I enjoy meeting new people, trying new things, and exploring new places--you know, standard twenty-something stuff. I'm a big fan of thinking games and drinking games, long conversations, offbeat menu items, and random road trips. Bars are cool. Clubs can be. Lively music is fun live, but mellower stuff tends to be iPod-only. When it comes to books and movies, I tend towards escapism--the historical, the Sci-Fi, the international, the fantasy, the surreal, or the just plain old.

I just picked up my Physics degree, and I'll be starting some engineering work around mid-January. I'm planning on moving into the Cambridge/Somerville area sometime within the next few months.

I've heard people say that I'm a good listener. I guess that's a talent.

I guess I'm a pretty fun running partner, too. I hate running by itself, so I always try to make my runs interesting. This occasionally involves outrunning mall security guards on Segways (they have trouble with the escalators), racing gangs of small children on bikes, and swimming.

Some Books: Siddhartha, The Kite Runner, A Deepness in the Sky, A Storm of Swords, The Right Stuff.

Some Movies: American Beauty, Gladiator, Spirited Away, 500 Days of Summer, Rocky IV (Easily the most quotable movie on this list), Halloweentown (an under-appreciated Halloween classic), (and more recently) Cloud Atlas, Skyfall, Ted.

Some TV Shows: Game of Thrones, The Wire, The Newsroom, Downton Abbey, Futurama, Scrubs.

Some Music: Oasis, Death Cab for Cutie, The Shins, Jimmy Eat World; Kanye West, Nas, Tyler the Creator; Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix; Radiohead, M83, Bon Iver.

My Buick - I feel trapped if I don't have access to my own car.

HBO - I cut off my cable last summer, and filled the video void in my life with Youtube and my parents' HBO-GO subscription. Accordingly, essentially all of my favorite shows are HBO series.

Perpendicular Parking - I never felt like learning to parallel park properly. Even when I lived in the city I mostly shopped in the suburbs.

Variety - This "thing" is the cheesiest on this list, but still important. Routine depresses me.

Snowy Winters

Family

My life, my work, my future, the fact that I spend too much time thinking about my life, my work and my future.

Also politics, technology, history, outer space, the cult of Apple, that cliche four month European adventure that I'd still like to embark upon some day...

I don't think that I have a typical Friday night anymore, given my recent change of habitat. I'd start my typical Friday night in college by meeting a group of friends at a bar or house party. With any luck, the night would eventually spiral into a crazy adventure through some Baltimore neighborhood, optimally ending on some rooftop or balcony that offered a view of the Baltimore City skyline.

I've since set out to find a new typical Friday, and I know that that Friday will be profoundly shaped by the new people that I meet in the Boston area. In general--on Friday nights--I tend to enjoy good conversations and/or beer, wherever they happen to be.