I'd like to think that I'm a pretty interesting person in the abstract -- my background is in philosophy (at UCSC) with a healthy dollop of linguistics, and I worked for several years as a writer/translator/editor before going to law school (at UC Irvine). I have opinions about most things and they're pretty much guaranteed to be ones you'd never considered before.

However, I find that I'm usually not big on doing stuff that other humans seem to enjoy. I don't drink, don't smoke, don't do drugs, don't like being in loud places with lots of people... I dunno, I guess I'd always much rather sit around with one or two or three interesting people, brew a nice cup of tea (I'm kind of a tea snob), and watch a movie or play some videogames or debate questions that have no answers.

I have a rather wonderful significant other (frellasaurus), but we're doing the long distance thing for a while yet and our relationship is open for play with others (though not for additional romantic partners).

For explicitness: I am interested in making new friends with interesting interests; if some of those friends happen to come with benefits, that would also be great. You need not be interested in sleeping with me to message me. Similarly, a message from me doesn't necessarily mean I want to get in your pants -- more likely, I just think you're cool and that we'd have things to say to each other.

Trivia:
-- I've been to as many continents as I have American states.
-- I've bought tea at what's probably the oldest teahouse in the world.
-- I've been officially enrolled at 17 educational institutions for at least one term each.
-- I'm certified to teach English as a foreign language to adults.
-- I can "read" (that is, turn graphemes into phonemes, though not necessarily with access to the semantics) 7 different character sets/alphabets.
-- I don't know how to fart.

Oh, also, I've spent the last 5-6 years constantly being about to get back into aikido. If aikido is something you do or are interested in doing, I'd love to have an aikido buddy in the area to help keep me accountable.

(If you do the FL thing, you can find me there at the same handle.)

I finished law school in December (a semester early) and just found out that I passed the bar exam. Now I'm getting started on working on all the projects I'd put off while studying for it. It's exciting and tiring and more than a little daunting.

I plan to start an LLM (specialist Master's degree in law) or other graduate program in the UK next year, if they'll have me.

Tilting at windmills. Making you-had-to-be-there jokes that I totally can't communicate to you right now. Explaining stuff, even when I don't quite understand it myself. Listening to (though, sadly, not performing) music. Being totally OCD about grammar and other languagey things. Thinking I'm right and then actually having been right; admitting I'm wrong when I'm wrong and changing my opinions accordingly.

Also, portmanteaus. Also, bowling. Also, compersion.

Writing wholesome things like this (poetry).
Writing less wholesome things like this (smut).

Finally going to bed after the sun's come up.

My ladyfriend, when asked, said "your eyes and perfectly symmetrical face, curse you." I am unconvinced.

Honestly, probably my penchant for saying awful, awful things in ways that somehow make them funny or endearing instead of appallingly offensive.

Books: Frank Herbert's "Dune" series, Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" series (and pretty much everything else he's written), Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" series, Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," Heidegger's "Being and Time," Patrick Rothfuss' "Kingkiller" books, the Principia Discordia, the Illuminatus! Trilogy, Ursula K. Le Guin's "Earthsea" and "Hainish" series. See my Goodreads profile for a more complete list.

Movies: The Fountain, Black Swan, Amelie, Six-String Samurai, The Cooler, Spirited Away, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Grave of the Fireflies, Happiness of the Katakuris, Dancer in the Dark.

Shows: Babylon 5, Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Community, Scrubs, Suits, Wonderfalls, Firefly, Ergo Proxy, Avatar: The Last Airbender, House M.D., Boston Legal, Breaking Bad, Fullmetal Alchemist (and, of course, FMA: Brotherhood), the various Stargate shows.

Music: Tool, The Mars Volta, Dir en grey, Opeth, Otep, Tori Amos, Ani DiFranco, Ainjel Emme, Idan Raichel, APerfectCircle, Alexandrina Hristov, Animals As Leaders, Bjork, Depeche Mode, Diamanda Galas, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Miyavi.

Food: I can't handle foods of certain consistencies, including eggplant, tofu, and similarly mushy things; beyond that, I'm not terribly picky and generally appreciate food as an art form. I bake a mean poppy-seed cake and make tiramisu from scratch.

1. Numbers.
2. Words.
3. Grammar and syntax.
4. Thoughts to express by means of numbers and words, arranged in accordance with grammar and syntax so as to give rise to meaning.
5. People to whom to express these thoughts by the aforementioned means, and who in turn will reciprocally express thoughts at me.
6. Taking simple jokes, making them needlessly complicated, and running them into the ground.

I spend a lot of time thinking about thinking. It's a problem sometimes. But it's one of the causes/consequences of having a philosophy degree, and law school certainly didn't help.

In fact, I used to blog about reasoning/arguing. Then I used to blog about law and philosophy stuff.

Recovering from the week in a semi-vegetative state. Possibly wishing I were bowling. Using the somewhat archaic subjunctive.

I'm not at all a private person. I'm not sure what I wouldn't be willing to admit to. So ask away, if you like.

I think this image captures my personality to a startling extent.

Also, there's a (small) part of me that constantly feels like I should be apologizing for being a white, hetero, cismale dom-type.

I genuinely like most people, so if I visited your profile and didn't say hello, it's probably because something about your profile led me to conclude that you wouldn't enjoy hearing from me. If I was wrong about that, please let me know!

You should message me if I sound like a sufferable ass rather than an insufferable one.

If you're interested in people who are interesting in the ways in which I'm interesting, I'm interested in having you message me to express your interest.

Also, message me if you want to go bowling (and you'd like me to come bowling with you). Seriously. I'm a slut for bowling.

If you think this is awesome.