I followed my heart through two degrees at UVic and UBC and have entered the very competitive world of academia. While I have been more sucessful in my field than most of my friends, considering just how scarce jobs are in academia that is not saying a lot. I just finished my third semester teaching a social science class at a local college and waiting to see if I get picked up for a fourth (dependent on enrollment)

In most of my life I am very confident in myself and my abilities, but I am quite shy when it comes to a woman I am interested in which has resulted in spectacularly funny (in retrospect) foul ups when trying to make a move. I am getting better, though I still tend to babble when I am nervous

Amongst my friends I am known for my honesty and kindness (seriously...my best friend who is super critical, snooped into my profile and told me she was impressed with how honest I was). Indeed, if I try to be a jerk my friends will often laugh and assume I am goofing off and tease me. That said I am also quite absent minded, so those who do not know me so well might think I am being a jerk....when in reality I am lost in thought. In my life I treat everyone (regardless of race/ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender) as an equal.....because they ARE!

I am well travelled (lived, worked and travelled in the Middle East and South East Asia), I am well educated (BA at UVic and MA at UBC), I am a great cook (especially if you like Thai food), love outdoors sports (kayaking, hiking, swimming and before Uni I was a sponsored mnt. bike racer) I love yoga and Martial arts.

I am currently in a state of career limbo. I had the opportunity to fill in as a leave replacement at my dream job and they liked me a lot and said there is a high likely hood I will get a permanent position teaching at the college in the future, but I have to "hold on". I am also training and assisting in the teaching of a traditional Chinese martial art and when I can find the time do what I love most....Write. Of course as my signing up for OKcupid and filling out all this info would suggest I am looking for some romance

cooking, writing (though not spelling), teaching, swimming, martial arts, mountain biking, empithizing, imagining/creativity and critical thinking

based on what people say to me I would have to say my eyes and my shoulders

Books: Anarchy Evolution, Hunger Games, The order of Things, Discipline and Punish, Negara (note: favorite does not necessarily mean I enjoyed reading the book, but could also mean the effect and influence the book had on my life...such as the last three books) and most anything by Alan Dean Foster and Orson Scott Card (though not his politics)

Movies: What dreams may come, Bullworth, The man from earth, Life as a House, Finding Forester, Love Actually, August Rush, The Beautiful Boxer, Pump up the Volume, American History X

TV Shows: Dr. Who, Torchwood, The big bang theory, Bones, Shameless (UK and US versions), Red Dwarf, Castle and anything by Joss Wheadon

Music: Radiohead, Bad Religion (note: the lead singer is also the author of "Anarchy Evolution" and is a UCLA biology professor), Nine Inch Nails, Louis Armstrong, NOFX, The Kidney Thieves, Nina Simone

Food: Chocolate and Curry

time to write, chocolate, curry, martial arts, mountain bike, music

writting, teaching, martial arts....what to make for dinner

Making a thai curry and watching a movie, trying to relax after a super busy week....unless there is something better going on.

I love "chick flicks"

you are a nice person looking for a nice person and you are NOT super judgmental of others and/or arrogent