Does anyone ever feel that they give an objective self-assessment on these things? I sometimes think the best way to understand a person is to compare how they describe themselves with how they come across to you, so I really hope I've got myself right because I'm going to throw my hat in the ring with honest (probably to a fault). I'm slow to count someone as a friend, but only because I don't give my trust in half measures.

In any friend, but especially in a relationship, I am looking for someone who values that integrity as highly as I do. Having a cute butt will earn you bonus points though!

My sense of humour tends towards the ironic, and finds its reward in the slips and pitfalls of speech and writing. Double meanings, puns and innuendo are all welcome at my party, especially when they're unintentional guests. I also enjoy the absurdly silly, which has made me phenomenally disappointed that I'm no longer allowed to wear my jester hat to work.

I absolutely adore metaphors and similes and ridiculous descriptive language. I rarely get a chance to indulge in this kind of language so anyone who slakes my thirst on this subject will have plenty of attention from me. That said, I'm also very often rendered mute by my quest for le mot juste and will occasionally stop mid sentence until my vocabulary selects something that utterly embodies the meaning of my idiosyncratic postulations. And if you grok that sentence, it might mean we'll get on well. Of course it could also mean we're both crazy. As Mark Twain once wrote, though,

The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Right here and now, since anyone that ever talks to me is going to get to this subject eventually... I don't watch TV, and never have done. My parents never felt the decent stuff was worth putting up with all the crap, and nothing I've seen has been sufficiently appealing to reverse that opinion.

I suppose since it's rather central to the point of this site I'd better say a little about what kind of women might find my company agreeable. For starters she has to be able to tolerate my passion for classical piano - I have the soul of a musician. Also my computer game habit, because I have the mind of a geek. I'm a bit of a romantic idealist so I invest quite heavily in friendships or relationships with the people most special to me. And as you've already noticed I revel in the absurd, so a girl that reciprocates my entertainment with this subject can be guaranteed quite a lot of attention.

I'll end this by saying that I'm not at all religious, however...

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and all understanding of the mysteries and knowledge, and though I have all faith, that I could move mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

I am the Inner Demon of Ronnie Soak. All hail discordia.

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• StarGypsy

Going to Preston to study Forensic Computing! I feel like I kind of wasted several years messing around with piddly little qualifications and cruising in a bottom-of-the-line job. No longer, now I'm goin' places.

Working on a second diploma qualification in classical piano performance as well. I passed the first one, playing Debussy's prelude Les sons et les parfums dans l'air du soir, two movements from Beethoven's Sonata Op 14 no 1 and Brahms' Intermezzo in A Major.

Also, procrastinating, because there's no time like tomorrow!

I'm slowly becoming more enamoured with the tenets of discordianism, if there's any philosophy that's closer to my world view I don't know it.

Playing the piano - I adore it. I'm quite skilled at FPS computer games (woah, major nerd alert!) and also I'm extremely good at making a fool of myself. Hence the hat.

I feel like if I put too much in here I'll sound horribly immodest, so maybe the best way is if I throw some stuff for you to look at or listen to and you can make up your own mind.

My name is probably the most noted thing, because it's Hebrew. Most of the things that make me different from others though are things I do rather than my appearance. I'm a fan of quirky t-shirts though, so maybe that counts.

books? there are so many! I love sci fi and fantasy, especially David Gemmell (RIP) and Terry Pratchett. Random books I like include The Green Mile (King), Les Misérables, Stranger In A Strange Land (Heinlen) and Magician (Feist). There are some comics which are also very important to me, most especially Calvin and Hobbes. In slightly less imaginary veins, I like The Republic (Plato) and The Hero With A Thousand Faces.

Right now in movies, Iron Man rules all, because at heart I'm a geek who loves action movies and comic book heroes. Super movies are American Beauty, Ghost Dog, Braveheart, Edward Scissorhands, Blazing Saddles, and this list could go on forever. However, I'm going to take it a little further because while they're a bit heavy going for me to enjoy watching more than occasionally, there are some films which really strike a chord in me: La Vite é Bella (Life is Beautiful), The Constant Gardener, Tears of the Sun, The Mission and The Soloist.

Music... don't get me started, I'd go on all day, and most of the names involved have been dead for more than 100 years. Well, now that you have got me started, my favourite artists and composers are Chopin, Brahms, Debussy, Saint-Saens, Fauré, Simon and Garfunkel, Iron Maiden, Radiohead, Sigur Rós, Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake. Individual pieces of music and songs that really fly high include Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber, Castle on a Cloud from Les Misérables, Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte by Maurice Ravel, No Surprises by Radiohead, and Aeris' Theme from Final Fantasy VII (by Nobu Uematsu).

I was recently shown how awesome Buena Vista Social Club are. Quizás, Quizás, Quizás.

I like Cake.
The food, or the band? I hear you say. Answer: yes.

And finally, lasagne. I adore lasagne. I'm Garfield, but skinny. And with opposable thumbs.

My piano. This comes even before my computer, if playing Chopin's notcturnes could somehow fill my body's nutritional needs I might not even eat. Well, actually, scratch that, because lasagne and my recipe for chocolate squares are just too tasty.

Learning new things - and inextricably tied to this one, the internet. The universe is infinite, and there's too much for me to know, but that won't stop me from trying. Yesterday's lesson was the distinction between thermal and organisational entropy, and their implications for creationists' attempts to discredit evolutionary theory.

Idealism. I know the world's not perfect, but it damned well should be. This by turns makes me pessimistic and hopeful.

My hefty collection of books - I haven't counted them but it's probably somewhere between 200 and 250. I read voraciously, the way a guy who's lived on two crusts of bread and a cup of water a day for a week devours a beef stew and dumplings. They're largely fiction, but recently I've been reading Plato and Nietzsche.

And last, but not least, my computer, and computers in general. Playing games on it, pulling it to bits and putting it back together again, seeing how it works - or why it doesn't! I love computers.

Computers and bed. I love messing around with a computer and a bed is always inviting for a nap. Among other things.

Doing the same thing I do every night, Pinky. Trying to take over the wooooorld. *manical laugh*

Actually up until now I've usually been at home playing my piano or on my computer. However, fencing club is on Friday nights so it looks like they've just been booked solid for the next year.

I have a tiger stuffed toy I was given when I was six years old. He's called Hobbes.

if you're not a normal person and LIKE not being a normal person; or if you're the kind of person who, when someone makes silly faces at you from a train, you damn well make silly faces right back.

by the way, those personality awards - half of them are wrong about me, so if they put you off, ignore them. Yes I know how I answered the questions, yes they're up to date, and no I didn't lie for any of them. The tests seem to paint a better picture of me than OKC's questions :P