I'm an active, intelligent, professional girl trying out online dating for the first time, so bear with me while I stumble a bit...

I'm a very active and outdoorsy person. If it's a nice day out and I have any amount of free time, I feel compelled to go outside and do something. Anything. Some of my most beloved possessions are my hiking boots, bicycle, and skis. I try to run 3 miles or more 5 days a week (Though it's definitely harder to make that happen in the winter), and I try to go on outdoorsy adventures every weekend. Even if I can't find people to go with, I've been known to go on nature hikes or long bicycle rides by myself.

I think my love of the outdoors also bring a good sense of adventure to my personality. I am a very adventurous person in all the ways that a person can be adventurous. I'll try anything once, whether it's a big scary ski trail, something new and quirky on a dinner menu, or going to see a band I've never heard of. If you're a person who isn't willing to try something new at least once in a while, I doubt we're going to get along. However, there are definitely some things that I know I like, and some things that I know I don't like.

Education is something that is very important to me, and not just in the formal sense of the word. Education takes place in many forms, and not just in a classroom or a lecture hall. I try to learn something new every day, whether it be reading a good book, flipping through the newspaper, meeting new people, visiting a strange new place, or even just finishing the last few boxes on a crossword puzzle.

I'm a very driven person, both professionally and personally. Once I set a goal, I pursue it relentlessly until it is accomplished. I think this outlook on life has really helped me find a good education, good job, good home, and most importantly good friends.

Aspiring tiger. Gigglebox. Part-time cheese.

By day I sit in my office at work and mash a keyboard while listening to TED talks, and paying more attention to the latter. I do work for a theatre, however, and blasting "Barbie Girl" in the grid for awesome dance parties is also part of my grind.

By night I wear a lot of hats. And only one of them makes me look like a tiger. I'm an insufferable foodie, and I eat out far too often. Or not often enough. Depending on your opinion of foodies. Hint: The latter is preferable.

Also pretty active in the fight to promote marriage equality. I'm privileged to know an organizer for the Family Equality Council, and I regularly participate in their fundraisers, pot lucks, and other events.

I'm definitely slightly obsessed with museums too, especially art museums. Card carrying member of the MFA, and I have a special love for the Gardner too.

My superpower is yelling at the T. You may not realize it, but it saves the world from villainous calamity on a daily basis. True story.

My cape that I totally wear when yelling at the T.

And for real answer... probably my green eyes.

Also that I'm really hyper almost 24/7, and that this song is constantly playing in my head:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPlQpGeTbIE

I have impromptu dance parties by myself. It's pretty much the best thing ever, especially when other people join in!

Books: Homage to Catalonia, The Good Earth, Nickel and Dimed, The Stranger, Memorias de un Hombre de Acción, El árbol de la Ciencia, The Complete Works of Saki, Fast Food Nation... (I'm also a news junkie, especially with economics, so I read a lot of CNN.com, elmundo.es, and economist.com)

Movies: The Devil Wears Prada, 10 Things I Hate About You, Pan's Labyrinth, Mar Adentro, There Be Dragons, The Way, Everything is Illuminated, Joyeux Noël, Titanic, Midnight in Paris, Star Wars, Mean Girls...

TV: Glee, How I Met Your Mother, 30 Rock, The Daily Show, Anderson Cooper 360, Friday Night Lights, The Big Bang Theory, Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña...

Shows (You know what, OkCupid? You said 'shows', not 'TV', so SUCK IT!): The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Abridged, Les Misérables, The Glass Menagerie, Copenhagen, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Cabaret, [Anything by Gilbert & Sullivan], [Anything NOT by Andrew Lloyd Weber], Three Pianos, Porgy & Bess, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Heidi Chronicles, Ok I should end this before it gets out of hand...

Food: Anything and everything. Anti-vegetarian. Pro-PETA. People Eating Tasty Animals. Spanish, sushi, Indian, New England seafood, Ethiopian, Mexican, Cuban, BRUNCH!

(BTW, Spanish food is by far the best food in the world. Of the top 10 restaurants in the world, 3 are Spanish , including the #1 spot (and none are French. Suck it, frogs!). And Spain's McDonald's have the McRib. That is one country that knows what is good about food.)

Music: Train, The Avett Brothers, Junior Senior, Badly Drawn Boy, Saturn Missiles, Polyphonic Spree, The Shins, Arcade Fire, Shovels and Rope, Say Anything, Imagine Dragons, Bus Stop, Ben Folds, Colbie Caillat, Scissor Sisters, Black Eyed Peas, André 3000, Jamiroquai, Divididos, Gipsy Kings, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Berrogüetto, Siniestro Total, Carlos Núñez.

Rawking-out-Gaby-in-the-ZipCar-mode: Train - Drive By

I also judge a lot of musicians based on more than just their music.

Por ejemplo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p04TYk4j0zQ

Classiest person ever.

(And okay, this is probably the sixth time I've had to fix that link. YouTube keeps changing it. If it's broken again, just search "Billy Joel Vanderbilt" on YouTube)

Coffee with two teaspoons of coffee and a side of coffee with coffee for dessert.

Rationalizing my eternal hatred of jetlag. Seriously. I wish jetlag was a person. Because I want to murder it.

This is such a stupid question. Anyone who has a "typical" Friday night is a boring person, whether it's always going out and partying it up or sitting at home in sweatpants and watching bad movies. Both of those things are awesome, and everything in between, and I plan my Friday night based on how I'm feeling and what I want to do rather than on any sort of "typical" impulse.

Sometimes I really wish my life was more like My Drunk Kitchen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK1E0kwltJE), and then sometimes my life really is like My Drunk Kitchen. And then it's awesome!

My inner monologue is in my first language, and when I wake up in the morning it takes be about five minutes to actually be able to speak English.

(Also, I've actually emailed the staff at OkCupid to add my first language to the list of languages you can list on your profile. True story.)

Ok after a few months on OKCupid I'm going to rewrite this, because it seems like everyone has the same shit here, so I'm actually just going to go out on a limb and be totally blunt in this section.

So here's the 10 rules for messaging me:

1. College educated. I may sound snobby saying this, but I have no interest in dating someone who doesn't have at least a 4-year degree.

2. You know how to write a message. This has two parts - first of all, you know how to WRITE. I know it's the internet and some conventions of language fall to the side of the road, but seriously people... put some pride into the words you write. And secondly, know how to write a message that is interesting. I'm just putting this out there: If you write a message that consists of just "hey what's up?" or similar language, I am not going to reply to it. End of story. I will put exactly as much effort into reading a message as you put into writing it.

3. I'm not going to meet you for drinks tomorrow night. I'm just not. I've met a few guys from this site, and it's been a nice experience, but I really prefer to talk to a guy for at least a week before exchanging numbers and meeting up. If that's a dealbreaker for you, then you're a dealbreaker for me, so thanks for playing.

4. Read my profile. Thanks for saying I'm pretty, but I'm not on this site for you to blitz through my pictures and nothing else. And trust me on this... It's very easy to tell when someone hasn't read my full profile. A lot of your dumb questions are answered up there ^^^...

5. Opposites attract. I'm not interested in dating someone who is just like me. I like being in a relationship with someone who has an intellectual base that is very different from mine. Don't get me wrong, I love sharing common interests, and that's VERY important, but I also love learning about new things and experiencing new interests with a partner, and so should you. If you think you're exactly like me, chances are I'm not going to like you. EDIT: My 'opposites attract' theory is not open to people who believe in creationism (seriously, how are there that many college educated guys in and around Boston who actually believe in that nonsense...) or believe that homosexuality is a choice and thus marriage equality is immoral. Those aren't differing intellectual bases or opinions... you're just wrong.

6. Be confident in your personality and culture. Own where you are from, and be proud of it. One of the biggest turn-offs in guys are people who try to co-opt the culture and heritage of other peoples. First of all: Hipsters, go suck your own dick and don't message me. Second of all: I don't care how long you were there... studying abroad doesn't count as having lived abroad. I'm a Spanish citizen, and I haven't lived in Spain since I was 3. And trust me, I've spent A LOT of time in Spain since then. When people tell me they "lived" somewhere (aka studying abroad) it just shows a complete lack of pride in their own heritage, and is a total turn-off. I don't care if you're originally from West Nowhere, Nebraska. OWN it, and love it. (NOTE: Props to people who have legitimately lived in a foreign country.)

7. Be willing to be a partner. A relationship is a partnership, not an obligation. While chivalry isn't dead, and while I definitely appreciate a guy holding a door open for me, I even more appreciate a guy letting me pay for dinner. I'm a feminist at my core, and I'm not a doll who is going to march to your drumbeat. It's 2013, and if you can't be willing to make a relationship work on equal footing with your partner, you're probably not someone I'm going to get along with.

8. Be intellectual. Know how to talk about something other than yourself. Know how to talk about something other than what you went to college for. Guys who teach me something is a huge turn on, but an even bigger turn on are guys who can have intense intellectual conversations about totally abstract topics just for the sake of having an academic discussion about something.

9. Be confident and ambitious. I never sit still in my own life, career, and education, and neither should you. It's a big sign of a person's personality if they don't want to keep on climbing the professional, social, and academic ladder.

10. Message me if you are willing to accept all of these as rules. I'm sorry if I'm being rudely blunt, but none of this is "optional" for me. Sort of tying into rule #9... I'm not here to "settle". I have a ton of optional rules, trust me. But these 10 are ironclad RULES. I honestly don't think they should be too hard to follow, and I have no problem writing this site's longest "you should message me if" section to say so (seriously, where's my trophy?). I really think everyone should make this section this detailed, because "you should message me if... you have a sense of humor and a nice smile" just doesn't work. I know what I want, and so should you. So now that you know what I want... if you think what I want is also what you want. FUCKING MESSAGE ME ALREADY!!! IMs work too...

(And bonus rule number 11: Message me if you know where it rains in Spain. Because it's not on the plain. And extra points if you get this reference...)