Truly single for several years after a long relationship. I enjoy movies, music, baseball, basketball, good food, a good cup of coffee, most of the usual stuff.

I enjoy working in the garden, but I also like to travel.

I'm a city girl (at least now), but I like to get away from the city once in a while. (Yes, I'll go camping or canoeing.) Spent a major part of my childhood in the suburbs. It got me interested in transportation and urban planning.

I like walks on the beach, especially if there is an ocean involved. Lake Michigan is all right, too.

I read the New York Times, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (though not every day) and the Shepherd Express, sometimes The Onion or The Economist or the occasional trade magazine.
I recycle anything AARP sends me (usually without reading it).

I've learned not to get attached to furniture.

I'm kind of shy at first, but I warm up.

Hoping to find someone I can go places with, maybe even someone to love. What can I say - I still go places, I'm a fairly independent sort, but a lot of things are just better with two. And nearly all the guys I meet in my everyday life are married or way too young.

(yes, I will get a picture of myself in a dress, one of these days.)

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I have a job as a drafter. The art (mostly colored pencil drawings) is just a sideline. I used to do office work, but after a certain point it didn't seem to have much of a future, so I put myself through technical college doing temporary office work on day shift and going to school part time in the evenings. I enjoyed it. I'm sort of a bookworm anyway, which helps.
I'm fixing up a small house and finding that it's nothing like "This Old House". I don't recall those guys ever spending time pulling up thistles. Or looking at the existing landscaping and wondering what on earth the former owner was thinking. I mean, really - an entire back yard covered with gravel?
I've usually got a sewing project going. I made all the curtains, now I'm doing clothes (mostly). Can't resist the occasional challenge.

maybe my hair (more or less red)?
my accent?

Books: history, fiction, economics (trying to understand this current mess), science, whatever. John McPhee is usually interesting. I've got an autobiography by the Dalai Lama, but haven't read it yet. Latest: "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight". That and "Skinny Dip" by Carl Hiaasen.
Music: I like jazz, rock, classical and some music that is just hard to classify.
Movies: Foreign films, indie films, a pretty wide variety actually. Latest movie: Quartet (Mom liked it too), and The Big Wedding. I may have gotten a lot of chick flicks out of the way by the time I meet you, but don't worry. I also got into major trouble the first time I was in college, watching too many samurai flicks...
As for food - I like a pretty wide variety, including Mexican, Italian, Chinese, Thai, Indian. I don't care for oysters or raw shellfish, though.
I like to go shopping at the farmers' market in the summer, and often I plan the menu around that.

maybe here, maybe out.

I'm looking around on OK Cupid. Yikes! :)

you feel like it.