I think that you can tell more about a person by what they enjoy than by asking them "who are you?" How on earth (or any other place/plane) do you answer that question anyway? I am just me. But the rub is that I won't be the same now as I will in a week, month, year, lifetime. I am not stagnant. I will change/evolve/grow and, if you want to be in my life, so should you. You do not have to follow my path, just don't gather any moss (unless of course you have plans of making an awesome greenman mask out of it in which case I will grab a basket and help you).

Possible deal breakers:

Me: I have two kids and I'm fat. If those things are relationship or friend deal breakers.. bugger off!!

You: Are close minded; are overly meek or timid; want to "save my soul"; are a fluffy bunny pagan; wear clothes like Baby Phat, Gucci, or Abercrombie and Fitch; don't know how to, or care to, pull your pants up to cover your underwear; have a significantly less than normal number of teeth without an appropriate number of years on this earth for natural deterioration to occur, a fabulous accident story, or falsies and/or the aforementioned falsies are more appropriately called 'grills'; don't know how to properly speak, spell, write, or the intelligence to find solutions to those problems before applying for a job, sending a message to someone you hope to receive a response from, or speaking; have an inordinate number of half naked women you've never met as "friends" on any networking sites; or irritate me by your mere existence for some other reason of my choosing...... Bugger the Bloody Hell Off...... NOW!!!!

Apparently some people think that saying I'm fat is self derogatory. I see it more as self aware. I am comfortable with who I am. I am not one of those fat women that thinks she is unworthy or ugly or less of a person. Unfortunately I am not an exceedingly healthy fat person. I want to be able to run and play in the park with my kids. I want to dance like I used to. I want to complete a sun salutation without skipping plank. I want to be whisked off my feet, spun in the air, and kissed intensely. But mostly I want to live to see my children become women. If I end up with a firmer ass and more of an hourglass shape than a circle, so be it.

If you want a little more insight into who I am you can visit my blog. Most of the really juicy/whiny posts are friends locked anyway.

I'm currently attending WSU. I'm leaning towards a degree in math or physics, hopefully seeing it through to be able to teach at a college level, where if they don't want to learn... they can just fail. Anyone wanna pick me a major? I'm working in the Engineering department and they continually threaten to recruit me but it seems that the important part of the related jobs are the paychecks... and I refuse to call anything a career that I mainly put up with simply because it pays my bills.... even if it pays them really really well.

I have some Microsoft networking certifications (NT right before they dropped it, the bastards) and my A+ (when the test was over DOS, now I feel old) but I got into the computer field and hated it. I need more out of a career then helping someone else make more money.

Spreading the word of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. ARGH!!

Discussing things rationally and seeing other peoples points of view. What boring things to be good at.

I used to be decent at belly/gypsy dancing, playing hand drums, fencing, fire poi, painting, and sculpture. But it's been awhile. I still pick them up every once in awhile.

I'm a fairly good seamstress. I'm a good cook.

My hair. I'm pretty sure that I need to give it a name, because it truly has a mind of it's own. I am a terribly low maintenance person. No styling my hair, no makeup, no jewelry. My hair is what it is on it's own.... with a little help from a bottle of color every now and then. Hey, everyone needs a change once in awhile and I can't cut it short because it takes a special kind of beautiful for a white woman to pull off an afro.

My eyes, bright blue with dark blue rings, although they are usually hidden due to my reverse darwinism.

That I am unafraid to be myself. I don't really understand this one but I've been told it a lot. I mean, who else would I be?

(a) Currently reading: Cryptonomicon, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers.

Hundred Brothers, Vurt, Stranger in a Strange Land, Brave New World, Flowers for Algernon,Watership Down, American Gods, The Chronicles of Amber, and let me tell you that it's much easier to read one book in bed then 10 rolled into one GIANT paperback.. GRR..ARGH. Different Seasons by Steven King (Three movies have been made off this four novella book, Shawshank redemption, Apt Pupil, and Stand By Me. The last novella is about Lamaze so don't hold your breath (hehe, bad pun) for that screenplay.) Incarnations of Immortality series (read and used to own all of them), the Stand, The Faded Sun trilogy, Clockwork Orange (Please please, if you find someone who loves the movie and has never read the book, quietly back away until out of view, then run for your life..... trust me on this!!)

(b) Classics: Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Last Unicorn, The Dark Crystal, Princess Bride, Holy Grail, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, The Lost Boys, Nightmare on Elm Street Series, Labyrinth, Secret of Nimh.......

More recent: The 9s, UNDEAD, SERENITY, Nothing, Devils Playground, This Film is Not Yet Rated, The Edukators, Kinsey, Secretary, Stranger Than Fiction, Donnie Darko, Snatch, Usual Suspects, Shawshank Redemption, Employee of the Month (the old one, not the newest one), Shaun of the Dead, Boondock Saints, Moulin Rouge, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Velvet Goldmine, Lagaan, Devdas, Amelie, Paheli, Monsoon Wedding.....

(c) everything but rap and gospel.. I love mostly 80's, soft rock, celtic, Indian (Dot not a feather), Bollywood, jazz.... Lately I'm stuck on Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys Lunasa, Solas, Nick Cave, Iron and Wine, Norah Jones, Tom Waits, Scroat Belly.....

(d) hmmmm.. I love chinese, vietnamese, Thai, and Indian, especially potstickers and handmade, really good, clear your sinuses hot mustard. Curry is divine. I could eat Saigon (local joint) at every meal. I'm addicted to hummus and am very distraught that Cafe La Vie closed. I hate fast food save Taco Shop.

Yes, most of these are theoretical, but seriously, who wants to be that person who HONESTLY will die if they lose their internet connection? (Go play with gas filled light sabers and good riddance. (and stop giving gamers a bad name!) /snark)

My kids, Passion, Knowledge, Laughter, Friends, Awe

Why so many of the guys I find are polyamorous when I'd really like to have a fairly traditional relationship.

Why I'm a magnet for needy doormat guys who have little to no personality and nothing unique about them to speak of.

If the personality type that I really click with can coexist with a responsible mature human being.

To be able to tell you what I do on a typical Friday night I would have to have one first. My life is not typical, which is how I like it.

Recent Fridays include; gaming, camping, a party, gaming, sewing costumes and making flash pots for a big RHPS show, going to bed early for a volleyball tournament the next morning(no, we aren't good, but it was fun,) driving to KC for the weekend, working/watching a showing of the Darkside of the Rainbow.... etc.

I am not always as self confident and strong as I seem. Sometimes I need someone to hold me and tell me everything will be ok without needing me to explain what's wrong. To let me cry on their shoulder and fall asleep with them petting my hair. To allow me my small idiosyncrasies. And to not think less of me for it, because I don't think less of myself.

First, you should NOT message me if: you want to discuss anything sexual. You know who you are. Grow up, get a little dignity, and learn how to relate to people in real life. Maybe you might even get laid for real! Stranger things have happened.

Please DO message me if: you are well adjusted savant, with a bald head and a nice goatee, who wants to whisk me away to Ireland where we will live happily ever after on his savings made in a brief stint as a dot com executive, that you left because you hated the way that the commercialization of the internet is mirroring the commercialization of being unique.

Otherwise, you might as well... a little message never hurt anyone.