I feel lucky every day. To live in this wonderful place, to have a job I enjoy, to love my friends and family.
I'm an East Bay native, and I really love it here. There's a reason I haven't really left (although I have hopped counties, if that counts for anything). The city is too big, and the suburbs a little too small, but something about Oakland and Berkeley feels just right. But there's a part of me that wants to live somewhere else for a while, just to have an adventure and see what it's like. France? Even Stinson Beach for a few months? I've only really started to experience traveling in the last year or so, and now that I have a passport, I'm dying to use it more. Work really gets in the way of my free time, ya know?
Which isn't to say I don't love what I do. I'm an editor at an independent publishing company in Berkeley. I specialize in cookbooks, and I have fun at my job every day. (No, recipe testing isn't technically part of my job, but I do cook for food photo shoots, which are the best.) I actually enjoy that I get to spend time every day wondering whether compound words have hyphens or not; ask me about object complements. I promise will not pick apart your emails for grammar (but if you're interested, I'm a big proponent of the serial comma).
When I'm not at work, I spend a lot of time running. Long distances, mostly on trails. I like to say that the weekend hasn't really started until I've thoroughly exhausted myself (kidding! sort of: 18 miles doesn't sound too far for a Saturday morning).
I want to meet someone who feels passionately about something. Who wants to seek out life and new things to learn. Who feels grateful for what he has and what is to come. I value politeness and good manners, but I want to spend time with someone who makes me feel comfortable, like I don't need to be any more than I am.
But really, it would be awesome if you wanted to show me some new trails. Try to keep up :)
