I travel, but I’m not a traveller. I’m esoteric, yet grounded. I have an insatiable appetite for adventure. I am at home in the town, city or country and I’m happy spending a day lounging around the house or hiking along some trail in the middle of nowhere. I enjoy cooking interesting things (and I am starting to bake a bit) and I like to share them with my friends. I enjoy reading books and watching movies that have meaning and/or that show how amazing the world is (but ones that are just fun are always good, too). I'm a moderate CBC junkie. And a huge Apple junkie. I think that I view life and the world in a very unique and positive way. I can walk like mad, and have been known to do 20km+ in a day when exploring a new place. I love cityscapes, I love countryscapes, I love mountainscapes…really I just love landscapes, both built and natural. I like admiring the sunset at the end of an adventure-filled day, thinking about human societies and our place in this world, and making faces in the bathroom mirror. I don’t like cutlery that is bent at an odd angle, rude people, or when the bathroom mirror makes faces at me.

Well there! I have finally rid myself of any vestiges of the profile intro I first drafted five years ago! And I like it! Seriously though, I like loads of stuff. While I enjoy my quiet time at home I really do love adventure and travel, be it close to home or far away. And I am lucky in this regard. I do fieldwork in Peru. I have been to four continents and set foot in sixteen countries, as well as eight Canadian provinces and about half of the American states. I have been to every city in Ontario (that being places with a population of over 10,000). And yet I always daydream of being somewhere new, seeing something for the first time, or revisiting a favourite place. So I love adventurous-type things, like long bike rides, interesting hikes, and great road trips, and for me the journey is always a major part of the trip. I’m not a destination tourist, but rather an adventurer. And yet I am still somewhat of a homebody. I’d love to find someone likes a lot of the same things that I like, sees the world in a similar way to me, and would love to sit and chat over a coffee and then watch a great movie, and maybe then go for a winter hike the next day. That would ne nice.

Well, this seriously lacks coherency, but that may not be such a bad thing!

- Jordan

I am an anthropological archaeologist and I am currently working on my Ph.D. I study early Peruvian societies, and I hope to go on to become a professor eventually. I definitely have an anthropological mind, and I really enjoy thinking about human society (and recently about our relationship to our stuff), and my free-time mind seems to often drift to these topics. But hopefully I’m not just some boring social scientist!

While this keeps me busy, I do still have a reasonable bit of free time, in which I enjoy music, movies, the odd video game, exploring the cityscape, hiking, biking, skiing, and all that fun stuff. Hopefully we can find some intersection there!

Honestly, I don’t think that I have exceptional talent leaning in any direction. Instead, I am pretty good at many things, I think. So maybe that’s what I’m good at: being a jack of all trades, master of some (and I am, literally, a Master of the Arts, so I guess I am really good at doing academic stuff).

Probably the fact that I fly past them as I walk along (and no, I’m probably not in a particular rush to get anywhere. I’ve just always been a really fast walker!) Hopefully they also notice that I try to be kind and considerate, and put others’ feelings ahead of my own. But that is probably not so much of a first-impression.

I have bucketloads of favourite books, movies and music, and love most food. So this is just a small sample…

Books: The Lord of the Rings, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Les Miserables, On The Road, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Catcher in the Rye, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, and anything by Kurt Vonnegut.

Music:Rock & Roll, classic-rock, folk-rock, blues-rock, psychedelic-rock, prog-rock, jazz…sensing a theme? Most of the music I listen to came out through the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and was very anti-establishment at the time: I have every Pink Floyd album out there. I love Led Zeppelin and The Who. I can’t stop listening to Bob Dylan, Neil Young, or Joni Mitchell. I am starting to really enjoy John Coltrane. And I love many, many more artists and singles, too many to list here. I also listen to some newer stuff. I always love The Smashing Pumpkins, The Barenaked Ladies, The Tragically Hip, Béla Fleck, Xavier Rudd, and others.

Movies: Waking Life, Baraka, Amelie, Before Sunset, The Motorcycle Diaries, Almost Famous, Dazed and Confused, Across the Universe, The Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Dr. Strangelove, the first three Indiana Jones, Donnie Darko, Pi, Being John Malkovich, A Scanner Darkly, and plenty more.

Food: I’m a bit of a foodie, so I like loads of stuff. I really love almost all vegetables, and while I am not a carnivore, I certainly do eat meat (and if you think that is contradictory, then you have touched upon one of my current pet peeves!) I love to cook and make interesting things, and my favourite foods can really vary all over the place. So I have no set answer here. Oh, and beer is my booze of choice, and I especially enjoy craft beer and microbreweries.

(1) Stuff (in general. I’m always over-prepared for everything! Plus, humans cannot exist separate from their material goods, to get theoretical.)
(2) More esoteric stuff (e.g. the feeling that a certain song or movie gives you every time you re-experience it).
(3) Some form of companionship.
(4) My own solitude (somewhat contradictory, eh?)
(5) The ability to roam around this world relatively unhindered.
(6) The ability to reflect about life, the universe, and everything while walking down the street.

Well, life, the universe, and everything. As an anthropologist, I like to think about society and humans, and how our social upbringing guides the way that we think. As an archaeologist, I like to think about stuff and how we use material culture to express our identity, as well as to survive. As a person, I like to think about adventures that I would love to go on…or simply what I should do when I get home. And then there’s the meaning of life. Does it have a singular meaning? I don’t think so. Life is a process, not an end goal to be reached; the meaning of life is to enjoy the ride

There is no typical Friday night. Often I will go home, make a nice dinner, and settle in front of the computer or watch a favourite movie. Other Fridays, I will get together with friends and do something fun, be it a small house gathering or a trip to the pub. I like it all.

Well, I've never had a Valentine...

But yeah, I'm really quite inexperienced when it comes to dating and relationships, and even more inexperienced when it comes to the more intimate stuff. That’s probably worth noting, so just bear with me if I seem more lost than I otherwise should be…

If you think you know the non-numerical answer to life, the universe and everything, or if you like mine. Or you want to get to know a quintessential “nice guy.” Or if you want to go for a hike or a bike ride. Or if you want advice on what to see and do in Peru. Or if you want to hang out, listen to good music, watch inspiring movies, and think about the world anthropologically. Or if you simply want to! Just get in touch. I’m a pretty casual person!

A note on location: I'm from Burlington originally, and still spend a reasonable amount of time there (I'm usually home every few weekends or so), so while it would be nicest to find someone in London, a long-distance thing wouldn't be so bad if you are in the Hamilton area (or even Toronto).