I live in a rather large home in the bible belt, a place I never expected to live, much less to like. And yet I love Austin!

I am silly, fun-loving and tactile. I wear glasses sometimes. I have freckles across the back of my shoulders.

I am stubborn, loyal and creative. I like Monty Python.

I think Bettie Page was hot. My shoe fetish is geared toward pin-up girl pumps. :-)

I am a geek, a traveler, a food snob, a reader, a woman, a child, a lover and a gamer.

I love to travel. I love to stay at home. I am ambitious, I am a dreamer, I am a visionary, I am lazy, I am unmotivated. I want to live off of the land and be wholly self-sufficient. This is at war with the fact that I love my computer and my DSL. Not to mention my lingerie and my shoe fetish. I can't refuse chocolate. I want to be thin and healthy but I don't need to be a Barbie doll.

I am sarcastic, witty and I like puns.

I love the theater, ballet, and opera. Shakespeare in particular.

I love power tools.

I believe in faeries, dragons, integrity, friendship, beauty, honesty, open-mindedness, laughter, equality, pride, education, self-responsibility, animal rights, magic, embracing your inner child, introspection, loyalty, and love.

I love thunderstorms, candlelight, sushi, oysters, the ocean, music, flouncy dresses and combat boots, Cherry Dr. Peppers with wedges of lime, rain, bonfires, Europe, intellectual stimulation, hot showers, full body massages, bookstores, nonconformists, gemstones (especially garnets), huge fluffy bath towels, women not afraid of their own intellect, tea, genuine people, pastries and coffeeshops.

I loathe willful ignorance, Microsoft, habitual cattiness, betrayal, meanness, pretentiousness, censorship, dishonesty, animal abuse, trendy boy bands, repression of minorities, conformity, Bush (the "president," not the band or the body part), shallowness, misogyny, hypocritical Christians (redundant?), intolerance, stupid prejudices (race, religion, gender, sexuality), pettiness, organized religion, duplicity, cowardice, supposition, blatant hypocrisy,reality TV and the fact that I've read every Xanth novel ever written.

Living it.

Being incredibly adorable. It's my superpower.

Word games! I love Boggle, Scrabble and Sudoku puzzles.

Big, dark, brown eyes. My smile. My mischevousness.

Can I help it if I always look like I'm up to no good?

I love to read. I read sci-fi, fantasy, mysteries, classic literature, erotica, suspense, biographies, poetry, satire, editorials, and anything else that catches my eye. I love Patricia Cornwell, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Charles de Lint, Dick Francis, Diana Gabaldon, Robert A. Heinlein, JK Rowling, JRR Tolkien, Ruth Rendell, Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Laurell K Hamilton, and a few hundred other authors that to list could take up an entire web site alone.

I love music. I was raised on musicals, classical and Queen. It only scarred me a little. *grin* I like Henry Phillips, Warren Zevon, Bob Dylan, Robert Earl Keen, Robyn Hitchcock, King Crimson, XTC, Blue October, The Decemberists, Garbage... just to name a few.

I like movies, and have fairly simple criteria for what makes a movie good; either it makes me cry, it makes me laugh, it makes me think, or it hits so close to home it's painful. Some of my favorites that fall into these categories are: Pleasantville, Mystery Men, Fiddler on the Roof, Camelot, Chocolate, Pirates of the Carribean, The Big Fish, Nightmare Before Christmas. And then there's the occasional things that just grab me for reasons I can't even pinpoint, like Goonies, The Princess Bride, Unbreakable and RHPS. And, of course, the Lord of the Rings movies and the Harry Potter Movies. I'm also crazy about Abbott & Costello movies as well as all the old Hope/Crosby Road movies.

I don't watch a lot of TV. Most of the things I've loved are no longer showing, things like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, X-Files and Angel. I like Smallville, Gilmore Girls, Charmed, Iron Chef, and most anything on the Food Network. I'm a Food Network, History Channel, Discovery Channel and Comedy Central junkie. I dare not even watch those channels for fear of getting sucked in for the entire day! Oh yes, and I have a mad crush on Jon Stewart!

Books. Hot tea. Family. Food. Friends. Love.

Not necessarily in that order.

Where my day went... ;-)

Trying to talk people into going out for sushi.

I like younger men. I'm rarely attracted to guys over 40 (but that's because they tend to let themselves go and often have bad breath. Ewww...) This is not to say that I'm never attracted to men my age.

You're smart, geeky, sexy and/or you love sushi!

Or...if you're up for a game of Literati (Scrabble online) or Pool. :-)

If you're a food snob and want to talk about geeky food stuff.