I'm as comfortable in an astronaut suit as I am in galoshes and a bowler hat. I like both high culture and low culture. Despite the first sentence of this profile, I am trying to veer less toward sarcasm and make an effort to strive towards sincerity.

I read constantly, and I seek out as much new music as a busy job allows me to, but I comfortably bypass knowing about the latest Internet memes (my nieces can take up the slack on that for me).

People like to know about one's passions, so here you go: my passion is probably stories. I work with them in my day job (in a B2B marketing kind of way), and pretty much love them in all forms. Also: artichoke hearts. The only thing I won't put those things on is cereal, and even there, the jury is still out.

I'm a marketing director for a startup that makes a piece of software so esoteric that it would make your eyes glaze over if I talked about it. (Don't worry, I won't. Unless you really want to know.)

Some things I'd like to do more: travel, run, and nap. (I do all these things now. I'd just like to do them more often.)

Some things I'd like to do less of: Drive behind people who don't use turn signals, print behind people who jam the printer, and talk to people who say things like "at the end of the day" and "I don't have the bandwidth."

Also close talkers, but I think Seinfeld got that one.

Convincing cats who don't usually like people to jump on my lap, a three-alarm chili (otherwise not the world's best cook), juggling three objects at a time, writing, keeping my coffee intake to three cups a day.

Hey. He talks very passionately and intensely about stuff he likes. Better not spook him.

Books: Dare Me, Cloud Atlas, The Road, Ender's Game, Blind Assassin, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Great Expectations, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Movies: Run Lola Run, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Groundhog Day, City of Lost Children, Secretary

Music: XTC, Talking Heads, Franz Ferdinand, CSS, Dandy Warhols Morcheeba The Faint Thea Gilmore Asteroid Galaxy Tour

Food: Anything without mushrooms, which are evil and plotting to take over the world.

A, E, I O, U, and sometimes Y.

Why do people look at me suspiciously when I load up groceries on my side of the check-out divider? Do they think I pay my mortgage by sneaking in my eggs on their side so they end up paying for them?

Either conscious or unconscious, depending on the rigors of the week. Sometimes I like to switch back and forth between the two, even at parties. It keeps people on their toes.

I stuck it out a really, really long time with my favorite band from junior high, the Thompson Twins, even up to buying their final 1992 album "Queer" (one of 6 purchasers--the others being the parents of the band members).

My dealbreakers include being taller than 6'8" or shorter than 3'2", speaking in tongues, engaging waiters in hand-to-hand combat, being mean to ferrets, and spontaneous combustion. Otherwise, go ahead.