(for cliff notes, read the bold)

I am a bellydancer, wine geek, and fiction writer: "the diva of all nerds." If it's ensemble improvised anything - I'm down. I am a rational anarchist and a tree-hugging hippie, but I shave my pits. Share water, darlings! I am quite friendly as long as you are literate and polite, and brutally dismissive of everyone else.

I'm a consensual non-monogamist, a 1.5 on the Kinsey scale, and FYI, I live with masturdator. We aren't that creepy poly couple who does everything together, but you must be hang out with everyone at a party without being awkward. I'm looking for more female friends to take over the world with and am open to meeting more guys of superlative quality.

Please use google if you do not understand this profile.

I am loyal, intrepid, and distinctive

"Music and love are life. The rest is just day jobs and details." My life consists of wine and dancing. It's very Roman.

Also, as of March 25th, I am officially a CMS Certified Sommelier. (!!!)

Attempting to usurp space-time coordinates already inhabited by furniture. Being snarky on the internet: How To Write To Women On Okcupid

That one can see my eyes from several states away.

Then it's that I have a social gravitational force approaching that of a singularity. For nerds, anyway.

Update March 2013: That my hair is gone. My hair was very long (as pictured) until it caught on fire at work recently. This was not my idea of a good time. It's chin-length now. There is one very recent picture of this, with all the wine bottles, tagged with the date. I mention this so you're not like ??? when you meet me in person. It will grow back.

Books: Social manifestos disguised as scifi. (Joan Vinge, Robert Heinlein.) Anthropology, ecology, and history nonfic. (Jared Diamond, Michael Pollen.) Miltary fantasy. Historical fiction (Sharon Kay Penman).

Food: Wine, cheese, charcuterie, oysters, mussels, raw tuna, runny egg yolks, dark green vegetables, pistachios, caramel, bacon, mung beans, rice. I get the majority of my food from Farmer Tom's, Cedar Valley Sustainable, and Provenance. Honorable mention: Jam, Rootstock, Owen&Engine, Longman&Eagle, and oyster happy hour at Shaw's.

People to communicate with by any medium (verbal, visual, physical, or musical.) The kick comes from people, buddy boy.

That's the only thing.

fiction, theater, psychology, anthropology, gaming, the order of the stick, politics, sustainability, local organic farming, human rights, economics, fine dining, wine, healthy diet and exercise, arranging vocal music, Tribal Style Bellydance, and Anglo-Norman history. If you cannot find a single thing to talk about therein, thanks anyway, have a nice day.

Telling people about wine.

I am repulsed by people who refuse to learn about alcohol when it is presented to them. I think both "I just wanna get wasted!" and "Oh, I don't drink," are obnoxiously small minded.

Boys:
* You are tall, slim and pretty with angular features, a full compliment of hair on top of your head and minimal-to-none on your body. See: masturdator, tsaven-nava, thedevilhisdue.
* You are an alpha. You outperform my other suitors
socially, economically, physically. Make my biological responses
believe your genetics are superior.
* Despite your intelligence, you are socially adjusted, with a taste for the good life.
* Bonus points if you sing collegiate a capella. I also <3
drummers.

Girls:
* You are a "pretty little lipstick." I like my men to look like
men and my women to look like women. See:
fatalis_vox.
*you are extremely independent and assertive. The women I love all tend to be strong, fabulous divas.
*Despite your intelligence, you like ridiculously girly things, like thrifting and getting our nails done, only somewhat ironically. fat-fat-fat and I have begun a new league of awesome women in Chicago.
*you are a serious dancer. I may or may not have a love/hate ballerina fetish.