I think every day has the possibility to be a new adventure. I love to explore and experience new things. I am constantly re-evaluating my life and my position in the world; I find that the only constant is change, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I think the world is a funny place, and so I laugh. A lot.

I love the sport of rugby. I don't just play it, I live it. Practices and games, working out at the gym, rugby "studying" with books, articles and gametape - and when I'm not trying to improve my game, I'm usually hanging out with my teammates. I love the sport, and I love the people who play it. I could talk forever about scrums and rucks, but I'd rather just get out there and show you.

I love to travel. During college I lived in a summer in Madrid and a semester in Kyoto, and navigated each city in its native language. Now that I've graduated, I am limited mostly to weekend trips with the rugby team, but I take advantage of games in places like Philadelphia, Austin, San Francisco, and New York City. I love to pick a destination from my guidebook and get lost on the way there, stop to eat somewhere just because I like the song that's playing inside, and I don't think there's any better way to travel than by train.

Experience is tops - I'd always rather risk the mistake than go on wondering what would've happened if I hadn't.

I really adore people. I love hanging out in big groups and joking around and laughing. I love hanging out one-on-one and talking about things that matter like who and why we are. On the other hand, there's some things that you can only experience on your own. I'm fiercely independent, and I know I can rely on myself to take care of me.

I like people with passion, who are both interesting and interested, who can't live without filling their days with something that gets them excited. I'd love to meet someone who always has a story to tell, who finds something amazing about every day. I'd like to meet both potential friends who could be potential lovers - and I know that many of the best relationships start when you don't know right away which it will be.

I'm working for a small nonprofit that focuses on immigrant women's issues. My position could kindly be called "jack-of-all-trades" and honestly "office bitch" - it's sometimes fun and sometimes not so much. On the bright side, I now have an in-depth knowledge of a very specific area of US immigration law.

I'm balancing rugby and the rest of my life. Now that it's the off-season, that consists largely of returning to a regular lifting schedule without getting derailed by the many opportunities to "go meet up for drinks" presented by friends who know I no longer have practice all the time.

I'm being content. I spent all my years in school in a constant and exhausting quest for excellence - now I'm relaxing, letting go, and stewing in happy averageness.

Having heated discussions about gender. Having impassioned conversations about rugby. Line outs. Overanalyzing. Cuddling. Naming inanimate objects. Packing many objects into a limited space. Rearranging furniture. Being goofy. Planning ahead. Throwing away those plans in favor of last-minute adventures.

My energy. I get excited about everything, from the game my team just won to the way the sky looked this morning.

I'm not very good at laundry lists.

I tend towards sci fi and fantasy adventures for my easy reading and nonfiction on gender and feminist theory for days I want something to think about, but also read plenty of books just because someone recommended them to me or because I found something with an interesting cover for two bucks secondhand.

I watch movies with lesbians, with strong female protagonists, with sports, with adventures, with deep meaningful messages about life, with drunken adventures, with love, or with none of the above.

I listen to NPR, to the top forty station, to the stereotypical lesbian canon, to spunky indie groups that my brother recommended to me, to bands I first discovered when a lover put one of their songs on a mixtape, and to music you think I might be into.

I like healthy food that tastes good. I'm a vegetarian and an athlete and I try to eat like a skinny girl trying to put on weight. I'm not very good at following recipes, but I bought myself a recipe book to expand on the six or seven dishes I seem to eat over and over again. Despite what that last sentence might indicate, I love trying new foods.

People who care about me. Sunlight. New experiences. Rugby. Beauty. Being able to laugh at myself when I do something dumb.

How absolutely hugely gigantic whales are. I mean, seriously try to comprehend that - how it must feel to be next to a being just that amazingly large.

During the rugby season I am doing laundry, packing my kit bag, and hydrating. Off season I might be out drinking and dancing, or I might be curled up on the couch with my roommates watching a movie. Or I might be doing laundry. :)

I like my rugby nickname more than my real name, and I think it suits me better, too.

You've got something interesting to say, and think I'd be an interesting person to say it to.

Also if you're not too attached to the idea of getting a reply right away... sometimes life gets distracting and I don't make it online for awhile.