WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE! .. So just say HI! It won't kill you, it might even be worth it.. and if it's not, then that's ok too. ((this is especially true in the real world..)) So let's all make a pact to just effing say hello to people! Ok?? Right on!

So in this spirit of 'we have nothing to lose since we're already plundering the dregs of the internet by being on here' if you message me and ask me to go out for a beer or coffee I will probably say yes. I will probably not respond to you however, if I check you out and my gut tells me it would be a bad scene. (of course I'm not talking about YOUU, just that last guy who read this) I want to go on friggin dates. TERRIBLE, MEDIOCRE, KIND OF ALRIGHT, AWESOME, WEIRD dates. I don't care! This is like riding the bus, I'm doing it for the stories. . So if you think you'd make a good story ASK ME OUT ALREADY! (if you can't even muster the courage to ask someone out on the internet, then you probably can't survive a date with me) Don't worry, we probably won't end up getting married, but I'd like to spend less time window shopping on the Internet and more actual real time interacting with men so when I DO maybe meet the guy I might end up being deliriously happy with, I won't freak out and scare him off cause I'll have had PRACTICE. Get it? Cool? Yeah! Good luck everyone!

I ride my bicycle! I make cartoon things! I eat delicious food! I learn! I travel! I run! I jump! I punch and kick! I dance around! I race scooters! I laugh! I think deep philosophical thoughts about the nature of humans and how to be happy and healthy and a better person! (sorry that's not as pithy as my other examples)

I'm really good at listening to people and seeing the benefits of any given situation.. I'm usually one of the first to start laughing in movie theatres to jokes that everyone else gets about 5 seconds later. I'm also excellent at forgetting details to stories I try and tell when I'm excited, so they end up being confusing and sort of vague.

I'm tallish. I have straight teeth. I usually have helmet hair. Gives good smiles.

Books I have read multiple times:
The Alchemist
Elegance
Jane Eyre
On the Road
The Dharma Bums
Jupiter's Travels

Books I am trying desperately to get through but really need a vacation with a beach to seriously accomplish this feat:
Guns Germs and Steel
Hero with a Thousand Faces

Movies I can watch multiple times:
Amelie
The Wedding Singer
Step Brothers
Persuasion
The BBC miniseries version of Pride and Prejudice
Grandma's Boy
Adventures in Babysitting
Hot Rod
Stand by me
Harry potter (shut it!)
Anything Wes Anderson

I only have rabbit ears (for serious) but I like the IT crowd, 30 Rock, The Office, Little Britian, Mad Men etc.

Music!
Boogaloo! Northern Soul! Punk rock! Rocksteady! Rockabilly! Roots! Hip Hop! plus a lot of other stuff that is serious awesome but I'm not going to admit to until I know you.

I'm going to add my own Podcasts! category:
Big Ideas
Freakonomics Radio
The Moth
PRI: Selected Shorts
PRI: The World in Words
Quirks and Quarks
TED Talks
This American Life
Radiolab

Food!
God I love food. I work out a lot so I can eat as much of a variety as humanly possible. I hope you do too!

ok EVERYONE puts stuff like 'oxygen (duh) family, friends etc etc I'll say other things assuming that we have agreed that I love my family and friends and stuff and that goes without saying.. SO

Being active!
Nature!
Scooters!
Laughing!
Deep thoughts!
Hope.

alternately... what I want to be when I grow up.. and "holy shit I'm 33, I think that means I should be grown up by now and know the answer to this!"
also.. How I can make participation in the Mongol Rally a reality some day. I also spend a lot of time (seriously) thinking about what motivates people to do things.. and how I can practice a life that is filled with gratitude for things I have and without envy for things I don't.

*also whether or not I should delete this profile and go back to the wild

Laughing with/at friends, drinking with/to friends, watching a show with/by friends, seeing a movie with/without friends, going for a run or bike ride with/without/to/from friends..

Honestly. I feel like this website turns me into an asshole. So. sorry if I'm an asshole and don't end up writing you back if you message me. It's not you.. it's me. I'm sure you'll make some other girl out there supremely happy!

((I realize this sort of contradicts what I wrote in the first box.. but this is about a month later and my plan to go on more dates, while it did work.. has left me drained. I don't know if it's worse to go on no dates.. or go on a lot that don't work out.. ))

also.. Sometimes I do a search by enemy % just to see what my opposite would look like.

You are fun and not a dick. (super bonus points if you know how to tie a decent knot (in a boyscout way not a creepy sex way ffs)) also if you ride a bicycle or some other form of transportation with two wheels, you like to travel, you are active and healthy, you like music that doesn't suck! you can build stuff, you know the difference between a moped and a scooter and you know how to pitch a tent.*

*NOT JUST IN YOUR PANTS.