Unwittingly hilarious, torso-hugging, kitten-lioness of a girl. Prone to short-lived obsessions. List-making, internet-addicted hula-hoop champ. Ungainly and gauche. Obscenely, uncomfortably forthright.

My preference is pubs to bars and gigs to clubs; putting potato chips in my sandwiches; and burrowing into my burritoblanket.

I'm a sponge and believe in lifelong learning; I love technology, information, and anything new. The latest beers, restaurants, memes, bands, and newfangled gadgets always catch my attention but never hold it for long.

Trying to figure out when the hell I am going to grad school to get my MLIS.

Being too direct, following my instincts, being oblivious, being contradictory, overanalyzing everything, talking too much/fast, snorting when I laugh, touching my nose with my tongue, people-watching, tripping over my feet, stumbling over my words, walking into things, winning people over, and being mean without meaning to.

I'm a defective jack of all trades: I am a well-rounded, eclectic individual who's especially good at nothing.

In person, people immediately realize that I am hopelessly short and have blue/purple hair. My voice is also deeper than one would expect out of a tiny girl. Excitable (easily), animated (if in the right mood), and klutzy (always).

(a) Books
Anything Calvin & Hobbes (Bill Watterson)
Catfish and Mandala (Andrew X. Pham)
Ender's Game (Scott Orson Card)
Good Omens (Terry Prachett and Neil Gaiman)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony
Me Talk Pretty One Day (David Sedaris)
Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman)
O Pioneers! (Willa Cather)
Sandman comics (Neil Gaiman)
Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)

Give me disaffected. Give me dry. Give me bittersweet. You can stalk what I'm currently reading here.

(b) Films
Back to the Future, Better Off Dead, The Big Lebowski, Delicatessen, Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Office Space, Pan's Labyrinth, Requiem for a Dream, Shaun of the Dead, Sleeping Beauty, Snatch. I like Wes Anderson, dark comedies, Coen Brothers, and good cinematography. However, I don't watch a lot of films; someone please help expand my horizons!

(b1) TV Programs
I no longer own a television set, but I manage to watch shows here and there via Hulu and torrents.

Battlestar Galactica, Black Adder, Black Books, Burn Notice, Community, Firefly, Freaks and Geeks, Inbetweeners, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Office (UK), Red Dwarf, Spaced

(c) Music
Belle and Sebastian, Best Coast, The Black Keys, Crystal Castles, Cold Cave, The Cure, Errors, Glass Candy, Maxïmo Park, The National, The Mary Onettes, New Order, Okkervil River, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), Pixies, Radiohead, Solvent, Sonic Youth, Voxtrot

I'm fickle and this list will never be current. My musical taste is recorded in all its schizophrenic, info-tastic glory here.

(d) Food
All foodstuffs, tea, toast, and coffee. I'll try most things once, because I firmly believe in being adventurous; the stranger it is, the more I want to try it. I mainly eat Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, "New" American (high-brow and yuppified), and German.

My coffee is always black and I'll take my tea with milk depending on my mood. I'm perfectly happy at either a hole-in-the-wall place or a fancy, snooty restaurant; I just like good food and am always on the prowl for somewhere new to try.

In alphabetical order: books, a camera, my friends, Internet, music, and my passport so I can travel.

Paradigm shifts, information, how people tick and tock, cultural differences, idiosyncrasies, and daydreaming of living in another culture.

Ideally there would be some geekry, a bit of faffing, drinking of craft beers or whisky, exploration/adventures, generally just being out and about, and/or bopping around San Francisco/East Bay for the weekend.

If the week has been rough, my exciting Friday night will include a nap, a snuggle with the cat (her name is Chicken), and Hulu/Netflix.

1) This whole profile thing weirds me out. I ramble for ages and still feel like I haven't captured a decent snapshot of myself.

2) I definitely have a type and he's a brunet. Sorry, blonds. (Edit: oops, nevermind, I am now dating a wonderful blond.)

3) I snore.

* We have something in common. Don't message me if we do not share any interests at all.

* You have the ability to type in full sentences and (hopefully) with correct punctuation. Maybe even capitalization? A girl can dream.

* In the same vein, please be able to distinguish the plural from the possessive.

* You can make me toast soldiers.

* If you want a photo partner. My fotos are here.

* If you use the Oxford comma.

* Gold stars to those who make me laugh uncontrollably.

* You must enjoy: correct grammar, "ethnic" foods, the pursuit of knowledge, tangents, and wordplay.