Compassionate and curious. I believe laughter, like floss, is indispensable.

Taking it moment to moment. Balancing both sides of my brain, the creative and analytical. Contemplating the right moment to rescue a dog. Learning bass guitar, mostly unsuccessfully.

Beyond that, management consulting and basket weaving.

I love adventures but appreciate what it is to be home.

Ridding people of hiccups. Dog whispering. Air guitar. Finding wormholes. Imitating my uncle. Showing respect and searching for kindness as my first impulse.

Names, dates, facts, figures and remembering most things deemed useless by pretty much everyone but me.

That, according to this site, I am a competitive, aggressive, sex-crazed maniac. And that I also lack purity...in case the whole aggressive and sex crazed thing didn't give it away. This is "catch of the century" material. Always sort of thought I was a relatively nice guy, but cupid's little drones have proven me wrong, clearly.

Books: A Lesson Before Dying. Remarkable Ramsey the Talking Dog. Man Gone Down. Of Mice and Men. John Irving and John Steinbeck. Love Stephen King. Steve Tesich and Oliver Sacks too. I'm also a Shakespeare nerd; "...AND KINDNESS, EVER NOBLER THAN REVENGE..." Lately it's non-fiction...a sign of the times and my advancing age.

Movies: Breaking Away, The Sting, The Shining, The Shawshank Redemption, Airplane, Rocky, Pulp Fiction, One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest, Beetlejuice, Annie Hall, Back to the Future, On the Waterfront, Better off Dead, In the Bedroom, Jaws, Raging Bull, The Secret in Their Eyes, The Birdcage, My Cousin Vinny, All Cohen Bros., Safe Men.

Music: Almost as hard as movies. Otis Redding, The Rolling Stones, Martin Sexton, Michael Jackson, Teddy Thompson, Smokey Robinson, Tom Waits, Marvin Gaye, Radiohead, Ali Farka Toure, Blues Traveler, Lyle Lovett; most Clapton works for me. My Pandora incldues the Smiths, Digital Underground, and Samuel Barber. There is a lot in between, obviously.

TV: Breaking Bad is the first dramatic show I've watched seriously since Six Feet Under. Seinfeld and Curb. I can inhale hours of listless programming by Nat Geo and the History Channel. There is just something about relics.

Food: Somewhere in between Anthony Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern. I will try almost anything once. I would leave everything behind for a chance to travel and eat odd foods, camera or no camera.

Feels like we've covered this somehow. I like peaches a lot. Coffee is really, quite key. Long runs. My family, my freedom and the chance to scribble my thoughts on paper while traveling. 6 okay?

The weight of an orange. The smell of French toast. The perfect line. The perfect oyster. How to weave in my endless supply of movie references--not quotes--into daily life; its rarely hard for me. I've learned to do this internally, within my brain, so no one is driven completely nuts.

Searching for something atypical. I'm a pretty solid dancer but need to be dragged out sometimes. Fun is good; I'm open to most forms of it, even if it means making a total and complete ass of myself.

Every now and then you can catch me on tv, drinking coffee. B roll footage the networks recycle. It's ridiculous. I didn't ask for this and am awaiting royalties.

You're a funny, smart, sweet, and damn pretty lady who can help contemplate my sock situation. You take care of yourself and others. You don't take yourself too seriously. You are honest and self-aware.