I never take anything seriously if I can take it as a joke. The only things I really enjoy doing are having long conversations, seeing live music, and eating really good food. I'm just some geeky guy looking for love in all the wrong places.

Sitting in front of my computer until they give me a Ph.D. I've given up on wanting to change the world, now I just want to change my life for the better. I'd like to become a professor someday, but that could be problematic unless I start getting better ideas (and work ethic).

Conversation. I'm actually quite skilled at bar talk. That's why I make a good first date (you'll probably be disappointed in the rest).

Self-deprecation. Though oddly enough I don't like it when people make fun of me. I'm all like, "that's my job!"

Self-aware textual references. Don't tell me not to reference my songs within my songs (if you recognize that quote you really should message me).

Those other two things I said I enjoy? I'm not particularly good at either. I mean I'm not bad at eating, but cooking. I'm actually OK at that I just don't do it enough. And I could be good at the guitar but I don't practice enough (so much fun to play though). And nobody would ever, ever pay to hear me sing (actually not true. I was in a musical in high school, and I think we sold tickets to that. Had a solo and everything.)

Insomnia. Or alternatively, operating on very little sleep. I can't do it as well as I used to for just everyday things, but I'm still great at it if it is some special occasion. Sleep deprivation is actually like super fun when you're doing something different because it's like free drugs.

MATLAB (lol). I'm good at fixing people's computer problems, but I'm also pretty sick of doing that at this point. I did that professionally for a while, and it was probably a mistake to stop considering my drop in income, but I just couldn't take it anymore.

Um let's see, I'm good at bringing my groceries home by bike?

My lack of giving a fuck. I also have big glasses, but I don't always wear those. Sometimes my beard, but the length of that comes and goes depending on my mood (keep reading my profile if you want to hear more about my beard).

I also have a few really good t-shirts. I was really trying to perfect the t-shirt-and-jeans look for a while. I've even designed a few, but they are all so incredibly geeky I would never show them to a girl.

Catch 22, Zen Without Zen Masters, Illuminatus, Principia Discordia, Fight Club, Koyaanisqatsi, I don't know what you mean by shows (if it's tv then bleh), Amanda Palmer, Radiohead, Oasis, The New Pornographers, Ratatat, The Clash, NOFX, Gillian Welch, Indian, Thai, free food (lol grad student)

My mac, my phone, my credit card, six things is a lot I'm done. I don't know, does my lack of possessions count as a thing I can't do without? If so then I can't do without having very little. I would have said my beard a couple weeks ago, but I had to shave it for my Halloween costume. I did start growing it back immediately, however.

How to get to sleep. It's 12:04 now, and I started trying at 11. Not sure this is helping.

I also think that I should be meditating more which is like the opposite of what you should do since meditation is about clearing your mind, so that is pretty counterproductive.

I often wonder what I should do with my hair. I think I got my Mom's father's genes, because I have a nice full head of hair. I'll grow it long and think it looks nice, then buzz it down and think it looks nice. I guess it's good that I'm not going to go bald anytime soon, but I really don't know what I should do with it. I do the same thing with my beard (yes, I'm talking about my beard again), but I think I've decided it looks best fairly short. Maybe I should just go to a barber.

I'm supposed to be thinking about economics, but anyone who knows anything about grad school will understand how little I think about that.

Talking my friends ears off. I'm always the last one to get tired, and am like super self-concious that I'm over staying my welcome. Alternatively, sitting at home alone waiting for Saturday.

I moved across the country for really no good reason. Might not have been the smartest thing to do, but I'm staying. Besides, if I go any further west the housing gets way more expensive. And past that I hit the ocean.

I didn't have a bed for three years and instead slept on the floor. It was actually nice, but peer pressure eventually got to me. I've also lived without a car in suburban hell for the last two and a half years, but I'm going to have to give up on that soon because it is just getting ridiculous.

I'm also willing to admit just about anything about myself if you ask, but not on the Internet.

If you can take a joke. If you like neurotic, self-doubting men who were raised neither Jewish nor Catholic. If you want to see someone say, "Oh, I'll only have 3 beers," then finish a 20 pack. If you like yelling at the politicians on the TV. If you enjoy joining cults that are in on the joke. If you like someone that will see how many times he can use the same sentence structure before getting bored. If you think it's as hilarious as I do that I first took a quiz on this site in 2005 and am only now getting around to filling out my profile (it's 2012 for the record). If you like paragraphs that are way too long and need to be broken up by whitespace.