Who am I? Depends on the time of day. Before 9:00AM I'm a grump, in the classic sense of the word. I hide in warm, dark places, have poor eyesight, and growl at anyone who dares approach. From 9:00 to 5:00 I'm sweetness and light incarnate, as I help poor children believe in themselves, get dirty, and climb stairs. After 5:00, I'm free to revel in my true nature: dorkishness, Talespin style. This can include anything from bad-tv marathons to writing a science ficiton novel, to making amature film documentaries on my cell phone, to holding excessively long conversations containing nothing but absurdity, to sitting around with a bunch of nerds as we all pretend to be vampires or anime characters, accompanied by much arguing and the clinking clack of rolling d10s.

Other interests include all kinds of dancing, from ballroom to moshing; aimless meandering about the city; extended circumnavigation of the coastline; solving all sorts of word and number puzzles, sudoku in particular; applying numerology where it doesn't belong; tilting at windmills; bouncing around to (terrible) music at full volume; messing with the English language; using too many semi-colons; reading all the SF novels (and the occasional romance novel or comic) I can get my hands on while struggling to ignore my internal editor/English major.


I have a boyfriend. We've been together over two years, and lived together for most of that time. We're currently in an open relationship (responsible non-monogamy) and looking for other people to date. Ideally, I'd like to find a friends-with-benefits deal. And keep in mind, like a real job, the benefits can take up to three months to kick in.

First dates are awkward, uncomfortable experiences. Everyone is afraid of the long silences and the artificially enforced time limits. Dinner and a movie are cliche, and the coffee shop meeting to make sure you look like you say you do is it's own special hell. Therefore, the best first dates are the ones where you don't have to stay glued to each others sides, have lots of external stimulus to comment on, and, hopefully, other people around. Museums make the best first dates of all. Plenty of conversation starters all around, open and well lit spaces, and no time limit. You can stay only long enough to see one section before heading out to something else, or you can spend a whole day browsing and exploring.

At least, that's the best I've ever heard of to date (pun intended.) If you've got a better suggestion, let me know!