I don't think it should be necessary to commit a crime just to find a partner.
Being asked to describe yourself in a few paragraphs could be considered "cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment" contrary to Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Still, here goes. I'm bright, funny, kind, and honest. I'm more introverted than extroverted, but that's not to say I don't enjoy gatherings of friends (even if big parties and crowds aren't my thing). I'm politically progressive, subscribe to a couple of zillion liberal political magazines, have been (in an on-again off-again way) active in local enviro groups, and somehow managed to avoid being arrested when I tried to observe the poll workers in far eastern Nevada in 2004.
I enjoy taking walks through the city and the local parks (really! this isn't one of those "walks at the beach" things that everybody says but nobody means! I swear, I really do this, at least sometimes), reading (political magazines, non-fiction, and science fiction), listening to music (especially but by no means only folk music, singer-songwriters, traditional jazz, and orchestral music), movies (other than the so-stupid-it's-insulting kind), the theater, the other things people say they like when they write personal ads, and writing long sentences with many parenthetical comments. And lots of other things I haven't thought about lately.
(To be fair, there are things I don't enjoy. Dissecting frogs, searching for a place to stay in a city I don't know well when the hotels are all booked up, being forced to listen as my first college roommate listens to Rush Limbaugh on *my* stereo [this was in 1988 and it still rankles], and pretty much anything to do with state Senator Tom McClintock are all pretty low on my list.)
For me, closeness has always been defined by my family. I was raised in a close, laughing, joking family, the kind where the conversation was often full of absurdity and wordplay (I am infamous for my puns) and topping each other's jokes (and the person who's joke was topped laughed loudest). At other times, we were more serious and discussed politics, whatever new ideas we had come across that day, or whatever the fascination of the day was for one of us. That kind of intellectual camaraderie is important to me. It's not the end -- there's a time when words give way and silence is more profound -- but it's the beginning.
I am: white, single, 5'7", 240 pounds, and not religious. Ultimately, I'm looking to be in a long-term, committed, probably child-free relationship, but I don't expect that to happen right away. If this seems at all interesting, send me a note and we'll see where it goes from there. Either way, good luck with your search.
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