My Self-Summary.

An introspective daydream.

Never finished.

Observe: If you look to your right in "The Skinny" under "looking for" I clicked off "new friends". I am not opposed to making new friends, but that is not what I am looking for. I am The Playboy after all and this is a dating website. Notice how I did not alter the "activity partners" status. Why? Double entendre, maybe. While we're on the topic of The Skinny, I identify myself as an SNG or Skinny Nerdy Guy. That's right I just made an acronym. How many other profiles have you come across that either start with a haiku or introduce an acronym in the first paragraph?

Addendum: If you stalk me, expect me to return in kind. If we stalk each other, though I may forget and stalk you back anyway. All usage of the word 'stalk' is in the OKC sense of the word, not as per the dictionary.

I like My Self-Summary; it provides me with a medium for expressing my examined life. I grow and evolve, so too does my profile, as neither I nor my profile are static.

I enjoy the woo function, it acts as a rewooable source of "hi." It's often filler for when I would like to have something to communicate but I don't know how or what I want to express except that there is something.

You should click on the following: inteligent, intelectual, grammer and music.

I am prone to notions of romance and hopelessness, when I am not busy capriciously acting like my Dating Persona of The Playboy, which is attributable to personal experience in conjunction with an avaricious consumption of reading and movies. I heuristically adopted the maxim that I am stuck somewhere between hopeless and romantic.

I go out of my way to be kind, yet I actively avoid the epithet of nice guy. I consider myself a good person based on my actions, however I have been known to provide a repartee when provoked, annoyed, or presented with the opportunity. Both friends and ex-lovers have characterized me as one of the more thoughtful people they have known.

The only New Year's resolution I have abided by is "A random act of kindness 1/day." Mind you I sometimes miss out, but I really put forth effort, which I have practiced since 2004.

I have a mischievous streak in me and I act on it. The results are quite innocuous and always funny to me, and often for the recipient (in retrospect at least).

I am a person person, not a people person.

I can be contentious almost to a fault, but once I am proven wrong I am a gracious not winner.

I can be ever so charming, and then I open my mouth.

I make mistakes which I learn and grow from. I am a proud person who makes lots of mistakes.

I take comedy seriously.

I tend to approach emotions from a logical and rational perspective, and then act on them.

I have been and am an outsider amongst the outsiders, a rogue amongst rogues, but I have made some good friends along the way. This holds true for me since age 7.

I must sound like a fortune cookie because if you attach 'in bed' to anything between my "observation" and here it works in a sentence and to hilarious effect, though it completely alters what I intended to say and is sometimes not true. The bulk of my profile was written well before I observed the fortune cookie phenomenon. Hence at one point I took this self summary/profile earnestly, and with this observation I have thusly transmogrified it into a long running sex joke, which perhaps is, in some odd way, a metaphor for my life.

I have a bad habit of speaking my mind. I also tend to state what I perceive as obvious to people who would rather remain oblivious.

You will be hard-pressed to find someone as inconsistent with respect to answering the phone as I am.

I took a long time writing a procrastination test. You should take it when you get around to it.

I am an INTP. I am much more extroverted now than I was 5-10 years ago. The change has been a conscious decision. 3-5 years ago I decided to develop my F function. I still don't know how I feel about it. An earlier version of my profile included various characteristics of the INTP verbatim--I used to think I was original in my outlook on life, but then I read the INTP profile and have amended it to people like me are just few and far between.

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My ultimate goal in life is to be happy, should I fail, then I will only be content. Should I succeed I will then attempt to spread happiness to others.

I refuse to give a straightforward answer. An obvious answer might be higherer education, career pursuits, or some such that might have a monetary value associated with it. The aforementioned is in motion or has not yet transpired or completely manifest. Regardless they remain tertiary to my ultimate goals. In the meantime I embrace hedonism.

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subverting Republicans

freaking out the norms.

exemplifying Murphy's Law and Finagles's Corollary.

letting go (I am trying anyway).

taking in strays.

getting funny looks.

connectivity.

walking into walls even with my glasses on.

skirting the edge of danger.

making cats smile.

being disarmingly charmingly awkward.

I am the messiest eater I have met. My food is problematic.

meaning what I say, but getting it wrong anyway.

getting seduced.

living up to my dating persona of Playboy?!

learning a new word daily.

people watching. OKC is another place for it, but here I am labeled a stalker.

zugzwang entrapment.

riding my bike w/o the use of my hands. I can navigate a round-about in moderately heavy traffic w/o using my hands.

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I have had several questions asked of me that fluster me: They are "are you having fun," "are you for real" and "where are you from?" The answers are: Yes and no, but I feel introverted and would be happier alone; I am complex, it's a math joke; Bay Area.

A fundamentalist proselytizing Christian observed that I am a "brimstone genital wart." Really though I am an "atheist brimstone genital wart for Jesus" without the brimstone, genital warts or Jesus.

By the time you get to this section you have presumably seen my pics, your first impression of me has, in all likelihood, already been determined. So rather than addressing something that will convey nothing new to you I will proffer some things people notice about me that cannot or have not been expressed via picture.

I have been described as "clumsy in a cute way" and "adorkable."

I have received a few compliments about my physical person that I did not expect. I have been told "I have a lovely bone structure", presumably the bones of my face. I have been told I have cute feet, especially for a guy. I was once complimented on my eyelashes. I once had a girl grab my arm and she asked why guys always flex when girls touch their arms, I responded by flexing, she turned a nice shade of red. Several have observed that I am "stronger than I look," which totally reassures me that I need to eat steroids, thanks.

The first thing people notice about my voice is that it is different. I have a unique inflection in my voice. I am frequently asked where I hail from. People offer various countries and accents, yet never seem to agree, and their observed incongruity leads me to conclude that I have an original accent. No one sounds like me and I do not quite sound like any one. Update-I apparently say "hi" very distinctly.

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My favorite (a)words (b)original phrase (c)color (d)numbers (e) word learned from an OKC profile (f)colloquialism (g)festival

(a) callipygian, tergiversate, defenestrate, spoonerism, lascivious, licentious, sui generis, nonchalant, sesquipedalian, autological (b) coherence is inversely related to consumption (c) green (d) 20.49 & (5^(1/2)+1)aka phi (e) osculate (f) hella/hella much I am a NorCal native, it's hella much ingrained within my vocabulary. (g) Burning Man

Stuff I have not/seldom seen mentioned:
books/authors- HD Thoreau, The Doors of Perception by Huxley, Art of War by Sun Tzu, Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife, Irvine Welsh, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field by Kary Mullis, religous stuff like the Bible, Koran, Dharma, Upanishads, etc,

muscians- Rodrigo y Gabriela, MC Chris, Lord of the Rhymes, Mason Williams, Beatallica, Blackalicious, secret chiefs 3, Tenacious D, Cindy Lee Berryhill, Kid Beyond

movies/shows- South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut dubbed in French, Battle Royal, Oldboy, Killing Zoe, Serenity/Firefly, Naruto, Four Rooms, On The Waterfront, The Wicker Man (70's version), Saving Grace, District B13, Killing Zoe Directors: Oliver Stone, David O. Russel, old school Scorsese, Takashi Miike

food- special cookies, goji berries, mead, horchata, mangoes

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important people to me, laughter, thinky-alone time, sex, originality, and fun

Why more people don't double bracket "The six things I could never do without" section? Everyone cannot do without their respective enumeration, yet no one counts their list as important to them self save my own list to me? Also the three adjectives thing, I think, since amongst the myriad words available the three one would choose would be interesting/important to them.

"The inevitability of human drama." (I <3 Huckabees) Where is my other? Where are you? I gravitate towards much less drama (as per a dictionary use)than my peers, so when it happens I embrace it.

Just why?

I like finding or trying to find new and original concepts and then assigning a word to represent it.

Pondering how to use 'pretentious' in conversation without sounding ostentatious. Was that pretentious sounding?

A topic I have concluded thinking about and its subsequent conclusion: Unrequited Love. When all is said and done one person comes off as cold-hearted, the other comes off as a weirdo, and neither gets off.

Generic Stuff: girls, sex, words, humorous anecdotes, politics, burning man, where the food we eat originated from, abstractions of all kinds, how I can do something nice for people around me, original one-liners/quotes/new twists on idioms such as "I march offbeat to a different drummer"

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On an atypical Friday night I go to bed early.

ought to be "some private things I am willing to admit here."

I don't know. I never did. I might yet figure it out.

I intentionally misspelled 'intelligent', 'intellectual' and 'grammar' in my self summary. I really want someone to do this: mispell.

If I knew I would become a regular OKCer when I created this profile and that I couldn't change my username, then I would have picked something wittier that the general population could appreciate. In the previous sentence I imply my username is in fact witty. My username is the amalgamation of an inside sobriquet and an astute observation.

I sometimes talk to animals.

My first research project was on the legalization/decriminalization of marijuana. I was 11. I misspelled 'marijuana' on the cover page as "marijana."

I consider myself a mediocre conversationalist. I tend to be quiet and spacey/abstract-minded, but sometimes I do well if I get engaged (with an interesting topic). I flounder with the small talk.

I am more likely to wear my drink on my sleeve than my emotions.

I have not and will never wear socks with sandals.

I have been and am forcing myself to become more extroverted.

I do my drugs in a recreational fashion (as opposed to prescribed or compulsory).

I have seen more sunrises due to staying up all night than waking up in the morning. I am tempted to follow xkcd's time zone internal clock method of waking up by fixing the time I wake up at 0800 hours, but making the location variable.

Thoughts keep me up at night. I am not an insomniac, but I cannot stop thinking.

I get along with persons better than I get along with parties.

I am easily confused.

I have no qualms about using 'I', 'me', and 'mine' because I am badass like that.

When my confidence wanes I compensate with a facade of overconfidence bordering on arrogance. I am aware that arrogance is off-putting, but I have observed that a lack of confidence is more so.

My last name translates to 'sweet' in a language I am not willing to divulge to everyone. For years I thought some distant relative was the proprietor of a candy/baked goods shop, but have learned somewhat recently that it is meant more of an endearing lover's term. Ahem, The Playboy ;) ;)

Another 'in bed' section: I have to see if this works with other peoples' profiles because this has me LMFAO.

I think most people don't make it this far, if you do pat yourself on the back because I am probably too far away to. Oh right you should message me if...

I message you.

you are stalking me. Really now, stalking is creepy, so write something, I will not hold it against you even if it's only a woo.

you know the word that defines the concept of self-defining words. Please tell me. Update-The word is 'autological", thanks mechasaprophyte.

you can think of something more clever to say here.

based on my profile you posit I could be a true love, friend, or somewhere in between the two previous criteria.

you are a foolish mortal.

and especially if you want to or may want to have sex with me.

you have a ridiculously high friend, match, or enemy %.

it suits your fancy.

you read through all this and you do not message me, it would be an unfortunate waste of time. Only thing left to do is message me...well?

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