"Some muffins are baking in an oven. One muffin turns to another and says, 'Man, it's really hot in here.' The muffin replies, 'Holy crap! A talking muffin!' "

My friends once wrote a personal ad for me: "Enjoys the simple things in life, like friends and good conversation. Heavy drinker." Take of that what you will.

When not wreaking havoc on the greater Cambridge/Somerville area with my antics (sober and otherwise), I engage in the scholarly pursuit of finding all things true and meaningful in biological systems. I spend my free time rock-climbing, going to local indie rock shows, and hanging out with friends. I really enjoy meeting new people and doing adventurous things. I regularly escape this locale in search of more exotic places and love traveling, both by myself or with like-minded vagabonds.

I'm pretty shy and sometimes take a little time to warm up to people, but once I've decided I like you, we'll be total BFFs. You don't have to thank me for this benevolence, but in advance, you're welcome.

Making a fool of myself and not caring, living it up with friends, adventure and exploration, good times with fun people

Following in the grand tradition of Mr. Charles Darwin and pursuing a Ph.D in Biology. Very generally, I study the evolutionary ecology of non-native, invasive plants and their evolutionary impact on native species. I spend a lot of time in the summer tramping around forests in New England, and a lot of time in the winter writing and teaching freshman introductory biology lab stuff.

Artistic things (painting, drawing, painting pottery), cutting a rug on the dance floor, picking music at dive bar jukeboxes, making awesome mix CDs, sarcasm, science (theoretically at least), napping, establishing appropriate boundaries in relationships

My "funny-looking" glasses. My (obnoxiously) loud laugh. I fidget and gesticulate a lot.

Music in heavy rotation on my iPod right now: Bat for Lashes, The White Stripes, Pink Mountaintops, The Black Keys, Dan Auerbach, Passion Pit, Akron/Family, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Animal Collective, Arctic Monkeys, The Decemberists, Dirty Projectors, M.I.A., Neko Case, The New Pornographers, Devendra Banhart, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Asobi Seksu, Lady Gaga, Tegan and Sara, Yeasayer, White Denim

Food: Anything spicy (like Indian and Thai), beans and rice, chocolate-chip granola bars, mangoes, asparagus, Anna's Taqueria, oatmeal and cream of wheat, almonds

Books: 1984, Middlemarch, Jane Eyre, The Handmaid's Tale, Rebecca, Maynard & Jennica, The Wild Things, Harry Potter, Howl's Moving Castle, folktales and mythology, cheap paperbacks, The Selfish Gene, Evolution: Triumph of an Idea

Movies: The Princess Bride, Fight Club, Let the Right One In, Amelie, Lost in Translation, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Bryan, The Godfather Parts I & II, Away We Go

1. Books, 2. Best friends, 3. soap, 4. my iPod, 5. adventure, 6. stimuli

My next meal. And planning my next expedition to the rock climbing gym.

Oh yeah, and my place in the universe.

Escaping from work to have dinner with friends, or meeting friends at dive bars. I also like to go to local indie rock shows, mostly at the Middle East or TT the Bear's, though sometimes I venture out to the Paradise. If I'm not out on a Friday night, then I'm usually recovering from a long week at work with a night in reading.

I brush my teeth in the shower.

I like silly things like kids' jokes and Spongebob Squarepants.

You like any of the following:
1. Silly jokes
2. Old sketches from Monty Python and the Flying Circus
3. Sketches from SNL, Mad TV or Whitest Kids U Know
4. Drinking beer at shitty bars
5. Adventure
6. Not killing chicks you meet online

Number 6 is probably the most important on that list.