I'm most recently from Seattle, but I grew up in Alaska, land of such horrors as Sarah Palin and 100-pound cabbages. I'm excited to be in New York, and am looking forward to meeting someone new, and to exploring great places for food and drinks, and would love a local's insight. Note: Do NOT order sushi at Duane Reade.

Some broad strokes: I went to college in Boulder for an English degree, then back to Alaska for a couple years before heading to Vancouver and then Seattle for grad school. Growing up in the frozen, dark north, I think the snow is in my bones; I love to ski and snowboard. I also feel it's my duty as an Alaskan to meet amazing New York women and dispel rumors of my native land, mostly those regarding igloos and dogsleds. But not plaid--they still wear a lot of plaid up there.

I'm a digital illustrator working in the architecture industry. Basically I create digital photos of unbuilt designs. I moved to NYC on something of a whim to work at my new office.

I love the process of making. It can be anything, really. From food to motorcycles--I love to see how things go together, and make some of it myself. I'm lucky that I get to do this in my job 'cause it seems to help make the hours fly by.

I’m just a thirty-something with lustrous, curly locks who'd like to meet someone in a town where people don’t really smile at each other, and don’t talk to strangers. But that’s actually a good policy—I was walking downtown last week and saw a wild-eyed pedestrian holding a rat to his ear and talking into it as though it were a cell phone, and I thought he was crazy. But then I realized he was just talking TO it.

I’d like to meet a creative, intelligent woman who doesn’t take herself too seriously. Chemistry is everything, though these internet tubes aren’t really set up for that just yet. But if you laughed at any of the above, that’s a start.

I love to play the piano, and was sad to leave one in Seattle. I also took improv classes for a year and would like to take more here. I have a quick wit and can throw a frisbee really far. I can run really far, especially if something's chasing me. I love to ski and can think of nothing more exhilarating than screaming down the slopes and carving intensely into centrifugal turns.

Oh, and I invented a recipe for brownies as cookies. I call them Brookies ©.

But this is who I'd like to meet: someone who is smart and funny. Sarcasm and sass are great. I'm drawn to bold women, though quiet strength is also appealing, as long as you can laugh. I'm attracted to someone who can roll with it, who can handle a crisis or change in plans with smooth grace and style.

Physically, probably my curly, Sideshow Bob-style hair.

I've been listening to a lot of the Magnetic Fields and Yo La Tengo lately. Oh, and I don't know why, but I was so struck by a track on the soundtrack to the Social Network. The first on the album. That shit's haunting, yo.

I also love jazz and am a fan of Keith Jarrett, Don Byron, and I think Allen Toussaint's the Bright Mississippi is my favorite record of the last two years.

Let's see, what' on my DVR ... the Daily Show, Mythbusters, the Office. I loved the Wire, and just bought my first Blu-ray discs of another favorite: Deadwood.

Books: I love The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay, David Foster Wallace's A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, and anything by David Sedaris, Timothy Egan, Malcolm Gladwell, or Ian Frazier.

music
dark chocolate
the promise of summer
Gorilla Coffee
sleeping-in
making