Human, 23 years old. No obvious deficiencies.

Shit. I don't know. I come here for fun, they got these ballbreaking questions, man. This question's got me having a real existential crisis. What AM I doing with my life? I gotta ... I gotta sort this out.

Writing.

Staying awake - my regular schedule is something like 24 hours on, 10 hours off, and once a week or so I'll be up for two or three days straight. (This is also known as "being really bad at sleeping")

Short hair, glasses, stubble/beard, nice shirt, dominating a conversation.

So, for books, science fiction. Larry Niven's Known Space series as a highlight. Fantasy - the Mistborn series, A Song of Ice and Fire, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - HPMoR is so good that I run the facebook fan page for it.

Favourite internet sites: lesswrong dot com rates highly.

I am remarkably able to enjoy almost any movie, even when it grossly violates its own consistency. Watchmen.

Music - Mountain Goats, Smith Street Band, Operation Ivy, and more generally punk, hiphop, dubstep mixes. Mostly anything that puts a lot of raw emotion into the music or makes you feel emotion.

I eat food, including meat and heavily processed grains.

* Really good headphones
* LessWrong dot com
* Extremely interesting ideas
* A large amount of leisure time spent on the computer
* Stimulating chemicals (caffeine, nicotine, modafinil. It makes you smarter!)
* Intelligent, intense conversation
* Off-by-one errors

How the hell is it that I can be more creative and funny in the explanations of OKC questions than here, where I have effectively free reign to make whatever jokes I want?

In all likelihood, engaged in a discussion on lesswrong or hanging out with some friends, having awesome but hard to follow conversations.

Correction: things.

I sometimes call myself bisexual, despite not yet having felt a strong attraction to any guy. Sex with guys has mostly come out of curiosity and recklessness. Technically this makes me a 2 on the Kinsey scale.

I spent several months struggling with depression - in doing so I lost two amazing jobs and dropped out of contact with several amazing people, and very nearly got my 3-month vacation to the US cancelled - and I still pretend it was nothing, that I intended to do all those stupid things, and that I'm better now.

* I messaged you
* You want to know why the hell I called myself ProtocarnPlant
* I have something here that surprises or confuses you - trying to communicate my personality by answering OKC questions is like building Lego with boxing gloves on.

(My name is Scott, by the way)