I'm really busy right now with my business, other projects, making friend/business connections, etc. Not up for random dating, but still looking for good friends (and 'The One') - sorry if I don't respond to your message! (Also, I'm traveling a lot these days, so I'm changing my profile location around to see what new connections I can make. You'll need to read through below to figure out where I actually live - well, where I live some of the time anyway...)

Now back to your regularly scheduled profile...

I will make this world a better place with my actions. Dance, math, & psychology will always be a part of my life. I believe in living a life that makes you happy in the present while still making conscious, informed decisions about your future. I love children, waterfalls, and an open dance floor. I am always learning, always looking for more and new information & opportunities. I love to understand!

Life is a journey, and I have only just begun. :-)

Am I searching for the impossible? Perhaps, but then I tend to do the impossible. :-)

You might be for me if...

1) You are very intelligent and intellectually curious - preferably in the math/science/logic/computers/ problem-solving smart way. You love learning and pondering new ideas and concepts. The mind and the brain fascinate you! Foreign languages and linguistics intrigue you, and you probably know how to program in a few computer languages.

2) You have an artistic / creative passion (or several), aka you play an instrument or sing or act or dance or draw or paint or sculpt or write or build or photograph or design or ...

3) You're ambitious and want to make a difference in the world. You have a job/business (or several) that you love, or you're working toward that. You like helping people, and you're a nice person. You believe that people are inherently good (even if they do stupid things sometimes), and you rarely get mad at other people. You take personal responsibility for your life and have an internal locus of control.

4) You eat healthy and exercise (most of the time!). You're interested in paleo / primal, longevity / life extension, & transhumanism, and how what we eat and do affects our brains and our lives. You don't smoke, and you drink only in moderation. Bonus points if you can do cool stuff with your body - like acroyoga, martial arts, gymnastics, cirque arts, parkour, climbing, etc. Even more bonus points if you'll go partner dancing with me (blues, tango, ballroom, salsa, etc.) Super bonus points if you'll do acrobatic partnering with me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWxdK525n0Q)

5) You're not into "keeping up with the Joneses", but you do have and spend money on things and experiences that make you happy. You would be just as happy vacationing by living in a van on Maui for a week as you would be going to Vegas and seeing cirque shows.

6) You're not into organized religion, but rather are on your own spiritual path, whether you consider yourself atheist, agnostic, pantheist, spiritual, possibilian, etc. You are moral, generous, and tolerant.

7) You would rather read a book or discuss ideas or surf the internet than watch TV. But you do enjoy movies (and a few TV shows, like Firefly!). And you may also like the occasional video game and/or computer game, but you're not going on raids three nights a week.

8) You're a Burner at heart whether or not you've been to Burning Man recently (or ever!), yet you can pass yourself off as 'normal' in everyday life. You embody inclusion, self-reliance, self-expression, and participation.

9) And then, there's the all important, all elusive 'spark' - you could be all of the above, but we might not click. Or you could only be a few, and we might have a really strong connection (although if you aren't a majority of the above, the relationship probably won't go anywhere.)

10) Last, but definitely NOT least (for long-term relationships anyway), you want to start a family and have a child (or children) in the next few years (but not settle down!). You're interested in (or at least open to)... natural birth, attachment parenting (breastfeeding, babywearing, cosleeping, elimination communication, etc), healthy eating (paleo/primal/'real food'), accelerated intelligence (prenatal learning, multiple languages, supplements, baby signs), homeschooling (Montessori, classical education, unschooling, accelerated math&science), very little TV, nature&outdoors (hiking, camping), and domestic & international travel with the kid(s).

I own a boutique & educational center in San Fernando Valley plus working on starting a kid-friendly makerspace in Los Angeles - so I'm really busy being entrepreneurial. I'm also trying to find balance in my life though taking dance, acroyoga, & cirque classes; connecting with amazing friends; reading math textbooks & taking the online Stanford courses; etc. And I'm a bit nomadic - going to conferences, helping with projects, meeting new people all over California and the US. (I will sometimes change my OkC location to see what interesting people there are in other places!)

In the past, I've helped promote & organize conferences (including BIL, Humanity+, etc), taught high school math & science, nannied & 'mother'ed, run a charter elementary school, owned a dance store, taught ballet & jazz, wrote high school curriculum, and worked at various other random businesses and jobs.

I got my BA in Cognitive Science from UCSD, after realizing at Caltech that as much as I love math, science, and programming, I don't want to do it all the time. (And yet if I go very long without it in my life, I get sad!)

-reading quickly and learning new things quickly. Oh and I'm also extremely good at adding more books to my huge collection! :-)

-customer service. I actually like working retail and helping people! And doing bookkeeping too...

-standardized tests. And I kinda enjoy taking them!

-procrastinating... and perendinating...

My eyes and my smile tend to get compliments. Or that I'm short! :-)

Books... I read mostly non-fiction. I am an information junkie! I have lots of various interests, and I want to know all about them! Mostly books about cogsci, math, computer science, education, child development, linguistics, etc. When I do read fiction, it's usually sci-fi (Ender's Game, etc).

Movies... The Matrix, Serenity, Princess Bride, Shawshank Redemption, Bourne series, Ocean's Eleven, Fifth Element, Strictly Ballroom, Pirates of the Caribbean, Jurassic Park, Contact, Gattaca, Dave, Equilibrium, Titanic

TV... Firefly, Dharma & Greg, Buffy, Castle, House, So You Think You Can Dance (I don't actually own a TV, but I watch series on DVD and Hulu sometimes.)

Music... I have very diverse music interests, ranging from classical to Perfect Circle to Britney!

Food... I like all sorts of ethnic food (Thai, Japanese, Indian, Greek, etc). I eat mostly healthy, but I do have my weak moments. I'm interested in paleo, CRON, raw foods, and intermittent fasting, although I don't practice any of them consistently at the moment. My eating habits are mostly real foods and low grains. I shop at Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, and farmers' markets.

-My books!
-My computer and internet access!
-Music & the ability to move to the music
-My friends who are like family to me
-Control over my time
-A space of my own

everything! Why I'm here in this world, how to make people happy, how to expand my mind, what to have for dinner...

Here's a list of some of my interests stolen from my livejournal...
a perfect circle, accelerated learning, acrobatic dancing, acroyoga, aerial silk, anti-aging, artificial intelligence, artificial life, arts, attachment parenting, baby signs, ballet, ballroom, belly dancing, books, burning man, business development, calorie restriction, caltech, chaos, children, chocolate, choices, cirque du soleil, cleverness, cognitive science, complexity, computer science, connecting, consciousness, creativity, cuddle parties, cuddling, curiosity, customer service, cuteness, dancing, data mining, day spas, daydreaming, discovering, dolphins, dreams, e-commerce, education, educational software, entelechy, entrepreneurship, experiences, exploration, financial planning, firefly, fitness, flexibility, flow, friends, fuzzy logic, game theory, genetic algorithms, genius, gifted education, growth, gymnastics, happiness, healthy living, helping people, home schooling, honesty, human computer interaction, ideas, imagination, information, infp, inspiration, intelligence, interconnectivity, kids, languages, learning, life, life coaching, life extension, linguistics, listening, logic, love, lyrical, making a difference, marketing, massage, math education, mathematics, meditation, mind, montessori, motivation, music, musicals, neurolinguistic programming, neuropsychology, non-fiction, nurturing, observing, ocean, opportunities, paleo diet, passion, people, personal growth, personal responsibility, philosophy, pilates, pisces, pole dancing, pondering, possibilities, productivity, programming, project sifter, psychology, psychometrics, quirkiness, quotes, rain, randomness, raw food, reading, reflection, reggio emilia, relaxation, romance, science, self development, self discovery, self-exploration, serenity, simple living, singularity, smileys, smiling, spas, sustainable living, swing dancing, teaching, thai massage, the matrix, thinking, traveling, tribal belly dancing, tropical places, trust, truth, understanding, uniqueness, unschooling, user interface design, water, waterfalls, web design, weirdness, yoga.

home learning something new aka reading, surfing the internet, watching TED talks or Stanford online courses, etc. Or maybe out at a restaurant with friends. Or going blues dancing. Or at an acroyoga jam. Or traveling and going to conferences. Or contemplating the universe and its wonders.

-That the me you meet in a social setting is not the real me, or rather it's only a facet of me. You'll have to see me in lots of different settings to see more of my facets. For instance, my nerdy/geeky friends are really surprised when I start dancing! And my dancer friends have no idea that I like math problems and video games. Or if you meet me at a conference, I will seem very outgoing and extroverted, but I'm just as much an introvert who needs time by myself or with one person that I'm really close to.

-That I'm looking for a monogamous/ish relationship. While I do like a lot of aspects of polyamory (trust & loyalty, open communication & radical honesty, compersion & non-possessiveness, etc), I am looking for a serious, committed primary relationship leading to starting a family. Someone who will be my main go-to person, my best friend - someone to share my life with - someone who is happy to have me be their one main squeeze! :-) But I also want someone who recognizes that being together long-term means that feelings & attractions for other people will probably happen at some point (or many points!) - someone who is open to talking about those feelings and figuring out if/how it works in our relationship at that point in time to deal with those feelings. Someone who has the open/compersion/poly mentality, but is more monogamous in practice.

You like pondering new ideas and possibilities.

You're going to be at BIL (www.bilconference.com) and want to say hi! :-)

I will admit that I do put a fair amount of trust in the okcupid percentage system - so if you're less than like 80% with me, feel free to message me, but make sure you tell me why you think we'd get along, because it's probably not going to be obvious from your profile. Thanks!

Just to let you know - I am fairly busy with my business & my other 'job's, my friends, my hobbies, etc, so I'm not up for random dating, but for the right person & relationship, I have plenty of time. :-)

As a way to start you off on your message, so that you write more than 'Great profile - you seem cool' (which I probably won't respond to), why don't you tell me 4 things that really stick out from my profile as what we have in common, and then also one significant thing that you think we disagree on. :-)