To begin with, while I'm looking for new people in my life I'm prioritizing friends over sex partners in that search. So this will probably work out best if getting laid is not a requirement for you. I would like more interesting people in my life, but expectations are not hot.

That said, I'm looking for people to hang out with, drink in the sun or a bar with, dance with (ballet or modern class buddies?), cook with, and have long talks with. I also want people to motivate me to get outside and be active while the sun's here. And general adventures.

I'm a freelance artist, who has recently gone back to school to study psychology, so that I can study art therapy.

I like good food, coffee, cocktails and conversation. I try to live sustainably and seasonally. I like people, gin, berries and going out in the summer and books, whiskey, root vegetables and staying in in the winter. I don't mind solitude, but people don't suck, either. I like kids, but think kittens are cuter than babies (and pretty much everything else). I like places and people I can walk to. I'm an INFP and I'm poly.

After going through a very backwards early twenties, in which I didn't have money for college and worked instead (in various teaching and art related fields), I was recently given all manner of educational grants to attend the UW. So my life is pretty full with doing homework, sleeping, eating, and petting my cat right now.

At school, I'm taking a ton of psych and art classes in preparation for grad school in Art Therapy, as well as taking as many literature and dance classes as I can. Basically, I'm trying to understand the human experience from as many angles as possible. Fortunately, it turns out I really like being a student, and I'm really good at it!

I also work as a visual artist, graphic designer, babysitter and model from time to time.

I've been all about attachment theory lately (there's a very cool quiz about it here: http://www.okcupid.com/tests/the-attachment-style-test ) and I'm into family of origin healing.

Understanding people who aren't me, managing my emotions, fine art and literary criticism. My parasympathetic nervous system kicks ass.

Big eyes and long legs.

I look for wit and depth.

I like jazz and blues.

I like food that's real and tasty.

Here are a few specifics from recent weeks: Trainspotting, Gosford Park, Philadelphia Story, Jeanette Winterson, Buffy, Virginia Woolf, eggs Benedict, Bulleit Rye.

Luxuries I spend money on even when I'm broke:
macchiatos
local food
books
yoga/ dance
whiskey
therapy

Individuation and evolution. Specifically the intersection of what we evolved to do, what we've been acculturated to do, and what we choose to do.

It recently occurred to me that my ideal man is probably 70% Giles and 30% Spike, and my ideal woman looks like the little mermaid and thinks like Virgina Woolf.

Realizing it must be Friday because of the raucous night life outside my apartment.

I'm a humanist often mistaken for a misanthrope. Or maybe the other way around.

My least favorite part about relationships is meeting new people.

You don't mind feminists of the of-course-we're-going-to-fuck-on-my-period persuasion. You're creative, intelligent, witty, low drama and self-aware.

Come woo me with your dazzling intellect and staggering good looks!