I am very introspective when not actively focusing on anything, and quiet unless I have something meaningful to say - but if you have my focus you have all of my attention.

I have to express myself every now and then or I don't feel right, just happens to come in the form of writing, and I turn that into art, maybe poetry or just a short story to try and describe an emotionally or ideally significant event I had, so that'd be my form anyhow, or just listening to a meaningful song.

I enjoy exploring things. Camping! I come alive in a very awesome way camping or being around forests, but more importantly, forests that I know. I can't stress this enough, I think I might have been a pathfinder or something in a past life, I really love the forest/woods. ---- pathfinding. ------

I frigging love jamming out, for music is the power to transform everything. I have spent most of my life immersing myself in different languages and culture!

I really enjoy good anime..

I think a better way of saying I like open minds is more akin to saying I like people who are always willing to learn - I like to enjoy my life rhythmically and have good, deep conversation...if you like festivals, or anime conventions, or raves, YOU ARE AWESOME AND WE SHOULD TOTALLY HANG AT SAID EVENTS. lol

I've been strangely obsessed with certain languages my entire life, since I can remember. Maybe I spoke them at one point or another and got knocked on the head in this life or the next and just don't remember. (I'm talking since age 12 or something.) Anyhow, most of the time, strangely, I realize I can pronounce said languages perfectly without trying, which weirds me out, but it basically means I have a lot of work to do in terms of learning grammar and vocabulary and that can be tricky. I am currently studying Russian. French is coming along as well, due to school and my textbooks being saturated in it, etc.

Self-summaries are silly, so if you have any real questions for me, ask away!

Chef school. (Le Cordon Bleu) My passion is creating food that people find delicious, and fulfills them nutritionally. My specialty at the moment (as I'm still a fourth of a way through the academy) is taking your average 'grilled cheese and tomato soup'/etc (whatever home-style feel-good food you can think of) and turning it bomb-ass. Learning some pretty cool and complicated/time consuming recipes and techniques to make some more "rich" dishes now, though. ;)

Management.. When the shit hits the fan I am usually the dude giving people directions or dealing with said situation first. I believe in the quote "power is best in the hands of those who do not seek it" or however that goes, anyway.

Listening. I have been told I am a superb listener and that I come from a time when conversations were TWO way streets. I genuinely listen where others pretend and I seek to fulfill and satisfy in every way.

Greatly depends on the person's mind. I don't know. I look "concentrated" to a lot of people. This translates to angry-looking, or cold/aggressive, but I am just thinking or focused and I don't mean to intimidate or make anyone uncomfortable, I actually love to laugh A LOT, any chance I get. Such is the key to long life.

Anything 'mythopaedic'

[Music]

• Power Metal,
• Operatic Metal,
• Thrash Metal
• Doom Metal,
• Death Metal,
• Folk Metal,
• Operas,
• Classical Music,
• Freestyle/Latin Hip-Hop,
• Industrial Music,
• Trance Music,
• Folk Music, (Turkish, Russian, Saami, et al)
• Accordion Music, (French & Russian)
• Trance Music, (Electronica)
• Vocal Music, (Singing!)
• Gothic Rock Music, and
• Etheral Wave Music.

[Movies]

• Lola Rennt
• Der Himmel über Berlin
• City of God
• Girl, Interrupted
• The Godfather I
• The Godfather II
• The Godfather III
• My Boy Jack
• Terminator 2
• Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
• What Dreams May Come
• Beauty and the Beast
• Clerks
• Lévres de Sang
• Avatar
• Gran Torino
• Grave of the Fireflies

[Books]
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
• Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
• God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
• Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
• Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert
• La Diva Nicotina by Ian Gately
• Enchiridion of Epictetus by Arrian
• Friday by Robert Heinlein
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
• The Prophet Kalil Gibran
• The Elder and Poetic Eddas by Snorri Snorulson
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prison of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
• TEXAS by James Michener

•1. Continuous readiness to learn and explore.
•2. Rare Moments of Joy that come every Now and Then.
•3. Books - I have one or two going at a time.
•4. Stories - Oral, Talking to Myself O.o
•5. Wind/Communication/Creativity/MUSIC!/Culture.
•6. The Moon - and the light it casts.

I try to focus on what I am doing when I am doing it.

Out and About! Or not? There's a time to throw the backpack on and hit the street I guess. You just gotta go. Then the're times when you need to be alone, wrap up & take care of yourself. Sometimes I'll even go camping! It's all up to the balance of things.

I was a Barney kid, not a Sesame Street kid.

•You like the feeling you get after having a really long, insightful and deep conversation.

•You're a cool gal who's somewhat-confident in yourself, (we all go through shit from time to time) and would like to meet a guy who takes his time and is real.

•Shoot me a message even if you just want a new friend to talk with!