Well, let's see. I hate people who use an ellipsis (...) at the end of every sentence, have a couple of highly irrational pet peeves (I don't like writing sentences that are exactly two lines long: anything more or less is fine), dislike txting ppl liek dis cuz i tink it mks u look dumb, and I do not "get" sports. I am otherwise fairly well-adjusted.

No, really.

Finishing my third year in university, then hopefully moving on to do some honours in my B.A. I'm not entirely sure what I want to be doing with my life per se, but ideally I want to end up teaching for cash. Given that I'm a pedagoge, I think that ought to work itself out in time.

Being anal-retentive about some things and anal-expulsive about others. That aside, I like to think that I have a small talent for writing and am fairly quick to pick up new things in most fields. I fancy myself somewhat of a polymath: I know, I know, self-delusional, but a man must have his fantasy.

You tell me.

Waaaay too many to list here. I enjoy everything from pulpy science-fiction novels choked full of cheesy lines (Abnett's "Eisenhorn", I'm looking at you) to Plato's "Symposium" and Campbell's "Hero of a Thousand Faces". More of the former, though, since they tend to make less heavy reading but still cover a lot of interesting philosophical issues.

Music-wise, again, anything goes. I have almost everything from bubblegum pop and trance to metal, jazz and oldies. I don't know enough about music to really say what is it about a piece that I like, but I know what I like; and if I like what I hear, I'm there. Some of my favourite artists include Tom Waits, Great Big Sea, Stacey Kent, Megadeth, Frank Sinatra and Captain Dan and the Scurvy Crew (pirate rap: how much more awesome can you get?!).

Food is another thing that I'm not particularly fussy about. Pasta, sashimi, lamb vindaloo, rice, steamed fish, whatever. If it comes down to it, I eat pasta most often because that's what I cook the most often as a struggling undergraduate. I've been told that I make a fairly mean dish of instant noodles.

- My joie de vivre

Must I really have six? That's really all that matters to me. As long as I remain who I am today, I think I could survive going without most things. It'll be painful to go without my computer or books, but meh.

Philosophy. It sounds pretentious, I know, but try introducing Zhuang Zi to a teenager and see if that doesn't ruin his adult life. That aside, I also enjoy making up fictional universes and populating them with gods, places and people. I then write about said universes and people.

At home. I have no social life to speak of, but I'm not particularly angsty about that fact. I seem to get by with what little social contact I get in school and the occasional trip out with some friends.

I used to play D&D, and would pick up the d20 again in a heartbeat.

You would like to get to know a nerd that, while not exactly the smoothest operator this side of the planet, can at least hold his own side of the conversation most of the time.