My Hobbies: Hiking, jogging, bicycling, collecting back scratchers with the name of a locale on the handle or crown (I'm up to 4 now having just picked up Belize), synchronized swimming, motorcycling, jumping to conclusions, making sure never to go more than 24 hours without saying the word 'conundrum,' tossing kittens in the path of seeing-eye dogs, Frisbee, and avoiding run-on sentences.

My Goals/Aspirations: I'd like to learn how to juggle. Also, I want to learn to do at least one magic trick really well. If I could ever earn to play the guitar well my life would be so perfect.

Myself and What Makes Me Unique: I got really good grammar, I know pi out to 3.14159265358979323846264338327950 by heart, I'm not a jerk, I have excellent short-term memory, I'm not a jerk, I'm a pretty good arm-wrestler, I don't like olives or marshmallows.

My Taste in Music: Folksy stuff like Peter, Paul and Mary, Joni Mitchell, The Be Good Tanyas, Ani DiFranco, Gillian Welch, and Rage Against the Machine.

A note about my pictures I'd like to share with you. Friends have told me that they do not do me justice, that I am far more handsome in the flesh. Well, actually, they just tell me I look like crap in the pictures, but I know they're thinking I'm way better looking in the flesh. At least they'd better be. Honestly, I think I'm even better looking than in the flesh.

I'd like to teach my date about the inner workings of an internal combustion engine, going over the differences between a gas powered and a diesel engine, a 2-stroke and a 4-stroke, a 2-valve and a 4-valve head, a turbocharger and a supercharger, etc, etc, until she begs me to stop because she can learn no more.

Even if she never wants to see me again, I want her to think that being with me once was very educational, mechanically speaking, so it wasn't a total bust.

Then we'd share a french kiss or an order of french fries. Or stare at a French Poodle while passing some Grey Poupon back and forth and developing an attitude. As long as there's something French going on the date should be pretty freaking romantic. Wee?