ok i'm pretty confident in my working definition of the word summary. but self? that's tricky. are we looking for a narrative of actions and events? or perhaps thought and feeling tendencies? description of social group markers?

all right enough nonsense...

my story starts in the rural south scampers across a few continents and comes to rest in San Francisco where i wrangle elementary school creatures for fun and profit.

i tend to think "why?" ,"how?","what?" which occasionally leads me to feel like a charming little Socrates but mostly leaves me feeling quite muddled.

i would describe myself as having little loyalty towards a particular subculture or ideology. my taste and style are much more marginal than mainstream but i don't take that stuff too seriously.

mostly unfocused learning and playing right now.

to me the luxury of seeking knowledge is the best thing about being born into such an affluent time and place.

logistics. i love sewing all the little threads ( schedules, money, transport,personality conflicts, equipment, food, booze) into delicious events, trips and projects. also, when thoughts come out of my mouth people around me laugh sometimes.

that i am the size and build of a fifteen year old mathlete.

i have been addicted to books since 2nd grade and the quality of material has varied greatly over the years. right now i'm mostly reading popular neuro and evolutionary science (VS Ramachandran, David Sloan Wilson) and a branch of speculative fiction sometimes called new weird ( China Mieville, Hal Duncan).

Joss Whedon is my number one screen hero. Christian Bale is number two. i love good movies from before 1975 (from Easy Rider to The Maltese Falcon) way more than modern cinema.

musical tastes are all over the place. As someone who spent a great deal of his teen years at indie rock shows i have seen that plenty of horrid people like the same bands as me so hardly a strong indicator of anything. however, if Bowie compels you onto the dance floor then that is a very strong indicator of awesome.

i dont like to eat like a Minnesotan but i also have a hard time with organic,cruelty free, local food sanctimony.

the past and future of the human endeavor.
the past and present of the non-human universe. strangely uninterested in what happens post-us.

you dont get asked enough interesting questions. you dont get to talk about books as much as you'd like. you need an amiable person to do dangerous or fool hardy science projects with. you need a scrappy scout for your epic quest to solve the universe (especially then).