I am very curious and love cheese, wine, big smiles with all your gums showing, and exploring new cultural activities. I'm not religious. So you could believe in a bunch of infighting Gods walking around in their Armani togas...as long as we have great conversations, I'm thrilled.

I love art and cooking and am probably most engaged by these kinds of sensory experiences. At the same time I am pretty driven professionally and seem to like hybrid personality traits in others.

Professionally, I went back to (law) school about five years ago and am currently serving as a civil rights adjudicator (i.e., low level Admin. Judge) with the USDA.

As for personal goals, that is more difficult. I love humor, and being with someone who has an intense free-floating curiosity, but mostly I want someone who prompts me to think about things in a new way-what more could you want from an interaction? ...I am looking for a serious relationship.

I am playful, excessively verbal, and curious

I am a civil rights attorney practicing in DC.

elementary backstroke, heady dialogue.

smile that looks like I slept with a coat hanger in my mouth.

My antonia, Toni Morrison, Top Chef, Joe Strummer, Gore vidal, cynthia Ozick, cheese, sinead O'connor, arrested development, The Wire, Louise Eldrich...those are some of the mainstays.

cheese, wine, bread, good live music or theater, talk-a-thons with good friends, and the bagel-and-Lox thing.

rhetoric and how words are used to solicit responses. This is always interesting to me.

Empathy--you know, imagining what it is like to be someone other than myself...Not because I want to be someone else but because that is the only way I seem to understand the world (or at least the little corner of it that I inhabit).

exploring the emetic joie de vivre of DC... wine with a small group of good friends, or maybe just relaxing on the couch....it really depends.

I really like Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

You are emotionally honest
You have a playful spirit
Love and appreciate irony and humor
Find food adventures exciting
Want to get a regular racquetball game going (obviously not required for a relationship. But anyone who wants to get a friendly game gong, please message me!)
You feel like it--trust your feelings!