I just finished some major changes in my life. I finished my masters at UCLA and moved cross country to start a new job as a thermal engineer helping build satellite parts.

I am a bit of a serial hobbyest and am constantly on the lookout for new things to try. I love reading, skateboarding, slacklining , biking, and weightlifting just to name a few things. Despite all these hobbies I dedicate a lot of my time to practicing brazillian jiu jitsu which has become my real passion.

I am a pretty big nerd, and have basically done every nerdy thing possible, minus cosplay and LARPING (I have limits).

Being new to DC I am looking to explore the city and meet some new people.

I am also trying my best to look like I know what I am doing at work.

Finding textbooks on math and engineering interesting

Locking myself out of my apartment. My current record is 3 times in a single day (2 of those were within an hour of themselves).

I talk with my hands and can be a very animated talker. The worst example of this being when I accidentally punched a stranger in the face while I was gesturing during a story.

Throwing out a very incomplete list

Books: 1984, Catch 22, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Hitchhikers Guide, American Gods, The New York Trilogy, early Dark Tower, Watchman, Y: The Last Man, Preacher

Shows: Doctor Who, Community, Firefly, 30 Rock, Mythbusters, Sherlock, Justified, Psych, Eureka, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Top Gear, Archer, Hannibal

Movies: Clerks, The Evil Dead, 13 Assassins, Memento, Pulp Fiction, Oldboy, The Dark Knight, The Muppets, Mean Girls

Music: Ted Leo, Metric, Fugazi, The Velvet Underground, Op Ivy, The Clash, RHCP, Interpol, Arctic Monkeys, The Pogues

1. MP3 Player
2. Books
3. (Board or Video) Games
4. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
5. Coffee
6. New topics to obsess over

I spend most of my time thinking about new things to learn, books to read, movies/shows to watch, training techniques.

I am also very concerned about something I've forgotten. I'll let you know once I remember.

Either at the gym, out with friends, or decompressing from the week. Its harder to say now that I am done with grad school since it used to be homework or in the lab yelling at my malfunctioning experiments.

I think the movie Mean Girls is awesome and can quote most of the lines.

I also cannot open bananas without a knife.

If you are interested in trading conversation for coffee/food.