Roguelinguist, 46

Smart Student Seeks Outgoing Type for Dating, More I'm an easy-going, sensitive, intellectual, idealistic, and spiritual-minded person who would like to date and eventually form a long-term relationship. While at first I can be shy getting to know somebody, I quickly warm up if I sense an interest and attraction in the other person.

I enjoy balancing a healthy social connection with other people with my privacy and personal space. I have a decent-sized, not a gigantic, circle of friends--I believe in quality of friendship over quantity, I value the friendships I forge, and I am loyal and constant to those who have earned my trust and proved similarly loyal to me.

I enjoy an ironic sense of humour. I like outrageous stand-up comedy, shock humour, and even some insult comedy. My own style of humour is extremely subtle and nuanced, barely detectable on the radar--if you can detect it and avoid standing there like an impassive, poker-faced sheep, that's half the battle won! I believe that a wild sense of humour is vital to mental health--a therapeutic, even cathartic, release from stress--and that we need to take ourselves a little less seriously.

I'm kind of eccentric, chaotic, and unpredictable. I have a strange smattering of tastes which range from Old English literature to science fiction and fantasy.

The type of person I'd like to meet would be more outspoken and enjoy my soft-spoken way, even finding it attractive.

I'd like to meet somebody who complements my social habits--somebody who has a bold, assertive personality, whose self-confidence is evident (but not cloying), who is prodded on to explore my reflective personality, and who appreciates and even thrives on it.

My 'match' needn't possess my desired sense of humour 'to a T', but he does need to enjoy it, especially when it surfaces in me. Of course, if he has this type of humour, that's a bonus.

I'd like to meet someone with similarly eclectic interests. For example, a Buddhist punk-rocker might fit this description. The permutation