I like:

...expensive beer and cheap coffee.
...people, but not parties.
...my own company, but I'd rather kick it with you.
...sci-fi and horror movies.
...Thanksgiving.
...groomers (I'm from the East; I just fall right over in powder and usually make a noise like, "aagggaaggHHHHaaagggHHH" when I do).
...cooking big meals for lots of people.
...hope.
...tattoos.
...believing that things, situations, and people are better than everyone else thinks they are (I think it's called optimism).
...speaking French.
...going to the movies by myself.
...communication theory.
...live music.
...metal.
...real hip-hop.

I don't really like:

...bigotry, small-mindedness, intolerance, judgment, gossip.
...cynicism.
...turnips. and beets. ugggggh fuck beets.
...country music.

Farming, knitting, sewing, quilting, volunteering, cooking, enjoying happiness, loving friends, skiing intermediately, snowboarding badly, riding my bike around Cap Hill, getting up early, going to bed late.

...speaking French, pulling weeds (Seriously, I'm really good at pulling weeds. Don't sweat the technique), bringing people together, and making them feel cared for and appreciated.

I'm really bad at...getting-to-know-you games, staff meetings, mingling, small talk. This is classic introvert stuff. I hear the President has the same issues.

As Mos Def would say, "Ass so phat you can see it from the front..."

Books: A Study in Scarlet, The Idiot, World War Z

Movies: La Haine, Little Miss Sunshine

Music: The Beastie Boys, Binary Star, Barrington Levy, Black Milk, Burial, Cannibal Ox, Cat Power, Chet Baker, Cities Aviv, Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire, Company Flow, Death Grips, The Decemberists, De La Soul, Diamond District, Earth, Elliott Smith, El-P, Explosions in the Sky, Eyehategod, Fugazi, Flying Lotus, Gangstarr, Garnett Silk, Gaza, Helmet, Hieroglyphics, Iron and Wine, Juggaknots, Kimya Dawson, KRS, Little Dragon, Lone, Minus the Bear, Modill, Morrissey, Mos Def, Mr. Lif, Murs, My Bloody Valentine, Nosaj Thing, Okkervil River, Open Mike Eagle, A Perfect Circle, Pixies, Prefuse 73, The Roots, Run DMC, Shabazz Palaces, Silversun Pickups, Sleater-Kinney, Slick Rick, Slum Village, The Smiths, Stereolab, The Sundays, sunn O))), Sunny Day Real Estate, Tanya Morgan, Tarentel, THEESatisfaction, This Will Destroy You, TOOL, A Tribe Called Quest, Violent Femmes, Woodsman, Yes.

Food: Indian, Italian, Middle Eastern. I love stuffed food: arepas, calzones, dumplings, empanadas, gyoza, panzerotti, pasties, pierogies, pockets, pupusas, ravioli, runzas, shumai, spanikopita, stromboli, turnovers, wonton, etc. Please let me know if there is a stuffed food I've missed.

gmail, public transportation, live music, movies, an alarm clock or morning wake-up device, my parents

...the future, romance, travel, communication styles, personalities, my childhood.

Sewing and listening to the live broadcast of the longest-running underground hip hop radio show in the country. Seriously, this is actually what I do every Friday night. You're welcome to join, but you have to bring your own craft project.

I can't swim.

You are interested in meeting a genuinely nice person. :)