I guess I'm your average joe. But not so average. And my name isn't Joe, it's Connor. Ok, let's try this again...

...I can't make any declarations about who I am; I'm still figuring it out myself, but here are some things I like: I like (love) NPR. Morning Edition on my bus ride to work, Fresh Air on my bike ride back.

If I'm being totally honest, by the time I get home I usually pick up a book and hit the sheets, but occasionally I get a little practice on the piano in. I've been working on Rachmaninov, Debussy. I'd love to learn the Horowitz Carmen variation. CAUTION: If you can play that I will likely want to have your babies.

I read. A lot. Have any good recommendations? Or if anyone has read 1Q84 and thought it was good let me know; I'm too afraid to pick it up. Right now I've been reading a series of books that look into global finance. I think it's pretty interesting, but that's just me!

I do work out, but unlike most people less so when I'm single. If I'm not having sex with one guy, why bother having a six-pack? My friends inform me I should have the opposite psychology, but I figure this really only works in the favor of whoever becomes my beau. If we go out and I become more muscular over time, take it as a good sign. Oppositely if I'm inviting you to chipotle all the time, it may be near the end, but with chipotle as a silver lining who can really complain about that?!

I try to dream big. Like "one day I'll speak on TED," big. Like, "one day I'll have a swanky flat in the Marais," big. Like, "one day I'll perform Rachmaninov's 3rd piano concerto in pajamas, as part of my 'piano and pajamas' wildly successful global concert tour" big. Some of these dreams are more achievable than others...

I collect furniture. It's mostly Bauhaus era or mid-century modern. Eames, Noguchi, Corbusier and the like.

I took that okcupid test and got rated as a bachelor. I don't think that's true; I've been in love, and I'd like to be in a relationship again, but I'm not eager to jump into anything. It's not about being in a relationship with anyone for me, it's about finding someone who's worth being in a relationship with. Maybe that's why I rated as a bachelor?

Want to know more? Ask.

PS--A word to those people who write one-liner messages: I'll be as indifferent to responding as you were to writing.

I work in education and I'm pretty passionate about it.

If I won the lottery tomorrow, I'd open Philadelphia's best modern art museum. I think I'd want to put it across the north end of Rittenhouse Square (let's pretend I won enough to buy out the Barney's, B&N, and Anthropologie stores).

keeping my humility. Sheesh OkCupid.

The piercings (seven), or the tattoos (two).

I wear bow ties, and that's always a crowd pleaser. Somedays I wear suits, somedays I wear ripped jeans and some sweater I found at Retrospect. I'd like a guy who appreciates both.

OkCupid asks overly broad questions.

Books: I like victorian and forward. I'm a potter fan, but I don't get cray cray. I read Around the World in 80 Days a couple months ago; that was fun. I studied anthropology for one of my degrees, so any social theorist is fun. I like to read the back of cereal boxes too.

Movies: I Am Love and Angels in America are my two favorites. I like Almodovar flicks. I live near the Ritz theaters, and I love checking out what they show.

Music: I have broad tastes, but 90% of what I listen to is classical. I know, it's not everyone's cup of tea. Love the gay pop princesses too. And mmmhmmm do I enjoy me a good alternative or dubstep compilation.

Food: I'm a cookie monster. Except replace the "cookies" with "food." Nom nom nom.

Eames-era furniture. Impressionistic classical. Travel. Just three things!

...would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,
Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question,
To say: “I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all”—
If one, settling a pillow by her head,
Should say: “That is not what I meant at all;
That is not it, at all.”

trying, seeing, or doing something that make my fridays anything but typical...

All I really want is a man who wants to have a lot of sex and talk about books and dance with me.

If going to the symphony and then hitting a dive bar after jives with your personality.

If you have an idea for an adventure.

If you want to go on a date.

I'd enjoy meeting someone brave enough to say they aren't attracted to me but want to be friends, too.