"To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due."
-Season of Mists; Neil Gaiman

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Some people didn't seem to get it before, but I AM NOT INTERESTED IN A RELATIONSHIP. If you message me with something like, 'Hey shawty, ur cute' I'm not going to reply. I'm only looking for some casual friends, if that. And that is friends-without-benefits, unless those benefits include tix to the San Diego Comiccon, a hotel room, round-trip airfare! But seriously, I'm taken folks.

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I've had an OKCupid account since I was old enough to realize that lying about your age on the internet was both easy and expected (early teens), namely because I was interested in taking all the neato quizzes.

Now I've realized that I might also be able to use OKCupid to find new friends, seeing as I'm going to college in a few states north of my high school pals. Also, I'll probably still be taking many neato quizzes in the downtime after classes.

But, just to be clear, I'm not looking for dates or hook-ups. I'm in a serious long-term relationship. OKCupid might seem a little counterintuitive for finding 'just friends' but hey, it's free, and did I mention the quizzes?

Currently attending college at NYU. I'll be in my junior year come this fall. After running myself in circles on the subject, I've come down to a major in Communications (specializing in Technology & Society). Now I've only got to sit through two more years of listening to other Comm majors, the majority of which seem to be chicks who want to talk about nothing but Gossip Girl and Sex and the City. I tend to be a black sheep of the crowd.

From a not-so-academic standpoint other things I hope to achieve in the nearish future:

- Finish Bioshock for the Xbox 360. I swear to God, when it comes to Bethesda games, I never end up finishing anything... until the DLC is announced (Fallout 3, I'm looking at you), or the second in the series (Mass Effect, oi).
- Finish watching the series Angel. Also, Six Feet Under.
- Getting into more comics. I've mostly been sticking to online comics (thank you, Zudacomics!) because they're free.
- Recovering from a World of Warcraft habit after a couple of years. Every once in a while I dream about firing up my old account, but then I realize that the game I want to play doesn't exist anymore: it's been polished over into oblivion.
- Start writing my own, serialized graphic novels. For that matter, writing more at all.
- Reading more. I love science fiction and paranormal fiction, as well as horror. Generally I'll read almost any genre, as long as it's well-written. I have a taste for non-fiction as well. If you'd like to recommend any books, feel free! I always appreciate it.

Mostly, I'm great at analyzing things, particularly plotlines and character concepts/development. I don't care if we're talking graphic novels, video games, or run-of-the-mill movies. I like picking stuff apart.

I guess I'm also 'good' at video games. Not that I have any Call of Duty 4 FPS preeminence (though I've finished the single player campaign and have enjoyed my share of online play) but I'm good at video games in the sense that anyone can be good at something they put effort into. At least I think this is my way of saying that I spend too much time with the Xbox 360 controller cradled in my hands, and I need to give myself some kind of justification.

I'm pretty decent at recognizing obscure Star Wars, American Psycho, and Lord of the Rings quotes. This is not something I am exceptionally proud of.

Well, to be pragmatic, the most obvious thing is probably my height. I'm a glamorous five-foot-nothing, and have a pretty tiny frame all around. If I'm not talking, then the next things that would get noticed are likely my (usually rather untamed) hair, and maybe a warm smile.

If I do happen to be talking, then they probably notice how horribly geeky I am. Because I'm probably chatting about a comic book character, or Dungeons and Dragons encounters, or the stats of my most recent fairy-cyborg-dragon-whatever. Or even more imaginable, contingency plans to escape Manhattan in the increasingly likely chance of a zombie outbreak (the verdict, unfortunately, is that the estimated survival rate is very low, despite my extensive personal knowledge on the subject).

None of this is in any particular order.

Books:
- The Dark Tower series by Stephen King.
- The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie.
- The Animorphs series by KA Applegate.
- World War Z by Max Brooks.
- Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loew

Comics / Graphic Novels:
- The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman.
- Lucifer Morningstar by Mike Carey.
- Batgirl: Year One by Scott Beatty and Chuck Dixon.
- The Killing Joke by Alan Moore.
- Dark Night Returns by Frank Miller.
- Knightfall by its slew of writers.
- High Moon by David Gallaher and Steve Ellis which is kept over at http://zudacomics.com/node/109.

TV Shows
- Dexter
- Battlestar Galactica
- LOST
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Six Feet Under
- The West Wing
- Angel
- Avatar: The Last Airbender

Movies
- Dawn of the Dead The 1970s one, not the awful remake.
- Pan's Labyrinth
- 28 Days Later My favorite "romantic" scene in any movie ever: not getting hatched to pieces with a machete after gouging the eyes out of some dude.
- Children of Men
- American Psycho
- The Prestige
- Hellraiser
- Tremors Oh yes.

The Internet.
Caffeine.
Videogames.
Daydreaming.
Inappropriate humor.
Mexican food.

My escape plans in the event of zombie attack. This includes 1-v-1 situations to apocalyptic doomsday scenarios.

Also what I want to be doing, career-wise, when I graduate.

Crouched in front of a screen of some sort (TV or computer), playing a game. Or, occasionally, reading or writing.

I visit the Craiglist Casual Encounters page for NYC on a regular basis, when my curiosity and infrequent masochism need to be satiated by reading some of the more bizarre listings.

And that I kept a supreme kick out of looking at my profile to see the chicas that are "similar" to me. When they are different, it almost always says that they are nicer in some way. For example: less sex driven, less greedy, more compassionate, etc. I think it's hilarious, and don't doubt it's truth. Or at least I am content with my own honesty.

You've got something more to say than "Hey what's up" and you're not interested in a date.