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I'm a former teacher of history, law, and other things and I do a lot of traveling with students, usually to do community service some place cool, like South Africa, the Navajo Reservation, Belize, Costa Rica, just to name a few.

I'm a non-smoker and a vegetarian, but I am not without my vices. In fact, they can be significant.

I try to be pretty explicit and open about what I'm looking for and all that. I hope you'll be just as open about who you are and what you're looking for. This doesn't really work, otherwise.

I know I might scare some of you off when I say this, but I don't want to have kids. It isn't that I dislike them-I just don't want any of my own. Since this has been an issue in the past, I figure better to get it out in the open *now* in case you've got your heart set on it and you don't want to date anyone who feels the way I do. By the way: if you put down LIKES KIDS as a response to the question and you don't actually want kids of your own, please say something about it in you note or profile. Since one of the other response options is "doesn't want kids," I think I (justifiably) assume that you'd like to reproduce some day. Truthfully, I wish OKC would just clarify the damned question and its possible responses. This is the kind of question that teachers would know needs rewriting.

Oh--and despite everything that I've written above? I'm kinda, sorta, funny. A little. When I've been drinking. And you've been drinking, too.

People frequently ask about what I used to teach. To inform the curious (and annoy the indifferent), I've taught the following classes: South African History, Cuban History, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Legal Linguistics, Political Economics, World History, Music and History, Food and Water, Modern Revolutions, and Economics; I think that's it.

I recently did a Myers-Briggs test and came out an ENTJ, if you're interested in that kinda thing. Apparently, this is pretty rare--about 1.8% of the population.

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• minou_morte

Pouring drinks, saving the world and wookin' pa nub. Fun, freaky nub.

It's worth mentioning that I maybe moving to Southern Vermont soon.

...whistling really, really loudly.
...knowing a little about a lot.
...editing.
...speaking in public and working a room.
...drinking PBR and Manhattans.
...making you a mixed CD of all the music we talked about on the first date that you didn't know or didn't have.
...kissing. I won a contest, even. Other, related, activities that I haven't won any contests (but have received kudos) for.
...balancing my reading list to include graphic novels, dailykos, and the latest SCOTUS decisions.
...being in charge in certain situations.
...providing first aid.
...seeming nonplussed when I'm actually freaking out.
...cooking mac and cheese, corn chowder, and other winter-appropriate tasty items.

Oh: and I'm an excellent driver, and not in a Rain Man kinda way.

...depends on what angle they're approaching from, I think.
Personally, I like my calves. The right one has a small tattoo on it.
I've been getting a lot of nice comments on my glasses for some reason--not the Elvis ones--the ones I wear to see. I especially appreciate these compliments because the frames cost me $10.

Books: Naked lunch, Don Quixote, Kavalier and Clay, World War Z, Kingdom Come, On the Road, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, The Nine, Deterring Democracy, The Anarchist's Cookbook, Holidays on Ice, A People's History of the Supreme Court, Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

They aren't books, but I also spend a fair amount of time looking at Harper's, Dailykos, the New Yorker, boingboing, Politico, FARK, SCOTUSblog, and LOLcats.

Movies: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Evil Dead 2, Unforgiven, The Departed, The Corporation, Star Wars, The Graduate, Monty Python's Holy Grail, Airplane!, No Country for Old Men, The Thin Man (any of them), the new Star Trek.

Music: Old 97s, Big Back 40, The Smiths, Joy Division, White Stripes, Mozart, Mingus, Freddie King, Nina Simone, Yo La Tengo, Neutral Milk Hotel, Deer Tick, Joshua Radin, Minor Threat, The Coup, Johnny Cash, Bad Religion, Bruce Springsteen, Elliott Smith, Dire Straits, Steve Earle, Edith Piaf, Elliott Smith, The Shins, Uncle Tupelo, Buffalo Tom, Tegan and Sara, Iron & Wine, The Mountain Goats...I could go on. At last count I had 12,257 songs on my ipod. It would be fantastic if you could teach me about a few thousand more. Please, PLEASE, don't tell me you "listen to everything" for two reasons: one, it's not true--there's some music you don't like and two, it's OK to tell me that, even if it's one of my favorite bands. It gives us something to talk about.

TV: I actually gave up cable a while back, so I don't really watch TV these days; but I like Heroes, Lost, Deadwood, Fawlty Towers, Weeds, Dexter, Burn Notice, Mad Men, The IT Crowd, Californication, 30 Rock, West Wing, Eureka, Star Trek, the Daily Show. I'm not anti-TV in the least. I am *not* a reality TV fan and really, really don't understand why people waste their time with most of those shows.

Food: anything vegetarian excepting mushrooms. Why would people want to eat fungus if they don't have to? I make a kick-ass jerk tofu that goes well with spoonbread and collard greens. I won't give you a hard time about meat if you don't give me a hard time about tofu.

cheese, wine, chocolate, bread, apples, and tomatoes.

I mean, I could, but why bother?

...how to make the world a better place...and whether I can do that whilst drunk.
...what now-defunct band I'd see in concert if I could travel back in time (see my journal entry on the topic).
...how to survive the coming apocalypse--zombie induced or otherwise.
...how to spend my winnings if I were to win the lottery (which I have only played once).
...what my next adventure will be.
...when, where (if?) I'll meet someone and fall in love.

...typically in a church. Just not for the reason you'd think. I'll have to know you before I'm coming clean on that one.

is that I have things in my bedside table that I would not want to talk with my parents about and that despite this (and the fact that I usually only check your "personality awards" to see if they include a couple that I think are important), I'm more of a romantic than people think.

I'm also a top.

...you vote. I don't care for whom you vote, just that you aren't a bystander.

...you don't smoke tobacco. I can't stand the smell or taste. No problem with other smokables.

...you're a Red Sox fan--or a Yankees fan open to a friendly rivalry and bets where money isn't what's at stake. Or you want to catch a Cyclones game on Coney Island and can be persuaded to ride the Cyclone afterwards.

...you're here to laugh, love, fuck, and drink liquor--and help the damned revolution come quicker.

...you don't have or want kids and you live in NYC.

...you believe in evolution. Srsly. And you don't believe in Scientology. Rly Srsly. If you don't believe in marriage equality, you should be ready to have a long and heated argument about it. Wicked srsly.