I'm new to the area (new to the country) and exploring all the wonderful things it has to offer. I just finished school at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and am excited to start a more serious career here in California.

Trying to make the world a more interesting, if not better place. Improve my English and Spanish. Start a careering research instead of making pretty for cameras. I also have the travel bug. I've been to 85 countries and am trying to make it to 100 before I turn 30. Travel bridges gaps in culture, understanding and education; it is the great equalizer. If it weren't for the ecological impact, I'd make everyone visit 3rd world countries or live in another culture for a while. I think it'd make the world a better place.

Talking to computers and brains, alpine touring, climbing, camping, biking, sailing, traveling, language, politics, driving, helping animals, photography, fashion, and my vices: beer and chocolate.

Music: I love american classic rock, early british rock, silly synth pop, dark moody alternative, american jazz and blues, classic and modern punk (even if the two genres disavow one anothers merrits), german grunge, romatic period classical, even some reggae and original rap. I love to dance to european techno and the occasional modern ballet.

Books: Dostoyevsky, The Idiot. Anything by Kurt Vonnegut. Noam Chomsky. Political and Travel biographies. I'm a voracious audio book reader and try to stick to non-fiction these days but I'll always love the postmodernist greats.

Food: California is perhaps the most wonderful place in the world to be a vegetarian! I love to eat. Roll your eyes but a great dark, fair trade chocolate will make me swoon as will a good single malt scotch.

TV: I can't really get in to American prime time television except for the Simpsons but I get my news from the Daily Show (sad huh?). I like BBC shows like Coupling and Top Gear but I don't spend much time watching; I don't even own a TV.

Studying, reading, dancing, eating, calling home.

Fun people, political people, geeks, hippies, artists, musicians, lovers of life.

Please understand I approach my inbox with the embarrassment of riches. I'm in the strange position of turning away perfectly lovely men because I can't meet you all, although I'm trying.

That said, I do look forward to hearing from you if you know who you are, you're good at parallel parking, you have at least a vague acquaintance with grammar, you know the band, and/or you give a good ... alibi.