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My self-summary Propose an edit

I'm an enduring college student (this is my fifth year). I recently switched majors from Computer Science to American Studies, citing creative differences. So far, I'm really enjoying my new area of study.

I spend a lot of time playing Ultimate Frisbee for UMBC, reading Wikipedia (for hours at a time), training capoeira (look it up), and thinking about my future (involves traveling and/or starting my own college).

I enjoy capoeira, Ultimate, travel, cooking (when I have the time), trying new restaurants (when I have the money), amateur astronomy, being dorky, enjoying lazy days in bed as well as days packed sunrise to sunset with adventure, and so much more.

I'm not extremely into professional sports, but I do follow D.C. United and I watch soccer games when I have time and am at my parents' house (I don't have a TV at my apartment).

Some places I want to go in my lifetime: Brazil, Italy (mostly the south, as I plan to claim to be someone's long lost cousin to get free lodging/food), Germany, Hawaii, the top of a mountain, and the Moon (wouldn't that be awesome?)

What I'm doing with my life Propose an edit

Woo boy! If you find this out before I do, you should let me know. Mostly I'm in college (UMBC) and my major was, until recently, Computer Science. I've switched to a major in American Studies and am, for now, happy with the it. Whenever I'm asked what I want to do with my major, though, I usually say "go to the Moon" or "swim with dolphins". I'd like to take a year or so ofter college to teach English and computer skills in Brazil first.

More importantly, I'm enjoying devoting myself more and more to my various interests. One of those is capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art which you can learn more about than I can tell you if you looking it up on Wikipedia and finding videos of it on the interwebs. In short, it looks a little like break dancing, but not much.

Another of my interests/activities/passions is Ultimate Frisbee. I've been playing informally since about middle school and only joined UMBC's team last year. I'm kind of a hippie (or at least the son of...) so I take winning a lot less seriously than some of my teammates, but I take the game pretty seriously, if that makes any sense to you.

I'm really good at Propose an edit

Remembering things. Finding information on the internet. Trying new things (actually, I'm still getting good at this). Making tomato sauce (ancient family recipe). Putting together playlists for parties (as long as you like to dance).

The first thing(s) people usually notice about me Propose an edit

Probably my fauxhawk phase which, I'm told (and recognize) makes me look like a douche. It probably won't last long though.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food Propose an edit

Books: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Five-Part Trilogy, the Ender's Game Series, Anthem and The Fountainhead (I'm not masochistic enough to have read Atlas Shrugged yet), Lord of the Rings, some Stephen King (mostly the Dark Tower series and his books written as Richard Bachman), The Dry Guillotine by Rene Belbenoit.

Movies: The Station Agent, The Big Lebowski, Star Wars (I know, I'm a geek), Monty Python..., Accepted, Shark Attack 3: Megalodon, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Dark Crystal, Lars and the Real Girl, Office Space. I also like to be scared, but I wouldn't say that I like any particular horror movie more than another although, usually, the shittier the better.

Music: Black Star, Q-Tip, Beck (even if he is a scientologist), Cake, Girl Talk, The Dan Band, Chuck Brown, Morcheeba, Reel Big Fish, George Clinton, Julian "Cannonball" Adderly, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Skip James, Black Eyed Peas, Sergio Mendes, Nobuo Uematsu, Debussy, Mozart, Bach, música do Capoeira...and anything else I can dance to.

Food: I'm Italian and the way that I show it (other than tanning instead of burning) is the food I like. Sausage and Peppers, Pasta (with my sauce, never from a jar), Prosciutto and Melon, anything with garlic and/or olive oil. I also really like Burmese cuisine (a la Mandalay, my favorite restaurant) and Brazilian cuisine (i.e. Feijoada, pão de queijo, etc.)

The six things I could never do without Propose an edit

In no particular order...

1) Wikipedia 2) Ultimate 3) Capoeira 3) Optimism 4) H&M 5) Day-trips to the beach 6) my towel

I spend a lot of time thinking about Propose an edit

...things that don't help me complete school work. Long story short, I'm a dork/nerd who thinks deep thoughts about things that, apparently, very few people find as interesting as I do. More specifically? Read on...

I think a lot about freedom. I'm starting to believe that a lot more things in life should be free (both free as in speech and free as in beer). For instance, education is a human right that we, as a society, have the ability to provide to everyone, right? So why should it cost anything? The most engaged in school I've ever been was when I sat in on a class (without permission...it was a big lecture hall) because it was free and I was free to learn or leave as I chose.

I spend a lot of time on Wikipedia jumping from article to article. Some people call it an insatiable thirst for knowledge, others call it Adult ADHD, still others a baffling waste of time. I'm not sure what it is, but I do it a lot. So I'll find I've thought about a lot of very different things over the course of a day. String Theory? Music Theory? Angel Falls? Objectivism? Thongs? Artificial Languages? Dwarvish? The Andromeda Galaxy? Io? Europa? Deep Impact? Why not?

On a typical Friday night I am Propose an edit

...preparing to go to an Ultimate tournament or capoeira event (both usually happen somewhere in the VA/MD/PA area). If I'm not doing any of those, then I'm enjoying a movie at home or a night of hilarity and (occasional) drinking with my friends.

The most private thing I'm willing to admit here Propose an edit

Boxer briefs are the best form of male underwear.

You should message me if Propose an edit

...you read the above information and can admit (guiltily or not) that you also enjoy these things. Possibly more importantly, I'm looking for someone who, like me, doesn't necessarily agree with the conventional way things are done "in our society" (I'm not this emo, I promise). At least be open to talking about different perspectives.

I'm not particularly looking for a Big Serious Long Term Relationship, but more because I take that less seriously than most people (the definition part, not the commitment).

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