I like meeting affectionate (huggy) people with a smart sense of humor who are laid back and like to try new things (new foods, new movies, new random adventures).

Right now, I am really looking for a best friend - someone I can talk to about how my day/week went, someone I can trade books or movies or recipes with, someone to share a quiet cup of tea with, or go out to dinner with, or take a yoga/Pilates class with.

I share my life with a wonderful man I love very much, but, there are some interests he and I don't share. For instance, he has no appreciation for dark chocolate! Can you believe it?! =) And, occasionally, I want to talk to someone else about him more than I want to talk to him. But mostly, when something good or bad happens in my life, I just want a friend I can call up or IM and tell them about it and hear about what's going on in their life.

In my mind, a person who I am likely to click well enough with to be best friends would be similar to me in many ways. She would be a bisexual woman between 25 and 35, with liberal political views, no strong attachments to organized religion, who has traveled or is interested in traveling internationally, who laughs easily, cares deeply, is very smart, likes to learn, who is in or has had a serious relationship, and who shares some of my interests: reading sci-fi/fantasy books, cooking, photography, drawing, gardening, and watching movies. If this sounds like you, please message me. However, I know friends don't always come in the packages we expect, so if this doesn't describe you at all but you think you could be good friends with someone like this, message me anyways =) I'm always open to meeting good people.

I'm starting a new career in Interaction Design. Going back to college to study it was a thrill but it's good to be back home and actually getting to use it in a job. Plus it was weird spending all my time with people who were to young to remember anything in the 80s.

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• Gabriel_Night

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

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

Books:
Currently reading Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels and Life of Pi. Recent favorites: Anne Bishop's Black Jewels Trilogy, Eragon & Eldest. All-time favorites: Steven Brust's Jherg series, Louis McMaster Bujold's Miles series, 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: Jackie Chan's Rob B Hood

Favorite TV series: Firefly, Star Trek TNG, West Wing, Heroes, Farscape, Stargate.

Foods: Fruit, particularly berries, 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).

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• DCMerlin

My family including my SO, 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).

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• DCMerlin

Watching a movie, either at home on DVD or in the theatre with my SO and possibly other friends.

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 might like to get together for good ethnic food and fun movies.

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• Gabriel_Night
• DCMerlin