i'm doing this on a whim so i haven't got a summary prepared. hmmm--i'm fun-loving, energetic, interested and interesting. and i'm constantly surprising myself lately.

periodically i add little details here. like today it seems important to mention that i'm allergic to cigarette smoke.

look, another day when i want to add something! i'm not doing the star rating thing on quickmatch so the fact that you don't get a little message telling you that i rated you highly doesn't mean a darned thing. oh, and also--i keep coming home to a lot of dead IM windows--that's because i frequently don't remember to log out. sorry about that!

so many people ask me what i do for fun, that i begin to despair of my ability to write. i sing for fun. i sometimes dance for fun. (i also get together with friends and explore and try new things for fun, but the activity that i structure my days and weeks around is singing.) when i first wrote this profile, i wouldn't have said that i cook for fun, but now i sometimes do ;-) .

and yet another edit--you know you wanted one. i thought i had mentioned this but i see now that it's in a journal post, not out here where it's easy to find. yes, i am really bisexual. no, i am not interested in a threesome with you and your girlfriend. not for one night, not for a longer relationship--not interested. if that's what you're looking for, i wish you well in your search but you've come to the wrong profile.

whatever i think will bring me joy. my passion is singing--i do two types seriously: traditional choral and shapenote singing. i've also been contra dancing--really enjoy it--need to do more of it.

oh--was this supposed to be about my job?

paying attention, adapting to the curves life throws at me, and kissing.

my laugh, if you hear that particular laugh. otherwise my hair, probably.

i have been informed that it is a Bad Thing that i don't have this section filled in. so let me just say that i love books, movies, music, and foods.

okay, someone wrote to ask me what shapenote recordings i would recommend and i didn't get back to them very quickly and they apparently deleted their profile. but since i went to the trouble of writing the response, y'all are going to benefit from that because i'm going to put all of what i wrote here:

if i could only have one shapenote recording, i would pick Sacred Harp Chattahoochee Singing Convention Day 2 (i have never heard day 1) which is the third item down on this page:

http://www.morningtrumpet.com/

two disks--lots of variety of songs, completely traditional. but so many of the traditional recordings are bad quality or the tonal quality is too nasal for the non-regional ear, in my opinion.

another one i like is:

Traditional Musics of Alabama, Volume 3
2002 National Sacred Harp Singing Convention

http://alabamafolklife.org/AFApublication.htm#musics3

the first "shapenote" recording i ever heard was:

Rivers of Delight (American Folk Hymns From the Sacred Harp Tradition)

http://www.amazon.com/Rivers-Delight-American-Sacred-Tradition/dp/B000005IVY/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-8270429-6597752?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1186850160&sr=8-1

this one is kind of "if a choral group did shapenote" so it is authentic songs but not authentic sound--but it roped me in, so i think it's good at that.

i love singing with a fierce and intense passion.

when i have a night when it all comes together--when the performance occurs and we're all on and my voice is on and my beautiful voice joins with all these other beautiful voices and musicians to form something bigger than i could ever create on my own....that's my religion, that's my spiritual experience--that's my connection to anything larger out there in the universe.

you want to. i mean what the hell, right?

update: i still think that's the right answer, but if you basically just say "hi" and nothing else, chances are that i won't respond, especially if your profile doesn't have anything to start a conversation with, either.