School, work, play, thought - not in that order.

If you mixed everything into a kettle however, you'd discover that I'm still trying to figure out the mixture while rhyming the reason that there is even a kettle. Exploration, thought, and consideration are all I have to go on and are usually the facets of my life that lead me to try and discover the world around me.

In other words, I'm still trying to figure all of this out (and probably always will be).

Moving through life, touching an idea or aspect and exploring it, understanding it, and being able to appreciate it for what it is. Along the way, I've tried to apply different ideas or aspects of thought, activity, or similar notion to myself, and found that my strength lies in exploration, in understanding.

More concrete activities, I'm interested in and fairly proficient at martial arts of all kinda: SCA is a favorite activity many of my friends are involved in, WMA (western martial arts), Kendo (Japanese Sword Fighting) and bujinkan weapons training.

You can also always catch me reading a book or graphic novel (fantasy, non-fiction, historical literature of all kinda, fantasy, etc) or planning out a text game or playing with art of some kind (writing, photoshop, hand crafts, etc).

The knitting needles I'm usually holding: I knit alot. My last major crafts / knitting project, was sewing caps for premature babies and children born to poor / single mothers - the mission statement of the hospital I worked for in this way, was to insure that no child left without a memento of their birth and a warm head. That single idea completely melted my heart.

Appearance wise, if your scanning me carefully, you may notice that I'm wearing black, leather, combat boots. A functional choice but whenever I depreciate another for their clothing styles (as in "those fucking hipsters,") it reminds me that I fill my own specialized niche that could be considered just as pretentious.

My bias appears (complete and unabashed) in only two things: chocolate and tea. In both, I have preferences that run deep and true, with my opinion of chocolate running towards your typical Hershey or Mars bar being nothing more than a palate cleanser for after one has had to endure Aunt Margert's thanksgiving dinner. The "Good Stuff" is a smattering of European and a select few American chocolates: Bonat (a French brand) and Rogue Chocolate (American, oddly enough) top off my list. Everything else varies with degrees, from Hershey (sickly acidic) on the bottom to as I said, Bonat on the top,

Tea however is another beast: for me, its almost spiritual. After being raised in a primarily Chinese household for the first part of my life, tea ceremony and proper brewing practices were essential portions of my education. So yes, I intrinsically know two or three different variations of the traditional Chinese tea ceremony and have throughout the years, acquired a certain ability to taste and label tea according to different characteristics.

As for more traditional media, I have a penchant for early Japanese cinema (1930's - the mid 90's), basically any book I can lay my hands on (Tolkien and his son's work being favorites, though I prefer the collected folk lore of the Grimm brother's) and a hodge podge of musicals, opera, stage plays and other such things. Arguably, I'm over cultured but I'm open to exploring any trying anything multiple times.

I've lived from the full spectrum of having just the clothes on my back, to being comfortable with what I've collected through various hobbies and interests. One thing I discovered through moving through that spectrum, is that there isn't anything anyone truly requires beyond maintaining ones own survival and so, I'm hesitant to truly count anything I could never do without.

Besides myself that is, and even that is arguable.

Trying to develop a thought, a feeling, a rhythm to life and modes of existence. Occasionally I'll grasp it: information will run together, the world will pulse with an undulating beat that exposes its very heart and I'll be able to stand back and have a moment to just be.

In summary, I spend quite a bit of my time exploring nature and duplicities, paradoxes and contradictions, hoping to slowly untangle a bright center of human understanding that will lead to something else... What that exactly is or might be, I still don't know.

Writing an article about classic video games, composing a midi sequence, out plying the town with friends or (more likely), at a friend's house playing video games and speaking of ideas both new and old, exotic and familiar. We'll let us our minds wander as the characters dash to and fro on the screen, as we are developing an idea or notion as our minds wander almost meditatively at a practiced action...

Life is about living, about thought and trying to make sense of being: that is how I spend my Friday nights.

Something I've written about resonates with you - finding someone with similar ideas is kinda the point of this site, but it is also about making that connection.

Trust your gut: message if there is an inclination to do so, even if you can't exactly place the feeling. Or don't.