I am on a classics kick, reading all the novels that my education didn't present to me. My favorite so far is Jane Eyre -- in part for the realism and heft Bronte brought to the enjoyable but otherwise somewhat vapid genre of romance novels, and in part because I suspect that no matter who reads that story, they will connect with some part of it.

Of course, I'm not just about reading classical lit. I'm also a bicycle commuter who stops for stopsigns (and obeys all the other traffic laws cyclists are famous for flouting); the Technical Director of a local theater; a computer programmer at a large software company (not Microsoft); a machinist; a small-plane pilot; a cellist; a novelist (via NaNoWriMo); a sensitive guy bluffing his way through an insensitive world; a photographer and video artist; a motorcycle rider and racer; and so on (in no particular order).

On my way in to work this morning (I find I get a lot of thinking done on a bicycle), I came up with the following sentiment:

It is indubitably the formulation of a polysyllabic vocabulary which is intended to engender reverence, but which counter-intuitively precipitates a perception that the speaker is a complete twatwaffle.

Which is why I try not to do that too much. Inspired, as you may guess, from reading the classics, but also by whichever webcomic it was that introduced me to the word twatwaffle.

Most of my days are spent at work or at the theater, where I'm producing either software or scrappy, no-budget theater. When I have free time (which has been a rare thing lately), I engage in some of my other hundred-and-one pursuits.

I'd like to meet someone who is intelligent and grounded, creative and artistic, who understands that she's beautiful inside and out, even if that understanding is tinged with doubt. I'm especially interested in meeting cyclists of either the pedal or motor powered variety, or women who would enjoy the occasional flight in a small plane.

For my own sanity, I spend very little time browsing profiles here, and I am very unlikely to send you a message or a flirt. However, I will respond to every message I receive. I have been on the wrong end of too many messages sent but never acknowledged, and am unwilling to inflict that kind of misery on anyone else.