I need breakfast in the morning like some people need coffee.

I spend too much time working on my computer, and appreciate anyone who gets me away from it.

My level of extroversion varies greatly by circumstance.

I like to talk about all the things you're not supposed to in polite company, and am bored by those void of strong opinions.

I'm living in Silver Spring and working for the American Heart Association in DC. My title is "Youth Mobilization Manager for the Web"... I know, it sounds fake, but it's actually a very cool job. :)

I love my work, but I work to live instead of the reverse. I try to maintain a balanced mind, body, and spirit.

having fun with food, choosing or selling wine, public speaking, and writing when the occasion allows me to say what I'm thinking.

.. I'd like to learn to golf, to be a good pool player, and to ride a bike in the city without being terrified. If you can teach me any of those things, you may have yourself a date. ;)

If the music moves me I'll get out of my seat. That's probably what most people I've met in the last two years noticed about me first.

Books:
Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet
Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Lois Lowry's The Giver (it only gets better as you get older)
Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried
Aviva Jane Carlin's Jodie's Body
Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues
Theresa Rebeck's Sunday on the Rocks
Joseph Kesselring's Arsenic and Old Lace
Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan
Tom Robbins' Jitterbug Perfume

I'm currently midway through Dreyer's Chi Running, Vennells' Reiki Mastery, and Ruhlman's Ratio: Simple Codes...of Everyday Cooking.
I'm jealous of people who can plow through books. I think my slight obsession with words has me rereading rather than reading quickly. I don't want to miss a thing.

Movies (Recommendations welcome!):
Dead Poet's Society, Closer, RENT, Tombstone, Gia, Romeo and Juliet (both the new one and the old one with Olivia Hussey), Pool Hall Junkies, Rounders, Swingers, Full Metal Jacket... Kubrick is a sick genius, What Women Want, V for Vendetta, Chocolate, Paris Je'Taime, Duplicity..

My music taste is so broad.. I've been working around music for the last two years, and have been fortunate enough to see a ton of live music. Lately I've been listening to a lot of Brazilian Girls, Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Pink Floyd, and PJ Harvey, and looots of bossa nova.. I might have to learn to samba.

http://www.last.fm/user/sweetjezka/charts?rangetype=3month&subtype=artists

Life without music would be a sad, sad thing.

I love spicy food, garam masala, fresh produce, ginger root... I am a bit of a health nut, but that doesn't mean I don't eat well and I'm not afraid to cook with butter or heavy cream when the meal calls for it.

my running shoes, mountains, red wine, black tea, great bourbon, fresh produce. and the internet. I know, I don't follow directions.

food, people, words, saving the world, attempting to be eco-friendly, the run I ought to do if I haven't done it yet, kissing.

If you have pretty lips and something smart is coming out of them, I apologize if I ask you to repeat yourself. I'm a sucker for a set of pretty lips.

relaxing at home, sitting outside drinking wine or bourbon, or out dancing somewhere in DC.

Foodgawker.com is like porn to me.

..you're a smart man with lots of ambition who knows how to set his work aside to enjoy the rest of life.

..you're seeking a lady with a brain.

..you're reasonably mature.

..you aren't a SIF (Google it).

..you are confident enough to handle things head-on. I find passive aggression exhausting.

..you love art of all kinds.

..you have a favorite hole-in-the-wall restaurant in DC (I don't have many, yet... I tend to cook in rather than eat out, but that's beginning to change)

..you love to cook. Or just to eat.. and savor.. with wine.

..you don't mind dressing up a little to go out sometimes (18th St Lounge, the theatre..)

Definitely message me if you're a policy geek. Or a quantum physics geek. Or a geek of any kind. If you love your work, and want to teach me all about it, I'll probably want to listen.

I find that the people I connect best with are driven both intellectually and creatively. I seek the company of those I think I can learn from.

An addendum: If you think we will be more compatible as friends than lovers, but you think we'd have a bad ass time together, I won't be offended in the slightest. Let's hang out! If you are a self-professed girly-man with many similar interests, you probably fall into that category. So let's hang out, but.. not make out.