I love reading and writing stories (sci-fi, noir, horror, or anything bizarre or trippy) and playing guitar. I enjoy anything logic based, and that's probably why I like working with computers so much. I'm up for trying almost anything once. In the last few years I've gone skydiving, scuba diving, mountain climbing, and backpacked the UK and central Europe. Next year I'm hoping to climb Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

I'm consider myself a socially-viable geek--meaning I don't walk around in Chewbacca t-shirts every day and I can maintain conversations with others that aren't solely based on Star Trek references. I've collected comic books most of my life, and despite my English major, I probably read more comics than novels. I love museums and art and anything creative. Learning is a huge part of my life. If I'm not learning something new I feel useless, and I've had to figure that out in the few years since I finished school. I'm not extremely into sports, but I'm ok with watching a game now and again.

I enjoy discussing religion and philosophy and the supernatural. I appreciate people who can have intelligent discussions with people they disagree with without letting it get personal. There are so many things we don't know and will never know, and arguing over it is ridiculous. But I'd love to hear your opinion.

I'm from the Midwest. Michigan originally, but I lived in Wisconsin for a couple years too. Living in the Midwest, even by major cities like I was, shapes a person in ways I think people who haven't lived there don't realize. I LOVE big cities, but I feel claustrophobic if I'm around too many people for too long. The quiet and the quaint small-townness of all of it both feel like home and make me want to run away to somewhere where things are happening and there's excitement and nightlife. I'm almost certain I'll never return there on a permanent basis, but it's always going to be home. And compared to the coasts, the lack of major traffic in the Midwest is fantastic.

Oh let's see...getting settled in Maryland, keeping up with my friends, figuring out what I should be doing with my life, working on my writing, keeping my head above water, drinking, sleeping, reading all the books I've always wanted to, playing 10 year old video games (they're like wine, you know), and generally keeping myself going in a merciless world where success is an increasingly vague concept.

Remembering random trivia, fixing computers, being romantic, solving problems, being a friend, writing, singing, mixing metaphors, looking up the answers, quoting movies from the 80s and 90s, being skeptical, cuddling, learning, seeing patterns.

My sarcastic humor, my shy nature, how I look great in gray, the fact that I make references that too often no one gets, my eyes.

Books: Norwegian Wood by Huraki Murakami, The Dark Knight Returns, Animal Farm, The Great Gatsby, The Tao of Pooh, Duma Key, The Postman Always Rings Twice
Movies: The Professional, Lost in Translation, Adaptation, The Dark Knight, Sin City, Watchmen, The Departed, The Long Goodbye, Scream, The Ring
Music: The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Deathcab for Cutie, The Shins, The Vines, Kings of Convenience, Feist
Food: steak, pasta, bbq pulled pork sandwiches with coleslaw

1. A book
2. A computer
3. Friends
4. My family
5. A good (cold) pillow
6. A guitar

Existential crap I probably shouldn't be thinking about. Also, how does Superman fly *faster*?

Watching movies/playing video games and drinking with friends. Occasionally out at a bar. Rarely in bed early.

Captain Kirk is my hero.

you're open-minded and willing to try new things, but still cool with spending a Sunday on the couch with a blanket watching movies all day once in a while.