A wise guy once said, "Your top and your bottom are far apart..." Then he drew a bell curve and told me I have a broad range.

Artist-cum-hospital administrator. Peacock. In love much of the time with the sacred and profane. Career, pedigree, bra size, sensibility are intact. Grammar nerd; Little Jessica Rabbit with a little Liz Lemon and a little pre-sainthood Augustine.

I love to sing, dance, cook, think hard, drink deep, travel, analyze, stick my fingers in unusual places in the name of service. Fortunate to approach my career with verve, zest, and momentum. Would love to find all-around partner with whom to take a bite out of crime and prevent forest fires.

Cross between a therapist and a project manager. Learnin'. Dropping Gs from gerunds. Writing. Teaching and supervsin'. Considering how to best help the legacy in my field. Psychoanalytic training. Going to the gym. Countertransferring. All over your face. Considering what to do to my house. The things listed above and below that I like.

thinking on my feet, emotional generosity, being verbose, righteous indignation followed by empathy for opposition, gesticulating, writing letters, reading people, Vietnamese grocery and thrift store shopping, gluing, creating characters out of costume and movement, rolling my eyes, pushing boundaries, articulation, writing essays, memoirs, copy. making lists. eating appreciatively. sounding like i know something, accidental clowning.

curls.

To Listen/ sing:
CBC Radio Wiretap, books on ipod on long drives (this is the only time i consume fiction), The Moth Podcast, Slate Gabfest, medieval chant, Buena Vista Social Club, Decemberists, Magnetic Fields, shape note singing, modal vocal music, the Roches, Pandora Radio, NPR, Beck, Disco, Funk, Nina Simone, salsa (the music more so than, but not instead of, the condiment), whatever slightly edgy, ambient, melancholic, clever rock is currently playing. Aretha. LCD Sound System, Efterklang, Dirty Projectors, Nick Lowe.

To watch: Twin Peaks the TV show, X-Men (I favor Beast: "Our safety is in our speed..."- Ralph Waldo Emerson), Todd Solondz, Freaks and Geeks, Muppets, La Strada, Le Bal, Coen Brothers, great documentaries, Woody Allen,The Secretary, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Triplettes of Belleville, Ken Russell films, Lars , Wes, Roman Polanski, South Park, Summer Heights High, Dr. Katz, Profesional Therapist; Home Movies; Daria; Learning to Talk Turkey; American Beauty; Amores Perros; Y tu Mama, Tambien.

To read/ hear read aloud: Davids Sedaris and Rakoff, Middlesex, The Marriage Plot, In Search of Respect:Selling Crack in el Barrio, The Words to Say it, Freud, Augustine's Confessions, Diary of a Madman (Gogol- Read it and WEEP from hilarity and sadness.), Spotnitz, Gladwell, Victor Frankel, existentialist lit and therapy philosophy; Slate Culture podcasts, Rumi.

To eat: whole fish, raw oysters, urchin, green vegetables, red meat, raw fish, anything Vietnamese, spicy, with herbs, fresh, exotic, precious, simple, octopus, a lobster for 3 hours. Lean protein and leafy greens; usually use chopsticks; not into sweets. Keep it healthy.

singing!!! Mom, dad, coffee, gym, eyes, ears, pens, npr, muscles, people smarter than me; great teachers; leafy greens; paint; good hands. I don't count good or respect parameters.

what I would do if I could have 3 days with superego on hiatus; singing (yum); leadership, second order change, perception, modes of discourse; scooters, what to eat, what to do to my house, what to paint; qualitative v. quantitative; what to eat again, how to handle the notion of karma, volition; rights v. privileges; doctoring; deliverance.

Cocktails or resting or involved with a dinner party or hearing music or singing or some combination of above. Or brainstorming and writing after a workout. Preparing for class the next morning. Cooking at home; catching up on important phone calls; Hot toddy. Heading to NY for the weekend. Salsa dancing if I'm not feeling shy.

There is a soft center.

smart, educated, curious, tolerant, good hands, straight talk, sexy, adventurous mind, solid executive functioning, hungry/ thirsty/ lusty.

and/or

you think we might be simpatico and want to meet.

I tend not to answer non-specific one-line emails that simply ask me how I am doing today or the like; also the ones with improper grammar. No disrespect, but I am unlikely to sink my teeth into those.