I'm the middle of three brothers suffering from classic middle child syndrome (you other middle children know what I'm talking about). I'm also the smallest as they're massive, rugby-playing behemoths and I'm a slightly daintier runner-type.

I like the notion - or at least the aspiration - of improvement. Training is a very tangible way to experience that when it can sometimes seem an overly abstract pursuit in other areas of life. It's kind of cool to look back and realize that you're demonstrably better at something than you were last week, last month, last year or whatever.

Anyways, to return from that philosophical tangent, I'm a bit of a nerd, kind of goofy but generally laid back and open for adventure.

And that, dear reader, is where you come in. Let's adventure!

Things, and stuff, with a bit of work and running thrown in. But mostly lawyering and running. Justice should, after all, be swift...

Making you laugh. Or at least making (sometimes extremely lame) jokes in an attempt...

Beer miles.

See www.beermile.com for explanation.

My eyelashes?

It really used to bother me as a kid when my moms friends would ooh and ahh over them but I grew out of that. Now I'm just thankful that they do a really good job at keeping debris out of my eyeballs.

Let's save time and talk authors rather than individual books:

Melville
Vonnegut
Wright
Faulkner
Hemingway
Salinger
O'Connor
Parker, Jr.
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Movies:

I'm easily amused but have an appreciation for truly good flicks as well. Tombstone is a hell of a movie.

Oh, and Stick It has a special place in my heart...

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Music:

A Tribe Called Quest
Pharcyde
CCR
Arcade Fire
Ratatat
Buddy Guy
The Beatles
Led Zep
Nirvana
Regina Spektor
The Roots
Biggie (although I'm west coast for life)
Johnny Cash
The White Stripes
Pixies
Thelonious Monk
Delta Rae
Macklemore
Chiddy Bang

And a fair amount of really embarrassing pop music...

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Food:

Cereal!
Burritos
Sriracha
Sushi
Beer is a food, right?

Oxygen
Reading
Running
Burritos
My mad counting skills

...what I should write here.

I've also been pondering what story (or, knock on wood, stories) to tell Alex Trebek after the first commercial break on Jeopardy when he briefly interviews each of the contestants. Maybe a really awkward/inappropriate joke? Make up a story about saving a busload of nuns from annihilation at the hands of an international gang of ninjas? Just say, "I'd prefer not to" and refuse to speak until the game resumes?

I'm open to suggestions...

. . . looking for adventure.

I have been known to dance unabashedly to Kelly Clarkson's "Since You've Been Gone."

. . . you'd like to?

Or if you have any good travel recommendations.

Or if you want to share a joke. Very few people have shared a joke with me, however, which makes me think that people don't read this far down in a person's profile. Or that the people who do read this far down don't know any good jokes. I suppose if one were to make a Venn Diagram, there would be two circles that don't overlap - one for people who read my profile and another who know jokes.

So it goes...