The following is a list of my favourite things...

I am a lover of poetry, prose, and plays. I love Australia because it is the single most incredible place on earth. I am currently undergoing Australization. I am a big proponent of animal rights and human rights. I support peaceniks everywhere. I am against the death penalty... If I could be any flower, I would be a sunflower... they are so tall and seem to reach out to embrace life... every moment of their existence they are trying to get closer and closer to the sun... such an admirable thing to embrace life that way... I love history, the 70s, gardening, geography, culinary arts, Food Network, British and Australian television, classic films, musicals, Broadway, theatre, acting, singing, friends, smelling roses, watching things grow, wishing on stars, a nice cup of tea, curled up in front of a fire reading Tennyson poetry, picnics in the living room even when it isn't raining outdoors, classic telelvision, gay marriage supporter, British history, Irish culture, coffee, collecting seashells, campaign buttons, fish, wild life conservation, old books, the Guilded Age, Colonial America, politics, vocabulary, writing, animals, afternoon walks in the park or garden, horticulture, figure skating, Ina Garten, Martha Stewart, Jamie Oliver, classic horror films, Aborigines, epic verse and sonnets, environmental protection, minority rights, reading, defying the status quo, foreign-language films, independent movies, Ireland, Austria, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, travel, different cultures, cooking, daydreaming, whales, dolphins, kangaroos, bats, chickens, dogs, falling in love, British literature, Australian, British, & Irish films, Oscar trivia, documentaries, biographies, mysteries, Watergate, Roaring 20s, stephanotis, Bette Davis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, soap opera trivia, flowers, Hollywood trivia, countries and capitals, disco, Studio 54, good books, good conversation, good friends, art, architecture, religion, Prince Edward Island, Anne of Green Gables, finding kindred spirits, literary history, pirates, game shows, cooking shows, gardening shows, music music music, stamp collecting, holding hands, imaginations, defying gravity.

After recently completing my last semester in the Masters program, I am now at home finishing my thesis. Only a few more months and I will have my M.A. in English. I will be done by mid-June, but won't offically graduate until August. I previously received a Bachelors of Arts in English and theatre in 2006. Following, my M.A., I hope to pursue a PhD in 20th Century British/Australian literature within the next year. Meanwhile, I am working on getting some teaching experience and doing lots of GRE prepping.

I am mostly interested in literary research and theory, travel, animal rights issues, gardening, the environment, politics, history, news, cooking, books, music.... I sing, play piano, and have acted in several plays.

I love countries, as well as traveling to those places, other cultures, British and Aussie accents, animals, Linus Van Pelt

I am looking for someone to share my life with. I hope there might be someone who is looking for the same. I love the smell of rain, so rainy days are especially luxurious for me.... nothing like a nice book on a rainy day or maybe the fantasy you are sharing your day with a lovely beau. I am a very romantic person.... I believe in monagamy and faithfulness. I believe in love. I think love is the ultimate gift we can share with each other.

I love old TV shows on DVD like Dark Shadows, Wonder Woman, or Murder, She Wrote. I love animals and plants... I love reading about foreign lands. I also love Australian television.

I love the memories of my grandmother and my family who are passed away. The memories keep them alive in my heart. I am very serious, but I love humour. I can be funny as my friends say but it is more of a wry and facetious sort of comedy.

I love autumn when the leaves are at their most full and glorious... I love walking through piles of leaves and hear them crunch under my feet. I love puddles after a rain that look like glass in the sunlight, worthy of any William Carlos Williams poem. I love being in a room full of books.... I love the smell of books. I love the moon and stargazing....

I love peppermints and gingerbread.

I am a HUGE film junkie, mostly indie and foreign films. I also love classics. My very favourite film is Harold and Maude, as I think it echoes the independent spirit in everyone and defies the status quo. I also like Oscar trivia, specific historical time periods including the 1920s, 1970s, American West, and the Guilded Age... and I am obsessed with Watergate

I love music... especially accoustic and indie. I like 70s singer-songwriters and A.M. pop. I also love disco, modern dance, and 80s New Wave

Becoming a professor to teach literature at university. I am interested in 20th Century Australian and British literature, as well as queer theory, whiteness and masculinity studies, feminism, conspiracism, and postcolonial theory. My favourite theorists are Edward Said, Roland Barthes, Spivak, Foucoult, Lacan, Anne Brewster, Richard Dyer, David Roediger, Germaine Greer, Eve Sedgwick, bell hooks, and so on.

I am an advocate for animal rights and active in promoting same-sex marriage.

Singing, writing, remembering things, conversation, trivia, monagamy...

I am good at literary research and analyzing literature.

I am good at remembering birthdays, anniversaries, and so on.

Not making terms like "80s" or "70s" possessive. I have one question to all of you apostrophe over-users: of what would it be possessive? If you are attempting to make it a contraction due to leaving off the "19" pre-fix, then its "'70s" and "'80s" respectively.

I am by no means the grammar-police. I have my own personal love/hate relationship with commas, mostly hate, but that one really bugs me.

I am also a wordsmith... I do love a person who has a rich vocabulary under their belts.

I am also good at being a tourist. I am probably the only person on the tour at places like the Liberty Bell or Thomas Jefferson's home who asks questions... ah but I am a student at heart, so you know... it's what we do!

I am good at naming books and authors, songs with their repective performers, Broadway musicals (that's a bit gay I realize, but who doesn't love a good musical?), and a lot of other weird trivia...

Probably notice I am overweight but fuck'em

Honestly, no one really notices me. I won't lie. I am pretty much invisible. If someone might happen to notice me one day, though, I don't think they would be sorry!

I do have an Australian flag patch on my messenger bag and a peace sign.... people might notice my bag... who knows!

I suppose I am not a stereotyical gay man.

I love Australia!!!

Films: Harold and Maude, Donnie Darko, Ordinary People, Once, Love and Other Catastrophes, Muriel's Wedding, Happy-Go-Lucky, The Kite Runner, Anne of Green Gables, Love Serenade, Beautiful Ohio, Little Miss Sunshine, Frost/Nixon, Once, On Golden Pond, Strictly Ballroom, Fame, Camp, The Rage in Placid Lake, Story of the Weeping Camel, Cave of Yellow Dog, Sunset Boulevard, Ghost World, Love, Actually, All About Eve, Trick, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, A Patch of Blue, To Kill A Mockingbird, Amélie, Mommie Dearest, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Midnight Express, The Browning Version, Life As a House, The Deep End, Newsies, Get Real, A Beautiful Thing, Dick, Nixon, Notes on a Scandal, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Picnic At Hanging Rock, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, What Dreams May Come, August Rush, The Sound of Music, Trip to Bountiful, Storm Boy, Fire in the Stone, Fortress, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Taxi Driver, 54, Last Days of Disco, All the President's Men, Requiem for a Dream, Detroit Rock City, Careful, He Might Hear You, Paris, Je T'aime, The Slingshot, Les Choristes, Wild Reeds, Fried Green Tomatoes, Cookie's Fortune, The Sound of Music, The Ultimate Gift, My Fellow Americans, October Sky, Trainspotting, Saving Grace, Calendar Girls, Secrets and Lies, Looking For Alibrandi, American Psycho, The Wizard of Oz, Tea and Sympathy, Meet Me in St. Louis, Labyrinth, Man From Snowy River, Shipwrecked, Being There, The Namesake, Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Dead Poets Society, Fargo, The Apostle, Cowboys and Angels, The Trip, War of the Buttons, The Snapper, Center Stage, Mickybo and Me, Head On, Bootmen, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Trouble With Angels, Coal Miner's Daughter, 9 to 5, The Birds, Arsenic and Old Lace, White Heat, Dark Victory, Westside Story, Gallipoli, True Grit, Love, Ludlow, Welcome to the Doll House, Welcome to Woop Woop, Hocus Pocus, P.S., I Love You, In the Bedroom

Music: Lior, Sufjan Stevens, Cat Stevens, Elliott Smith, Jeff Buckley, Robbie Williams, The Smiths, Crowded House, The Cure, Morrissey, Missy Higgins, Ben Lee, Bob Evans, Old Man River, Bernard Fanning, Eurythmics, Darren Hayes, Savage Garden, Neil Finn, Cat Stevens, Simon and Garfunkel, The Decemberists, Paul Kelly, ABBA, A*Teens, Aqua, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon, Amii Mann, Jenny Owen Youngs, Thompson Twins, Schubert, 80s New Wave, 70s Singers & Songwriters, 70s AM Pop, Disco, Funk, Modern Dance, Accoustic, Folk, Classic Rock

Books & Authors: Wuthering Heights, The Great Gatsby, Catcher in The Rye, Le Morte D'arthur, Ivanhoe, Anne of Green Gables books, Treasure Island, Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Patrick White, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, ee cummings, John Steinbeck, William Carlos Williams, David Sedaris, Confederacy of Dunces, Tim Winton, Storm Boy, Colin Thiele, David Malouf, Mrs. Dalloway, Dubliners, To the Lighthouse, Brideshead Revisited, A Room of One's Own, Walden, Emerson, Rilke, A Room With a View, A Passage to India, The Grapes of Wrath, Nick Earls, 48 Shades of Brown, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson

TV: Glee, Dark Shadows, Wonder Women, The Golden Girls, Dallas, Murder, She Wrote, Road to Avonlea, Halifax f.p., Another World, Santa Barbara, Summer Heights High, Thunderstone, Big Brother, Survivor, The Amazing Race, All in the Family, Beauty and the Beast, Freaks and Geeks, Time Trax, Mama's Family, This Life, Degrassi, Medium, Voyagers, Matlock, Falcon Crest, Northern Exposure, Sisters, Texas, Generations, Keeping Up Appearances, Dame Edna Experience

I am a vegetarian

Books, music, multi-region DVD player and DVDs, coffee, soap, pictures of my Dad, Mom, and Maw.

I suppose I should also list the six things which I CAN and certainly WANT to live without. These include: shallowness, dishonesty, unfaithfulness, purporting hateful words as "honesty", being ignored, and lonliness.

Literature, conferences, or research. Right now I am thinking a lot about my thesis which is due soon. I am writing on the Aboriginal depictions in Australian literature by three white writers. Each characterize the Aborigine in their novels from a white perspective. I am focusing on whiteness and masculinity studies along with historical beliefs on Aboriginal land rights to critique Patrick White, Thomas Keneally, and Colin Thiele, each with their own perspectives in their respective works. Though not overtly prejudiced, they are still subject to racial constructs.

I am also working on my conference paper for Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, the Doris Pilkington book, not the film and editing it for publication.

I also have another conference this fall on Samuel Richardson's Pamela of which I am preparing.

I think about Australia a lot and traveling.

I think about having a partner.

I think about my dad and my grandmother who both passed away and whom I miss very much.

Lately, I also think a lot about the GRE and being accepted to a PhD program.

I ALWAYS think about being loved or being in love

Reading or writing... sometimes I am watching films or old TV shows on DVD. I am not into the club scene. I would rather stay home than go out, unless it is to a museum, concert, or something with a substantive cultural edification attached. I don't do much going out nowadays however due to school.

Now that I am home, I am studying for the GRE or else working on my thesis. I might sometimes be watching television with my mom or reading. I won't be out and about much in the next year. I live in a rather remote area so I stick close to home these days. All this aforementioned work will hopefully aid in changing my circumstances though.

I am not big on discussing private things all that much.... but I suppose the most private thing is I am gay and seeking a partner.... pretty much run-of-the-mill really, because if you are reading this then you are probably gay too!

I am pretty annoyed by shallow people.

EDIT::: Who are we kidding??? I throw my hands up in the air; and if anyone actually does message me on here it will be a miracle. I hear of guys getting three to four messages a day. I don't think a guy has EVER messaged me on here one time unless I initiated the conversation first.... I am so sick of dealing with shallow, self-important, pretentious fags.

If you want to or you think you might find me interesting to talk with, then please do message me.

Personally, I am generally very kind and caring to people. However, please don't assume you can speak for me or claim things about me when you don't know me. I am also very cognizant of my weight issues. I don't need anyone telling me things, such as, "you should lose weight," etc., when I am very capable and certainly aware of that myself. It is not anyone else's business really and if you have a problem then don't message me to begin with.

I also don't want people feeling sorry for me or "pretending" to be my friend, because in the end it's fake and you are just a fool.

I am my own person and I am independent. I want a partner but I have done without one for 32 years too so don't think you can define me. I am looking for a partner and I think I would be a very good one myself.

I don't like shallow people and I don't ignore anyone. A lot of people on here claim they aren't shallow or they don't ignore people, but I have found that statement to be a lie in many cases. I don't lie and would not ever lie about something as important as common human descency and kindess to others.