I need to find someone to kick my ass in Scrabble or perhaps an Amazing Race partner.

Disclaimer: Looong profile ahead. I've seen many people say they hate writing about themselves. I absolutely enjoy it. Just a head's up as well since it's something else I see pretty often: I absolutely take myself too seriously and it's awesome.

Now then, glass half empty or half full? Hey, FREE GLASS! It doesn't take much to make me happy. A place to lie my head and the ability to wake up and move around keeps me in good spirits. I live to be happy and comfortable as much as possible, and I've found a lot of ways to do it. I firmly believe the key to happiness in life is to take great meaning in small things. Because there are small things Everywhere. I've been referred to as a "Hedonist with a conscience" in the past. I like that.

I don't drink/smoke/drugs/coffee/aspirin/alarm clock out of some random personal doctrine I established for myself early in life. For the record, I didn't know what "straightedge" was until about two years ago and don't really identify with it. I don't care what you do, but I Know what I'll do.

I like being completely honest and forward. It's just easier for a lazy ass like myself. Lying takes too much effort most times. Ask me anything.

I don't go out a whole lot, mostly because I'm a bit (Very) frugal (Cheap), but I do enjoy having things to do outside with my friends. Road trips are great and I've been all over the country on wheels. Beaches are fun if there's something to do. (bonfires, kayaking, bbq) Hiking is always a fantastic experience. I like using my legs. Also, I refuse to wear sandals or boots. I need to have my sneakers on at all times just in case I ever need to break into a full sprint or climb a fence for any reason. You know, muggers, spontaneous riots, zombies, etc.

I think the ideal person will not essentially like me, but tolerate me well enough to see my good sides. I'd like to believe I've got some good qualities in there somewhere that can be appreciated, but I suppose I'll let someone else be the judge of that.

In general, you will have your life and I will have mine, and we each make up slices of each others' big life pie.

Random: My favorite words to spell and pronounce are idiosyncratic, reciprocity, onomatopoeia, tmesis, solipsistic, and scuba. Heh, scuba. Too good.

I have a Bachelor's in International Business that, to this point, has been absolutely useless to me. So it looks as if it's back to school for me, only this time it will be the Law variety. I spent three years in cold and silly NYC to get undergrad, mayhaps for my JD I'll head to Hawaii. Until that kicks into gear, I work nights at FedEx. Pick up box, put down box. Repeat ad nausem. It's basically a paid work out, which is pretty nice. I'm looking more like an action figure every day. Actively pursuing a desk job as well so I can be paid to waste time on the forums here.

I have a few life checklist things to do like make it to Japan, sky dive, own a kayak, and become a pro wrestler. I imagine they'll all come to me in time.

Talking. Sometimes to a detrimental degree. Concise is not a way I would describe my communication methods. I have a tendency to ramble, a million stories to tell, and everything reminds of one of them. I need to be told to slow down at times, and have a bad habit of diverting conversations to myself. But, I really do love to communicate, share ideas and debate positions. Conversation really is a hobby of mine.

Understanding is a wonderful thing, both, to me and for me. I enjoy knowing as much as I possibly can about a given topic so that I can make, what I feel, is a fully informed decision/opinion on the matter.

Also Scrabble, climbing, and moving heavy things.

Probably my hair. Or possibly the glower I tend to have while walking around. People have told me that I just look angry or ready to fight someone. Others have noticed that I appear to be looking over everyone's heads while walking around in public.

Books: The Fountainhead, the Manifold series by Stephen Baxter, His Dark Materials (Golden Compass, Subtle Knife, Amber Spyglass), The Stars My Destination, Dresden Codak

And, This issue from that last one gives a decent little snapshot of the type of humor and interests I have, minus the D&D part. This is also the only webcomic I've paid attention to with any regularity.

Don't game much but here's some all-time favs: Rez, Bust-A-Groove series, Space Channel 5 series, Silent Hill series (which ended at The Room, for my money), Monster Hunter, Portal, Phantom Dust, Psychonauts.

TV: Big Bang Theory, IT Crowd, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Mighty Boosh, Arrested Development, Venture Bros., Frisky Dingo, QI, Futurama, Reba, Cowboy Bebop, Jeopardy, Always Sunny, Defying Gravity, Merlin

(Note: going to theaters alone is Awesome. If you talk a lot during movies, I will hate you. Unless you have some SERIOUSLY redeeming qualities.)

Movies: Super top all time favorite is The Fountain. Its soundtrack belongs in my music favorites as well. No question.

Followed in no distinct order by (Now semi-categorized!):
Serious:
- Serenity, The Fall, Memento, Brick, Summer of Sam, Zodiac, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Thank You for Smoking, Silent Hill, Let the Right One In
Fun:
- Ninja Turtles 1 & 2 (3 never happened), Clerks 1/2, Big Trouble in Little China, O Brother Where Art Thou, Smokin Aces, Snatch, The Rundown, Hot Fuzz, Surf's Up, Survive Style 5, The Thing, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Breakfast Club
Awww:
- Little Miss Sunshine, Eternal Sunshine, Spanglish, What Dreams May Come, Something's Gotta Give, Definitely Maybe, Amelie, Across the Universe, The Fall
- Etcetcetc. There're tons more, of course.

Music: Dance and Mashups are about the only new music I get since I listen to BBC Radio 1 (Annie Mac represent!), though I do enjoy my classical music as well. Symphonies are a nice excuse to get dressed up. But basically, if it sounds good I'll wiggle my hips to it. See for yourself: http://www.last.fm/user/TheWholeFnShow

Currently, my favorite band in the world is Earl Greyhound.
All time favorite album is Demon Days by Gorillaz.

Food: I'm actually really picky about food if I'm asked what I want. Mustard, onions, olives = blech. But if I'm told to eat something, I'll eat it. Food is food. Despite my slight frame, I can put away a good amount. Really need to try a Brazilian churrascaria sometime. I've been on a Peruvian kick recently. Chaufa de Carne/Mariscos for life. For a while now too, I've been trying to cook the things I order from restaurants so that I would no longer have to order it from them unless I feel like treating myself. Work in progress.

A semi-comfortable place to sit. I've learned to sleep in all kinds of chairs, so that's all I need to be comfy.

Pro Wrestling. Judge not lest ye be judged. It's been around me since I was able to comprehend the world, and it'll never leave me. It's not just a hobby, I'd almost consider myself a purist if that wasn't so pretentious. I watch and critique it the way people watch and critique Broadway shows. This is a subject that you do not necessarily want to get me started talking about. It Will Never End.

I'd prefer not to live without my headphones/music. Those go hand in hand with my PSP which doubles as an ebook reader.

My stubborn pride.

My legs.

My faculties.

Why I do the things I do. I love "watching tape" of things I've done and encounters I've had and looking at the details involved. Very critical of myself. But I rarely second guess myself afterwards and it's very nice having full faith in my ability to make the right decisions. Shame is over rated. Pride is conversely judged.

I spend Too Much time thinking about why other people do, or don't do, certain things. I'm talking specific instances on small scales, not "why does man do harm to one another" type subjects. I've watched far too much tv which gives the perspective of the 2nd person in an interaction so I've become used to having access to that perspective. When I don't have it readily available in my own situations, then I have free range to write my own story and fill in the blanks. Which, at times, is not the best thing in the world. I end up creating a fictitious reality based on very few real factors, which leads to rabid amounts of assumption, and then playing out unfounded scenarios based on the settings I've laid out. Sometimes I even do this for situations/conversations that have already happened and I imagine them going a different way. Mapping out conversations/interactions and forming arguments on little to no real facts is what it is, basically. Only rarely do these initial factors that started this cavalcade of silliness ever step out of the initial circumstances in which they arrived. That is to say, for example, once I've gone through a whole storyline of "what did that person mean by that statement/action," I almost never actually get to find out. The few times these scenarios did start to play out the way they did in my head there was always, obviously, a hiccup when things didn't go exactly the way I imagined, I then have a bad habit of trying to re-divert the flow toward it. I'm fully aware of how silly the whole effort is, which is why I noted that I spend too much time doing it. Especially on a site like this where an unanswered message can mean a million different things. But such is life.

At my friend's house ordering out and watching wrestling.

I spent my developing years learning how to pop-lock and failing at breakdancing. For this reason, I have no idea how to simply and casually dance with another human being. I just end up making space and popping out of instinct or snapping my fingers in a rhythmic manner. The concept of two person dances confounds me. And I still can't quite get the damn Electric Slide down.

Edit: Direct eye contact for any longer than a fleeting second bothers the hell out of me. I simply can not hold someone's gaze for very long without finding something else to look at, while returning for brief moments, and leaving again.

EditEdit: I have a schoolyard crush on Diane Keaton.

TriEdit: I spend about 100x more time here posting on the forums than I do actually trying to meet people.

Editacular: I want to pull a total Ursula with Steve Conte as the Ariel. If you don't get that reference shame on you.

You have the patience to deal with the burden of my constant speech, rigid life practices, and of course if I sound like someone you'd want to talk to in the first place.

Also if you love this, you happen to have an irrational love of Freakazoid, use the word Electronica instead of Techno, and/or if you only know some of the words to that Blind Melon song with the bumblebee girl.