I’m just including these for the sake of documentation. It’s what I filled in for the Match.com profile:

for fun:
- outdoor play and inside games
- fantasy and sci fi
- building things
- movies
- painting
- tango
- telling stories / hearing stories
- trying anything new
- i’m never bored (big imagination)
- big capacity for adventure

my job:
i have the best job in the world:
- strategic communications consultant
- creative projects that interest me
- flexibility to order my own life
- work with people, but don’t manage them
- i get things going and keep them going

my ethnicity:
irish/german; second of six siblings- 5 girls, one boy; born in seattle, grew up in DC, early adulthood in williamsburg and richmond, virginia; then missouri; memphis; and providence now for 10 years

my religion:
12 years of catholic school as a child. Now non-institutional in my beliefs, I’m slowly (!) moving toward enlightenment via the wisdom of numerous traditions.

my education:
BFA in communication arts and design (film, computer graphics, graphic design)
Everything for the MA in journalism except the thesis and enough time to finish it. damn. After a decade, though, it really doesn’t really seem to matter that much.

favorite hot spots:
- restaurants with great music but where you can still talk
- cozy coffee places
- libraries
- airports
- museums
- bookstores
- flea markets
- movie theatres
- NPR
- adventures in other lands, luxury or roughing it

favorite things:
- wind and big weather
- the great design of anything
- science and physics
- monty python and david sedaris
- andrew bird, cake, yo-yo ma
- silver jewelry
- aha! moments
- irreverence and reverence
- the corners of mouths
- meditation

last read:
- online research about wikis
- Convergence Culture / Jenkins
- Warped Passages / Randall
- Traveling Between the Worlds: Conversations with Contemporary Shamans
- Chronicle of Higher Ed