A friend of mine signed me up for this. I'd never even heard of online dating before; that's how cool I am.

I love when people who want to get to know me read about me. I have no patience for impatient people, and I find rude people to be very rude. I like using semicolons; they make me look smart. I'm much like hip hop, in that I'm simultaneously funny, awesome, and sexy. I like making promises I can't keep, and then keeping them. I don't kiss on the first date. Or the second, third, or fourth date. But I go all the way on the fifth date.

I start my mornings by opening the front and back doors of my house, letting the warm air flow through the living room, and checking my email with some French pressed coffee and the sounds of birds and aroma of plants making their way into the house. Ahh, another perfect Southern California day to spark my productivity. Life is good.

FUN FACTS:

- I went to an Ivy League school, but had the easiest major.
- I read all of Google News every day, but not to keep up with the news.
- I've been to every state in the contiguous United States.
- I lived in Rome for six months.
- I once threw up all over myself and my luggage while sitting across from a distinguished businessman on an early morning Berlin-bound train after drinking absinthe in Prague the night before.
- I earn a high hourly wage, but work few hours.
- I make music on piano and guitar but am not pursuing a career in music.
- I play online chess to procrastinate.
- I'm told I look exactly like my pictures.

Shepherd.

Ping pong, playing pool, parallel parking, chess, drawing, timing...

I have confidence in sunshine; I have confidence in rain; I have confidence that spring will come again; besides which you see I have confidence in me.

Books: Biographies, History, and other Nonfiction.

Music: Anything with the N-word in it.

Movies: Paper Moon, Sunset Boulevard, Life is Beautiful, The Matrix, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Burn After Reading, Boogie Nights, Inglourious Basterds, Pulp Fiction, Punch-Drunk Love, The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, Bruno, The Lives of Others, Machete, Snatch, Vicky Cristina Barcelona...

My lungs, my heart, my brain, the sun, my laptop, cologne.

I'll give you one guess. (Hint: it's not world issues.)

Either out making money with my moneymaker, or in working and feeling productive.

I once killed a man with my bear hands. Also, I have bear hands.

If you get out of line, I'm telling our friends and family we met on POF.

- you can sing.
- you're fun-loving.
- you have porcelain skin.
- you're petite.
- you're from Wisconsin. (I'm not.)
- you're into the sexy genius type.

...and if I'm not into you like that, I'm totally DTBF (down to be friends). :P