I'm a mom, home cook, and a user experience designer. I also enjoy reading sci-fi/fantasy books, photography, drawing, gardening, pilates, yoga, and watching movies.

I'd love to make and wear a T-shirt - "not straight, not gay, and not the least bit confused". (If you make this T-shirt, let me know and I'll buy one =) I'm as 50/50 bi as can be. I've dated the same number of men and women (not because I was trying to, it's just worked out that way).

Through all of my other dating history, I've been with one man, my best friend, my deepest love, my husband Gabriel_Night.

We are a polyfidelous couple - ideally, sometime in the future, we're hoping to find another 2 or 3 people who would want to join us in a life-long committed relationship, all living in one big household and raising lots of kids. But, we've had enough experiences that we know poly relationships can be difficult - both to find the right people and then to maintain the right balance of time, communication, priorities, etc.

So, these days, we're mostly just hoping to meet and become friends with some intelligent, empathetic people who care deeply, with a sense of humor who laugh easily, and who like to learn constantly and try new things (new foods, new books, new movies, new random adventures). If overtime, we all really hit it off and friendship deepens into something more - great!

Enjoying life. Not sleeping nearly enough.

Most of my time these days is devoted to taking care of and playing with my amazing son. My evenings I spend cuddled up on the couch with my amazing husband, watching our favorite TV shows, and reading books. When I can, I cook for my family and friends. Lately I've been learning to make pie crusts by hand and I'm starting to learn more about cooking fish.

I'm also lucky enough to work in the perfect field for me - I am a self-employed Mobile User Experience Designer. If you have no idea what that means, it is the equivalent of being an architect for mobile websites and apps. I don't do the graphic design or programming, I do the 'blueprints'.

I love Interaction Design. It allows me to combine my technical background and my interest in art and design with my interest in understanding people. I get to interview people and find out more about what they care about and what motivates them, apply a lot of logic and careful analysis, and then draw up creative solutions.

Seeing the whole of a thing and all the details. Organizing everything from socks to web sites. Being a good friend, mother, wife, daughter, and sister. Cooking.

I'm a woman (always loved that line in Deskset). I'm tall.

Books: I'm a reader. I read 30+ books a year.
Currently reading Mobile First and Raising Happiness. I'm also re-reading The Sun, The Moon, and The Stars by Steven Brust.

Recent favorites: Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss, Kiss of Snow by Nalini Singh (yes it's romance, but it's *sci-fi* romance and well-written) and Nurture Shock - great book on understanding some recent findings in child psychologoy .

All-time favorites: Jim Butcher's Dresden sersies, Steven Brust's Jherg series, Louis McMaster Bujold's Miles series, Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game, Terry Prachett's Discworld stuff, David Mack's Kabuki comic, Mathew Reiley's Scarecrow books - Ice Station, Temple, etc., Calvin & Hobbes.

Favorite movies I can think of off the top of my head: Casanova, The Philadelphia Story, The Pirates of the Carribean, Love Actually, Grosse Pointe Blank, So Close, Iron Monkey, Wasabi, and lots of others. Recently watched and loved: Sucker Punch.

Favorite TV series: Firefly, Star Trek TNG, West Wing, House, Farscape, Stargate, Journeyman (like Firefly, it had so much promise before it was canceled). BBC's Misfits, Dr. Who (esp. w/David Tennant), Hustle, Top Gear, and Foyle's War.

Foods: Fruit (particularly berries and mango), dark chocolate, Thai food, sushi, Korean bbq, real Italian pizza, authentic Middle Eastern food (baba ganoush where you can taste the eggplant was roasted, falafel that is properly green and served with pickled radishes).

My family,
sunlight (I'm solar powered),
fresh fruit,
music to dance to,
visual art (natural or man made, I need beautiful things to look at),
something to learn or aspire to.

what makes a good or bad design, how I can learn to make better designs. food - what taste good, what's healthy, inventing new recipes, how to cook something I've never cooked before, learning ingredients, planning meals. loving, appreciating, and growing my family (both the family I was born with and the family of friends I'm building around me). how to raise happy kids.

Hanging out with friends at our place

I'm a geek. I can use vi and program in Scheme. I watch anime (Hunter X Hunter, Utena, and Trigun are favorites), and I play _some_ video games

You're in the NoVa area and you like kids and appreciate my husband's sense of humor and you'd like to share some movies, books, and good food with some new friends.