(NOTE: The secret is out! The administration has been giving away "Serious Member" status for free to (mostly female) select members in order to promote it to the rest of us plebians for profit. Viva la revolución!)

Hi, so nice of you to drop by!

I am...
bookish, physically active, multi-talented, minimally masterful, honest, very thin, a man of reason, and not above splitting a stubborn infinitive or two. "Smart," "nice," and "good-looking" are up to you to decide. Social labels for your convenience: skeptic, yuppie, humanist, hopeless New Yorker, and moderate. I gravitate to haute culture (i.e. intellectual/artsy-fartsy activities) and practice submission grappling. My abs are visible. I am not shy, and adapt well to most any setting. I like long walks anywhere, not just on the beach. (Actually, cleaning the sand off is more than a little annoying.)
I haven't any personal use for religious belief, but it's okay if you do.
I like the kind of humor that takes some education or subtlety to catch, the kind that stimulates the mind. If you judge whether you want to meet someone by taste in music, please save yourself the time and don't E-mail me. Pushing constantly at my mental frontiers brings me happiness.

A little history and where I am: I used to teach high school, but decided that it wasn't the appropriate career for me. Still, I am heavily involved in education: while studying toward yet another degree in school full time, I work for a prominent test prep company and also tutor a bit on the side. I value my leisure time too.

What I'm looking for: I like women who are independent and self-directed, but don't inflate their image. I want you to be as frank as possible. I will take integrity, sophistication, and charm any day over magazine model looks, and so I gravitate toward older women, but it's not a hard rule.

Things I do well: Considering your point of view, forging new friendships, cooking good meals, making overly complicated programs, reading Latin, the anaconda choke, Savasana, appreciating the arts from other cultures, finding the distance from a point to a plane, self-criticism, giving massages, making people feel good about themselves, playing through hypothetical scenarios, trying again!

Intrigued? Amused? Offended? Inquire within. All mail is read by yours truly.

My first date? What a strange question. It's hard to be certain, but it was likely one of those cheap, coarse ones you find in mixed fruit packs. I was a young boy back then, with a sweet-tooth overindulged on Hershey, Nestle, Dunkin Donuts, etc. so I didn't care for the flavor of dates very much at first. Over time however, especially after scaling way back on sugar consumption, my palate grew more tolerant, sophisticated, and sensitive: I now truly find dates a healthful indulgence of sweet 'n sticky goodness!