I'm in graduate school. I study a lot. I love to sail.

As school gets busier I find myself with increasingly less time to go out and meet people outside my classmates and the bar scene doesn't exactly breed quality hence the profile.

I'm politically conservative. I mention it not because I think it defines me as a person, but rather it's something I very much like about myself and it would be nice for a change to date someone that liked that about me, not just tolerated it or didn't care either way.

I'm in graduate school.

I'm always smiling.

Books: Atlas Shrugged, Ender's Game, Harry Potter, Freakonomics

Movies: Little Miss Sunshine, In America, The Parent Trap, Spanglish, Sabrina, Chinatown, The Shawshank Redemption, Silence of the Lambs, Notting Hill, Lorenzo's Oil, About a Boy, The Namesake, Slumdog Millionaire

Favorite TV Shows:
The Amazing Race, Friday Night Lights, House, Gilmore Girls, Arrested Development, Alias, Veronica Mars, The Office, The West Wing, Chuck, Gossip Girl, Scrubs, HIMYM

Favorite Music:
Country: Toby Keith, Tim Mcgraw, Dierks Bentley, Taylor Swift, Pat Green, Carrie Underwood, Lonestar; Amateur Transplants

Favorite Food:
A great steak, bacon, well pretty much any kind of meat. My favorite food is French Onion Soup. If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life if would be tacos. I love pretty much all kinds of food and I'm on a constant quest for new exciting places to eat.

I'm not a big fan of facial hair or tattoos (unless we're talking something from skull and bones . . . it's really a pretty big turn off for me)

I hate the San Diego club scene.

I'm too practical for my own good sometimes.

You're looking for someone to go out and do fun things with. You're well educated and like girls that are as well. You have a passion in life, are good humored, and don't mind that sometimes I have a crazy schedule.

You should not message me if:

Politically conservative people irritate you. (I fall more econ conservative than anything else, but if the idea of someone reading WSJ opinion page or National Review makes your blood boil I'm not your girl)

You are in a religious cult. You think this wouldn't be something I'd need to say, but as my most recent date suggests apparently I do. I go to a protestant church.

You are over the age of 30.

You are seeing someone.

You've been married before.

You don't live in Southern California.

You didn't go to college/don't have a job or aren't in school/spend your weekends bar hopping and getting wasted.