Well... I'm a dreamer in that I make everything larger than life and very poetic when it doesn't have to be. I'm not really religious, but I hope and believe in stuff as if life were a movie. I like the cute stuff like holding hands and snuggling. I'm into random adventures, like motorcycle rides to the coast for dancing on the beach. I love traveling and meeting people wherever I go. I'm incredibly over-educated given my friends and life choices, and I am constantly working on learning more. I really like kids and hope to have kids of my own. I'm annoyed about how adulthood isn't supposed to include comic books, video games or Pokemon. I think art is one of the most important things, even though I can't draw to save my life. I'm very energetic and am always tapping on the table or humming something. And I'm really happy with where my life is and looking for new people to share it with.

I'm a school teacher at the high school level. I've been teaching for seven years now and I currently teach American Civics and World History. I LOVE my job and plan to be teaching for the rest of my life if possible. Though I am qualified for more and opportunities do arise, I just really like what I do. While it's true that teachers don't get paid what they deserve, we also don't do that bad. I just bought my first house and that's where most of my time goes. It turns out I'm awful with interior design, so let me know if you could help with that. Also, I use the expendable time and money that teaching yields to travel somewhere awesome every summer. Just got back from two weeks of France and Italy this last summer. I like learning new things, and I'm always dabbling with new musical instruments and foreign languages. And when I can, I catch up on recent video games.

explaining things and telling stories. Even in my teens, people told to to find a job where people could listen to me talk, as I'm apparently very easy to listen to.

is that I'm making them laugh. I'm quick to smile and push other people to join in. Physically, I always shave my head, so people often know me as the bald guy. However, once people talk to me they get caught up on my eyes. My eyes change color from brown to green and have thick gold rings in the middle. There's no name for it, and my license just says gray.

Anything by Chuck Palahniuk, Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, or Jonathan Safran Foer. I like way too many movies to name, but I'll always have a soft spot for the original Star Wars trilogy. These days I imagine I've seen almost everything that could be qualified as fantasy or sci-fi. I also like almost anything that's animated. I don't watch TV, which makes it all the more exciting when a show like Firefly or Game of Thrones comes around and I can catch up with the whole series like a giant movie. Music is also all over the place. I'm listening to the Beatles as I type this, so there's something. And I'll eat anything :)

Dreams.
Travel.
Sushi.
The coast.
Time to do nothing.
...and video games... yeah.

Honestly... work. But it's a good thing. My job is a surrogate social life and I'm really passionate about being good at it. I also really connect with my kids and share in their problems... so I'm always pondering ways to help 150 teenagers...

Given the new house and recent conversations, I find myself constantly reevaluating my zombie apocalypse survival plan as well.

This is the most difficult box for me... I'm the one amongst my friends who is always looking for ways to make things magical and fun. Maybe this means racing all over the bay area to see who can win the most from claw machines. Maybe it means mashing up artwork to make anachronistic situations with dinosaurs. And then maybe it's just catching up on books and movies I've fallen behind on.

I write songs all the time, but never let anyone hear them.

it makes sense to do so.