OkCupid.com: Nathan_W / 26 / m / straight / Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

I'm attracted to smart girls with a sarcastic sense of humor. That's really it - doesn't matter what age, color, or anything else... if a girl can hold her own in an intelligent conversation, I'm interested. If she's cynical and sarcastic while being well-informed, then she might just have me at hello. Throw in good taste in music, a unique sense of style, and a passion for language and travel... I might just elope. Give her big boobs and glasses - well I don't think that girl exists because I'm still single. :)

SO more about me... I was born and raised in Colorado. I lived in Brazil for 4 months and China for a year teaching English. I love traveling. I just moved to SLC and I work at the U of U doing marketing and fundraising. I have a B.A. in English and a B.S. in Math - my job isn't directly related to either. I sleep better at night when I'm employed by a non-profit.

I like cooking and eating. I watch football. I love pretty much all activities in the mountains. I drink too much coffee and play too many video games. I'm competitive when I play cards and board games (which I never lose, except Scrabble and Risk. I suck at Scrabble and Risk, but I play anyway. I never lose at Monopoly or Settlers of Catan.)

I live alone near Capitol Hill in downtown SLC. I volunteer at the downtown museum. I want to go to a Jazz game, I have a membership to the planetarium, and I could best be described with three word: "Really big nerd".

I can build a computer from scratch, I can catch a fish with my eyes closed, and I can run a 6 minute mile. I think it's hilarious that I'm starting to lose my hair at 25 because for the first 24 years of my life, I made bald jokes to anyone with a receding hairline.

I'm socially liberal but economically conservative. I support choice, gay rights, and peace... but I'm not a fan of high taxes and welfare programs. I'm an advocate for personal liberty of all forms, and I'm definitely 420 friendly (even though I hate the term). I think seat belt laws are unconstitutional.

And here's a list of keywords so I can abuse the okcupid bracket system: PC gaming, SA goon, cooking, learning languages, cleaning, ironing, hiking, camping, snowboarding, ice climbing, snowshoeing, reading, volunteering, museums, astronomy, physics, math, literature, dinosaurs, web design, coffee, roomba, travel, giving massages, getting massages, and poker.

When I turn 55 years old, I will have 5 million bucks and a sailboat. Nobody will ever hear from me again...

BOTH nom nom nom AND pew pew pew. And if you know what that means, we would probably get along.

Honestly, the list would be a lot shorter if I listed the things I'm not good at. I have a natural knack for everything I've ever attempted.

Things I'm not really good at: sewing, vacuuming, obeying traffic laws.

EDITORS

lilalou

That I'm sitting next to them at the stoplight singing and making eye contact with them. Most of you probably think I'm talking on a hands-free phone, but nope, I'm actually singing at you.

Books: Catch 22, 1984, Utopia, Brave New World, and of course, anything written in Russia from 1704 - 1963. (Are those dates arbitrary? Yes.)

Movies: Pretty much anything involving: Clint Eastwood, Jim Carrey, Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, Bill Murray, John Cusack, Christopher Walken, and Luke Wilson.

If your favorite band is Wilco or the Littlest Man Band, let's elope.

The #1 Band of All Time ... a) Reel Big Fish, b) Pixies, or c) Chopin. (Does a composer count?) One of those three, although I'm unsure of the specific order.

Food: I love absolutely all food. If I were dying tomorrow, tonight I would eat spinach tortellini in marinara sauce, cheesy garlic bread, a salad with creamy pesto dressing, raspberry cheesecake, and I would drink a whole bottle of Chilean merlot.

TV Shows: Isn't a category in question, but it should be. I like (in alphabetical order): Aquateen, Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica, Futurama, Office, Robot Chicken, South Park, Twilight Zone, X Files.

1. My family
2. Q Tips (even though I'm not supposed to stick them in my ear, I do)
3. A well-stocked kitchen
4. My mp3 player
5. Eddie Bauer outlet stores
6. New socks

How pointless life truly is. Don't get me wrong - I'm pretty happy... but there's seriously no point to any of it at all.

Cheating at Scrabble, winning at poker, or building dispensers and teleporters.

I want to elope and I think a girl should wear a black wedding dress.

If you ever called your mom because you thought you damaged your ear drum misusing a Q-tip and you made her talk into both of your ears at varying levels to do a self-check hearing test.

Or, you know, if you want to trade fajitas for cookies. (I can't bake.)

-- From lilalou, one of my best friends --
"Nathan is GREAT, and I will likely marry him in 6 years, if he doesn't meet some wonderful girl on here."