The only constant is change.

I work. I am working my retirement. I like variety and change jobs frequently. An Extreme Temp. An urban gypsy.

I am intelligent, curious, interesting and interested in who you are.

I like a bit of sake, a touch of wine with my water, a dram of buie with my coffee, a great martini, a drizzle of chocolate on my NY cheesecake. I am a foodie and prefer my own cooking to "out". I am a quasi-veggie, not a vegan, and I do like some sea food and from time to time some deelicious free range chicken (as in butter chicken and home-made-good-for-my-soul-chicken-soup).

Yogurt, yurts, yoga and bamboo appeal to me. I adore chocolate and strawberries and peonies and and and

I share a modest rental unit with Kitty. You could say, we live in a cat house..

I am a bookie. Oh Oh Henry. Balzac. Maupassant. Kosinski. Tolstoy. Solzhenitsyn. Salinger. Steinbeck. Miller (A and H). "Elephantoms - Tracking the Elephant" by Lyal Watson. "Hiroshima" by Hersey. "Josiah the Great. The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King" by Ben Macintyre, fabled by Kipling, immortalized, lionized (more or less) by Sean Connery and Michael Caine in movie of same name. A must read is the 2001 publication of Edwin Black's "IBM and the Holocaust". Ostrovsky too. NEW READ: Hans Fallada - "Every Man Dies Alone"

Reely: Film at-home DVD. I enjoy documentaries, commercial free TV, TCM, Knowledge Network, PBS; National Geo, Discovery Civilization, History et al. I like learning - I'm on an ever expanding learning curve - TV is a great resourse.

Sightings: "Slumdog Millionaire", "The Reader", "Outsource", "Nothing But The Truth" which was surprisingly good. I recently acquired a small VHS TV and now have a growing pile of VHS tapes. Cheap like dirt. No remote. oh gawd, I have to lean over, find my glasses, peer at the panel and poke it into activity and in the background, the (cheap but) larger flat panel TV looms and not to forget the old GE (still working but then, so am I) in my bedroom (but I am not working in my bedroom, yet). This is a 3 TV, 2 DVD, 1 VHS, 1 cat, 1 foodie-bookie's 1 bedroom joint. And, I am learning new skills - if the tape wobbles and a rewind doesn't adjust it, smack it. Be affirmative and that's how I watched "Hoffa" last night.

I believe Mother Nature, in all her forces, will inevitably take care of our environmental crisis - so saideth the late and great George Carlin.

Hot Docs: "The Future of Food", we are what we eat (scary stuff); and "Crude Impact" - all about oil and what drives us. "The Price of Sugar" - this is not a sweet story. The flight that will never ever land: "Air India: Flight 182". "The World According to Monsanto" - more exposure. Time to RoundUp the manufacturers of destruction. And let's not forget "Our Daily Bread" - a documentary story of mass food production. And the new "Food, Inc." I can't wait. "This Is Not a Love Story" (quite old, but then, so am I). "The Geologic Journey" from CBC (I have a long standing interest in earthquakes and am now pursuing my interest in volcanic activity. Connecting dots.) Ric Burns'"New York: A Documentary Film". "India" (on my wish list) .. then .. oh the never ending desire for more film, film, more film.

Internet, another remarkable resource. I Google Earth, I time travel, I dig for shards, I watch history unfolding minute by minute, here there and everywhere and been there.

Act Accordingly: Nicholas Cage, Richard Branagh, Orson Wells, Richard Harris, the late and great Gregory Peck, Sir Dirk Bogarde, Gene Hackman ("The Conversation" being a particularly outstanding film), Roberto Benigni, Jean Moreau; The Directors: David Lean, Fellini, Wyler, Stone, Coppola, Kapra, Attenborough

Tune In: a bit of classical, oh ok, more than a bit. Baroque baroque baroque Jazz - Coltrane, Wes Montgomery, Jimmy Smith, LA jazz, smooth jazz, Chris Botti, Lionel Hampton, some big band, some South American Jazz, Al Di Meola, Flora Purim. Some blues. Navarro. Some Sinatra - voices - good voices, good music. Lou Rawls. Some Miles Davis (not his tripped out stuff), Pierre Leduc, Bach, Scarlatti, Lani Hall, Cannonball Adderley, did I mention Coltrane? oh love supreme. Mercy, mercy, mercy

I try to buy local, avoid global but if must, and it is a must, buy fair trade, seek out those producers, challenge the status quo and look for the real thing. Be ethical. Try. Chicken soup for the consumer's soul.

I don't club, pub or hot-tub, bicycle (but I do ride), fish, hunt, golf, casino, kayak, RV, watch TV sports, Mexico, Vegas/Reno, "all inclusives", "time shares", cruises, et al, never, all of which seem to be highlights on many profiles. I'm not her. I love trains. I am drawn to the "industrial" as well as the "picturesque". Dams, mines, excavations, bridges - mountains, glaciers, tarns and great rivers. And I might like to learn to dance - but you have to know how because with a dancer you can really dance (so sang Joan Armatrading).

It might be nice to share the occasional long walk, a social event, meal, film, concert with another soul who shares similar (and diverse) interests. As noted above, I don't club, pub or hot tub. I work. And I work. I keep busy and don't really need activity partners. But it would be nice, from time to time, to share a bit of casual companionship, take in a concert, perhaps a walk through VAG, perhaps a walk away from the madding crowd (but not on the "seawall" nor in "stanley park" both of which are flooded with fish-dates if we are to believe that's what the common date is on Fish) -

This was our "first date". The second date could be a "walkies". We walk and you talk.