To best sum myself up, I've decided to sit on my couch and do a brief inventory of the things around me in my apartment. We've got some books...some on acting (I've studied it for many years, teach at an acting school, and work on/produce/perform live theatre whenever I can), some on cooking and wine (sadly I mostly only use my George Foreman grill...but my banana bread french toast is known far and wide, and no I don't put it on the Foreman silly), a few history books, some classics...Let's just sum up by saying the shelves contain volumes that range from "In Cold Blood" to "The Guide to Getting it On" and leave it at that.

There are a lot of papers about houses and apartments I didn't buy or sell, but apparently haven't managed to part with. Guess it comes with doing real estate, so much of what you do is pushing papers around, but at least a the papers actually represent tangible items. That is to say, it's mostly done on paper, but you are dealing with real property. I have done sold/rented here in the city but I'm more passionate about finding investment properties elsewhere. I spend a lot of time looking at foreclosure listings and house values. It's what I call real estate porn, and I can do it for hours.

My refrigerator is covered with pictures of things I want to bring into my life and postcards from shows I've done, some family photos and a check written out to myself for 100,000 dollars that I will be able to cash in the not to distant future. There's the box set of Madmen by my TV which I've only made it through the first disc of, but so far have really enjoyed. I don't have television, well I have a television on which I watch DVD'S but I haven't had regular programming/cable for over a year and I'm actually fine with that. I watch a lot of YouTube and really hope to create content on there one day when the right idea comes into my mind.

There's my wine rack which is about half full of red wine but oddly enough has champagne flutes hanging from it. The wines are mostly blends...I rarely buy the same bottle more than once, as they always seem to have some new one at the liquor store I've never tried before that entices me.

When I'm not sitting doing an inventory of my apartment wondering what it says about me, I'm your typical actress/teacher/waiter/real estate mogul in the making...just looking for her soulmate (or at least a few new dinner companions who know how to geek it out)

I think I addressed that above. Right now I'm working in restaurants part time, working at an acting school part time, trying to eke out a few hours a week to work on real estate deals, and find scripts I want to work on to produce. Currently I'm weeding through scripts for a ten minute play festival I plan to produce in the spring, and coproducing an adaptation of a Moliere play.

figuring out what to do on any given night in NYC, cooking with 5 ingredients or less, picking apart movies and television shows, debating, mixing a perfect martini, connecting people who can help each other, giving people what they need, taking a step back to take it all in, picturing my life as I want it to be, making people laugh, making myself laugh, making fun of Britney Spears, falling in love with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert on a nightly basis, helping people figure out what they're doing with their lives and if that's what they really want to do (and if it's not, helping them take the steps to change it)

You tell me....what made you click on this profile?

Books:The Fountainhead, The Year of Yes, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Wicked, One Taste, Persepolis, Blindness, No Money Down for the 2000's, Etty, Eat Pray Love, Rich Dad Poor Dad, The Real Estate Millionaire, Joy, Papertowns

Movies: Religulous, Kissing Jessica Stein, Labyrinth, Gone With the Wind, Chasing Amy, Delirious, I'm the One that I Want, Sideways, Superman, anything with Marlon Brando, Daniel Day Lewis, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Meryl Streep (except Mamma Mia, I mean, what were they thinking?)

Music: If it's live, I'm in!

Food: Sushi, Greek, Asian, Thai

the sights and sounds of NYC, good food, good wine, live entertainment, freedom of expression, possibility

whether anyone is ever as engaging in real life as their profile makes them seem...or if people that interesting don't bother with internet dating, they're to busy out there doing...

wondering where the rest of the week went.

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• Quantrigue01

you've noticed that my answers got shorter and shorter as this went on, and you also realized that reading this far down was silly because you knew you had about 10 things to say to me before you even got to this point. Maybe you kept reading wondering if some red flag was going to pop up or something, but now you've gotten this far so I guess we're both in luck. You do realize, that if we were having a conversation, you wouldn't know this much about me for at least half an hour, right? And we would have gone off on at least 10 tangents, so it might have taken even longer. So now it's almost like at first email, we're beyond the small talk, which I kinda like actually. So now you're wondering which of the 10 things you thought of to say that popped up while you read will be included in that oh so important first contact email, which you ponder if I'll even read before just looking at your profile first to see if I think you're hot. DFTBA! (and if you know what that means, you should definitely email me)