Do I really have to write this out? I'm horrible at essays! I can't write on this sort of thing, even if it's about me! Even I don't know myself that well :-P Well, I guess this is a start. Better than nothing, eh?

What am I? Jeez, I dunno. Do you know? Damn.

I guess I'll start out with, hmm, who I am. Name's Connor, pleased t'meet ya! I'm a current student at CBU studying Mechanical Engineering, which basically requires me to be a nerd. I've lived in this God-forsaken city of Memphis, TN all my life. I wish I could get out, but then I'd be afraid of places unfamiliar, a fear that stems mostly from a food allergy (ask me about it, if you want.) Quite a predicament, right? However, Nashville looks promising. I wouldn't mind moving there after school.

I graduated from MUS and my current education is basically paid for. Am I spoiled? Hell if I would know! I don't try to think I am. I know there are better people, richer people, more enjoyable people out there. Sometimes I'm called modest, but I think it's really just me being less concerned with myself and more concerned about my friends. I'm not out to impress anyone; that's not the road I take to gain new friends. I prefer being me and if that turns you off, well, you're no friend of mine.

I don't like big groups. I prefer hanging in smaller groups, because it gives me a better chance of getting to know someone better. I tend to be shy at first (I'm working on that, though). Stupid social anxiety.

I'm sure there's a lot more about me that I've yet to mention, but really it'd be best to IM me to find out more. Or use a mind reading machine, though I hear that they have shitty reception.

Anyone else get some satisfaction from accidentally clicking an ad, but then, with cat-like reflexes, you click the link you intended to BEFORE the ad site loads? Ah, makes me feel warm or something inside.

I like to make people laugh. Laughing is healthy! But sometimes my humor can be twisted, so just go with it.

I'm studying to be a Mechanical Engineer. Hopefully I'll end up doing something with cars. Also, my major has an unspoken requirement that I become a math nerd. Ugh. Wanna see? Calculus I -> Calculus II -> Differential Equations -> Calculus III -> Probability -> two more semesters of math.
Yeah, damn.

I just want to get a job I enjoy and that pays enough so that I can live comfortably. American dream, right? I can still hope...right?

I'm also hoping to become fluent in German and its dialects. Well, at least know Berlinisch and be able to read Plattdüütsch and maybe a little Dutch while I'm at it.

And thanks to an unforeseen gift, I shall definitely be going to Germany after I graduate, either for three months (if I'm alone) or for a full year (if I can get someone to come with.)

I'm good at a number of seemingly unrelated things.

I think.

I'm pretty good at most anything hands-on. [that's what she said]
I'm have a horrible habit of saying "that's what she said", but not always aloud, to the great relief of my friends.
I'm damn good at driving not like an asshole. :-D No wrecks (except that one time this kid backed into me in a parking lot. How the hell do you not see a sunshine yellow truck?!)
I'm a pretty good listener, or so my friends [are forced to] say.
I have a pretty good knowledge of cars and their inner workings, in particular, suspension systems and how springs and damper work in relation to each other and to the car.
I know a lot about birds and coins (I collect coins, most evidence of my nerditude)

Um, that's all I can think about right now.

Occasionally I'll write a pretty good poem, albeit it's usually not in Modern English. I suck at poems but have my moments. Example:

O my sweete mayden,
thou hast myn hart ystolen
thy yën sparckles as the morning deaw
thy lyps more plesaunt to myn yën
then that what have I ever yseene
thy vois more cheerefull then the sparwes songe
thy smile shyneth more then the morn sunne

thy buttoks thereof shal I nat speke
nat outher thereof thy maidenhede
whylest of swich thinges to thenk
mun lede to lustyheed and unwanted sead

Ah, that's the only poem I'm proud of.

People usually notice how young I look. I've had guesses anywhere between 12 and 19 and most of those guesses are 16-18. It seems no adult can believe I'm 21. Even some of my classmates are boggled when they realize I'm older than them (usually by a good bit, too).

Other than that, they probably notice either my blue eyes or the birthmark to the right of my right eye. So if you ever see me, No, I didn't get punched in the face. Haha. People have asked me that before. I may just go with it next time. Make something up on the spot. "Yeah, I got in this scrap with this dude. Not my fault she didn't tell me it was HIS apartment." Oh, I so want to do that now.

As far as personality goes, I think people usually see the funny/comical side of me first. That's what I aim for anyways. I always like to be on a person's good side. If they're feeling down, I try to cheer them up somehow. Other times I'm quiet, particularly around new people. I'll open up if you open up, okay? Deal?

Movies:
Blazing Saddles
Kingpin
The Mothman Prophecies
Black Sheep
Tommy Boy
The Whole Nine Yards
The Bone Collector
The Exorcist
Silence of the Lambs
Scary Movie 3
Airplane! (1 & 2)
The Shining
Young Frankenstein
Frankenfish
The Green Mile
Blazing Saddles
Anchorman
Juno
The Fifth Element
Scrooged
My Cousin Vinny
Catch Me If You Can

Music:
Devildriver - Rob Zombie - Unheilig - Weird Al - Oomph! - MC Frontalot - Megaherz - Rammstein - Eric Clapton - Van Morrison - Chicago - KoRn - Tool - Godsmack - Eisbrecher - Scary Kids Scaring Kids - Chronic Future - Steriogram - Queen - Chevelle - Bleu - Five Finger Death Punch - Incubus - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dieselboy - 3OH!3 - The Goo Goo Dolls and some more...

I've read a lot into philosophy recently. No one particular book, though Bertrand Russell's "The Conquest of Happiness" was pretty good [if you're into that sort of thing.]

(In no particular order whatsoever...)

1) Friends
2) Friends
3) the internet
4) my car
5) my cellphone
6) Friends

The physics of things, how things work, an object's properties. Take me shopping and you'll probably notice me checking out . . . wait for it . . . the welds on the clothing racks. Gah, what a nerd! >_<

The occasional philosophical, existential query (such as, is what we see, what we perceive, actually there as we see it? Or is it fundamentally different for each living thing?)

Philosophical ponderings on religion. (Russell's "Why I Am Not A Christian" is a really good read! As well as his "A Free Man's Worship" essay)

Cars, cars, cars. Not just this car and that car, but the systems behind cars: suspension, engine, drivetrain, chassis rigidity, that sort of stuff, as well as certain modifications.

German vocab and linguistic relations! (According to my high school Brit. Lit. teacher, I apparently discovered Grimm's Law independently. I didn't even know there was a Grimm's Law! I was just finding relations, like (G) Fisch -> (L) pisc- )

...bored to death. Come hang with me! I won't bite!*

*(unless things progress in a direction that I was not anticipating earlier)

I have a birthmark on my face and my butt.

I can't think of anything else. I don't hide much.

you are bored out of you mind and feel like chatting and maybe getting a good laugh at what I may say. If I can get you to giggle, then my plan is working...mwahaha!

Don't be afraid either! I'm the type of person that gets giddy when someone calls or IMs me (instead of me calling or IMing them). That you want to talk to me will make me all the more happy.

If you do bother:

AIM: cojaro87