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My self-summary Propose an edit

I'm quirky, for sure, very outspoken, and comfortable in my skin, even to a fault.

Travel is important to me, as is art in various forms. Three things that give me absolute, pure, total, complete, all-consuming joy are: working with hot glass, cooking meals for people that I care about, and snowboarding.

Also, I'm not interested in casual sex. Period. End of story. Don't even try. I'm also not interested in poly-anything arrangements, except possibly poly-friend arrangements. I don't have any ethical qualms with it, but it's not for me. I don't want to share.

What I'm doing with my life Propose an edit

I'm teaching ESL in the Seattle area. I teach people who have relocated to Seattle to work for Microsoft. Well, usually I teach their family members. I really enjoy it. I'm probably going to hit the road and go back to Korea (or maybe somewhere else) sometime after the holidays. Hooray.

Since it's November, I'm supposed to be writing a novel, but as of 10:18 p.m. November 10th, I haven't started. Fifty thousand words is looking mighty long right now.

I'm trying to re-learn French. I still speak it with a degree of competency, but my vocabulary has diminished and I have a significantly limited comfort zone when it comes to verb tenses.

I'm really good at Propose an edit

Cooking, talking, listening, art, writing, adventuring, honesty, finding items in random patterns (like four-leafed clovers and Waldo).

The first thing(s) people usually notice about me Propose an edit

Ask them. Depends on what I'm wearing and doing, I suppose. I've got nice eyes and a nice butt (I'm told).

My favorite books, movies, music, and food Propose an edit

a) A Chorus of Stones by Sue Griffin, the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder (yeah, I'm a sentimental fool), KOOLAIDS by Rabih Alameddine, books by Phillippa Gregory when I want some some escapism, Freakonomics, cookbooks in general (I'm the only person I know who reads cookbooks for fun), the Tao Te Ching... I like non-fiction, too. I'm currently poring over Writer's Market 2009.

B) He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not; The Very Long Engagement; Amelie; Kill Bill vols 1&2; What the Bleep Do We Know?!... the Indiana Jones trilogy... I dunno. As long as it isn't mushy and crappy I'll probably like it. I do enjoy adrenaline movies with stuff that blows up, but I also like stuff that's in another language.

C) Cat Power, rocketship, Wallflowers, Slowpoke, Veruca Salt, Lucinda Williams, The Velvet Underground, Belle & Sebastian, Johnny Cash, R.E.M., Manu Chao, Lush, The Tragically Hip, My Bloody Valentine, 3eb, Ugly Cassanova, Modest Mouse, cornershop, bond, Simon & Garfunkel, Kylie Minogie, radiohead, Rasputina, 3 doors down, Pepper, Ween, Gorillaz, Mojave 3, Echo & the Bunnymen, Counting Crows, Stroke 9, Syrup USA, Norah Jones, Interpol, Idaho, the Sea & Cake, Goldfrapp, the Tindersticks, Bing Crosby, etc. I like most things. I recently came to ADORE Sigur Ros. If you are in Sigur Ros, please message me so I can make you cupcakes.

D) Vegetarian stuff, except for cheese, which I love even though it's not technically vegetarian. I love spicy food and I love trying new foods. So people who aren't adventurous eaters and I usually don't get along as well as we could. I miss kimchi chige horribly. I love to cook, so I usually eat pretty well. If you're in the mood for Korean, I make pretty decent doenjang chige.

The six things I could never do without Propose an edit

Other than food, water, clothing, and shelter, I guess hope is really it. Things that I would prefer to not forego include family, bathing, toilet paper, the natural world, and books.

I spend a lot of time thinking about Propose an edit

My future. Why man created god in his own image, and insisted it was the other way around. Men. Women. Friends. Weather. Words. Certain people. Uncertain people.

On a typical Friday night I am Propose an edit

Usually relaxing.

The most private thing I'm willing to admit here Propose an edit

I'm going to keep that to myself, thanks.

You should message me if Propose an edit

You've checked me out more than once and are still trying to decide if you think I'm interesting or not. Or you know me already and want to hang out.

Also, if you'd like to answer either of the following questions:

Which minority do you think will next have one of its members elected as President of the US?
a) a woman, b) a gay man, c) a non-Christian, or d) a third party candidate?

Which value is the most important for Americans in general, do you think? Which is most important to you?
a) freedom, b) security, or c) equality?

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