Hello.
I do stuff.
I love learning.
I love exercising.
I am not good at describing myself.
I have a website that seems like it would work better that this: augustfox.com

I soak up information and hobbies like it is my job. I laugh pretty much all the time. I read a lot of books. I watch a lot of movies. I write a lot of nonsense. I am very active and enjoy anything that keeps me moving. I am very interested in most everything. And I love asking questions. I should also put somewhere in here that I have a complicated musical background.

Foxes are my spirit animal. But so is Charles de Gaulle. And kind of whales, as well.

Oh, and this is important:

I know what I'm doing.

After five years working an unfulfilling, but neat, position as the equipment and facilities manager for 14 different coffee shops, I'm a year and a half into a wonderful yet nonsense career path.

This has led me 2500 miles away from home to my new reporter job.

I know nothing about Seattle except what I learned from Google maps, Wikipedia and Tom Robbins books. I don't know anyone in the area, but I'm super excited for the adventure.

I don't know what is going on most of the time in my life, which is pretty much a skill I have developed. The trick is to just keep moving without zooming in too close on particulars.

Figuring things out.

Composing impromptu songs to my cat.

Seeing the other side of a story.

Bargain shopping.

Making metaphors.

Dancing.

Fixing things.

I'm also a pretty stellar cook.

I have no idea. I'm usually pretty nicely dressed, so maybe that? This question is annoying.

Favorite lists are difficult. Here are some that just leap out.

Books: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Hundred Years of Solitude, Moby Dick, The Satanic Verses, Franny and Zoey, Cat's Cradle, The Name of the Rose. Anything by Murakami, Steinbeck, Dostoyevsky, Camus, and the road goes ever ever on.

Movies: The Tree of Life, Black Swan, Princess Bride, Drive, Let the Right One In, Annie Hall, A Tale of Two Sisters, Brick, Hot Fuzz, Casablanca, House of the Devil. I love all the usual stuff: Wes Anderson, Tarantino, P.T. Anderson, Coen Brothers, Danny Boyle, Kubrick. This is just surface level stuff. If you want to talk film, oh we can talk film.

Shows: Mad Men, Deadwood, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, The Office (British and seasons 2-5 American), Community, of course Arrested Development, Fawlty Towers, The League of Gentlemen, Black Adder, Spaced

As far as needs go, I guess it would only be contact with friends, family, and my personal need to keep growing.

Oh, and coffee. Always coffee.

how to be a better, more productive, more thoughtful person. Creating catchphrases. What a possible personal super hero costume would look like. How to improve my Indian cuisine. How to tell a good story.

Looking for things to do at this point. I'm usually up for anything, but without invitations or knowing the area, I've just played it by ear.

is that I don't have a lot of private things. Not a whole lot of crazy things have happened to me, and I am more that willing to share everything.

Or maybe, so many crazy things happen in my life that I just regard this as normal.

Oh, it's probably somewhere in between. I just don't have many secrets, if any.

Upon reflection, a bunch of crazy things have happened to me, but what's the harm in sharing them? I'm me, you're you. No knowledge will change that, only increase the understanding of all parties involved. Plus, I just have some great stories.

you want to message me. i'm just trying to meet more people in general, especially in such an area as this where I really am a stranger. When it comes to dating, which I think is a gloriously fun activity, the most important things I look for are kindness, patience, and positivity.