I am soft-spoken, playful, and conscientious.
My Self-Summary
I enjoy watching children laughing in the rose garden, or, that
failing, in the local park.
Not much beats firing up the grill for eggplant, mushrooms,
peppers, and onions on a summer's evening with friends and a Twins
game in the background.
I like front porches and cold beer (in moderation.)
A painting by Botticelli is the only image gracing my bedroom wall.
My garden runs riot.
What I’m doing with my life
As little as they'll let me get away with. I am relishing not
wearing green and breathing burning trash. I'm working as a law
clerk in rural Minnesota right now, but am in the St. Paul area
most weekends and plan to return around the end of 2009.
I’m really good at
Land navigation. Day-dreaming. Baking cracked wheat bread and
chocolate chip cookies. Wandering down city streets.
Things I am not necessarily good at, but enjoy:
bowling, singing, canoeing, hiking, ice-skating, pool, gardening,
running, shuffleboard, poetry, baking other kinds of bread.
The first things people usually notice about me
my penchant for wool sweaters and flannel shirts.
My favorite books, movies, music, and food
(a) Doctor Faustus (
Mann &
Goethe),
Gilead, Venture of Islam, Systematic
Theology (
Tillich), Law's Empire (
Dworkin),
Auden and T.S. Eliot, most of the Old
Testament prophets (especially
Hosea & Isaiah), and just about the
entirety of the early work of
Hofmannsthal I also just started
reading the Romantic poets seriously; I've really been enjoying
them.
(b) Heaven, Andrei Rublev, Last Days of Sophie Scholl, The
Decalogue, Office Space, Fanny & Alexander, Idiocracy &
Ran.
(c)
innocence mission,
pixies,
Mozart,
Laura Veirs,
Jeremy Messersmith,
Bach are pretty good examples
of music I enjoy. I have no real sophistication in music, but would
like to acquire some.
(d) Ice cream (vanilla with strawberries), cookies & beer. One
of my friends once told me I have the diet of a seven year old.
Italian & cheap, greasy Mexican from just about any taco stand
on East Seventh does the trick too.
The six things I could never do without
I've done without everything but food (and not much of that), sleep
(less of that than food), water, air, a little clothing, and a
weapon. Even in those circumstances, transcendance bleeds through
around the edges and bursts forth from the center. It's awfully
nice though to have pancakes, coffee shops, a furnace, a ping pong
table, and a mattress, though.
I spend a lot of time thinking about
Political philosophy - providing a Christian ethic to undergird
liberal morality - I find both Rawls and Calvin fairly persuasive.
Possiblity of a goat in the backyard. The desirability of owning a
Kosovo Harley. Future of St. Paul, the US, and the world. The books
I read.
You should message me if
you'd like or caught the reference in the "username" I chose. Or if
you think the Heights Theater is pretty damn cool and
underappreciated. Honestly, you probably could do and have done
worse.