Hi - I'm Rob.

The crappy thing about getting your PhD (apart from the crazy officemates and lousy parking) is that you don't get a chance to meet a lot of date-able women. My work friends are great, but they tend to be of the dude variety. My students are great, but they tend to be of the keep-your-hands-off-your-undergraduate-students-you-creep! variety. My family is great, but I'm not from West Virginia. Hey, it'll all be worth it when I'm one of those pipesmoking, tweedwearing, Saabdriving, insleeping professors in a few years. But yeah, not great on the dating front. So here I am.

I'd like to think I'm a kind, witty, intellectual guy. I'm also pretty mischievous, but it's always of the light-hearted completely-legal variety. I love joking around, be it drawing room stuff or oddball zaniness. Let's just say that if somebody says something awkward or ambiguous, people look at me to see what kind of grin is on my face ;-). Yes, I'm afraid I'm the chill, intellectual version of That Guy. But underneath all of that tomfoolery is a considerate, thoughtful, all-around good guy that just wants the people he cares about to be happy and laughing.

In terms of interests: I play in an afrobeat/prog rock fusion/jam band for fun and love to see good live music. I especially love jazz, indie/college rock, but I'm really just a sucker for playing flip around the satellite radio regardless of genre. I also love movies - anything really, though my friends erroneously accuse me of having pretentious taste in them. Other interests include peoplewatching, karaoke, shopping, chill-axing, and, at least on one occasion, saving Ben Stein's life (that part actually isn't a joke). Of course, I hope that my partner would have her own set of interests and would push me to enjoy new things as well.

I suppose I'm looking for a winning combination of the following: intelligence, class, graciousness, a good enough sense of humor to GENERATE laughs, femininity, adaptability, confidence, competence, maturity, immaturity, independence and devotion to separate nondating social lives and friends, patience, family orientation, good communication, openmindedness, possession of most (if not all) appendages, a laugh that inspires me to play, and, OBVI, a deep appreciation of Designing Women.

So, if you're looking for a fun, intelligent guy equally at home acting like a five year old or having great conversation over dinner or drinks, I might be your man. Shoot me a line and see what happens.

I like learning about people, and you can't do that at the movies very well, huh? So, depending on the context, something like dinner, coffee, drinks, a walk (it worked in Half Baked), bowling (I suck but recent outings have shown promise), baseball...I'm flexible.