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UPDATE - It's the most wonderful time of the year!
Law school finals are starting up and will go on until mid-December. So please don't be upset if I don't respond to messages until after Dec 11th. "It's not you; it's me," and all that. Ok?
Sorry. Wish me luck :)
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It took me a long time to figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up. My undergrad basically qualified me to have deep conversations while waiting tables for a living, but I'm too clumsy for that and didn't really want to be a professional servant anyway. So I started working at a middle school in the ghetto with the aim of becoming a history teacher, but ended up going to law school instead to bust people out of cages and really stick it to the man. That was the right choice.

In my free time I like picnics, motorcycle rides, cooking, exercising, live music, paintball, camping, walking my parents' dogs, and reading 3 or 4 history books at once without necessarily finishing any of them.

I've really enjoyed being single for the last year or two, but am probably more open to a significant relationship now than I have been for a while. "Short-term dating" is always plenty of fun too though.

I'm in my final year of lawschool and I work part-time for a civil rights firm that sues the cops for beating the shit out of people. I'd like to work as a public defender when I graduate, at least until I settle down and have a family. Then I guess I'll have to get a real job.

over-analyzing things and giving really enthusiastic hugs. My greatest achievement to date involved a cranky old crack-head named Luis who had no idea that I was on his side. I didn't get to hug him, but that's ok. He didn't smell so good anyway.

I'm told that I sort of over-pronounce my T's, which can make people think I have a very mild accent. Apparently it's charming (at least if you already liked me). I don't really notice it myself.

Books!
Tolstoy is my hero, and my favorite secular book of all time is Non-Zero by Robert Wright. I like to give the law books a rest whenever I can to read about history and pop-economics. So, yeah. Books. Gotta love 'em.

Music.
I still have a soft spot for bands like Nine Inch Nails that I used to dig as a teenager. I also like jam bands, 70's rock, jungle, klezmer, Tori, AesopRock, contemporary gospel and most hippy music in general. I love dancing to hip-hop. When I'm driving I usually listen to Christian radio or NPR, though neither one really reflects my ideology.

I don't feel like listing movies, so here are my favorite smells instead:
gasoline, fresh baked bread, laundromats, coffee, cookies and that pink liquid soap you find in public restrooms (gotta be pink though; I'm indifferent to the green stuff).

Food.
Jalapenos! Also whole wheat banana PBJ's, ghetto Chinese at 2:00 AM and chocolate Frosty's. Vanilla frosty's are an abomination.

1) My family; Especially my dad!
2) My close friends
3) My belief system
4) Something to strive for

not so sure about 5 or 6. Maybe a good motorcycle and the Economist. Or maybe access to other people's dogs, since I don't have my own. I really love dogs.

sometimes just lying in bed reading a book. I'm a bad-ass like that. Other times I might be playing chess in a coffee shop or rocking out at different clubs around Northern Liberties.

When I was 8 days old my parents paid a guy to slice off my foreskin while I laid on our dining room table and my family stood around and applauded. I eat dinner on that table at least 5 or 6 times a year.

You weren't really into foreskins anyway :)