette Davis
- Dark red and purple lipstick from MAC
- The Tate Modern
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Veronica Mars
- That time Kimberly blew up Melrose Place
- Grandpa Simpson
- Eurovision
- Jane Siberry
- John Lewis
- Liberty London
- Borough Market
- After coming back from a trip, using her washy-spinny while waiting for Ocado
- Shiny silver shoes and wallets
- Her Elmo handbag
- Outrageously tiny handbags, including one that looked like a Chinese take-away container
- Menthol-flavoured, coloured Vogue cigarettes
- Cable car journeys to nowhere
- Finding bars that no other ISA conference participants knew of
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- Rowdy football fans
- Christmas
- Hot, sunny days
- Doing edited volumes
- Heathrow
- Text messages and emails signed off with an X
- Self-involved theorization
- Nonsense
- Vodka martinis made with Absolut
- Eggs
- Stealth cheese
- Sweets
- Getting chili in her eye while cooking
- Rodents
- Dogs
- Mould
- Pollen and nature in general
- Stuffy rooms
- Uber
- Nars and narettes
- Denim skirts
- Sycophancy
- War criminals
- Bianca Jagger
- Ridiculously bureaucratic university procedures
- Israeli airport security
- Not keeping to deadlines
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