//Edit: Recently moved to PDX. Still getting settled!

Over-educated and post-cool. Someone who has lived on three continents. Someone who gets his entertainment from NPR and his hard news from Coast to Coast AM. In previous lives I've been a secretary at a family law office, a Nevada ranch hand, an assembler of high voltage power supplies, and an infantryman in the 101st Airborne Division. I'm way too confident and consciously have to tone it down most of the time. I'm a great kisser, passable cook, and terrible knitter.

After struggling mightily against the family curse (we're all attorneys up in here!), I seem to have become a law student.

I enjoy what I do, but it doesn't leave me much time to socialize.

... giving spinny-hugs. No, really, it's my superpower. That, and walking into conversations at the worst possible moment.

Hell if I know. Someone who knows me really well says it's my big moon face, which I don't really see, but then, she says I'm hella cute and I don't really see that either.

Oh, goodness. What am I doing lately? Depends on my mood, I suppose.

Music:
::Punk fucking rock!: Sleater-Kinney; Subhumans; Dead Kennedys; Dresden Dolls/Amanda Fucking Palmer; Circle Jerks; Murder City Devils
::Punk fucking rock! Just a little more psycho, and a little more hillbilly: The Cramps; HorrorPops; Creepshow; Nekromantix
::"I like both kinds of music: country /and/ Western.": Hank; Hank Jr.; Patsy Cline; Charlie Daniels; Steve Earle; Alison Krauss & Union Station
::Folksters: Robert Earl Keen Jr.; Nitty Gritty Dirt Band; Peter Rowan; Greg Brown; Kate Wolf

Books:
::Scariest: _House of Leaves_
::Saddest: _Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth_
::Desolate: _All the Pretty Horses_
::Lyricism: _Neuromancer_
::Information Density: _Watchmen_
::Dystopian: _The Handmaid's Tale_
::Love Story: _Bel Canto_
::Guilty pleasure: Song of Ice and Fire series

--my books... all of them
--old brown cowboy boots
--the BBC World Service
--the Oxford comma
--wikipedia as collective brain and obsession-driven infomaniac's dream
--working on #6. I'm low-maintenance.

Semi-odd, random things. The odds of the Singularity as compared to other world-ending events. Style, even though I'm not a fashionista. Foreign events. Handmade things and how bad I am at making them. Is the uncanny valley just supposition? The differences between terror and horror in fiction. The IF renaissance in a new age of omnipresent screens. My current IF work in progress. Off-world colonization... and bonus points if you can make a convincing argument for Europa over Ceres, or vice versa. Wishing I were out in the desert, either in the dunes or the high desert backcountry. The fact that okCupid's spellcheck system red-underlines the word 'spellcheck' as a misspelling.

I can quote Dickinson for all occasions (the set of all occasions that are loneliness, death, redemption, and the indelibility of love).

No, there is not a frequent demand for this talent.

//Edit: If you just want to say hi or hang out.

... you're an interesting woman who has something more compelling to talk about than the last club you went to. If you'd rather carry a book than your iPhone. If you know you're fierce and know that ferocity comes from your brain as much as your body.

Gradkids, autodidacts, and artists need apply. Most of my heart is reserved for troublemakers and miscreants and broken things. Hyperliteracy and a twinge of the obsessive well-regarded.

No princesses need apply.

//Secondary edit: I have a complicated romantic situation and an amazing girlfriend, and am no longer looking to date. Which, at the end of the day, is probably a good thing for all involved: my schedule wouldn't allow me to give someone the attention they deserve, anyway.

**Biographical note: I have two beautiful, nuclear-powered attackchildren whom I support and adore. Unfortunately, they do not live with me, and that's not likely to change.