I'm a dork, but I guess everyone sort of is these days. I like constitutional law; I listen to U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments for fun on the train or during long car trips.

I'm a good conversationalist.

I like subtlety in most of its forms.

I'm at least a little bit intellectual; if nothing else, I like reading and finding out about stuff. I read a lot of news and political blogs and whatnot whenever I'm around my computer. I tend to like people who can talk about "important" things without being self-important. Intellectual curiosity is a big draw for me, but being very, very academic all the time might not be. The subtlety thing again.

A friend recently happened upon my profile and said that I came off as way more serious than I am. Less-than-serious things that I like include: wordplay! Going to concerts! TV shows on DVD! Making fun of Bill O'Reilly! Also, exclamation points.

I can play six string guitar, though not especially well. I've been messing around trying to teach myself, but of late I've been considering casting aside my rugged individualism and paying for lessons.

I like games. (Of the entertainment variety, not the emotional rollercoaster variety.)

Apparently, I also like clarifying ambiguities.

I miss having a cat very much, and I'm grateful to the Internet for being such a great repository of adorable cat photos.

Attending law school eventually, I think. Tutoring test prep for now. If high scores on standardized tests impress you, then prepare to be impressed. (Does this mean I should add "gloating" to this list?)

Tetris. Trivial Pursuit.

Sometimes I'm really good at understanding people.

Right away, people seem to think that everything that I say is very serious. (In fact, I just like deadpan humor, and much of what I say is not serious at all.) Physically, people probably notice my voice pretty fast, and its timbre might by why people think I'm so serious all the time.

Books: _Cat's Cradle_ by Kurt Vonnegut, though I haven't read it in a while. My favorite novel of the past few years is _The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay_. I reread the _Prydain Chronicles_ by Lloyd Alexander recently, and they're still pretty awesome even after 15 years. Eilonwy was my first crush. I'm currently reading Infinite Jest, and while it's kinda overwritten, it's also brilliant and compassionate and sincere in all the best sort of ways.

For nonfiction, I'm pretty enthralled by books on the intersection of technology and law--Lawrence Lessig, Tim Wu, Jonathan Zittrain stuff.

Movies: Dr. Strangelove, Wall-E, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Also, Real Genius is awesome.

TV shows: On balance, I think TV is better than movies these days. Specifically, Firefly and Futurama are way up there. I've come to like middlebrow cable shows a whole lot, even as I'm disappointed that Burn Notice seems to be declining a bit.

Music: The Decemberists, Wye Oak, The New Pornographers, The Shins, Andrew Bird, Jonathan Coulton, They Might Be Giants, Mike Doughty, The Mynabirds.

Library card. (And the library itself is also an important part of this equation.)

Technology and the Internet.

Concertgoing.

I'm quite fond my car, though I could do without it if I really had to. We've become more attached after it got me to and from Buffalo, and now Minnesota.

Minneapolis vs. Astoria.

Politics.

Creativity and my attempts to engage in it.

In that vein, I wrote a sonnet for a zombie as part of an online contest. I think it went rather well, and it wasn't nearly as difficult as I had imagined.

Also, I've been wondering whether my explanations of the formal logic OKC questions ("If some men are doctors and some doctors are tall") are helpful/endearing or pedantic/obnoxious. I'd actually welcome some feedback on this matter.

Doing some variation of the stuff described in this profile. (Hopefully not reading Internet law books, although that's probably where I'm headed if I end up going to law school.)

A disproportionately high number of my insights into human relationships come, directly or indirectly, from Dan Savage's podcast.

You don't mind losing to me at Scrabble even after you've bragged in your profile about being really good at it.

You think irony is fun but sincerity is better.

Also, I match up well with Joss Whedon fans, both because of the shared interest (I like Joss Whedon, too!) and maybe something also about feminism and humanism and philosophy.