I think this is the hardest part of these sites, boiling yourself down to a few (hopefully catchy) sentences. Right now, I am a soldier, but hopefully not forever. I am a progressive, with some embarrassingly romantic views on how the world should work. I am a conversationalist, I love wandering conversations where after an hour you don't know what you started talking about. I am a devil's advocate, because its fun. I am trying to get a graduate degree, but it will be on hold for a year or so. I grew up in Wisconsin, but I wasn't born there, and would love to live somewhere warmer. I am definitely retiring to Australia - awesome accent, great weather, and basically everyone lives on the coast.

I am marooned in Mesopotamia, and constantly wondering why people live in this part of the world.

"Papers in the roadside
Tell of suffering and greed
Here today, forgot tomorrow
Ooh, here besides the news
Of holy war and holy need
Ours is just a little sorrowed talk
And I don't cry for yesterday"
-Duran Duran

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stuart Mill

But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
-- Thomas Paine

Comme tous les rêveurs je confonds la désillusion avec la vérité.
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre

Fortune, like the moon you are changeable, ever waxing and waning; So at this hour, without delay, pluck the vibrating strings, since Fate strikes down even the strongest man.
-Johann Andreas Schmeller

Protecting Freedom. Just kidding. I'm mostly driving around Iraq. And being bored. Its definitely time for the U.S. to get out of this country, we're just wasting time and money at this point.

Trying to save some money. Planning the next year. Daydreaming about Summer 2010. Counting down the days until I'm in the States again.

If I wasn't here, I would be studying for the LSAT and finishing a Masters in Diplomacy. I'm really trying to avoid the real world - especially in this economy.

Procrastinating.

Arguing.

Wasting too much time on the internet.

My big ole dumbo ears... lol. I'm not sure, I've been told I have nice smile.

Currently Reading: We The Living - I love Ayn Rand's imagery
Just Finished: To Hell and Back - Audie Murphy was pretty much a badass.
All Time Faves: Rant - Chuck Palahniuk, The Sun Also Rises (Best Title, Best female name - Brett Ashley), Reacher Series - Lee Child, Starship Troopers, Foundation Series, The Diamond Age, Picture of Dorian Gray

Movies I want to see: 9, Public Enemies, 7 Pounds
Faves: Layercake, Lawrence of Arabia,

Music: Johnny Cash, Lilly Allen, Muse, White Stripes, Killers, much more

Thai Food - used to work in a Thai restaurant, love me some Pudd Prikh Khing, Indian food - my best friend's mom is an awesome Indian Chef,

The Internet.
Books.
Movies.
Eyesight.
My limbs.
I really have been trying recently not to take much for granted.

Where I'm going in the next couple of years: more Army training for sure, Afghanistan? Grad School? Law School?

Freedom Ride July 2010... where will my new bike's maiden trip be too?

Basically three choices right now: On Mission, Preparing for Mission, Resting up after Mission. I'm a day sleeper right now... so I'll pretty much be up until 3 or 4 every night.

Where I want to be: alternatively staying in watching a movie, going to a coffee shop with a good book, grabbing a beer at a semi-quiet bar. All of the above with someone interesting and fun.

If you like to have long dinner conversations, or think I'm cute. Or both. Preferably both....