I am for the most part a happy and positive person :) I love life and have enough positive relationships in my world to feel fulfilled most of the time. But I always seek to expand the circle. I am a very grounded person but I also have a thirst for life: to travel, to meet new people, make new friends, encounter new cultures etc.

I tend to work consistently and I do have ambitions/goals (doing a graduate degree in sociology - yay) but I don't live to work. I work to live :) The priority for me is to structure my life in such a way so that I have time to do the things in life that I love and that are fulfilling... like doing art, playing music, cooking, TRAVELING, spending time with a partner (!) etc.

I'm also not Canadian :) I was born in the Mediterranean in a tiny (but beautiful!) island called Cyprus (google it!). I've lived in North America for 11 years now so I'm perfectly acclimated to your North American ways but every now and then the little boy from Cyprus comes out :)

I love music (I play the guitar), I love love art (I draw) and I also love being active. I would love to meet someone who shares some of the same interests and who is as multifaceted as me but it would also be cool if they exposed me to new activities/interests. Do you want to spend the night drawing, drinking wine and being silly? Then go downtown for more silliness? Do you like to eat? Because I like to cook! Do you want to go to the park and then grab some food and go sit by the waterfront? Do you want to go on a foodie road trip on the West coast? Or better yet in Europe?!

What am I looking for? Honestly, I am very open-minded and don’t want to put me or you in a box. So long as you are interesting and, most importantly, interested, I will give you my time. I am not coming here with the sole purpose of “dating”. I am not against making friends and I believe relationships can develop organically and sequentially, which means that, even if we don’t “click” immediately, we might “click” as we get to know each other better.

Oh... I also have about 6 more months of wearing braces to go... in case that's a problem :) Cheers!

I am doing a PhD in Sociology with a focus on globalization and supranationalism (don't worry, I don't take myself too seriously). I basically want to be a professor (that way I can have the summers off to travel and enough flexibility to do music and other artistic activities). I also want to start composing again at some point (music used to be a big part of my life at some point. I did my BA in music).

Playing the guitar, sociological analysis O.O, being ridiculous, loving other people, laughing really loud

I can only assume my pleasant disposition!

Music: So my all time favourite bands are Pink Floyd and Tool. In general I love prog rock so we can throw Dream Theater and Rush in there but I also enjoy a wide range of other types of music. I love classic rock (Led Zep, Deep Purple, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn etc.). I love singer song-writer stuff like Eva Cassidy and Sarah McLachlan. I love jazz (John Scofield, John Coltrane, Pat Metheny, Bill Evans, Monk, Wes etc.). I also love classical music and 20th century classical music. You can pretty much grab my attention if you throw in an assymetric time signature in there! Lately I've also been connecting with my tradition a little more so I've been listening to a lot of Greek music (old and contemporary).

Food: I'm a huge as foodie so I can appreciate any cuisine and I will eat just about everything (and I DO mean everything O.O). I do have a soft spot for Mediterranean food since that's where I'm from so I would say Cypriot, Greek, Italian, Spanish and French cuisines are my favourite.

Books: I generally don't have time to read fiction or novels because I spend so much time reading sociological books for school (Habermas, Foucault, C.Wright Mills, Marx, Weber etc.). But if I had to choose some novels it'd be the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and The Animal Farm and I also loved Kitchen Confidential by Bourdain... Maybe you can suggest what I should read next!

Movies/Shows: I don't have a TV so I'm a little behind on the movie/show scene. But when I did have a TV I usually watched the food network, the travel network and the Colbert Report.

My family
My friends
My guitar
Some sort of a kitty in my life (even if I'm not living with it!)
My physical integrity
My cognitive intergrity

The complexities of society and globalization (yeah... I know...), (the meaning of ) life and people, girls (I have to be honest), ways to make the world a better place to live, ways to make people happier

Hanging out with my friends either at my apartment doing a potluck or wine or downtown at a restaurant or a pub! If I'm not doing this then I'm at a home wishing I was doing this!

Ask and ye shall receive ;)