I live in Dubai, but grew up in Colorado. I would like to someday call NYC home, even for just a little while. I teach high school visual art and epistemology, but want to go back to school to get an MFA in printmaking and/or (preferably and more than or) an MA in art theory (probably in the US, but I won't rule out Canada or the UK). I consider myself to be decently intelligent and fairly passionate. I love to try new things (and foods!), like acting and directing plays at my school, even without any real experience. I can find a way to be interested in just about anything, even if I don't understand what it is (like biophysics). I love to travel. (Everyone seems to say this, I know, but I would like to offer as proof that I've been to 9 new countries in the last two years. And there will be plenty more to come, if everything goes my way.)

Part of me really wants to get married someday, but by no means am I ready to settle down now or anytime in the near future. I'm looking for a best friend and a partner to go with me on all of my adventures, and someone who will support me and will let me support them equally the same. I'm not desperate, or easy, or clingy, and will wait a good long time to find exactly what I'm looking for; I won't compromise my beliefs or take someone who is just "good enough." I don't believe in "the one," but do believe in love, and will keep looking until I find it. I'm a big believer in letting things happen as they might happen and I know there are a lot of things outside of my control (like who I meet, how I meet them, and when they might come into my life), so I've opened up my profile to be more than just people "near me" (which is preferable) to "anywhere." You just never know who might be out there!

Teaching is my full time job, but I keep busy doing other things like theater (on stage and back stage) and playing music every once in a while (whether at a pub or a house party). Just finished acting in Twelve Angry Jurors as the lead character, am heading into exam season at school which is full of grading and other heinousness, then will have a glorious summer break in NYC which will hopefully be filled with nothing but making as much artwork as I can, going to museums and galleries, and studying for the GREs. Life is too short to do anything less!

Talking about art to an extent that none of my friends care or want to go to galleries with me. Drawing. Being observant. Traveling without a detailed itinerary. Making things up as I go along.

I'm quiet. I hate that this is generally what people notice first, because I'm really not quiet once I get to know someone, but I need to find an ease with a person that allows me to open up a bit more. If you're a warm, funny, chatty person, likely I'll become that way pretty easily, too.

Books: Life of Pi, The Bastard of Istanbul, Birds Without Wings, 1984, Pride and Prejudice, To Kill a Mockingbird, My Name is Asher Lev, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, The Lover's Dictionary, Anne of Green Gables, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, anything ever written by Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, Haruki Murakami or John Steinbeck

Movies: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Stranger Than Fiction, Everything is Illuminated, Mona Lisa Smile, The Princess Bride, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Momento, You've Got Mail, 12 Angry Men, Finding Forrester, Bend it Like Beckham, Chocolat, Gosford Park, Wallace and Gromit, A Mighty Wind, Waking Ned Divine, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Little Miss Sunshine

TV Shows: Gilmore Girls, Alias, Northern Exposure, 30 Rock, Bones, The Big Bang Theory, Dollhouse, Firefly, Buffy, Lost, Parks and Recreation, Parenthood, Once Upon a Time, As Time Goes By, Cheers, Dead Like Me, Better Off Ted, Project Runway, The Wonder Years, Mad Men

Music: Lissie, The Bird and the Bee, Barenaked Ladies, Fiona Apple, The Eels, Duffy, DeVotchKa, Bishop Allen, Decemberists, Dave Brubeck, Carole King, Cat Power, Mamas and the Papas, The Black Keys, Ben Howard, Andrew Bird, AC/DC, Adele, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Grant-Lee Phillips, Jamie Cullum, Jenny Lewis, Joni Mitchell, Magnetic Fields, Neko Case, Regina Carter, Esperanza Spalding, Joshua Bell, and so, so, so many more...

Food: Turkish, Mexican, Thai, Sushi, Lebanese, steak, salad, pineapple, coconut, mango, cake... but I earnestly try to eat (and like) everything.

Yoga
My violin
Sketchbook
Something to read (blog, novel, essay, research journal, ?)
A camera
Some sort of transportation for spontaneous getaways

Teaching, curriculum, my students. Civil rights. Politics back home in the US and here in the Middle East. Art and theater. Where I can get a hold of either a teleportation device or a timeturner.

I have never been one of those girls who sits and mopes if she doesn't have a boyfriend (life is too short for that sort of drama), but when I listen to someone like Rosemary Clooney or Bing Crosby or Ella Fitzgerald, I really want a boyfriend just so I could have someone to sing to (or better yet, sing with).

...you write with full words, in complete sentences, and with better-than-average grammar.
...you have opinions on a multitude of topics and can provide reasons and perspective to back them up.
...you love to travel. I'm seriously looking for someone to travel with.
...you have a favorite character in the Whedonverse. (Mine is probably Kaylee, although I do like Echo a good deal as well.)