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About me:

So, I like sports, A LOT; especially basketball. In fact, I recently returned from Australia where I competed for two seasons in a semi-professinal league. At the moment I'm tinkering with the idea of playing tackle football for the Chicago Force, but I just can't see myself in a helmet. I do like to maintain some level of fitness, but am to no extent a "gym-fanatic". In addition to the obvious sportiness, I'm something of a foodie and like to try new things in the kitchen. Because I LOVE to cook, I tend to surround myself with those who love to eat! I am famous amongst my friends for my carpet picnics (finger foods to be enjoyed with wine on the living room floor). If the idea of foie gras, truffles and sweet breads doesn't completely gross you out, then email me--we'll do dinner (And if the names Anthony Bourdain, Ruth Reichl and Thomas Keller mean anything to you--take me, I'm yours). I love to read and am known to listen to NPR (I have a bit of a hetero crush on Ira Glass. He's so brilliantly wry.). I play acoustic guitar and had 10 years of classical voice training as a child/teenager, but a pretty sensitive embarrassment/vulnerability chip keeps me from engaging in either while in public or sober. I can be a homebody (dinner & board games--SCRABBLE anyone?), but it's usually hard for me to resist a good dive bar with cheap beer and a good juke box (this means it has at least 1/2 the line up from Bonnaroo at any given time). Every now and then I like to throw on a dress and heels and "do the damn thing". But at the end of the day it's the simple pleasures that get me: being outside in beautiful weather, movies that are so deliciously bad, they're good, a good glass of wine after a stressful day, cilantro. Simple. That's me in a nutshell--a very long, rambling nutshell.

I'm looking for:

You in a nutshell? Well, it depends. How do you feel about cilantro?