Please don't IM me on OK Cupid. Message me instead and from there we may go to actual instant messengers but I hate in-site IMs. (On all sites, nothing against OKC.)

It'd be really cool to make some new friends here.

I originally came to OK Cupid as the Spark was going away following the quizzes. Quizzes are good times. But then I found the questions. Questions are freaking great times. Especially when other people are around so your whole group can talk about them as you're doing them. Then they started the OkCupid blog which is blow up the sun good.

4 is the best number. There are lots of 4s in my life, which is excellent because it is the best.

I dig politics. Like a lot. I fall under thelibertarian umbrella. I'm generally socially liberal and fiscally conservative although the more local the government is the less strict I am about that. Federally I'm a minarchist. Political psychology fascinates me which is confusing to people, often I am having a conversation and asking questions because I really want to understand how they arrived at their views and how they interrelate them and they assume we're arguing and just want to know what I think so they can argue against it. I'll happily actually argue politics, but only for argument's sake. I don't try to convert people.

Most things are things I want to learn. I'm not being polite, I am actually fascinated by what you do.

I'm emphatic. That should be pretty obvious though. I'm captious. That's less so.

Long conversations that veer in and out of argument and across subjects connecting them together with intelligent people are the funnest/hottest thing ever.

I love watching people. Pre-9/11 my favorite place to be besides diners was at the airport gates watching people leaving and re-uniting. Then the terrorists killed my hobby. Or the government did. Same difference. ;)

I'm basically an autodidact which leads to issues with pronunciation for me sometimes. I'm a huge fan of unschooling especially school unschooling like the Sudbury Model Schools. I got there via one part horror at the current state of schools, two parts bitterness begotten of my own educational experiences, and four parts thinking it's just totally correct.

I have an odd sense of humor. Some things that I find hilarious make no sense to people. British people think I am funnier than American people do. There has to be some way to exploit this wrong continent humor situation, but I don't know what it is yet.

I'm stricken with wanderlust. I need to leave the house at least once a day or I get antsy. I want to go everywhere. If I ever become fabulously wealthy I am going to hire scientists to spend all their time trying to make teleportation possible. Travel is currently inefficient, and I both want to spend lots of time traveling but not in transit and am kinda crazy into efficiency.

I'm really into the social sciences. All of them.

I'm a desperate optimist. It will get better because it HAS to. Honestly, even though I seem to fall on my face a lot, life makes me really really happy. You know that happy/giddy/dizzy feeling you have when you're in love? I get that at LEAST once a week just wandering around Saint Louis and at least once more reading. I am head over heels for life.

Dispatching cabs. Selling mark. Having no semblance whatsoever of a sleeping schedule in order to watch English Premier League (soccer) in the mornings, work in the afternoons, and go dancing at night. Invading a political party. Becoming even more crazy about eusocial insects. Trying to feel stable enough to get myself back to school. Using Target as a savings account.

Reading people. I have a knack for people. I'm also really good at arguing, which I don't think is bad. I see arguing as sport not as fighting.

I have a book. They think they want to know what my book is about, this prompts the second thing that people notice about me, after I answer the "what are you studying" question with "I'm not I just want to read this", they notice- OMG THIS PERSON IS INSANE/LAME.

I read a LOT but it's basically all nonfiction and magazines. I like fiction, I just don't read it like I did when I was younger. I am especially fond of dead Russian guys and Neal Stephenson.

I like movies a lot. Given discretionary income I see at least one movie in the theater each week. Movies that are SO bad that they're good < Movies < GOOD Movies < Documentaries If I dislike a movie it's probably pretty freaking awful. I have never walked out of a movie.

Joss Whedon is maybe my master. I <3 the entire Whedonverse. Veronica Mars was sickly good. Deadwood was great as is Boardwalk Empire. I like JJ Abrams shows. I've gotten pretty into Bones ever since some of my more tv savvy friends compared me to the titular character. (I'm not quite that socially inept.) The current crop of Thursday night NBC comedies are pretty great. Community is threatening to forge a path to Arrested Development level greatness.

I have strong but not really consistent tastes in music. I tend to like certain songs or sometimes albums as opposed to artists in general although there are a few artists I love period. If I'm forced to define what I like by genres I'd say most of it comes from the following- "adult" or just older alternative, hip-hop especially "alternative" hip-hop with a selection of more popular rap and 90s artists, blues, industrial, trip-hop, and a smattering of pop. Recently I've started liking some electronic music. I played the viola for a long time and that seems to have left me with an undying love for strings. Put strings in a song and I like it better, I'd almost go so far as to say I like it period.

Cows make/are all the best foods. I only like vegetables raw except in stir fry. Fish is good when you live not forever away from large bodies of water. Spices are magic. I am kind of obsessed with beverages.

!!!!!!

1) My Mind. I don't mean because I'd die. I'm scared of death and other ways one can lose their mind equally.

2) Iced tea.

3) Access to information. Libraries/internet/smart people. I would go crazy.

4) Socks. I LOVE SOCKS.

5) A hoodie or sweater, or something. (Also known as a "warm thing") I am always cold.

6) Hope.

Everything. I spend a lot of time in my head. This drove an ex of mine crazy. He'd try to get me to at least sit in front of the tv so he could imagine I was being entertained by something, but I am perfectly fine with spending hours lost in thought.

I work weekend nights. My social life needs serious help.

I am addicted to iced tea. Seriously. Also I will never crush on you as much as I crush on Leonardo Da Vinci.

You want to talk to me. Especially if you like to go out and do stuff that your friends aren't really into. Because if it's the same stuff that I like to do that my friends aren't into we could hang out. Lots.