I'm a thirty-something year old slacker in a time where slacking is getting to be a little stale. My usual moods are curious, horny, bored, and delirious from sleep deprivation. Not necessarily in that order. I like new things, but have a problem giving up old ones. I've been throwing the same yearly themed party since 1992. I'll tell you if you ask, but know I used to be a much bigger geek then I am now... I own hundreds of books but they're mostly in boxes right now. I play, to a greater or lesser extent: clarinet, sax, flute, tin whistle, harmonica, and bagpipes. However, I am criminally rusty on all of them. I danced tap for 14 years when I was younger, with a little ballet and jazz thrown in. Once had a master class with Savion Glover. I played Dr. Van Helsing in a play once, and now I always cheer on the vampire hunters (screw you, Ann Rice!). It took me five schools and 180 credits to get my RN. My associates RN. Dammit.

Editors

• bookishgrrl

I'm an RN here in NYC at Sloan-Kettering. I relocated from Albany last year, and it looks like the relocation is going to stick. I love living in the city, and not having to own a car. My alter ego is Moe Cheezmo, announcer for a couple upstate Roller Derby leagues.

Discussing and deconstructing books and movies, or society in general. Skepticism. Games. Kink. Not worrying about things too awfully much. Standardized tests (I didn't get through nursing school by hard work and studying, thats for sure). Faking it (see the previous parenthesis). Being open to new things, albeit with a healthy dose of the aforementioned skepticism. Also being mean. People seem to value niceness altogether too much.

The blue eyes seem to be a common thread here.

Les yeux bleus, bien sur!

Editors

• maestrocloud

a) Neuromancer, Snow Crash, Foucault's Pendulum, Of Human Bondage, Alice in Wonderland, Catch-22, The Crying of Lot 49, Watchmen, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Dhalgren, Chants de Maldoror, The Man in the High Castle, The Selfish Gene, and trust me, the list goes on.

b) Swingers, Clerks, Triplets of Belleville, The Sixth Sense, The Ring, Miller's Crossing, Fahrenheit 9-11, Superbad, Casablanca, Double Indemnity, No Country for Old Men, Lord of the Rings, Spirited Away, Monty Python's Holy Grail, He Died With a Falefel in His Hand, The Departed, The Fountain

c) Paul Simon, Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire, They Might Be Giants, Groove Armada, The Postal Service, Songs:Ohia, Dan Bern, Van Morrison, Robert Johnson, Tom Petty, Counting Crows, The Cat Empire, Thievery Corperation,Orchestra Baobob, Modest Mouse, Ben Folds Five, Tunng, The Kamikaze Hearts, The Hold Steady, The Pogues, Jose Gonzalez

d) French dip, chicken vindaloo, fried chicken, pumpkin pie, basically greasy spoon fare in general...

I'll throw in games category as well, as they're a big part of my life.

e) Unknown Armies, Ars Magica, D&D, Over the Edge, Trivial Pursuit (preferably whilst drunk), 4 square, Set, chess, Illuminati, Alpha Centauri, Diplomacy and Civilization and Scrabble

Editors

• abrama2

1. Books, and used book shops

2. All the junk I lug around in my bag all the time

3. Connectivity, electronic or otherwise

4. Coffee, still the best CNS stimulant around

5. It used to be road trips, now I guess it is my Metrocard. NYC, changed me, man.

6. The freedom to bless others with my opinion

Books, games, and movies, mainly. Conspiracy theory if I'm feeling paranoid. Politics if I'm feeling better. Whether there is any difference between the two, if I'm feeling cynical. Belle and Sebastian, if I'm feeling sinister.

Trying to sort out the multitude of options presented by this burg.

I regularly misspell my own middle name.

You are looking for a bastion of unabashed geekiness. And a veritable font of useless information. In a good looking package, of course...

Also, if you have unnaturally colored hair (especially blue) you should be writing me right now.