I graduated from CSU with a degree in the Philosophy of Science last spring, and then moved back to the DTC. I'm looking to start applying the skills acquired through my years of fancy book learnin' to some kind of writing-based position. The tricky bit is convincing a company that what they've always really wanted is a philosopher; and not a business, English, or communications major. In the mean time, I'm a barista.

I am an amateur philosopher, lover of logic, aspiring writer, and seeker of truth. I also try to work in a few punch lines here and there.

I am a connoisseur of tobacco. I love cigars and am a master of preparing a delicious hookah. I also enjoy a few brands of cigarettes. I honestly think all tobacco tastes and smells good. The earthy, chocolaty flavors draw me in. A kind of old-world richness.

An excellent summation of moral life without religion:
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.” -Ancient, unattributed

I'm trying to enjoy and figure out life at the same time. Two pursuits I'm inclined to believe go together. I guess my goal is less of a focus on discovering some kind of grand meaning, and more about figuring out how I can look back at it all when my time's out, and see it as a life I would gladly choose to live again. Hence why I'm on here I guess. Life is good, but it could always be a lot better.

Also, I've always tried to live by something said by the great non-sense writer and logician Lewis Carroll, "If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there."

I'm good at making people laugh, formal logic, philosophy, controlling oversteer in a car, Texas hold-em, mixing a cocktail, finding new music that everyone will be listening to in a few months, sleeping, and I imagine at least 3 other things.

That I will do anything to make them laugh. I believe that all is not lost as long as we can still laugh.

Books: I generally tend to go with books that fall under magical realism, science fiction, fantasy, and philosophy. My all-time favorite is easily "Fahrenheit 451". A close runner-up is "Animalia" by Graeme Base.

Music: A small sample of artists I listen to regularly would be DJ Krush, DJ Shadow, Dave Matthews Band, Muse, Frank Sinatra, Snow Patrol, Deadmau5, Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, YTCracker, Midnight Alumni, Nero, MC Frontalot, Pendulum, Daft Punk, Public Enemy, MC Lars, Del the Funky Homosapien, Wu-Tang Clan, Gang Starr, Buddy Wakefield, Rise Against, Nirvana, Coldplay, My Chemical Romance, Paul Van Dyk, Panic! at the Disco, Ghostface Killah, and Sage Francis.

Movies: I adore movies. I am a huge fan of Netflix, and curling up in front of it. I do refuse to watch torture porn [Hostel, Saw, etc.]. I don't find it artistic or entertaining. I can however tolerate, and enjoy, romantic comedies. Not really the male cultural norm, but, I don't like the idea of my movie tastes being pigeon-holed by my Y chromosome. A few favorites are Pulp Fiction, Casablanca, The Matrix, Thank you for Smoking, Second-hand Lions, Wall-e, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Ghost in the Shell, and Waking Life.

Also, Steampunk and Surrealism. I totally wish that one of them would be the next evolution in pop culture.

Laughter, weird and interesting ideas, music, family, friends, wit. There was a time when those six things would have been something you could buy at a mall or car dealership, but, I think my dirty philosophy education is finally getting the best of me in some kind of idealistic way. C'est la vie.

All manner of things, ranging from lunch all the way to the implications of quantum mechanics on how we should consider classical formal logic. Whatever strikes my attention at the time I suppose.

Hanging out with my friends and family. A bit of rum. Occasionally in Blackhawk. Sometimes a concert.

I don't know how to ride a bike.

I don't support a representative democracy like the system we have. I would like to see our country become one that uses a form of liberal technocracy.

I've also still got my 3e D&D books, and I'm just looking for an excuse to break them out. It has been too long since I've blown something up as an evocation wizard or shanked someone with a nice sneak attack. I guess there's also the roleplaying part also; I miss that too.

I'm really looking for a cute and curvy atheist/agnostic girl that I can have intellectual conversations with who also wants to just curl up on the couch and watch a movie. Someone who isn't above holding hands in public from time to time.

I can not stress enough how important an open mind to art and philosophy are to me. I'm really looking for someone that won't just instantly dismiss a topic or a work.

At the end of it all, I'm looking for the woman I can get to know and whom someday I can drop the "L bomb" when the time is right.