for the past few years since college i've been kicking around NY taking a lot of different jobs from writing political op/eds to assisting a photographer and building his studio, building and designing sets, playing in a band for musicals, working in a sign-making shop.

i spend a lot of time thinking, reading. i wouldn't say i'm outgoing, though at times i can be. for the most part i'm quiet and fairly intense, always thinking, probably too much. i'm really loyal, patient, gentle, curious. i usually have so many questions at any given moment. i research things i get interested in. i love to learn about religions, history, physics. i don't have cable, which doesn't bother me except that i really miss the history channel and discovery channel.

Justice is something i think about a lot; or, injustice is something i have a difficult time accepting and it's probably the one thing that can really anger me. I'm easy going until i feel like something unjust has happened to me or someone i care about.

i love to sail, ski, hike. i went to school in Vermont and i miss the mountains, so i haven't been hiking or skiing in a bit. but i try to sail as often as i can.

i'm also trans male. i'm very comfortable with that, maybe even ecstatic about that, but it makes clarity of identity in this world, and on this site, difficult. Thus I identify as trans male and gynecophilic (attracted to females, mostly).

i'm going to go to law school within the next year or two and get a joint JD and either MA or PhD in political science.

otherwise, i don't know; trying to find something. i'm in transition right now (in a lot of ways) and currently searching for a job that i can be more serious about. i think i'm looking for a lot of things that i can be more serious about.

there have been so many choices that it's been hard to sort through. i don't want to just go to law school, i want to be involved in the theater world set designing and playing in the orchestra pit, i want to be involved in photography and visual art.

music, guitar, bass, violin, set design, carpentry, political science, writing; being patient, listening, hugs

i'm not sure. maybe that i look 15.

Books:it can't happen here, the sun also rises, lincoln's melancholy

Movies: 2001 space odyssey, the godfather, home alone

Music: brian wilson, beach boys, leonard bernstein, jazz, classical, the strokes, weezer, no doubt

Food: this one's not going to earn me points with anyone - i'm a picky eater. maybe i should say what I don't like - seafood, most vegetables, indian food, spicy and hot food.

a few years ago i would have been able to write 6 things here, but today only two things come to mind: a pen and paper.

...where i am; what the present is; i probably spend too much time thinking about the past; i think about time itself a lot; what is just; politics and the current administration's foreign policy; depression and mental disorders; gender/sex/identity/humanity; i spend a lot of time thinking about the question why

maybe at a bar, maybe home writing or reading

if i seem interesting enough to talk to; if you're not scared of silence or of someone who can be pretty quiet; if you're smart and can handle intensity; if you're an artist or actor or creative individual; if you're outgoing