*obligatory comment about how hard these are to write*

*obligatory note about how meta-cliche*

Thanks for stopping by, San Diego. I'm Robert.

I'm a sophomore at UNC trying to keep my head above the water as I saturate my life in science. I see science not only as a way to do research, but as a life philosophy. Needless to say, I'd call myself a skeptic. The thing that most interests me in life is the brain. My brain, your brain, and the brain of that dude who messaged you last week. My life aspiration is to get paid to learn more about the brain.

But that's all about my plans, not so much about me. I enjoy a good conversation more than just about anything else in this world. There's so many stories people have to tell and there's no way I can possibly meet and hear them all. I like to think I have a clever streak, and I appreciate that quality in others (I can't describe how much I enjoy a rousing bout of banter).

I always try to ponder things from more than one angle, and I love being proven wrong - it's a pretty euphoric experience. I think that's probably the most important way I've taken away from college thus far.

Too much rambling about myself leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Message me if you want to know anything more, I'm an open guy.

Schooling in bio, working in a neuropharm lab, and hoping that one day I'll get paid for satisfying my own scientific curiosity.

Secondary goal: achieve immortality.

Hm, that's a hard one. I feel like I should put "dragon slaying" or something here. I'm pretty good at whistling and playing songs with pitched claps (too hard to explain here). I'm also really good at shoulder/back massages.

I'd probably say my eyes (blue) or my sense of humor. Oh wait, it's probably my beard. Hopefully not that my fly is undone or something.

Books:
-All things Tolkien
-All thing Douglas Adams
-A Song of Ice and Fire
-Wheel of Time
-Watchmen and other works by Alan Moore
-All things Vonnegut
-Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
-American Psycho
-John Dies at the End
-The Foundation Series and Asimov in general
-Ender's Game (I'm really on a SciFi kick lately)
-The Wheel of Time Series
-Neuroscience books (Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Phantoms in the Brain, the Brain that Changes Itself, etc.)
-Others that I can't recall of the top of my head
(PS please tell me more books to read)

Movies:
Disclaimer: I have a tendency to think of the last good movie I saw as my favorite movie. That said...
-The Fall is my favorite movie of all time
-Dark Knight
-V for Vendetta
-Serenity
-LoTR
-Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog
-American Psycho again
-Cabin in the Woods
-And wow I'm totally blanking on movies right now
-I came back later to edit this but holy crap I'm still blanking on movies
(PS please tell me movies to watch)

TV Shows:
-Breaking Bad
-The Office
-Dexter
-Community
-Doctor Who
-Arrested Development
-The Walking Dead
-Parks and Recreation
-Archer
-Regular Show
-Firefly
-Seinfeld
-Mitchell & Webb Look / Peep Show
-Louie
-Always Sunny
(PS please tell me more shows)

Music:
This is by no means an exhaustive list, but I'll name a few favorites from some genres.
-Queens of the Stone Age (and really anything with Josh Homme)
-The Sword, Red Fang, and other similar metal bands.
-Hilltop Hoods, Scroobius Pip, Watsky, etc. for hip hop. It's all white boy rap, I know.
-Stoner Rock and Stoner Metal in general
-Some electronic stuff like Glitch Mob
-A lot of Celtic Folk lately
-On that note, a lot of folk metal as well
(Ignore those other PSs, tell me more music. Seriously, tell me anything new and interesting.)

Food:
Let's just say a list of foods I don't like would be a lot shorter.

Music - I know that's such a cliche answer but better trite than dishonest!

Internet - I think the internet and the culture it has spawned is extremely interesting, plus Wikipedia is my life blood. Also, I'm an avid gamer and that's how I keep up with a lot of my friends.

Books - I MUST have my nook. Reading is my favorite pastime.

Soda - I almost always drink water, but GODDAMN I love a good root beer.

Sleep - nuff said

Interesting People - I say this a lot, but someone being interesting is more important as to if I'll want to hang out with them than if they're "nice." Plus I love good stories. Really love.

Oi. EVERYTHING. I think about thinking about thinking. I think about how bad PTSD must have been in the Middle Ages. I think about what the first burial must have been like. I think about how Darwin must have thought "HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHAT HAVE I JUST COME UP WITH?!" when he conceived On the Origin of Species.

Also lately I've been thinking a lot about how, despite appearances, absolutely no one in college has their shit together. The people who seem like they do? Probably even worse off. The people who actually think they do? The worst off.

So yea, lots of stuff.

Hmm. There's no real setlist. I'll party when the mood strikes, but it's more likely that I'm settling in with a nice illegal substance and watching a movie, listening to an album, having alternatively deep or inane conversations with friends, going for a walk, giving my time and money to Steam, or (not) sleeping. I also find myself spending time changing my answer to questions and facepalming at my past self.

I think graveyards are really cool

Hell, you've already come this far.