I’m an Atlanta native raised on British comedy. It makes for an interesting linguistic pattern when I’ll use British English pronunciations with a “y’all” thrown in. On top of all that I’ve been dubbed more culturally Chinese than my friends from China. I’m sure between the Brits and the Chinese there’s a good tea joke somewhere in there, but then you’d have to throw in India – and I’m not going to find a pun for Darjeeling (for oh so many cultural faux pas). That being said, I devour history. My iPhone is filled more with random lectures and books from science and history than music.

My family raised me to be a self-starter. Because there are certain things where one is never enough I’ve built three businesses (two of which survive – the main one being my sports medicine practice), I help property manage my family's real estate acquisitions, and for fun I tutor two teenagers. I have to say – reliving eighth grade vicariously is much more fun the second time around!

I'm at a point in my life where finding the right someone seems to niggle in the back of my mind more often - someone who brings their own sense of drive, goals, and jioe de vivre. My brain is definitely set in the dopamine system and as such adore my relatively-small group of close-knitt friends, and Atlanta will always be my home. I find my own adventure in life and don't need to actively seek it through darring-do - preferring instead the quiet of a mountain trail or a dinner/game night at home with my friends.

I love my practice, and I can't imagine doing anything else. For fun I'm learning Mandarin and I've plans to reteach myself to play the piano.

Cooking fish. I don't know how that happened as the best thing I learned to make in the kitchen when I was a child was reservations.

...and learning all the bad words and phrases in languages first.

Favorite books: At the moment my research sources, but in general those pertaining to mythology. The Richest Man in Babylon was probably the most influential in my life. I enjoy most of the Star Wars universe (especially the Thrawn stories); Guns Germs and Steel; the Disc World collection; and A Song of Ice and Fire series.

Favorite movies: The original Star Wars trilogy will always top my list. I also enjoy a good Monty Python "speak-a-long"; Gattaca; and Idiocracy.

Favorite shows: currently watching The Being Human (UK), and Game of Thrones. Other than that I keep Firefly and the IT Crowd on my computer at work...for emergencies, or just occasional downtime between patients. Be warned - the only way I know what is going on in the world is via Daily Show and Colbert Report...and my patients.

Favorite music: Here are a few examples that embody the sort of softer music that I like - HEM, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T2Knb0yO1s, a few songs from Gina Catalino http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCyEQ8-Ss48, and Over the Rhine, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7232rFHi9g

Favorite food: Lebanese and sushi

Literal answers: Carbon bonding; social bonding (yay! Look Dad - I'm using that anthropology degree you said I should have switched to business); my father's advice (apparently); quantum frothing (it's like frothing at the knees, but less terminal...unless you open the box to a peeved cat); good friends who tell me what the new words that kids use these days mean so that I can keep some semblance of being "normal" online (Fie, I say we bring back "groovy" and be done with it!); and finally putting pen to paper (saves on quills, and makes for happy fowl)...Sorry - I like puns. I was raised on British Humour.

My real list would go something like this:
Asheville
British comedy
Goals (of the short, intermediate, and long varieties)
Natural history museums
Random texts that make me laugh
Ambition

Mindlessness in the meditation sense, not the bumping into inanimate objects sense. Though I suppose I shouldn't really be "thinking" about mindlessness...

Oh the conundrum!

Silliness aside, I think a great deal on how to move forward with the next phases of my life: What and how to teach my child-to-be to grow into an upright character and continue to propel the family towards our intergenerational goals; what steps I can take to live even further below my means; how I can then increase my families' holdings; how I can get even more done in my day; and where I want to go for my vacation/reward for achieving my goals. This year it's Egypt, next year it's Shanghai, and perhaps Greece the year after.

Usually treating patients. Lest you think I'm a workaholic beyond redemption I have other evenings and other times of day free.

If you feel passionate about your hobbies and interests, even if that interest is in ferrets, marbles, or just life itself then by all means.

And if you're ready to date with the understanding of what you want in life and a partner - and you want it all to lead to something long term.