Hi, I'm a scientist who works for NASA at JPL in Pasadena, CA (remember the Mars rovers?), but, HEY, I'm not a nerd. I live for cycling (both road and mountain biking), volleyball on the grass or sand or in the gym, world traveling (most recently India and Spain), swing dancing with the hep cats, gourmet dining, HUGE red wine, hiking in the great outdoors (Glacier National Park and Banff were awesome), reading (literature & non-fiction; I'm single-handedly keeping Amazon in business, yikes), going to the theatre, listening to rock or classical music, going to museums, volunteering as a math & reading tutor, movies, surfing on my Mac, skiing, tennis, etc. My life ambitions are to understand all human knowledge (yeh, right), start a technology company that is humane to all of its employees, get rich?, have 2.2 children, spend a year traveling around the world, own a wine store, never drink another Midori melon martini, *live* at the Getty (the architecture floors me), retire to my own book store that is open 24 hours and serves the world's greatest brownies and *raw* chocolate chip cookie dough, and die in space in orbit around the Moon. Oh hell, I'm running out of time! Gotta get busy. (Excuse any hubris, folks, just trying to be amusing. Besides, it's nice to have goals for the days one manages to get out of bed. :-)You are intellectual but also athletic, outdoorsy, wacky, witty, passionate about your career and hobbies, able to share some of mine. Professor, writer, doctor, lawyer, entrepreneur, artist, whatever. Your yin balances your yang: you enjoy philosophical and intellectual discussion but you're also down to earth. You can get muddy on your bike or on the trail, enjoy sweating, viciously serve to my crappy backhand, tell dirty jokes, live on Diet Coke and Power Bars, know who says Doh! *AND* quote Proust, charm an IRS auditor, tell me why my risotto stinks, enjoy dressing up for a big evening on the town, dine in the finest restaurants, dance 'til dawn. (Again, just trying to catch your interest with humor. If you're that high energy, I'll be dead in a week.) :-)
