I like to consider myself to be a semi-interesting person, one who is kind, considerate, open minded, and laid back. My unofficial motto is "balance," though I don't mind tipping the scales in the direction of excess or deprivation now and then. I really love music, sometimes partaking in the creation of it, and going to live shows. My favorite thing to do is laugh, so I place a high value on humor, though being super funny isn't a requirement for me to be friends with people. I am highly annoyed by conceit and intolerance. Anyway, this feels like an adequate summary, so that's it for now.

Trying to figure out what to do with it, mostly. I did brief stints in graduate school (history) and law school and decided neither was my cup of tea, though it's not as if my current job is something I would like to read a book with and sip from, or provides with me the funds to purchase the finer teas that my discerning palette requires, so maybe I should have stuck with one of them. Other than that, with my life I am enjoying music, books, things that are funny, and failing at creative endeavors.

tooting my own horn, beating dead horses, playing guitar (decent, not really good), boggle, making humorous comments

I don't really have a clue. Probably that I make a bad first impression.

Books: Another Country/Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin), Crime and Punishment/Brothers Karamozov (Dostoevsky), A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole), Franny and Zooey/Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger), If On A Winter's Night A Traveler...(Italo Calvino), Sent For You Yesterday (John Edgar Wideman), Bartleby the Scrivener (Herman Melville)

Music: Tom Waits, Elliott Smith, Stephen Malkmus, Wilco, Spoon, Blackalicious, Common, The Roots, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, various blues and jazz, Parliament/Funkadelic, James Brown, anything funk, Bjork, Sigur Ros, Mogwai, Chino XL, Stars, GangStarr, Mos Def/Talib Kweli, Belle and Sebastian, Sean Lennon, Sparklehorse, Cake, Modest Mouse, Leonard Cohen, Neko Case, Nick Cave, Pavement, Pinback, Kings of Convenience, Radiohead, Bon Iver, Black Keys, Bob Dylan

Movies: I've enjoyed a lot of movies from these directors: Jim Jarmusch, Wes Anderson, Pedro Almodovar; Wayne's World,
Anchorman, Wedding Crashers, The Cable Guy, No Country For Old Men, Born Into This (Bukowski Documentary), Garden State, Requiem For A Dream, The Prestige, Pulp Fiction, Mallrats/Clerks/Jay and Silent Bob, City of God, The Shawshank Redemption, Milk

TV: Curb Your Enthusiasm, South Park, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Scrubs, Arrested Development, Entourage, 24

Food: pretty much everything, most notably Thai and brunch fare

I'll go with music, humor, at least a couple of good friends, a good book to read, a glimmer of hope for mankind, and cookies.

I spend a lot of time thinking about the future and what I would like to do with the rest of my life, and what exactly I might really enjoy doing, which has actually cost me a couple years of progress but may end up being for the best. We shall see. At work I think a lot about episodes of Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, or South Park and chuckle to myself in my cubicle to help get through the drudgery.

typical things, shooting pool sometimes, at home reading or watching a movie. Preferably watching a good live music show, whenever possible.

You think we might get along.