It's hard to say what sort of person i am - am I quiet, loud, kind, thoughtful, loveable, nasty, deranged, intense, vacant... probably a bit of everything. So lets avoid the issue and write some lists of things I do:
My passions in life: cycling mountain and road, hockey of the field variety, guitar mainly classical at the moment, japanese especially writing the characters though i'm getting a bit rusty there, hiking and climbing mountains (ones in scotland like Torridon and Assynt are amazing, but also some high ones in the Alps, Japan (i climbed up Mt Fuji from the bottom and back down in 13 hours solid), and South America (my highest mountain yet at 5700m). I'm a very ropey dancer, two left feet... but do do a bit of salsa type stuff. I love cinema and i'm not the sort to worry about going on my own, which is a good thing because most of my friends seem to be into trashy hollywood stuff. My favorites of the past year in no particular order: Waltz with Bashir, Let the Right One In, The Wrestler, Man on Wire, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, No Country for Old Men. I used to live in Oxford and I miss the rowing. I can do stroke and bow side so if you're need a spare man in a mixed team let me know.

I'm floating along at the moment...

Ok, I'm thinking about jacking it all in and going cycling (maybe back to South America which is an amazing continent of contrasts and scenery) or maybe to live in Holland. Holland is a lovely place.

Making people laugh when i try, or sometimes don't try. However telling jokes really badly.

Hair too long (except i just got it cut). Glasses because I just got some new ones and they're way too striking.

It's been a while since i read anything really amazing... need to think a while on that. Ok, i'm back Prayer for Owen Meany, Midnights Children, On Chesil Beach, The Reader, short stories by Somerset Maugham, any book about climbing mountains and nearly dying (or maybe a bit of death but not too much)

Movies as above plus Life is Beautiful, Love Letter (Shunji Iwai), Passage to India, Monty Python. TV: bit of an Apprentice addict, Green Wing, Flight of the Conchords, enjoyed watching Blood, Sweat, and Takeaways recently.

Classical: lots of things by Fernando Sor, Barrios, Aguado. Modern: Martin Sexton, Neil Young, Gotan Project, David Rovics, The Killers, Fat Freddy's Drop, big etc... Strangely into German hip-hop at the moment.

Japanese: Gackt, Fukuyama Masaharu, Dragon Ash, Kiroro, doing karaoke to any of them! :)

Food: pizza! okonomiyaki (japanese cabbage omelette-type thing), chocolate, cheese (a mature cheddar, or brie maybe), Malbec wine, beer brewed by trappist monks, lavazza coffee, eels done the japanese way with chargrilled with tea on top

Classical guitar, a bike (one of 3 currently), chocolate, cheese, coffee, karaoke.

what i'm really doing with my life.

Trying to persuade my friends to go out for drinks but increasingly failing...

Sitting in the meadows twanging on my guitar if the suns out.

Nothing. Try reading my travelblog: there's a few chucklesome tales there - www.travelblog.org/bloggers/nickthetrick

anything above appeals and you happen to live in edinburgh and happen to want to meet up. Or just if you want to! :D