I believe that every 4 AM trek to IHOP spells adventure. Yoga has changed my life. I am a published poet. I enjoy analyzing, observing, philosophizing, and making up stories about people I pass on the street. I enjoy good craftsmanship and good company and good wine and good jokes and good memories and good music and good cigars. There are lots of things that I want to learn to do and very little life in which to do them. I wish I was more energetic. I wish I knew more people who were willing to do silly things on whims. I enjoy being around people who inspire me creatively. I love looking for something to do at night and randomly stumbling into live music that makes me want to dance. I dance sober. At a restaurant the ambiance is as important as the food. I like the finest restaurants and the diveyest dive bars and all the Irish pubs that fall between. I enjoy playing with the English language. I am tactile. I care about the way things feel; I have to see and touch everything. I love color and playing with color. I try to be amused by awkward situations. I am never afraid to stick up for myself or for anyone else. If I could be anyone in the world for a day I would want to be Ziggy era David Bowie.

I'm a lawyer. I'm curious to find out how many guys see this on my profile and get scared away by it, particularly other lawyers. I moved to Arlington in 2010 for work reasons after studying in the Boston area for 7 years. I don't define myself by my work; I see it as a way to fund all my other interests, though I sometimes joke that my law career is getting in the way of my dream career as a fashion designer slash rock musician slash alpaca farmer slash bed-and-breakfast owner slash entrepreneur and purveyor of fine luxury goods.

I spend much of my free time being tactile and expressing myself creatively (and indulging my closet sci-fi habit). I'm a jewelry-designer and I have a financially unsuccessful but highly satisfying side business selling my work online. I also dabble in 2D art, fiber arts, various arts and crafts involving mod-podge. I've recently added stationery printing, hand embroidery and bookmaking to the mix.

I love to dance and have studied belly dance for some time. Throw in a little salsa, a little zumba, a little Israeli...And I love listening to and making music. Karaoke all-star.

I am JUST getting into yoga. I enjoy the mental aspects of it and the focus on bridging the gap between body and mind.

Doing impressions of Margaret Cho doing impressions of her mother.

I make a pretty mean guacamole.

Delivering fantasy presidential speeches in the mirror when I'm by myself.

I'm a better editor than I am a writer.

Freaking out over puppies.

Knitting.

Making awesome jewelry.

Singing in Hebrew.

Playing "Smoke on the Water" on a rubber band. (or is that just sad?)

Bellydancing.

Piano (when I actually get to practice).

Things I suck at but try to do anyway:
Martial arts --> Comedy gold.
Spinning yarn and weaving
Crochet
Drawing
Complicated hair styles
Law School
Push ups --> Also comedy gold.
Running - for about 3 minutes.
Holding my liquor
Darts

I somehow vary between the intimidating Amazon and the crazy spaz-attack that doesn't know which way is up. I'm almost always hilarious, though very rarely intentionally.

Oh, also, I smell nice. Or at least that's what that creepy drunk 60 year old married guy at Thunder Bar told me.

Novels: The Fountainhead, Mrs. Dalloway, Cry to Heaven, 1984, One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and the Harry Potters of course

Non-fiction: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, A Year in Provence

Poetry: The Country Between Us, Street of Clocks, The Peacock's Egg, Les Fleurs du Mal, Autobiography of Red

My favorite poet is actually one of my best friends - go look at how amazing she is:

http://www.blazevox.org/062-cs.pdf
http://the-beat.co.uk/fridays-beneath-glass-ceilings/
http://www.sugarmule.com/25Surka-c.htm
http://www.righthandpointing.com/Issue15/christine-small.html

Movies:
Nightmare Before Christmas, Quills, The Red Violin, Moulin Rouge, Anchorman, Hot Fuzz, Taladaga Nights, Supertroopers, , Down with Love, Hamlet (the Kenneth Branagh version), Much Ado About Nothing (also the Branagh version), The Lives of Others, Ever After, Airforce One, Independence Day, Dead Poets Society...probably a lot more I'm not thinking of.

MUSIC:
My musical tastes are always evolving and I can talk music for hours. I have a hard time naming any single band, artist or genre that I follow - I kind of dabble in everything to an extent. I like international music a lot and my preference tends to be rock and its blusier predecessors. I like a good guitar riff, strong base and a strong beat. Bands which I enjoy but on which I am by no means an expert: Portishead, Rammstein, Muse, Marilyn Manson, David Bowie, R.E.M., Modest Mouse, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Elvis, Aretha, all the blues and jazz greats, Niyaz, Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re, vintage No Doubt, Simon and Garfunkel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, MJ, Dead or Alive, Polysics, The Ramones, The Clash, Sting, the Beatles (duh), Motown, Ace of Base, Led Zep, Presidents of the United States of America, ACDC, Hendrix, Toto, Springstein, Journey, Bon Jovi, Vivaldi, Pachelbel, Bach, Sousa, Copland, Gershwin, Bernstein, Williams, Mountaingoats, Django Reinhardt, Josephine Baker, Madeline Peyroux, Yelle, Emilie Simone, Carla Bruni, Camille, Sir Alice, Abba, Fiona Apple, Mississippi John Hurt, Robert Johnson, Ray Charles, Sinatra, Black Eyed Peas & Fergie, Smashing Pumpkins, Dresden Dolls, Beach Boys, Cream, Jefferson Airplane, Badly Drawn Boy, Belle and Sebastian, Metallica, Nirvana, System of a Down, Yo Yo Ma, Madonna, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Buena Vista Social Club, Gypsy Kings, Santana, Ravi Shankar, Aerosmith, The Eagles, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Queen, Creedence Clearwater, the Who, Pink Floyd, and then that litany of great American songs that everybody knows and a bunch of other stuff I'm probably forgetting. For some reason I don't like the Doors and I really don't like Radiohead (talent-wise they're fine but listening to it makes me viscerally uncomfortable).

Also today's country music (I call it country pop) makes my ears bleed...However I love the older, blusier country stuff, aka Johnny Cash, bluegrass, rockabilly, honky tonk etc.

Food - I love a good restaurant.

1. Yarn
2. Climate control
3. PJs
4. Dangly earrings
5. Public transportation
6. Eyelids

The six things I could TOTALLY do without:

1. Law students
2. Itches on the bottoms of my feet
3. Radio Disney
4. Snow
5. The New Yorker
6. Glenn Beck

Six things I could do without but wouldn't like it very much:

1. Cool breezes
2. David Bowie
3. needlenose pliers
4. Delicious smelling bath products
5. Youtube videos of random adorable puppies
6. Unexpected snippets of French poetry

Whether I regret cutting ties with the many, many classmates who later went on to become famous athletes and/or local politicians. How to get my noisy upstairs neighbors evicted and/or destroyed by giant robots. What my roommate's cat is thinking about and/or what it will be like when I finally decide I'm ready for a puppy. Flight of the Conchords and/or Psych.

At work until 8 PM? Well, I try to avoid that to the extent possible. Love Friday night karaoke - great way to get out the workaholic jitters and clear my karma for the weekend, though I will admit to enjoying some Friday night knittin and Netflix. Back in Boston would do poetry readings and/or cigar night with friends and would happily get back into that down here. I got over the clubbing/big party scene some time ago though I'm not opposed to something swanky every once and a while.

But good company and good conversation are a must if I'm going out.

I get way too many of my calories from beer and I have more clothing than God. I will also buy underwear to avoid doing laundry.

You don't expect me to have sex with you on the first date.

You enjoy intelligent conversation but still have a sense of humor, you're educated, you fall into the happy medium somewhere between clingy and aloof, and you enjoy trying new things and exploring the world.