I'm a progressive. I'm a vegetarian. I believe in single-provider health care, the abolishment of the death penalty, and consensus building. I can't stand cars and love bicycles. I compost. I believe that we all have a civic duty to each other and our communities. I volunteer time for and spend money on causes I believe in. I think Libertarians are irresponsible tools.

I work hard to be empathic, and I maintain relationships with people that disagree with me. I'm still trying to understand why a childhood friend voluntarily served two tours in Iraq.

I'm a romantic, but in the Gatsby sort of sense rather than the Danielle Steel one. I think "Wonder Boys" is one of the greatest films ever.

I'm not religious about anything. I like the gnostic idea that the serpent was the good force. I think gender stereotypes ruin all the fun.

I'm an existentialist. This does not mean that I see the world as some sort of horrible, meaningless mechanical progression of physics. Instead, I see it as an amazing, meaningless, and beautiful canvas on which we layer even more beautiful and amazing meaning.

I believe in responsibility. I have a dog, and I want kids some day. At the same time, I hope I never really grow up. Peter Pan all the way. I don't ever want a two-car garage, or a white picket fence. I don't want to be a patriarchical, father-knows-best asshole. Life is messy and fucked up and imprecise and I love it that way.

Trying to help bridge the digital divide.

And the first one tore a picture / Of a dead and hanging man / Who was kissing foreign fishes / That flew right out from this hands / And when I put my arms around him / I felt the blushing blood run through my cheeks / And an eeriness surrounded when his tongue began to speak / And he said...Oh boy you are so pretty / Enough to wrap tight in rice-paper string... / And when I finally kissed him the whole world began to ring

Wattage.

When I'll be able to run again.

Microcredit.

I want to have Kimya Dawson's baby.

You help people. You do something you're passionate about. If you've figured out how to do both of these in equal measure at the same time, I'm jealous.

You're queer and/or poly. You're okay with the fact that I already have a primary partner (the insanely yummy simplyhessler).