If I met you in person, I would tell you that I have a horrible personality. I'm loud, critical, unpredictable, moody (see below), and painfully awkward. But I would tell you this with a lot of smiling and weird compliments, which seems to make most people overlook what a truly horrid personality I have.

I also am functionally crazy. I don't mean cute or TV crazy--I have a well-maintained mood disorder, which makes my life both really fantastic and really difficult sometimes. I have a strong preference for friends and partners who also have mood disorders, not because I think we are members of a super-elite club, but because it's important for me to be with people who have experienced and can appreciate the huge range of emotional reality that I love/struggle with.

I cry at sad commercials. I'm happiest sleeping, eating, biking, and getting dirty. I'm fat, but super strong. I'm smart enough to know that poetry is any language at its best but not smart enough to write anything brilliant. Foolish enough to try.

I'm currently dating non-exclusively. This means that I'm interested in creating new emotional and physical connections (the former being necessary for the later), but that I'm not gonna give you a monopoly on either. Casual sex and long-term dating (even eventual monogamy) are both things I'm open to, with the right person. I'd strongly prefer to see people who are available as primary partners, since that's what I'm ultimately looking for. Basically, my relationship shit's all kind of amorphous right now.

Going to law school, which takes up a lot of my time. I'm pretty much the only law student I know who frequently extols the virtues of smashing the state.

Also, planning to have babies and raise them reeeeeal good. Looking at a 5-year timeline on this one (that's 5 years 'till I have the babies, not having them right away and divesting myself of them in 5 years), hopefully sooner if I meet a baby-raising partner.

Making an ass of myself. Sitting lotus. Being critical.

Also, food.

A lot of noise. Nervous energy. Cat hair?

I am a Philistine, and know so very little about art, literature, cinema, and music. It's sad, actually. Always open to suggestions.

Books: The Education of Little Tree, Le Petit Prince, The Good Earth, Walking to Martha's Vineyard, Atlantis, The God of Small Things, Ariel, anything Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Robinson Jeffers, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Marilyn Robinson, Audrey Lorde.

Movies: Harold and Maude, Benny and Joon, Princess Bride, City of Lost Children, Amelie. Many more.

Music: Anything beautiful and anything you can dance, cry, get drunk, or walk around for hours to. Things I've been listening to a lot of in the past couple month: Dark Dark Dark, Florence and the Machine, Mountain Goats, Kid Cudi, Lupe Fiasco, Beirut, The Blow, MGMT, Cat Power, Antony and the Johnsons, Feist, Ratatat, The Casual Lust, Sigur Ros, Explosions in the Sky, Yann Tiersen, Postal Service, Tegan and Sara, The Sounds, The Ting Tings, and lots of pop-hip hop and 80s dance music.

Food: In Denver, Bones, Mizuna, JJs (Cantonese seafood), Panzano, El Taco de Mexico, The Ethiopian Restaurant, and ChoLon.

Food, my family, my brain, my cats, my bike, sleep.

Really, I COULD do without any of these (except probably food, sleep, and brains...and water, air, etc.) but I would not want to. I assume this is what the question is really trying to get at.

Babies! Foods! Cultural colonialism! Not at the same time! Usually!

Studying, cooking something tasty, or drunk and making bad life choices.

Once, when I was 10, I saw a bear OUTSIDE A WINDOW of a cabin and peed my pants a little.

My dating resume is terrible. Seriously.

I'm actually embarrassingly (for others, not me) honest and open. Ask anything at all.

You can put together a decent sentence. You can nerd out about food, literature, social justice, or cats. You like to drink and ride bikes around at night.

In an effort to improve my terrible relationship history, I've put together a list of basic things that are important in friends/partners. These things may seem really elementary, but I repeatedly manage to find and have relationships with people who can't do them. So, before messaging me, please make sure you:
• Have supported yourself financially for at least a year of your life
• Can take care of yourself (if you don't have sheets on your bed and the only food in your house right now is a pizza crust and a bag of coffee beans, we won't work)
• Have been in 1 or more prior relationships
• Have some concept of what/where you want to be in 1 or more years

Mostly, you should message me if you think that the world is magic and exciting and that we can make it even better, and you're not completely put off by my terrible personality and list of demands to strangers.