Where to begin . . . at the beginning I suppose. I grew up in Lake Tahoe, California but have lived in North Carolina for most of my life. I’m not really a ‘typical’ southerner, both of my parents were from Maryland, I don’t have an accent though I do say ya’ll. I love college basketball and hate NASCAR, I love biscuits and gravy but I’m indifferent to grits.

My passions are traveling and writing fiction. I’d like to get some sort of novel published eventually, but that’s sort of a lifelong goal. I have a great deal of curiosity about the world and a strong interest in history. I’m open minded, I consider myself a spiritual person but I don’t follow any organized religions. I’m sort of a religious mutt, I take bits and pieces from different things, Taoism, Buddhism, existentialist philosophy, even the teachings of Jesus.

I love the outdoors, going on walks and just spending time outside. I used to do quite a bit of hiking and camping but haven’t done as much of that lately. I do pretty much live in the outdoors though, out on a ten acre farm west of Chapel Hill (we grow blueberries, no kidding!). I have a couple of roommates and I love it out here. I built a trail out in the woods that goes around the property, though my main exercise lately has been swimming.

I have a very irreverent sense of humor and appreciate absurdity in most any context. I’m a pretty honest person, both with myself and with others (I’ve noticed a lot of people have as much trouble with the former as with the latter). I definitely have a passionate, caring side to me though it can take a little while to show itself.

I also have a Boxer/Doberman puppy named Bandit who is pretty awesome.

Still working on that, I'm at somewhat of a transitional period, trying to get to where I want to be. I'm working a contract job in legal services doing document review (i.e. reading other people’s emails), but I’m still looking for something more permanent to make a career with.

Thinking (or at least I like to think so), I’m VERY good at taking standardized tests (which, after you get out of school, turns out to be a pretty useless skill). I’m excellent at playing Super Smash Bros (the N64 version).

I'm kinda on the tall side

Books: To a Dancing God, the Tao of Pooh, Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (these are my bibles), Lord of the Rings, the Earthsea Series, anything by Bernard Cornwell (english historical fiction), Creation and Julian by Gore Vidal, Siddhartha, Brave New World, Through the Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley, 1984

Movies: Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Hero, Requiem for a Dream, Hellraiser, LOTR, Sin City, 13th warrior, Empire Strikes Back, Reefer Madness the Musical, V for Vendetta, the Matrix, Monty Python

Music: Pretty broad tastes, I like most anything except crappy pop music, I listen to a lot of classic rock, gangsta rap, alternative, my current favorites are Immortal Technique (an underground rapper), Bad Religion (punk) and Tool (alternative/metal)

Food: Mexican's my favorite, but I'm pretty open minded (though I don't eat fish)

Life, the universe and everything (not the book)

Either going out or staying in, one of the two

The first time I ever got seriously drunk was in a church

I’m looking for someone who also has a strong sense of curiosity and is interested in both figuring out ourselves and the world around us. I want to meet someone who is adventurous and is going to push me to try new things, I’m pretty open to new experiences and I hope you would be too. I’m a creative type and am interested in meeting other creative types (or anyone else interested in Joseph Campbell), but that isn’t a disqualifier (there really aren’t many of us out there). I mainly want to meet someone who is in the same place as me, someone who is moving into adulthood but fighting to remain young at heart with every tooth and nail.