[edit: Having now read it, this profile reads like the long ramblings of a maniac, but please trust that this is just a natural side effect of being both honest and long-winded in a profile like this, and give the benifit of the doubt, generously. :-)]

I shot a 5 second YouTube video about all my feelings, hopes and desires. Please watch it here:

Clik meh.

Since a human writing a self-summary in under 2,000 pages is conceptually problematic, let's use this use this space to quote some of the amazing (amazingly scary) things on womens profile pages on this site: (if I quote you, feel honored!)

QUOTES:

"Someone who is successful, not another starving artist in LA. (sorry but I'm not a sugar mama/ babysitter, nor do I want to sleep on your futon in the studio)" -some person, describing who they are looking for.

"Someone who cares for themselves by eating well, grooming himself and having some sense of style :)" -some person, describing who they are looking for.

"I won't date a guy who is not in college or has no intention of going to college." -some person, describing who they are looking for.

"YOU SHOULD NOT MESSAGE ME IF:
You don't have: a job, your own place, goals, a car (I don't care what kind it is), ambition, a personality, friends, an education"

[More quotes to be added later, probably. Humor me, it's therapeutic.]

These are the kind of statements that give me the heebie-jeebies.

I'm a libertarian atheist teetotaler. Have been my whole life. If that sounds like a downer to you, then just call me Debbie Downer. I'm not any type. I hope you're not a type. I haven't gone on a dating site since back in the day. Waaay back in the day.

I'm definitely another LA starving artist, but without the delusions or bitterness. I was just sitting around the apt and it occured to me that I'm not super-poor anymore cause I have enough money coming in to at least hit the town when I feel like it, so why not put up a profile on OKCupid and do some town-hitting? I actually made an account a couple months ago and I did some surveys and all that fun stuff, but I didn't put up my own info. Anywho, on to the next essay!

Answer you want:

As of late 2009, I'm taking some college classes in computer science at my local college, which may or may not have any/many practical application in some projects I may or may not begin next year and/or the year after that. I get paid for the attendance, because of my prior military service. I have a rather ridiculous amount of free time, which is part of the reason I'm on this site, and which might lead to me picking up a part time job or something, just to increase my income that much more.

*ALERT*-> I currently have no car. <-*ALERT* Yes, and I love that fact. Not in every day life. In that regard, it's pretty darn inconvenient. Especially in LA. but specifically for the purpose of making a profile on a dating site, it is quite awesome. 98% of the girls on here will hate this, and those are exactly the 98% I wouldn't want to deal with anyway :-)

Real answer:

When I think of what I'm "doing with my life", I don't think about careers, social activities, or anything that would come up on a census report. A more hippiesh answer would probably come to mind. In fact, "What I'm doing with my life", is really the same as "what I spend a lot of time thinking about", and there is another spot for that on the profile page, so we shall get to that soon! :-D

I'm very good at understanding other people. I'm equally bad at helping them to understand me. (ESPECIALLY by people who are usually good at reading/understanding people. I'm different.)

I'm exceptionally good at logic functions and fairly poor at literal memory functions.

I think I'm artistically talented. I'm good at being honest, which may seem like something that's strange to put in this section, but to build honesty into your every day instincts, even when it serves to your disadvantage, takes some discipline.

It's kind of hard to say what people are thinking. I've been told I'm easy to talk to. It's probably just egotistical delusion talking, but I suspect a lot of girls just favorably notice my looks when they first meet me.

Also, that I'm wearing the skin of the last girl that was foolish enough to meet me after talking to me on the internet. Okay, maybe not. Just making sure you're still paying attention.

Humor-wise, some of my favorite stuff has come from Chris Elliot, Mr. Show, Demetri Martin, so if those things annoy you, then my sense of humor might annoy you, especially since I joke a lot to (quite successfully) amuse myself.

I feel sorry for music snobs. I'm not talking about people who follow certain music closely, but those who apply special cultural meaning to that and look down on others who don't follow what they follow. I can appreciate all the subtle abstractions of melody and lyric in many songs of many eras and genres, but I probably won't be familiar with the specific bands/artists you love.

Here are some names of artists and titles of artistic works I have enjoyed: Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Get a Life, Punch-Drunk Love, Godfather I/II, It's a Wonderful Life, 2001, Penn & Teller's Bullshit Kill Bill, Charles Dickens, Stephen King, Freedom Watch, George Orwell, The Beatles (like everyone else), Futurama, LoZ, Tori Amos, Michael Jackson.. This could really go on for a ridiculous amount of time, so I think I'll stop. Ask me for a specific thing! :-)

1. The breast implants I had put in my knees to make sit-ups more fun.

5. My counting abilities.

8. up up down down left right left right b a start

6. A colonic after every single meal/snack.

jokes to amuse myself, most of which stay inside my head to keep me from being incredibly annoying. Stories, characters, ethics, civics, people, etc.

My mind is very active, and I am never bored.

see: hermit [a very happy and fulfilled one though :)]

I do like to go out and do a variety of random things. But there is only a 1 in 7 chance that those things would happen on Friday. There are 6 other days in the week.

My name is Zack. Shhh, don't tell anyone!

If in doubt, message me. Or IM me or whatever else you can do on this site. I sort of figure most girls on here spend most of their time just responding to messages rather than sending them out themselves. If you go out of your way to contact me, then that act in itself says good things about you by comparison to those who follow the more typical route.

Most of all, I don't believe in having expectations of a certain dynamic when talking to people on these things. Unless you make it clear upfront how you want to deal with people you meet on here. No expectations from me. Message away!