Someday, when talking about me, I want people to say the following: "He's really kind, but a major fucking hardass."

But anyway, here are five things I can say in summary of myself:

- I'm not the go-out-and-dance or bar hopping type. I'm more the dinner-and-a-movie type. However, I will go out and do just about anything so long as it's at least somewhat unusual.

- I'm in graduate school for screenwriting (that's the short name for perpetual unemployment). I used to work in (digital?) advertising/marketing and Internet video. I still do a little because I like having a little money. I want to be a writer/director. I also want to be a tech journalist, but I think that'll be a retirement job or something.

- I'm a vegetarian, but not so much in a political way. I don't condemn meat eaters unless they say to me, "I could be a vegetarian...if I didn't love steak." If you're cool with what I do, I'm cool with what you do (unless you're sodomizing children...I don't like that).

- I find runners attractive. I also hate running. I also run almost every day. It's confusing.

- Honesty and fairness are big things for me. Obviously it's impossible to not lie once in awhile and life isn't fair (or something like that), but, to me, this basically means I hate when people lie about important things and ethics are left out of a decision.

Grad school for screenwriting, as previously mentioned, plus whoring myself out as a web marketing consultant for cash.

- Making friends with people you'd never expect to have friends.
- Being good but not great at a lot of random things.
- Ignoring my friend who is visiting me and probably thinks I'm sleeping when I'm actually typing this.

- That I look like someone they know.
- That I might be Asian (I won't give away the shocking surprise).
- I have the best t-shirt collection ever.

Books/Short Stories: Autobiography of Red, Matilda, Courtney Cox's Asshole, Joel on Software, Harmful to Minors, His Dark Materials, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Little Brother

Movies/Short Films: Away We Go, Dirty Pretty Things, Minority Report, Twelve and Holding, Cupcake, Lines, The Visitor

Music: It varies because it's more on a song-by-song basis but, Jonathan Coulton, MGMT, Morcheeba, The Paper Raincoat, Bird and the Bee, Jordan Seavers, Clare & the Reasons, Dan the Automator, Peter Alsop, Scatteredtrees, Shakira (pre-bleaching), Zero 7, Tammy Faye Starlite, Wing, Flight of the Conchords, The Shins, The Bad Plus, Lemon Jelly, Mika, Landon Pigg, Work of Saws, AIR, The Real Tuesday Weld, Carla Bruni, Jon Brion, Raffi

Food: Muttar paneer, black been burrito, tofu turky sandwich, tofu green curry with brown rice, thai eggplant anything, vegetarian sushi, spicy pan-fried tofu, white truffle butter risotto etc.

- Friends (no, not that TV show)
- Family
- A notebook and pen
- Laptop
- A piano or keyboard piano
- Some sort of nostalgia (currently it is a pocket retro video game emulator)

- Problem solving (so much that I think I need to solve the problem of how much I think about solving problems)
- How things work
- Stories in my head
- Stories not in my head
- Technology

Usually a movie with friends, or sleeping, or working, depending on the week.

Historically, whenever a friend of mine has come to visit I've either pissed or almost pissed the bed one night during his stay. Weird.

You want to? If you don't, you probably shouldn't message me. I mean, we're not going to have much to talk about. You'll lead with "I don't want to message you" and I'll either respond with "why did you message me?" or "okay." There can't take it much further from that point.