If I were being pithy, I would describe myself as the product of a Southern/Midwestern upbringing and over-education. If I were being more honest, I would say that ontology follows from epistemology: who I am is determined by how and what I know. The fact that this is my more "honest" articulation may be revealing.

A hedonist with a healthy sense of absurdity, I enjoy amusement and diversion. My best friend claims that I enjoy anything that other people are excited about and that I don't have to subsidize monetarily. This is not precisely charitable, but it probably isn't totally inaccurate either.

I love hot and intelligent guys. That may be shallow. Entertain me. Think with me. Charm me. If we can do all of those things, we will get along like a house on fire.

I'm a graduate student at UPenn.

I don't like to brag. Probably not the things that I would like to imagine.

I have no idea. I'm not other people noticing me.

Update: People say: eyes, ears (it hurts my heart), smile, and what my mama gave me.

Music: Dance Hall; Trip-Hop; Pop.

Food: Spicy Food (especially Mexican); Spanish Tapas; comfort food; dairy; Italian; other people's cooking; pizza (if I am tipsy).

TV:Vampire Diaries; Game of Thrones; Cougar Town (I burn with shame.); Avatar: The Last Airbender; Scrapped Princess.

Movies: Children of Men, Pan's Labyrinth; Big Trouble, Little China (again with the burning shame), Willow; Practical Magic (sensing a theme?); Mysterious Skin.

Authors: Hannah Arendt, Steven Erikson; Patrick Rothfuss; Neil Gaiman; R. Scott Bakker; Tad Williams; Brandon Sanderson; Robert Jordan; George RR Martin; JRR Tolkien; Nietzsche; Terry Pratchchett; Jim Butcher; N.K. Jemisin; Nnedi Okorafor.

How to become a self-moving soul.

Pursuing diverse diversions in an endless quest for satiation. // Thwarting my enemies. // Being renewed by friendship. // Living the life of the mind.

Power is hot.

If you are gay/bi guy, live in Philadelphia, of reasonable intelligence, of reasonable attractiveness, under the age of 35, and over the age of 21.