Hello, and thanks for visiting my profile. I live in small town Arkansas...and the reason I don't list the name of the town is exactly because it IS a SMALL town...and because of my job, I'd be easy for any random person to find there.
About me:
Well..... I have moved around quite a bit the last few years. I lived in London (England) for a decade, then moved to New Orleans just in time for Katrina. Since that craziness I've been in three different towns in Arkansas, but am now getting somewhat settled. So far so good....and I'm hoping to stick around for a while.
I'm interested in all kinds of things--history (that's my profession), music,reading, travel, politics, meeting new people and seeing new things. I am a curious and political person...and get along best with people who are too. So...for example...you don't HAVE to be interested in politics, but if you aren't that's something that I LOVE to talk about right out the window! And btw, I'm a LIBERAL!!
I'm sociable and my idea of a fun weekend night is catching a band (in a bar, not a stadium unless it's something really exceptional) or lingering over wine and good conversation late into the night after a lovely meal. I'm from a live music town and it's in my blood--I NEED guitar bands, wooden floors and Coors Light (forgive me)
at least once in a while, but I also love swanky restaurants or movies and popcorn at home.
Not to be too negative, but this IS Arkansas...so...if your only real interests are motorcycling, four wheeling, and NASCAR....then we have VERY LITTLE in common!
And....I value time on my own... that's very important to me and I can't be with a man who can't handle "separate" time.
I love:
Mystery novels
Harry Potter
CSI
Classic Rock
South Park
Wimbledon
The San Antonio Spurs--NBA CHAMPIONS 1999, 2003, 2005 and 2007!!!
Going to real live baseball games (the only place I eat hotdogs)
Indian food
Road trips
Daniel Day-Lewis
Bloody steaks with creamy horseradish
Walking the great cities of the world
West Texas (where I was raised--best climate in the world)
Wine tasting
Shopping with my mother
Platform heels
Wedge heels
Jeans
The Lord of the Rings
Mountains
The Tudors....
AND the Stuarts
Heroic Men Movies (Gladiator, Casa Blanca, etc.)
Historical fiction
Historical films
GOOD Romantic Comedies
Intelligent Conversation about things that matter
Raw oysters
The occasional shot
Jon Stuart (The Daily Show)
AND the Colbert Report
Irony
Hot tea with milk
Ranch Dressing
Having Amazing Realizations
The Olympics
The BBC production of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (yes, the six-hour one)
Kissing
Waterfalls
Good Investigative Journalism
Cold Beer on a Hot Afternoon
Watching my tan get darker
Shiraz
Cruises
Banana peppers
Barack Obama
Shakespeare
The fact that curls are back "in"
Diet Coke with Crushed Ice
The Sound of Music
The "I have a dream" speech
That just-got-out-of-the-shower feeling
Storms (within reason)
Starry Starry Nights
Picasso
Canyons
Rogers and Hammerstein AND Andrew Lloyd Webber (no snobby reactions please--ha ha)
Those Coca Cola polar bears
The original GRINCH movie
The Constitution
Crickets (outside, not in)
Walk-in closets
The sound of a college marching band warming up for football season!
American Idol (shut up!) and Project Runway (I said shut up!)
Christmas
Autumn, when the leaves are completely neon!
Christmas SHOPPING!
The first REALLY cold day of winter.
Fair Trade Fairs
Sleeping under my down comforter when it's COLD outside the covers!
(To be continued)
I don't like:
Hot Tempers
Sushi
Rush Limbaugh (and Dittoheads), Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, etc.....FOX (FAUX) generally.
Thieves
Really inaccurate historical films
Irrational Prejudices
Advocates of "advanced interrogation" techniques
Racists, Sexists, Homophobes, Islamophobes...you get the idea.
Liver (as food)
Aggressive sales people/haggling
Bad service at expensive restaurants
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