What on earth to say? Well, here are some tidbits about me:

I love to entertain. Specifically, I love dinner parties, movie nights, cocktails, etc. I take a great deal of pride in my home, and love to share my hospitality with others. It's my southern side coming out. I love to cook. And I'm pretty damn good at it, thank you very much.

I'm a big 'ol geek. I manage to rein it in most of the time, but I love programming, sci-fi, and bizarre legal arcana. It's endearing.

I'm a romantic. Just this morning (as I type this) I was reading a book, and it managed to make me cry a little bit. The beautiful moments in literature, television, and film hit a sensitive spot inside me, and I'm not embarrassed to relish in that and express it. I read a lot of fantasy literature for a couple of reasons: 1) see "geek" paragraph above, but most importantly 2) fantasy reminds me about the nobility of humanity - we are MORE than we seem and can DO more than we can imagine.

I'm mature, honest, and direct. But also a little shy, especially if I like you/think you're cute. I'm very social, especially with new people, but I like to get to know people before I start telling them I'm all sexed up inside about them.

I am motivated and enthusiastic about life. I'm in law school, want to work for children and LGBT rights, and enjoy my life. I want to meet other people who have things they want to do in life - whether it involves your work, or you want to write a book, or are a musician, are passionate about sports... Just have a passion and DO something about it. I promise you, I'll be fascinated by whatever it is.

I enjoy people. Events are fun, but people are what get me out of bed in the morning. The way that manifests for me is that I enjoy chiller events where I can talk to people - lounges/wine bars, dinner (in or out), going to a park, coffee, or "activity" events. I went to an LGBT line-dance/two-stepping event last Sunday - lots of fun! Gay bars are okay, and I go occassionally, but they're not my normal scene. Dancing is the same with me. I really want a board-game partner. Haven't played them in AGES.

I'm a television whore. Seriously. I have 3 binders of DVDs, holding 300+ DVDs each. 1 is half-full of movies. The other two are entirely filled with my TV collection.

I'm my own public library. I have a kindle, and need at least 5 book cases to hold my book collection. I'm also vain enough to hide the trashy stuff in my room and keep the "smart" book out for public display. ;-)

I'm intensely loyal and caring for my family and friends (and even more so to my future boyfriend, when he comes along).

If I'm messaging you, it probably means I think you're interesting.

I want to learn to horseback ride like nobody's business.

I have a blog but update it so rarely that it's useless.

I am on Facebook constantly.

I don't really get Twitter, but I can do status updates on Facebook like 10 times a day.

If you've made it this far, congrats! My name's Ri, I'm a law student and part time web developer. I'd love to get to know you, so just send me an email!

Right now I'm currently going to law school and working part time as a web developer. I'll be working with the SF Unified School District this summer as a legal intern. Once I finish my law degree, I want to find a way to work with both the LGBT community and with kids. Maybe doing appellate advocacy for gay rights or working as a guardian ad litem or maybe working in family law. If those options fall through, the fallback (or perhaps the hidden dream I'm too scared to try) is to fly to Venice and open a small English bakery on a side street near the Grand Canal.

I love to cook and throw dinner parties.

I'm really good a programming computers.

I also got my undergrad degree in theatre, so I enjoy going to shows a lot and occasionally doing some lighting design.

I'm also an AMAZING at singing - at least my shower stall thinks so.

My smile. It's big, lights up my whole face, and is a little goofy.

I just got a great compliment from a stranger on my eyes. Made my day. :-D

I'm a big fantasy novel fan. My all-time favorite series is "The Fionavar Tapestry" by Guy Gavriel Kay. Other favorite authors include Jim Butcher, David Eddings, Kim Harrison, L.E. Modesitt (this list could never end).

As for other books - I really enioyed "All the Names" by Jose Saramago. I'm a massive fan of Pablo Neruda. I also just read "The Curious Incident of the Dog In Night-Time," which blew me away it was so good. The Hours & Mrs Dalloway.

I spend quite a bit of time studying esoteric legal things that don't really impact my law school studies. Military and terrorism law. Gender & Sexuality aspects to law. Yeah. I'm cool like that.

Movies - The Hours, I Heart Huckabees, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, among many others.

TV - Brothers & Sisters, The West Wing, Pushing Daisies, Battlestar Galactica, Gilmore Girls, Arrested Development, among MANY others. I'm kind of a TV whore.

Food - Indian, Italian, Greek

Music - Ani DiFranco, Rachael Yamagata, ADELE, Tristan Prettyman, Anoushka Shankar, Old Blind Dogs, Dixie Chicks, Ingrid Michaelson, Yael Naim, Stars, Madeleine Peyroux, Diana Krall, The Chieftains, Corinne Bailey Rae, Feist, Loreena McKennit, Sara Bareilles... (My musical tastes range from acoustic pop/singer-songwriter to world ethnic, like "Trad" Irish music, Indian sitar music and Kirtan chant, and African Gospel music).

1) The people in my life
2) My laptop (I actually did survive 3 weeks without it recently)
3) My cellphone
4) A copy of the constitution (I have one on my iPod Touch. Because that's just how I roll.)
5) My TV
6) Something to read

My Friends & Family
The Supreme Court
Pushing Daisies
Politics
The book I'm currently reading
Cooking

Either out to dinner/movie/drinks

OR

Spending a great night in with friends.

I can get a little teary eyed when I'm reading about really sentimentally beautiful moments in books or watching them in a movie.

I love to hear from all types of people. I just ask that the people in my life be motivated about something, passionate about life, and genuinely good. You get MAJOR points for being a) a major Aaron Sorkin fan, b) furious that Pushing Daisies got canceled, c) think I'm super interesting, or d) actually having the balls to message me.

"You can talk a great philosophy
But if you can't be kind to people every day
It doesn't mean that much to me
It's the little things you do
The little things you say
It's the love you give along the way"