I'm basically awesome, which sounds really vain, but I like to think of it as "self-esteem".
I have a VERY off-kilter sense of humor and employ sarcasm at inopportune (and opportune!) moments in my daily life. So be prepared, and take parts of this with a grain of salt.

STUFF I LIKE:
Grammar, punctuation, and correct spelling
Industrial music - specifically: Grendel, Nachtmahr, God Module, iVardensphere, Memmaker, and Rotersand
"Indie" music - I use quotes because most of these bands are signed to major record labels, but still kind of fit into the "indie-rock" genre: Death Cab for Cutie, Tegan and Sara, Brand New, Thrice, Imogen Heap
Music in general
BOOKS - I am a shameless bibliophile. Reading makes my life complete.
Space - I am a HUGE space nerd. Space is awesome. It's beautiful, it's enormous, it's awe-inspiring. There's so much fucking incredible stuff out in the universe, how can anyone not love space?

STUFF I DON'T LIKE
-War. Obviously, it's bad and stuff. But I disagree with even supporting the troops. Go ahead and call me out for it. I can back up my arguments. I will support peacekeepers, though. Afghanistan is not a peacekeeping mission.
-Intolerance, ignorance, and general ass-hattery.
-Feminism. It's not about equality, it's about women dominating men. We're all human, we're all equal. Can't we just accept that?
-Inability to carry on a meaningful, decent conversation.
-Sports. Sorry, but I REALLY just don't care.

OTHER STUFF
I am VERY opinionated. I love music, listening to it, performing it, dancing to it, playing air-guitar to it, etc. Being at concerts is high among my favorite things to do. I live to read, and can easily spend a day completely absorbed in a book. I am a cat person, and have a snake (he's pretty sweet). I've recently taken up painting, which isn't really painting so much as making cool messes with paint that actually end up looking half-decent. I'm a bleeding heart idealist, but I have some realistic views of the world. They serve to show me what needs to be changed. I really like creepy things, things that are weird, deviant, scary, or just outside of the norm. Alternative lifestyle for the win!

This is pretty fragmented, but that's okay.

Currently, I'm working as a paper slave for an alarm system company. It's not overly demanding work and I completely adore my co-workers, so I really can't complain, and it lets me save up to go back to school. Ideally, I would like to work for the UN, focusing on international relations or development, but if that doesn't happen, I'd like to spend my life in Africa, teaching sex ed, specifically related to AIDS prevention/education or teaching sex ed/womens studies in the Middle East. I'm kind of a bleeding heart, so anything along the lines of activism and human rights is something I intend to get into.

Using sarcasm in uncomfortable situations, grammar and spelling, being a band geek and telling retarded band geek jokes, being a fount of useless information, and (to be cliche) listening.

Hair colour, generally (hard not to when it's usually something like pink or blue or green and purple). And I get a lot of compliments on my eyes, and (strangely enough) my teeth. I guess they're nice?

Favorite books (warning: this is going to be a LONG list)
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
The Black Jewels Trilogy by Ann Bishop
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman graphic novel series by Neil Gaiman (I read a lot of Neil Gaiman)
The Gospel According to Biff, Christ`s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
(Okay, that was actually a shorter list than I anticipated.)

Favorite music (aka, a giant list of bands I enjoy):
Alkaline Trio, AFI, Coheed and Cambria, Tegan and Sara, Death Cab for Cutie, Thrice, Brand New, Imogen Heap, Nachtmahr, Grendel, God Module, Rotersand, Icon of Coil, iVardensphere, Taking Back Sunday, k.d. Lang, ENVY, The Used, Paramore, Silverstein, Blink-182

ALSO I really really fucking love Star Wars.

Cell phone, iPod, clothing, books, my friends and family, and lip balm.

LOTS! Usually really random things that are confusing me, like orbital gravity (I understand now!). I also think about what I've been reading, the insanely random and pointless dreams I have, space (specifically, nebulae and near-earth objects), and other strange things.
I also ALWAYS have a song stuck in my head. Always. Sometimes it's a good song, sometimes it's "She'll be Comin' Round the Mountain". No joke.

Working late, reading, or hanging out with my boys who are among my best friends.

I really love Care Bears. And My Little Pony.

-You can carry on a conversation that is not about sports or cars. I enjoy conversations where I learn things. Conversations about physics, religion, politics, philosophy, and music are acceptable topics.
-You have a sense of humor, especially one that is compatible with mine (ie, sarcastic and dark).
-You can type a full sentence without using stupid abbreviations like u, ur, ne, etc. Also, grammar and punctuation are important. Everyone learned them in elementary school and had to employ them throughout high school and any post-secondary, forgetting them is not an excuse.
-You have similar tastes in music. This does not include a vast majority of rap, 90% of anything played on the radio today, Nickleback, Default, Theory of a Deadman or other so-called rock bands, country, or techno. Industrial is not techno.
-You read.
-You are in possession of a doomsday robot and can survive a zombie apocalypse. Proof of both is required.