I am not strong, fit, or agile, but I have certainly been accused of having intelligence, wisdom, and charisma.

I try to be friendly and helpful.

I'm 5'8" and 230 lbs., with bluegrey eyes and brown hair. I wear glasses and I'm white. My half-Cuban ancestry does not enable me to speak Spanish.

Most weekends, I either drive to Olympia (I really live in Auburn) to see LongboardTomboy or take my niece and/or nephew to a movie. Yeah.

I'd like to think I'm a good guy.

I live in a studio apartment in south Auburn. I have decided I need at least a one bedroom where the no smoking policy is enforced somehow, maybe I could share a house with some people, in Olympia. I am currently looking for a job down there first.

I'm an atheist. I grew up attending the First Christian Church of Kent (Disciples of Christ). That's a fairly obscure and redundant Protestant denomination, the "individual interpretation" doctrine of which meant I had to take half an hour or more to explain any time someone asked what religion I was. I would think the switch to atheism would shorten this conversation, but no such luck. People want to know, do you believe in faeries? No. Do I believe in Eastern philosophy? No. Do I believe in neopaganism? No. Do I believe in astrology? Oh hell no!

I am an atheist. I do not believe in any form of deliberate self-deception as a path to a better life, with the possible exceptions of affirmations and other such confidence building exercises. I do believe in a number of things it's difficult to impossible to see or touch, such as integrity, honesty, community, decency, kindness . . . and love. I like sex plenty, but this does not preclude a belief in love!

I speak English. That's it. Select phrases of Russian, Spanish, and, to my everlasting shame, Klingon, but not enough of any of those to even say I speak them poorly. Phrases only.

I'm working for in customer service for a telecommunications company until something better comes along.

Munchkin. Writing. Remembering things. Explaining things. Putting my foot in my mouth over and over and over again.

A friendliness that tries too hard to put people at their ease and ends up doing the opposite. :(

A: Free at Last by Daniel Greenberg, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, and Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans by Jeffrey A. Brown.

B: Anything by David Mamet, P.T. Anderson, Wes Anderson (except, of course, The Life Aquatic--what a disappointment!), etc. Dialogue is more important than anything else to me.

C: TMBG, showtunes, folk, pretty girls with guitars. I am, weirdly I admit, not a big fan of live music.

D: Greek, Italian, Baklava.

Books, games, my niece, my nephew, women, attention.

The future.

Driving to Olympia! :)

I'm nice: If you run out of gas and don't know where you are, call me and I'll find you. If you need someone to read you a story or hear one of yours, I'm there.

I'm the devil: If I'm not doing the things you want me to do, or you're not feeling the way you want to feel and want to hold me responsible, I'll tell you I'm the devil, or I'm a mean old man, or some such nonsense to indicate how unlikely it is I'm responsible for behaving the way you want me to behave, or for you feeling the way you want to feel.

I'm full of it: I too often end up steering conversation away from my supposedly favored topics, to avoid revealing, for instance, how very little I learned in film school, or how my various geek interests have not panned out in a wealth of actual information or actual wealth.

I'm a boy. I like girls. I like women. I like sex. I like kissing. I like kissing girls and women and having sex with them.

It's getting to the point where I'm no fun any more, and I am sorry.

I'm askeered of dogs. I can, however, get used to them. If you just give us a minute and let the dog be a dog and let me be me without trying to force us to be friends, we can usually come to an understanding and be friends later on.

I really don't care for live music or visual art. If I'm leaving the house and it's not for work, I want to be able to talk to the people I'm leaving the house for, or enjoy the narrative of a movie or play, or simply enjoy back row antics at a movie theatre. ;) Alternately, this intellidating thing I've heard about--going out to seminars and lectures--sounds like a great time!

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• TemptressDrea

you would like to play Apples to Apples, Bananagrams, D&D, Munchkin, or other games with my fiancee LongboardTomboy and I. Polyamory and similar themes have been discussed, but aren't likely to happen in the next few months or years, so don't get your hopes up.