Note: please take the time to read this message all the way through. I'm looking to be wowed by someone edgey and artistic. Thanks. Cooking, poetry (I do spoken word around town), omnivorous reading (I read everything from mystery fiction from foreign countries to historical biography to how-to-do-it to everything...I just run my fingers down the spines of books at the library); just walking around exploring, listening to odd music, going to art museums, Italian language and culture. I am currently looking for work--my friends think that I'd be fantastic doing retail involving food/wine/cooking tools. I've had a year of cosmetology school; I may go back to school for esthetics, though it's expensive. As far as music, it's eclectic: love Moby, Morrissey, Marianne Faithful, Anthony and the Johnsons, Mark Lanegan, P.J. Harvey, Sigur Ros, fado music (Portugal), real jazz (not that smooth crap), anything from other places that is exciting and makes the hair on the back of my head stand up. I am a xenophile (opposite of a xenophobe). In other words, I like strangers. I am curvy, the photo is accurate. I am of Scandanavian extraction, but I present as Mediterranean. I am looking for someone funny, liberal, unconventional who does not expect a subserviant woman (never been that way, even as a baby), well-spoken, into the arts (don't have to be an artist), open-minded (more about that later if we meet!), enjoys gourmet food (it's okay if you don't cook), cares about others, including animals. Sarcastic humour a plus if you're not too snotty. Looking for age range of 30-50. I don't care about how much you make, or exactly what you do, I just care about your personality, okay? Anyway, even though I'm 44 I come across as 30-something and hip. Blame it on good Norwegian genetics. I am a great catch, not a casual person, and incredibly loyal. I could probably (I'm sure, ex-English major) say more, but that's for you to find out. Oh, and one other important thing. I am not anti-nature nor against exercise but I am NOT the athletic-likes-to-go-hiking kind of girl. If you are that type of person I don't care, but I'm not. Oh, and if you call me "honey" right off the bat or are obsessed with sports or seem compulsive about me sending you more pictures as opposed to intelligent conversation, then it will not work, okay?

Hmmm. Your place or my place, we'd meet, and I'd cook you an amazing meal. Then we'd walk around a neighborhood we'd never been to, pretending we were tourists. If the weather was nice we'd go to an unusual spot most ciy-dwellers would'nt know about. Then we'd watch some strange film and talk about it afterwards. We might laugh a lot until we looked silly and turned red. Also, there would be comepletely unscripted things that would happen just because I tend to attract interesting situations, i.e, we'd meet strangers, whether yuppies or homeless people who'd steer us, or we them, into interesting situations--new places, new ideas, etc. If all of this sounds too odd for you, or you do not like books, or you're a junk food afficanando, please do not contact me! I am both simultaneously serious and goofy, ladylike yet sometimes vulgar. All the best people defy easy categorization, n'est ce pas? If you are from the East Coast, or have sub tendencies, or are European, you are at the top of the class!