I'm Alexis. I'd like to think I'm spontaneous but I'm probably just indecisive. I'm very private. To me, sexual preferences and my political opinions are not private, what I really think about those around me, the things that embarrass me and my bank account balances are. I pride myself on being trustworthy and a great listener. I'm pretty easy to talk to, I try very hard not to judge, usually successfully, and once some tells me a secret, it's going to the grave. People and human nature interest me more than just about anything else. I love rock music and staying up past dawn, painting and doing laundry and then jogging several miles. I like beer and scotch and cigars. I haven't sunbathed in two years so I'm pretty fair skinned. I think before I speak. Luckily, I think quickly. My mouth doesn't usually get me in trouble. If alcohol is involved my censor slides into my stomach with my drink. Brilliant, I know. I read. A lot. I don't really like loud, crowded places, unless there's live music at those places. I live with a lovely young lady and her two very large dogs. I lived with three guys until a few months ago and before that, with three girls but when they moved out, the guys were assigned to the other bedrooms in the apartment. Two of the girls used to drive me nuts. They tried to set schedules for when we cleaned and used the washer and dryer, cooked, watched tv, etc. I don't do schedules. I sleep when I'm tired, eat when I'm hungry and clean when it's dirty. That's that. I had two rats, Layla and Penny. Yes, I named them after classic rock songs. Layla died June 2, 2009. I'm quite upset by the whole thing, as is Penny. :( Penny died October 2, 2009. I suppose 4 months was as long as she could make it.
I enjoy mind-altering substances and I don't care if that bothers you.

I'm a fifth year senior at Penn State University, working on a degree in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing and now one in Italian. I've been reading as much as I possibly can and learning to play my hand-me-down bass. I just started studying German. Languages and food are two of my favorite things. I'm considering culinary school, even though my plan was to live by my pen. Maybe I'll live by a skillet as well.

staying up really late.
wasting time.
handling physical pain.
listening.
keeping secrets.
driving in traffic.
reading quickly.
not having any kind of schedule.
wasting time.
dancing in public.
air guitar.
wasting time, especially.

I'm more under-dressed than any of my friends. That's not to say that I'm always under-dressed. I just don't see the point of wearing a nice outfit to a party or a bar or class. Or that I'm alone much of the time, which will probably get me into trouble one day. I enjoy being alone but I would lose my mind without the company of my close friends.

My all time favorite book is Lord of the Flies. I really enjoy Chuck Palahnuik's work. That obsession started only because I wanted to shove it in my friend's face when she screwed up the plots in every book besides Fight Club after she boasted about how she's read everything written by him EVER. (I'm a little spiteful.) I also like Irvine Welsh. I read Trainspotting and wanted more. I have to recommend Marabou Stork Nightmares, what a wonderful mind fuck. Italo Calvino is friggin' brilliant. I dislike Shakespeare. A lot. I really, really do not like Shakespeare. However, I have made it a goal of mine to read his complete works so my most despised English professor cannot look down on me anymore for disliking him. Yes, spite. Oh, and if you haven't read The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart, check it out.

My absolute favorite movie of all time is The Little Mermaid, closely followed by Almost Famous. Then there's Requiem for a Dream, Eternal Sunshine, Garden State, Fear and Loathing, A Boy and His Dog, American Beauty, Brick, A Clockwork Orange, Donnie Darko, Jacob's Ladder, Seven, American History X and The Machinist. I'm fairly obsessed with the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Harry Potter. It's a bit embarrassing. I have never met a horror movie I didn't like.

Music: Alice in Chains, At the Drive-In, B.B. King, The Beatles, Beck, Beethoven, Andrew Bird, Bjork, Blind Melon, Bloc Party, The Blood Brothers, David Bowie, Bright Eyes, Bush, Circa Survive, Rob Crabtree, Cream, CCR, Cursive, Dave Matthews Band, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, The Doors, Bob Dylan, Eisley, ELO, Eric Clapton, Evaline, Franz Ferdinand, Frou Frou, G. Love & Special Sauce, George Thorogood, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Grateful Dead, Incubus, Interpol, Iron & Wine, Jane's Addiction, Jefferson Airplane, Elton John, Jack Johnson, Janis Joplin, The Kinison, Led Zeppelin, The Mars Volta, mewithoutYou, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Modest Mouse, Mozart, Joanna Newsom, Nine Inch Nails, Pearl Jam, Pepper, Tom Petty, Phish, Pink Floyd, Pistolita, Pixies, Postal Service, Prince, Queen, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sigur Ros, the Shins, Simon and Garfunkel, The Smiths, Regina Spektor, Steve Miller Band, Talking Heads, Tartan Terrors, Third Eye Blind, Tool, Violent Femmes, The White Stripes, The Who, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Food: I like vegetables. Potatoes, broccoli and zucchini are my favorites. I love cheese, the more intense, the better. I like rice dishes. I love tea. I drink way too much tea. There are 11 varieties in my cupboard as I type this. I really like Indian flavors. I love spicy food. Mmm mmm mmm. I'm an ovo-lacto vegetarian. No meat for me.

I could never do without my little sisters, rock music, sex, books, a good pen and paper, and tea. In that order.

the rest of my life and what I want to do with it, human nature, my family, the afterlife and whether or not it exists, my friends, the future, my past, my deceased friends, religion and the nature of the universe.
Lately I've been thinking a lot about my experiences with drugs, drug dealers, friends (who, all too often, were the same people) and the crazy situations I've gotten myself into in the past. "They" say to write what you know so that's what I'm doing.
I spend way too much time thinking about my hair and not nearly enough time doing anything with it. I brush it every other week, if I'm lucky and I am. It rarely turns into a tangled mess.
Oh, and facial hair. I flippin' love dudes with badass facial hair. That doesn't necessarily mean that it needs to be or should be groomed but I notice a sweet beard or moustache before most other features.
Scratch that. I notice hair before most other features. A girl with amazing hair gets me going, especially if it's gloriously short or looks like it's been washed less than mine. Also, ladies that smoke when not drinking. Now I'm thinking about this too much and I'm pretty sure this whole thing doesn't belong in this section but I don't know where I should put it so it will be staying right about... here. (Shitty, shitty sentence.)
I ride the bus almost every day and have been noticing patterns of where people will sit, based on gender and race. Fascinating.
Most of the time, I'm wondering what everyone else is wondering.
Wondering. Interesting word.

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• zeben

It depends on whether it's weekend 'A' or 'B'. If it's 'A', I'm not sober. If it's 'B', I'm at work, usually cursing myself for agreeing to come in early the next morning. And after that, not sober.
The only people I regularly go out with are my closest friends in town, two guys I've known for 10+ years. How I managed to get to college and have my only close friends be some dudes I've known since middle school is beyond me. Oops.

I have 12 piercings and three tattoos.
I'm still in a pseudo-relationship with my ex. Fiddlesticks.

you're looking for a good friend.

For the love of all that is holy, do NOT message me asking if I want to fuck. It gives me the creeps. And no, sending it as a joke isn't funny. Not anymore, at least.