I'm a law student at IU, and I'm not very good at self-summary. I test as ENTP, although only the E and the T are 100% consistent. I frequently try too hard to impress people, and then I get sulky. It's not endearing.

When I'm not sulky, though, I think I tend to be pretty all right. I'm a sharp cookie, and a geek in the most positive sense of the word. I really like entertainment that shoots for the brain instead of the gut, and I usually get along really well with people who are similarly inclined. xkcd sums up a lot about my sense of humor and how I see the world, although I'm not nearly as good at science as I could be.

On the whole, though, I think I'm an above average human being? I'm pretty awesome?

I'm in my third year of law school. The first two were okay so I bet the third will also be okay! If I'm wrong I'll let everyone know and say "oh man I was so wrong about third year being okay" and then I'll either say "it was SO MUCH BETTER THAN OKAY" or I'll say "it was freaking awful, just crazy go nuts bad."

Look forward to that update! Maybe! It won't happen if third year is in fact okay.

Grammar, leetspeak (in my experience the most adept leetspeakicians are fastidious writers), a handful of video games, and wry observation. I could make a career out of wry observation if I were better at it, and also if I had the determination to make a career out of it.

I'm six and a half feet tall. So that's usually first.

Also, I suck at making eye contact on the street. It just makes me nervous. But I think I'm good at keeping eye contact in conversation, or at least someone told me that one time while I was doing an interview boot camp thing. So I think that might be noticeable. Especially if I'm sitting down, because then my height is less noticeable. Yeah.

Books: My favorite book of all time is _The Glory and the Dream_ by William Manchester. After that, I really enjoy a lot of Steinbeck's novels, _1984_ by Orwell, and then just lots of different short fiction by lots of different authors. I *say* I like Neal Stephenson, but I've only read _Snow Crash_. _Quicksilver_'s sitting on my shelf, waiting for me to get up the energy and try it again. UPDATE: I have totally not read Quicksilver, and I wrote that last sentence months ago. I suck. ANOTHER UPDATE: I did read _Anathem_ by Stephenson, and it was really good. Still haven't touched Quicksilver.

Movies: The movies I'm actually proud to have on DVD include LA Confidential, Back to the Future, Ghost World, Shaun of the Dead, and The Big Lebowski. Movies I'm ashamed to own I won't mention! So there.

Music: Horrifyingly, a lot of the music I listen to currently is from the Guitar Hero games. Aside from that, I really like Aimee Mann, Queens of the Stone Age, and Weezer.

Food: I love Thai food, adore sushi (although it's hard to get around here), and have probably eaten my body weight many times over in pizza.

I'm going to actually name six things, dammit.

1) Conversation with other people. Actual, live, in person conversation. 2) Some sort of gaming. Console, PC, a copy of Monopoly and some people to play it with. I've gotta have something. 3) Intellectual stimulation, even if it's shallow and frequent instead of deep and absorbing. I have the good fortune right now of being able to constantly read cases for law school, which suits this need fine. 4) Room temperature above 70. I get cold really, really easily. 5) Occasional mindlessness. 6) Food and water. I'm still working on a sixth thing that isn't a gimme.

The typical answer to this is either "sex" or something hifalutin like "the way in which all of us are connected through our thoughts and the very air we breathe."

I spend most of my time thinking about how I'm hungry, and how making food would just be so much *work*.

Something geeky, almost always. I've actually stopped going out drinking as often as I did a couple years ago, and that was way down from the drinking I did in college. I mean, it's understandable - I think most people tone it down over time.

Still, answering this particular question, I feel weirdly embarrassed that I'm not getting hammered regularly on the weekends.

I failed out of college. Literally failed out: they sent me a letter saying "please don't come back, you failed too many courses." I dropped out for a year, reapplied to the school I'd been kicked out of, and finished up late. But I finished up and moved on.

Also, I originally typed "self-summy" in the self-summary portion of this profile. I'm embarrassed, anyway. EDITED TO ADD: I also misspelled "mercifully" as "merficully" and it was like that for months until someone pointed it out. I am PAINFULLY embarrassed.

You shouldn't message me if you're just going to be mean to me. It hasn't happened yet, but I was thinking about messages I wouldn't like to receive and I would hate to receive a message that's just all "seriously you are pretty dumb looking in the face area."

So don't do that. Unless you're doing it to be cute, and then I guess it's okay, although I've already predicted your cute line of attack, Ms. Cutepants, so maybe go back to your cute drawing board now.