Dear okcupid,

It has been a while.

I am [still] a hardcore liberal, anti-religion, compassionate, sensitive, goofy, nerdy, loving person. In the past year or so I've discovered that I am actually not as domestically challenged as my profile once may have led you to believe. I cooked the entire Thanksgiving Dinner for my family this year and I make a pretty mean chicken enchilada soup.

Some of the things I want to do before I die include: going whale watching, living on a farm, working with a professional theater company, and living in Europe. I would also love to move back to Berkeley some day. I did my undergrad at UC Berkeley and I think that school is responsible for much of the good I plan to do in my life.

Oh, and I love kids.

I don't want to be pegged as a typical progressive who gets so obsessed with my own agenda that I forget about other viewpoints. I can be extremely outspoken when it comes to my ideas of fairness and justice, but I also have to constantly remind myself that there is always another side.

I am devoted, efficient, and a tad nerdy.

I think I have extremely keen mirror neurons.

I'm a third grade teacher in Saratoga. Super rewarding, super stressful!

Lastly, but most importantly, I'm a single mother to an amazing four-year-old. While I think motherhood is the most challenging and fulfilling role I've encountered, I'd like to keep that separate from okcupid for now.

listening, video games (when I have time to practice which is not often), teaching, baking chocolate chip cookies, SET, board games, rating pearl tea

I have excellent time management skills and the men I've dated have all been impressed with my parallel parking skills.

My hair.

Now, I don't know. I don't really pay attention to being noticed.

))<>(( - one of my favorite movies.

Books: Choke, Lullaby, (most everything by Chuck Palahniuk), A Confederacy of Dunces, The Good Earth, Song of Solomon, The Painted Bird, Harry Potter, The Handmaid's Tale

Movies: Dogville, Life is Beautiful, The Sword in the Stone, Memento, Napoleon Dynamite, You, Me, and Everyone We Know, Spirited Away

I'm more into TV than movies. I like devoting myself an hour at a time to something continuous, rather than for 3 hours to something temporary. I like: Dexter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, CSI, True Blood, and Pushing Daisies

Music: Rilo Kiley, The Postal Service, Jason Mraz, Jeff Buckley, Lady Gaga, music that makes me want to dance, Jazz (but no smooth jazz, thanks), and classical

Food: I'm a big foodie (not literally big, though nothing wrong with that if that's what you're in to). I like Indian (especially buffets), Mexican, Thai , Japanese, Chinese, American, Italian, pretty much you name it, except I'm not too keen on Greek food. I also really like all those unhealthy, fatty, but delicious breakfast foods.

1. My family
2. evolution
3. coffee
4. context
5. acquaintances.
6. designer jeans (I can occasionally be a consumer whore, but generally only when it comes to jeans. I don't own many pairs, but I feel like the ones I do should fit well and look hot).

... look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities.

Social justice, love, embarrassing things I've done in the past, how to become better at things.

Either in watching movies or tv, playing video games or board games, or out with friends. I also spend quite a bit of time doing homework, but I consider lesson planning fun, so my Friday nights aren't ruined by boring busy work.

If I could eat candy all day, I just might do that.

I don't like to shower. I do it because I don't like to be smelly, and I suppose it's a societal norm that I think is important to follow, but I just don't like the feeling of water raining down on me (incidentally, I do love the rain).

I have kind of low self-esteem. I used to rely on the approval of others to calculate my self worth, but I am slowly growing out of that. I try not to let my low self-image impact my relationships.

You like big butts and you cannot lie. Really.

You think you can beat me at guitar hero or munchkin.

Sometimes I go days without responding, and you have to be okay with that.

It's important to me that you: are smart, not too awkward, not smelly, have a spectacular sense of humor, like yourself but have humility, and that you can take important social things seriously, but don't always take yourself too seriously.

Finally, bonus points if your profile doesn't start "hey, I'm so-and-so" and if you can do more than wink.

"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."