If it were up to me, it’d be fashionable to wear wool hats and down mittens until early May. I’ve lived in cold climates my entire life, yet I’m cold at 71 degrees. I recently moved back to Chicago following 2 year stints in Ann Arbor and Minneapolis. As someone with a brutally bad sense of direction, I'm thrilled to be back on Chicago's grid system!

I’m opinionated and am attracted to similarly opinionated people. Cashiers should hand the change back *first* - not lay it on top of the dollar bill. Dunkin Donuts beats Starbucks. You're crazy if you like riding the bus. Everyone should see the movie Amelie at least once. Whatever. It matters little to me that you have the same opinion as me – only that you have an opinion.

I work in marketing. If you get me started, I could go on for hours about my favorite television commercials, packages, logos, and retail stores. I’m a nut and I know it.

Singing karaoke, cramming multiple charts onto a single (legible) PowerPoint slide, wrapping gifts, finding new uses for Kraft Parmesan Cheese, people watching, avoiding shopping, avoiding cooking, quoting movies, finishing the ice cream, drinking caffeine, flipping channels for 30 min instead of watching something, spending money on spontaneous iTunes rentals even though I have a Netflix subscription, noticing when someone got a haircut, getting lost in the suburbs, pretending to know how to use my SLR camera, being a semi-dork

Hmm, is this a trick question? Probably that I've got a big smile.

Catcher in the Rye, 1984, Angela's Ashes, A Prayer for Owen Meany

When Harry Met Sally, Amelie, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Memento, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Man on Wire...too many to list here

Seinfeld, Curb, 30 Rock, Arrested Development, Flight of the Conchords

Death Cab, Wilco, New Pornographers, Old 97's, Phoenix, Beatles

Ice cream, apples, bread, pasta, Giordano's, Chinese food...did I mention ice cream?

Assuming the essentials like friends and family are out...

1) Microwave
2) The EL
4) Belly-aching laughs
5) Travel
6) You, hopefully!

At what point will I own enough clothes that I don't need to do the laundry every week? When is the dang bus coming? What are the odds of my meeting someone who writes for The Onion? What's a girl gotta do to find some awesome red sandals? Why don't they ever show the movie "Splash" on TV? How do people wear flip flops when it's 50 degrees outside?

Catching a movie, dining with friends, belting out karaoke tunes, volunteering, chilling on my couch.

In what can only be described as momentary lapses of muscial judgment, I purchased both Enrique Iglesias' "I Like It" and Justin Bieber's "Baby" from iTunes. And sometimes, when I am feeling really 16, I play them!

You're well-educated, ambitious, confident, and a good conversationalist – you can paint me a picture of that crazy street performer at Clark and Division or of the time your car broke down on 94. You see the humor in the every day, you're passionate about but not defined by your career, and above all, you love the person you are. I would never ask someone to change for me, and my perfect match would never ask me to change for him.