I'm a long time college student looking to get out of college as soon as I can. Kind of a nerd, shy, anxious, nice enough, and I have a number of tastes I can't really afford, like single malt scotch, expensive beer, videogames, collecting books and other things for which it would be great to have disposable income.

In college at PSU, but getting tired of it, so I'm trying to get through asap. I love studying architecture, but I have lost patience with the architecture program here, so I just want a degree of any sort. Maybe after I get out and work for a couple years I'll find a graduate program and become an architect, but for now, I'd just like a steady, dull-ish sort of job that could allow me to live my quiet little life in at least reasonable comfort. Want kids someday, but not today, not tomorrow either. And not with you. No offense, it's just I kind of already have that locked down.

Videogames, I guess? I like writing genre fiction, and I think I'm pretty good at it, but I have mostly had biased critics. I'm pretty good at baking, I think. And charcoal drawing, though it's so messy i don't do it much. Photography, I think. I'm NOT good at saying I'm good at things.

Maybe my shirt? Or my beard? I'm beardy. They notice pretty quickly that I don't talk much, at least not until I get to know someone very well. Or I have a few drinks in me, then I'm a proper chatterbox.

Mervyn Peake is my favorite author. He wrote the Gormenghast trilogy. I also quite enjoy China Mieville, Iain Banks, William Gibson and Alan Moore. I'm also enjoying George RR Martins fantasy series, though I've been taking my time with it and haven't finished the last book yet. Oh, and I love Alice In Wonderland. I have a copy of it illustrated by Mervyn Peake, which is one of my prized possessions. Oh, and also Lovecraft.

I enjoy movies, though I don't generally like going to the theatre. I really like Citizen Kane, but I hate Casablanca. I like Hitchcock movies, Kubrick movies, Cronenberg movies, Guillermo Del Toro movies, and older John Carpenter movies. I like horror movies (YellowBrickRoad, Let The Right One In, Lake Mungo, The Innkeepers and Pontypool are a few of my recent favorites), scifi movies (District 9, Alien/s/3 and Moon are some of my favorites), thrillers (Vertigo, The Machinist, First Snow), and lots of others. I generally don't much go for comedies, with a few exceptions (Dr. Strangelove, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz).

On television, though, I do often like comedy. I think comedy works best with strong characters, and I think television shows can give characters enough time to grow in more interesting ways than movies. I love Parks and Recreation, 30 Rock, The Daily Show, Trailer Park Boys, and Futurama (possibly my favorite tv show.) I also like shows like Fringe, A Game of Thrones, Doctor Who, Eureka, Torchwood, BSG, Lost, most of The X-Files, The Wire, Dexter, and Carnivale (another contender for favorite show ever). I don't watch broadcast television, though, I got spoiled by Netflix and now I can't handle commercials.

I hate music.

I enjoy food. Most kinds of food. Not a huge Thai food fan, but I could be convinced. I am a sucker for weird candy and soda, so I have to try every freaky variant on Mt. Dew, despite never enjoying any of them, even regular MT. Dew. I like Viso energy drinks when I want to get my jitter on.

I also love videogames. I think they are the most exciting new storytelling medium around, and storytelling is my favorite thing that people do. To list a few: Mass Effect Trilogy (it ended fine, I think), The Elder Scrolls, Deus Ex, Marathon, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Katamari Damacy, Chrono Trigger/Cross, Portal/2, Bordelands, Psychonauts, Minecraft, Burnout, Civilization, Persona, Silent Hill, Bioshock/2, Pathologic, Saints Row 2/3. Played Warcraft for a few years, and was pretty good at it, but I don't right now.

My brain, my skin, my heart, my blood, my liver and sarcasm.

But I am fairly attached to my laptop, my cats (2) my books, a pen, a notebook, and a city in which to live.

Sex, stories, architecture, video games, weather, books, anxieties about money and school and health, hedonism as a philosophical approach to life, stoicism as same, Buddhism, science and animals.

Typically, at home, playing videogames or reading or watching something. On some Friday nights I will go out drinking with friends, or playing boardgames with friends, or just hanging out with friends. I will almost certainly never be doing homework on a Friday night.

I think porn is not given sufficient credit for its potential as an art form (I like porn), I usually play videogames on easy, given the option, though I am almost always capable of doing just fine on higher difficulties. Sometimes I pretend to have read things that I haven't. I like sex and think I am fairly good at it, particularly with my hands. I have moderate to severe generalized anxiety disorder, for which I take Paxil every day (when I don't forget) and Xanax for panic attacks (when I do).

OH! I'm also married. I just noticed I didn't mention that here. Happily married. She's on here somewhere to. We're monogamish? Poly? Open? Something like that, I suck at terminology.

You think I sound likable, interesting, or pitiable enough to get to know me better.