I'm not very down to earth.

Phd-ing

Teaching math, which you might think translates well to doing mathematical research, but you'd be wrong. I'm v good at cooking and eating. I can turn lots of stuff into poop.
I'm pretty good at building and riding/racing bikes. Depending on how you mean "build" and "race." And "bikes" I guess but I gotta draw the line somewhere come on jeez.
I recently started taking courses on Coursara... I can only say that I'm really good at signing up for them so far. They're interesting though! Mathematical BioStats and Computational Neuroscience! Holla if you know a good one!

Probably my physical attributes, and whatever I've covered myself in that day. I'm thoughtfully irreverent and go to some positive length to exhibit this. I can be quite pedantic.

A Song of Ice and Fire, The Idiot, The Diamond Age, Kafka on the Shore, Good Omens, Categories for the Working Mathematician, ...
Robyn, Isis, Witch, Alt-J, Russian Circles, Memory Tapes, Out Hud, Subrosa, Kurt Vile, Bobby, Cloud Nothings, Have a Nice Life, Roy Montgomery, Wes Montgomery, ...
Game of Thrones, Girls, Star Trek (TNG), Adventure Time!, No Reservations, Battlestar Galactica, Home Movies... ?
Brick, Wizard People, Moon, Romeo and Juliet, The Thomas Crown Affair, Big Trouble in Little China, Shaun of the Dead, 2001, ETC
I love all food esp if I or someone I like made it. I'm not sure if my favorite animal to eat is chicken or pig, but not knowing is part of the fun I always say. Though I use tofu quite often. Kale is p cool in my book. I probably couldn't make anything without garlic, wine, onions, or stock.
I used to brew. I'm a beer snob, but just a layman with wine, bourbon, and that other alcohol that I like to drink but don't care about how it tastes.

empty essays... to fill out

mostly butts. And sheaves of differential operators on flag varieties of quantized universal enveloping algebras, occasionally.

I don't live in Chicago

you respond to stimulus.