I am an exiled dreamer now lost in this world trying to make it his own. I live in a perpetual state of confusion as I try to push forward towards some understanding of the world around me. Throughout my journey for understanding I seek to help out others in their lives and give them a chance to make fulfilling choices. I think it is for these reasons that I am studying Sociology in college right now; it gives me the tools and base knowledge to reflect on the nature and conditions of society in addition to providing me the academic counterpart to the activism and volunteer work I enjoy being a part of. Between my volunteer work, my friends and my course load for my degree my life is very fast paced and I am kept constantly busy. But I think I enjoy being kept busy; life just wouldn't be that fun or interesting unless you were pressed for time to do everything and are forced to make the most out of every minute available. Some idiosyncratic things about me include my love for all things of the fantasy genre. I'm an obsessive reader and fantasy books are my favorite. I have been reputed to not living completely in this world with the far off stare I tend to have often on my face. But when I am paying attention to this world I tend to be focused though and the intensity of my gaze can be found in the eye contact I make with someone when I speak to them or to an audience as a whole. Another random, closing fact about me is that I walk on my toes whenever I am nervous or preoccupied by something in my immediate surroundings.

At the moment I'm in the midst of a graduate program in sociology at UC Berkeley. It's been pretty intense but I think I'm hanging so far and somewhat maintaining balance between school and spending time with friends and family. Aside from that, in my spare time I write stories in my head that will probably never make it to paper or at least not until I'm done with my education and I have the time to; so in short, close to never.

Between years of over-nighters spent writing papers, organizing big social events for work and volunteering at a moments notice, I think I'm pretty good at working under pressure and split-second organizing. I'm also pretty good at remembering my dreams.

People tend to tell me the first thing they notice are my eyes and I don't know if this is a line or not but it is what I'm told. My eyes tend to flicker and lights seem to dance within them or so I've been told by someone with a more flattering and poetic way of putting it. But then, I've also been told that I have a really scary, piercing glare by other friends so guess either way attention is on the eyes.

Books: I am major reader. I have read quite a bit of classic (read:old)literature and more social theory books than I care to dwell on. But then, my first reading love is fantasy with my current addiction being children's fantasy with the last series I read being The His Dark Materials Trilogy. I've been getting a bit more into comics/graphics novels lately with my favorites including the Sandman and Lucifer series

Movies: I like movies but don't see as many of them as my friends think I should. For a long time the main way I saw movies was in my gender studies classes in undergrad so I've picked up a habit of over analyzing movies, which can be both enjoyable and frustrating to varying degrees depending on the movie. Some of my favorite movies are Monty Python's Life of Brian, Sunset Boulevard, and Clerks.

Music: I like a variety but focusing mostly on rock music and then focusing mostly on punk. My favorite all time band is Bad Religion.

Food: I love food, both cooking it and eating it. However, I am a vegetarian so you can pretty much be assured anything I am cooking or eating does not have meat or dead animal in it. Aside from that there are not very many things in the food category I do not like and the only ones that come to mind are mayo and ranch dressing.

In no particular order: Contact lenses; Angsty music; Computer; Access to new reading; Imaginary worlds in my head; Friends/Family.

Other worlds that seem to exist in my head and how I live in those realities compared to how I live in this one.

Fridays vary with the chaos of my school schedule. But in my not school time usually I'm hanging out with friends and causing a shenanigan or two, since they usually come in plural. Or I'm in a basement with them playing pretend with dice and paper.

That I'm pretty sure I went crazy about four years ago.

If you have any interest in talking. I'm a bit scatterbrained sometimes when it comes to talking online but I'm almost always willing to give it a go.