If you have seen the movie, The Kids Are All Right, I am somewhat the spitting image of the Mark Ruffalo character, however, I identify with the Annette Bening character given the circumstances of the movie plot.

Chris Ruffallo

I will put my foot in my mouth from time to time.

This profile is a rough draft. Revision is key. This profile will change hopefully as I do.

I'm a student, philanthropist, scholar, gentleman, and all around bad ass. I have a career (really a job), but it doesn't define me.

Spinning a yarn, chess, drinking coffee, and hiking

My gate, shy gregariousness, and I have no game.

Book: IJ, David Foster Wallace
Movie: Upstream Color, Shane Carruth
Documentary: 7 Up Series
Album: 69 Love Songs, Magnetic Fields
HBO: Girls season 2, Lena Dunham
Podcast: "Stuff You Should Know"
Food: Mediterranean (French/Italian/ Julia Child)

These are what I'm thinking about right now. If you want to discuss any of the above, I can talk about each for hours.

Julia Child: watching some of "The French Chef" at the moment and she is adorable, stunning, and incredibly self-confident.

I plan to be thinking about obsession.

Out on the town or at home.

I see the world in a glass quarter full type of way.

You see me in an Ypsilanti coffee shop and I don't look up. Strike that. Just come over and say hey. I'm not as busy as I look.