A few notes to start:

If you're here because I visited your profile; Hi, I'm John. Yes, I saw your profile. Chances are, I read the whole damn thing, as is my habit. If I haven't messaged you and you'd like to know why, ask and I promise I'll tell the truth.

Because it's necessary to say up front; I am in a relationship. In fact, I have a fianceé. We have an open relationship and aren't likely to change that. There is a reason for the available status. If you want to know more about her, check out valancy17.

I am a thirty-something Geek, College student, Centrist, NPR fan, Reader amongst other things. Give me a flannel shirt and a PBR and I would look suspiciously hipster-ish, though oddly enough I have also been called a "Bro" on more than one occasion... Honestly, I don't get all the confusion. Maybe I'm just hard to pigeon hole.

I'm a useful person to have around, especially in a place I've had time to explore. I am also doggedly loyal to my friends, family and lovers. I see no conflict between that and my views on Non-monogamy.

I recently got accepted to the university of Pittsburgh. I am also currently looking for a summer job... In all honesty, I end up being pretty busy.

That depends upon whom you ask. Yes, I know that's a cop-out, but, honestly I don't know. I know that I have a large vocabulary, so I guess I could say I am good at the word... Thing. I'm hell on wheels at Trivial Pursuit and Monopoly.

I'm tall, broad and often look irritated in public. It's not that I am actually irritated, but that's often what people think.

Books: "The Rookie"- Scott Sigler, The "Golden Age of the Solar Clipper" series- Nathan Lowell, "World War Z"- Max Brooks, "Starship Troopers"- Robert Heinlein and hundreds of others, not all of them in podcast form.

Movies: My taste in movies is generally pretty broad, but I am really picky about comedies.

Music: If you keep me away from the top 40, the bad hip-hop and the country, I'm sure I'll find something I can listen to. Though I have been re-acquainting myself with jazz lately.

Food: As long as there aren't peanuts (I'm mildly allergic...) I'm happy trying about anything. I've lately gotten into tapas, which has been an interesting experience.

1) Useful tools: Like any other highly evolved great-ape, I am a dyed-in-the-wool tool user. I like having things on me to cover the needs of most daily situations.

2) The internet: I'm a bit of an information junkie. This condition has only gotten worse since I got an iPhone. I prefer to be able to look up information when I need it, so I will always have some sort of internet capable device on me.

3) Food: I know, it sounds cliché, but, Food or more precisely, good food makes me happy.

4) Something to keep my hands busy: Take that as innocently or as lasciviously as you like. I mean it in all of those fashions. The old saw about idle hands being the devil's playground is often true of me.

5) Bags: I know this will sound odd, but I like bags. I like having something on hand that I can carry stuff in and that contains all of the enormously useful crap I tend to lug around.

6) Sex: This should be totally unsurprising. Like other well adjusted, relatively decent men I have a sex drive. Unlike many other well adjusted, relatively decent men, I'm willing to openly admit it. This does not mean that I am only looking to get laid, nor does this mean that I am going to start messaging someone asking if I can pretty please have sex with them. You shouldn't have to put up with that bullshit and I couldn't imagine asking .

If you want the honest answer: Sex and more sex and literature... Politics, current events, pop culture and sex.

At a friend's house or something, or I could be home. Really, it all depends on the particular Friday.

I spent a long time being a not so great person. It's because I had a lot of growing up to do, and that immaturity had a lot of unintended repercussions. I am getting a lot better, but I guess you could say that I can still improve.

If you got all the way to the end of this profile and you don't have a perfectly good reason to break the ice, I really don't know what to tell you. It's not like I bite. (Unless it's requested...)