Where to start? I have a wide variety of interests that I tend to cycle through, sometimes juggled simultaneously, sometimes sequentially. College educated, spent far too long bouncing between different sciences, then considered being a pilot, then fell back to electronics...squandered my education for some years before finding work that actually uses what I learned.

Similarly complicated with other aspects of my life. I believe in being fully open with any matters of importance, so yes, just in case you were wondering (hah), I'm genetically male. I consider myself genderqueer and frankly wish society could wake up and quit insisting on binary anything. That said, my drivers license now has an 'F' on it and I far more strongly identify on the girl's side.

Speaking of being open, I feel that both love and intimacy are not finite quantities, and that open talk about outside relationships is the best way of making anything work - and it can!

I am unconventional, sui generis, and like pushing buttons

My current obsession is roller derby, I play on the top-line team for one of the local leagues, and in the meantime try to get out to all the bouts I can, to help officiate. I used rollerblades to commute through much of my college years and so the switch to quad skates was pretty easy. The switch to falling a lot and getting bruised is not so easy...Currently working on being able to jump the apex and land it backwards on one foot.

A while back, I learned to unicycle, in some ways, yes, it is as hard as it looks, but it took more time for the training wheels to come off my first bike than to get rolling on a uni, so don't be afraid to try it if someone offers!

Before derby took over my life (wish I had time for everything) -I had been involved with the SCA traditional archery group, just bow, arrow, and skill (maybe a bit of luck thrown in.) I found I've enjoyed making my own accessories for it almost as much as the shooting itself. So I"m now the proud owner of a hand-worked leather quiver and fur lined arm bracer ^_^.

It's rare that I'm not learning something, whether through just reading on the internet, journals, or whatever happens to catch my fancy this week.

More long term learning interests include: Japanese - I passed the JLPT level 3 a few years ago and got to use it on a company-training trip to japan - managed to survive a maid cafe conversation entirely in japanese, which will likely be the peak of my achievement, lol. Also saxaphone - I pick this up every few months, love it, and then somehow I always end up losing the time to play. Not that I'm any good, but if one day I could play the sax solo from Pink Floyd's "The Gunner's Dream" I'd be able to die happy.

I work to live, rather than live to work. I'll admit money is nice but it's just not that much of a motivator for me. That said I'm happy to finally be out of a long string of call center jobs (tech support hell!) and into an electronics technician position with a major oilfield services company. Now I just have to get over the evil oil karma hit, but I drive a small car, so it sorta balances....right?

Modesty. No really, I suck at self promotion. Let's say I'm pretty good at:

Scuba diving. What's not to love? The poor landlubbers have no idea what they are missing. People ask me "Is there anything to see down there?" and I'm caught flatfooted. It's an entire universe. It's nothing like the surface. It's beautiful, and it's quiet, and it's brutal. Quite literally everything is trying to kill and eat everything else. Quietly.

Computers. We get along quite nicely. People forget it's a tool, it takes some tie to learn how to use it, but once you do, it can do anything for you. Of course, I end up gaming far too much but it's a far sight better than TV.

In my life situation people tend to notice me a lot...but the reason can vary. I seem to get almost as many looks when I'm out presenting as male as when female....but I recently realized I was counting a full length black canvas skirt as my 'male' garb...so that might be part of it.

Authors: William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, H.P. Lovecraft, David Brin, Matsume Shirow, Rumiko Takahashi, Art Spiegleman, Vernor Vinge, Nancy Friday (though technically she herself didn't write a lot of that..), Mary Gaitskill, Susie Bright. Looking forward to getting my hands on a copy of "The Wisdom of Whores" as I've read some other books on epidemiology and this one looks good -*edit* read it and loved it! Highly recommended. Quqte "I used to tell people I was in epidemiology, which got blank stares. Now I just say I'm into sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll."

Movies: I like to be surprised, managed to avoid the hype machines for both the Blair Witch project AND the Matrix, and think I enjoyed them more for it. I like foreign flicks for their diversity, and because it reveals the 'language' of movies that we take for granted. Subtitles only, please! And sometimes I'll just clear the backlog of movies that sounded ok, but that you'd never go to a theatre for. In general, I'll give anything a try, but you're not likely to find me renting summer comedies.

Food: Coffee! (not tea, really, just not my thing...) Sushi! Butter Chicken! Popcorn! Can be spicy but not too spicy. Pretty flexible overall.

And I nearly forgot music...I go through phases, and find myself enjoying a wide variety, but if was to try boiling it down to 'lost on a desert island' music, I'd say... Tom Waits, Pink Floyd (but never got into the Beatles, funny eh?), Holly Cole, Ani DiFranco's earlier stuff, Sarah McLauglin, Winston Marsalis; something for aggression release, like the Dead Kennedys...and some things you can dance to, like Covenant or the Chemical Brothers.

No country, life's just too short to waste. Folk yes, country no. Oh and play Nickleback and I'll smack you. Friends don't let friends do CanCon for CanCon's sake.

Coffee, cats, computers, cute outfits, constant learning, and consensual sex (it all its' splendid forms). *Whew* wasn't sure I'd be able to keep the alliteration up.

I like to think about thinking...seriously. Perception of the physical world, perception of virtual worlds in dreams or gaming - the thought processes of someone playing a complex FPS ties in to strategy, experience, situational awareness, evaulation of achievable goals, estimation of teammates abilities - and it all happens at lightning speed.

On a related note, I'm very interested in both human factors engineering (how people interact with computers/systems/machines and how to design such devices so that users 'do the right thing' without having to think - eg Panic bars on doors: You're panicking, you run straight into the door, it opens, just like you wanted it too but without conscious thought.

Oh, and sex.

Probably only vaguely aware that it's Friday night due to years of shift work.

I've probably already admitted if you read the rest of my profile.

You don't mind the duality of a grammar Nazi with a soft spot for lolcats-speakzez.

You have interesting or just random bizarre ideas that you'd like to bounce off someone.

You actually just want to chat.