I'm a Chicago transplant that's been here for 7 years. I still haven't picked a favorite baseball team, though. Just when I think I'm getting used to the winters, we hit 10˚F and I start looking at flights to somewhere warm.

I work with computers and people who almost all look like they should still be in school. I'm amazed that people born in the 90's are in the workforce now.

I have a great career, a cozy little pad in the loop and a pretty full schedule of hobbies to keep me busy. But I still haven't found the person to use that second ticket for concerts and shows.

I'm going to keep my profile stuff short. I prefer the idea of figuring this stuff out through a conversation rather than submitting a resume to you.

Working. Trying to travel more. Learning how to spell onomatopoeia.

Computer stuff would be the obvious answer. But I'm pretty good at first dates, too.

I can play the guitar. I don't know that I'd say I'm "really good" at it, but I've been doing it on and off since I was 15.

Books: The internet has stolen much of my novel-length reading time, but I like Nick Hornby, Chuck Palahniuk, Neil Gaiman, and Terry Pratchett.

TV Shows: I am absolutely a fan of the trend towards the "long movie" in TV Shows. House of Cards, The Americans, Homeland, Mad Men, that sort of thing. I can enjoy a good sitcom, too, though.

Movies: Almost anything except horror/slasher flicks. Grindhouse was probably the limit of what I like on that end. I'm not afraid of a good RomCom, but my favorite movie I saw in the theater last year was probably The Avengers (Some self-professed nerds will tell you that the popularization of movies based on comic books is a bad thing. They are wrong. And a bit hipstery) Hunger Games was pretty good, too.

Music: There's not much I won't listen to at least once. Skrillex doesn't often get a second play through, though. I've been listening to an awful lot of trip-hop lately (Moorcheeba, Zero 7 that sort of thing) Save me and suggest something new!

Food: Indian, Italian, Thai, steakhouse, pub, taqueria... All these things are good.

Never is a long damn time. I like a lot of things, but once you get away from the physiological and safety levels of the hierarchy of needs, I think there's not much we couldn't do without.

Almost everything. Over-thinking it, usually.

"Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won't know for twenty years. And you'll never ever trace it to its source. And you only get one chance to play it out." -- Charlie Kaufman, "Synecdoche, New York"

Either out with friends or recovering from the work-week. Sometimes those two things are exactly the same.

You'd like to know more about me. Isn't that reason you talk to just about anyone? Why should this be different?