Welcome to my profile. What you see here may delight or appall you, but I sure hope it delights you. Otherwise just grin and bear it.

Here is just a crazy ol' list o' things that I like: red wine, learning to dance, dancing, jazz, classical music, gardens, gardening, trees, whiskey: scotch and bourbon (no rye), politics, cryptic crosswords, modern art (sometimes), languages (especially Arabic and Spanish I would like to learn), board games, essay-laden magazines, ping-pong, mathematics, squash, cooking, discovering new delicious restaurants, tennis, dodgeball, billiards, basketball (to watch mainly), cryptic crosswords, baseball, photography, cycling, sculpture, architecture, urban planning, philosophy, literature (especially plays), live theatre, opera, exploring neighbourhoods and cities, art museums

Like right now? Or like what I plan to do before death? Because there's a big difference, as you may know.

In the short term...
To pay the bills, I work in a restaurant full time. "Hey, it's money, man!" - the standard defense of people who work deadbeat jobs, isn't? I also teach standardized test prep part-time. This one I am pretty proud of. I really like teaching, especially because I get to teach really smart, motivated students who are about the same age as me, because I don't have to deal with whiney parents, and because I my normally off-beat, poorly appreciated sense of humour gets amazing laughs in class. Students like me for that sense of humour, and because I still seem "relevant to the youth of today", unlike them stodgy old professors.

Speaking of stodgy old professors, I really miss school, and am looking at ways to go back and do some sort of a thesis, or maybe an MA or something. But what's the rush, right?

What else do I do with my life? Read below!

I like every beverage I have ever consumed. Every.

My uncanny resemblance to both Stephen Hawking and Lebron James.

Movies: The Royal Tenenbaums, Sleeper, Annie Hall, Dr. Strangelove, Magnolia, Cache, Babel, Children of Men, 2001. I do sometimes cry during movies.

Colour: Turquoise

Historical Persons: Oscar Wilde, Immanuel Kant

Music: Jazz piano (Keith Jarrett, Oscar Peterson, Brad Mehldau, Art Tatum etc.), funk (Curtis Mayfield), tango (Astor Piazzola), romantic and early modern classical music (Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Schubert), classic rock (Beatles, Rolling Stones), anything top 40 for about a week (Empire State of Mind at the time of writing, but obviously that will change soon....)

Books: magazines (Harpers, New Yorker, Walrus, Monocle), drama (Ibsen, Shakespeare, Stoppard, Albee, Sophocles etc.), occasionally the odd novel (Pynchon!), philosophy and the like (Hegel, Arendt, Heidigger, Russell, Wittgenstein.....)

I decided to add visual art here. Visual Art: Man Ray, Jackson Pollock, Frank Lloyd Wright... I will work on this list.

Food: I eat gluten-free, but please don't think that I am a monster. I eat pretty deliciously. Indian! South American! Sushi! Thai! Greek! Shawarma! French! These are all very good cuisines. I like to eat out in restaurants. Oh, and because I am a server, I never, ever, complain about service. And I always tip real nice.

Red wine
Magazines and newspapers
Cell phone
Movies
Chocolate
18 hours of sleep/day

How to make cities more sustainable.
What time "is".
My to-do-list.
My need to find a real job.
How awesome my friends are.
How I should probably exercise more.
Funny ways that language is used, and deceives us.

These are things that I like to do. I am indifferent as to whether they occur on Friday or not:
1) Dancin' all crazy-like somewhere where they play some good funk music
2) Have a really good conversation about your values, and my pet rabbit that I had when I was a kid, and the unstable political situation in Pakistan, and why there should rain-pancho dispensers outside subway stations, over maybe a bowl of homemade risotto and the lion's share of a really nice bottle of red wine
3) Going to some foreign film and then talking about it, whilst conspicuously avoiding words like 'hegemony' and 'patriarchy' and 'mise-en-scene'
4) Long walks, with no particular destination, and sometimes hopping on things,
5) Talking in funny accents to act out random scenes, and then maybe building some sort of inukshuk

I sleep naked. It is more comfortable that way.

You were either delighted or appalled by my profile. You can have a conversation for more than 5 minutes that doesn't involve anything about yourself. You have few expectations, except for the regular social conventions (surprising how few people observe things like that anymore). You are convinced that bananas and anchovies are not a match made in heaven. You use the words "hegemony" and "Perez Hilton" no more than once per day, on average. You feel that almost any outing that can be dreamt up sounds at least nominally worthwhile. You either like the colour turquoise, or you don't. Either way really.