Living each day as though it might be your last is not only about what you experience but the impressions you leave. I live life to enjoy it and try to leave the world better than I found it. I try to improve the world in little ways: composting and recycling, riding my bike rather than driving; and in my career choices, I worked for years in social services and therapy and have gone back to school to study economics and more directly address issues of poverty. Levity, humor and optimism, are little things with tremendous power. I also have healthy indulgence for life pleasures. I play bike polo because it is intensely fun and good excuse to have a couple beers with friends. I love to dance, enjoy a good meal and /or a glass of wine, watch the sunset from the swings above the beltline. I am active physical and culturally and always am up for checking out something new, an exhibit at the High a performance at the Goat Farm, some festival. I want to find someone to adventurous who excited to by these as well, and will turn me on to new things. I love to travel, I was in Kenya last year and previous destinations have included Cambodia and the Amazon. I also love to explore the place I am and see new detail and beauty in it; commitments don't always allow exploration of the exotic.

Making art is another hobby. I have sculpted in Wood, Bronze, and Steel as well as found objects. I have also painted. I'm presently sculpting waxes for lost wax casting.

I am really concerned about poverty and inequality. I am interested in how incentives, both monetary and social, can lead not to greed but to ensuring that all have access to opportunity and can have lives that are rich, satisfying and meaningful. I am studying Experimental Economics and hope to apply behavioral principles, to developing and testing anti-poverty programs and pro-social behavior.

Being modest...

Also being a loyal and supportive friend and a good listener.

My laugh, which is deep and conveys how much I enjoy life; my sense of humor, sometimes dark, sarcastic or irreverent; and my very expressive face which conveys everything else, including somethings that probably shouldn't be.

Music, (in no particular order and definitely incomplete): Tom Waits, Regina Spector, Titus Andronicus, Jonathan Richmond, The New Pornographers, Cirkestra, DeVotchka, April Rupa and the Fishes, The Pixies, David Bowie, Gogol Bordello, Nick Cave, Metric, Neutral Milk Hotel, The National, The Black Keyes, Yo La Tengo, Dick Dale, The Six Parts Seven, Basia Bulat, the Velvet Underground, Crooked Still, Pavement, Patti Smith, Bertolt Brecht, Kronos Quartet, Charlie Hunter, Nina Simone, Taj Mahal, Bela Fleck, Leonard Cohen, Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli

Food, I love most of it, and would try nearly anything at least once. Some favorites: Thai, Ethiopian, Korean, Vietnamese, Indian, Moroccan, etc...

Movies are ideally beautiful and have something to say. I suppose that is true of all art. And people. Off the top of my head: Lawrence of Arabia; A Cook a Thief, his wife, her Lover; Koyaanisqatsi; The Pillow Book; Amélie; Micmacs; City of Lost Children; Delicatessen; City of God; the Nightmare Before Christmas; Ran; Pi; Requiem for a Dream.

Books most of my reading at the moment is for school and is textbooks. Even much of the elective stuff is still articles and other related nonfiction. Some of it is more lay: Freakonomics, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, Nickled and Dimed, The People's History of the United States, Mismeasuring our Lives, Banker to the Poor, Making Globalization Work, The Bottom Billion. The fiction tends to be short stories. I really enjoy Calvino and Murakami. I also try to read whatever fiction is in the New Yorker this week. Lahiri was also good, particularly as I lived near so many of the places she described.

My bicycle, actually at present I have four, but one would probably do. I ride everywhere I can.

My laptop so much is on there it almost feels like it counts for more than one item. It is a connection to so many wonderful people, contains all my music as well as photos and is in general a record of so much.

Coffee days don't really start without it.

These are just a couple things I use nearly everyday. There are many wonderful things I have, my art, friends' art, cooking implement, clothing, I'd be sad if I lost, but I know I can live without any of them.

Everything, my mind is always going. Sometime it's economics and how it effects our world. Other times its art. Maybe it is just some odd detail I just noticed in the world around me. It might even be some combination of the above.

I'm not sure there is a typical Friday night. It could be anything from going to see a band, dance or theater performance; attending an art opening; going dancing, out with friends, or on a bike ride; seeing a movie; or staying in, because it has been a long week or I need to get stuff done.

You'll have to buy me a drink to get me answer that one

You' re creative and adventurous, are serious about something, hopefully something that makes the world better and still know how to have fun, and laugh. Ideally, you can enjoy an exhibit at the High, the patterns the light makes in its atrium, how the guard position echos a statue, graffiti you see outside, and a bike ride there and back. Being OTP is probably a deal breaker.