I'm afraid I sometimes get in a bit over my head, allowing my imagination to lead when my reason might object. That's why I have a semi-bi-coastal life, meaning a 180-year old house (no plumbing or electricity) in the Champlain Valley of NY that spoke to me from behind a veil of trees and weeds. I spend a few weeks to a few months there summers, figuring out what do next. Last summer it was repairing the sheathing and siding. I've learned a few things about slinging a hammer, but I've sworn off table saws...
On the other hand, I'm a big reader and I write stories sometimes, mostly true.
I'm attracted to warm-hearted intellectuals, gay-seeming straight men, and wry humor, preferably in combination. I'm an ENFP.

I'm in grad school and on the side I'm taking classes to get certified to teach English to speakers of other languages. I am also very slowly restoring that 19th century house. And I really mean preserving more than restoring, definitely not remodeling or modernizing.

I'm good at talking to people and representing them fairly when I write about them. I'm an enchanting conversationalist and I'm good at taking the back roads. I like to find unlikely solutions and cool objects and if you want to know something, I'll happily do the research.

Probably whatever expression's on my face. That, and my curls.

I read all the time. Right now it's Hemingway's short stories, Faulkner, and Henry James. I'm also buried in books about early anthropology and 19th century journalism, theosophy, and American Indians.
Recent TV: Deadwood, Lie to Me, Dexter, and Downton Abbey.
Recent Movies: Moonrise Kingdom, Beasts of the Southern Wild, A Late Quartet.

Connection
Affection
Reflection
Vision
Inspiration
Hot Baths

I'm thinking a lot about how history is constructed, who or what got trampled or is left unremembered.

Quirkyalone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirkyalone

The idea of having my belly button poked is as appealing as having my eyeball poked.

If you're smart and warm and offbeat, even goofy, with a knack for the English language and possibly introverted, don't be shy. I'd love to meet someone handy and artistic who can teach me a thing or two or someone sporty and fun who'd enjoy taking me and my dog on adventures.