I’ve thought about this dating thing for a while, and here’s what I have learned is important to me:

-A Slower Burn: The strongest bonds grow when people get a real sense of one another.

-Honesty: No healthy relationship can flourish if people don’t strive to be honest with themselves and others.

-Directness: Life’s too short to play games or leave things unsaid.

-Acceptance: I’m not perfect, and neither are the people I love most in the world.

My life is really terrific, and it would be nice to intimately share it with someone sooner or later. But I’m not averse to just taking it easy.

I believe the journey is the destination.

A Stimulating Job: I work for the Writing Program at the University of Florida, where I tutor and teach a technical writing course to engineering students. I also do freelance editing.

Fun & Philanthropy: I am organizing a Can’t Stop the Serenity benefit for Equality Now, and for Valentine’s Day I auctioned myself off to benefit Ovarian Cancer Reasearch.

Trivia: I’m on a team, the Shoggoths of Hoth. We are a winning-ass nerd posse. Grrrrr! Arrrrrgh!

The Future? I am possibly moving to Orlando for an even better job. If that comes to pass (knock on wood), the basic principles here will stay the same, but 'meeting new people' will be added to this list...stat!

Words, writing, and..um…stuff. I’m a published author and slayer of bad grammar.

I have 6 different versions of Trivial Pursuit.

Well, it's not the giant pterodactyl on my shoulder. That would make me a cave pirate.

Lately, I've grown a beard and a lot of people say, "Hey, I like your beard!"

Books: The thousand-plus page Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court is being shipped to me as I write- very exciting! I also love Philip Caputo, Let the Right One In, Anno Dracula, World War Z, The Corrections, Bossy Pants, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.

Movies: I have two brows when in comes to movies, and sometimes the twain do meet. I love the Resident Evil and Blade Movies. I also loved Let the Right One In. The Avengers was also pretty kick ass. Lost in Translation and My Dinner with Andre were also good. Raid Redemption was also pretty mindblowing.

TV: Joss Whedon. Burn Notice. Louie. 30 Rock. Girls. Community. Parks & Recreation. True Blood. And more.

Music: Devo, Jimi Hendrix, Pixies, David Bowie, Dandy Warhols, and I really like Journey's song "Anytime."

Food: I love food, almost all kinds. If its done well, and is not seafood, I like it.

My cats and dog
Music
Friends & family
Movies, books & good TV
Good food
Intellectual stimulation

Politics, history, people I care about, how I can get my own Tardis, why Joss Whedon and about a dozen authors rock my world, conspiracy theories (ranging from the thought-provoking to the tin-foil-hat wacky), movies, music & culture, my course in this life.

It depends. I see movies, go to coffee, hang out- whichever way, I am with friends.

Ironically, I am terrible at scrabble.

You are a positive, intellectually curious person who seeks a fulfilling life and sees the good in people. Geek girls with (or without) ink are a huge plus!

Oh yeah, and if you're Tina Fey; definitely if you're Tina Fey.