I am pretty quiet and reserved. I pretty much leave it up to my personality to speak for itself.

I work as a phone monkey for a large corporation, and spend much of my time thinking about politics, gender and other philosophical ventures. This means that I have some intellectual depth, and I prefer to surround myself with similar people.

My education is in the social sciences, with an MA in geography. I love maps, mapping and finding trends over space. Also, I find physical geography and meteorology incredibly interesting.

I like to play with androgyny, and can't ever seem to find a specific point that I fall at on the gender spectrum.

Defying gender stereotypes, answering phones, and agitating for radical change and social justice. If you're conservative, especially on the social side of issues, we're not likely to get along. When I'm in the mood to debate with the politically conservative, I have a little brother that fills that need in me. This doesn't mean that I can't be friends with politically conservative people; just that I don't want to be in a relationship with someone that I'd end up frustrated with.

reading profiles. And you should be too! Sadly, I think that too many people here (usually male) aren't.

But seriously, I'm good at remembering useless shit, and at being tenacious about things that I really want, or about things that I think that I need to do. For example, I kind of had to force myself back into working out recently, and now that I'm on that routine it's something that I'll be keeping at unless/until something gets in the way.

I don't know what the first thing that other people notice about me is. I guess you'd have to ask the people who've met me, because it's not something that I ask them, and I tend to believe that I'm just boring and blend in with the scenery.

Books: I tend to like broad genres rather than specific books. I like historical fiction, sci-fi, fantasy and alternate-history. I may like single examples outside of those genres, but those genres are usually things that I like.

Movies: Any sort of "top-ten" list would kinda be pointless since something new is going come along and it ends up being too hard to maintain. So I'm just going to list movies that I think I'd be willing to watch at any time, and have watched multiple times, and that should suffice: Heathers, anything by Kevin Smith, Caddyshack, Threesome, With Honors, The Cutting Edge, Aladdin, The Lion King

Music: My tastes to be a bit stuck in the 80s, but I have some more contemporary interests as well. Favorites include Chicago, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Duran Duran, The Flaming Lips, Sarah McLachlan, Def Leppard, the Cure, the Clash, Cake, Weird Al

Food: I like pasta, pizza, and deserts. There's a reason I need to keep up with the working out! ;)

Money (to pay my bills), news and information, the Internet (it helps to pay my bills), my nerve and my friends. This is, of course, just the tip of the iceberg. I suppose I could ask why this should be limited to six. But I don't make the rules. Maybe I'll defy them instead. I also couldn't do without my new car. It gets me to my job, which I couldn't do without (as much as I may hate it) because of the first item in this list.

Politics, gender, sexuality and sexual orientation.

How it is that so many people on this site can be so completely illiterate. There must be some sort of reflex that causes one to click on the first green button they see or something. Because, honestly, I don't think most of them have read my profile and understand what it's saying.

I'm sitting on here, aren't I? Yeah, that's the exciting life that I lead! Too bad I can't say anything else, but I really don't have the personality for bars, and so, here I am.

I have a misanthropic streak that gets wider by the day when I have to deal with people who are a) helpless, b) ignorant, c) incapable of following simple instructions or d) intent on making you share their beliefs.

PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE SECTION, AND UNDERSTAND IT BEFORE YOU EVEN THINK OF MESSAGING ME! THIS MEANS YOU! ALL OF YOU! AND IF YOU SEEM INCAPABLE OF FOLLOWING SIMPLE REQUESTS/INSTRUCTIONS, IT SUCKS TO BE YOU!

You are interested in the gender different, in androgyny, into stimulating conversation, or are androgynous, transgendered, transsexual, gender fluid, pangendered, bigendered or otherwise gender different, or identify as pansexual.

However...if you are unable to message me with more than "hi there", you're looking for a booty call (yes, hard as it may be to believe, someone may want to hear something other than 'wanna have some fun' when you first contact them!), you'll willingly label your profile with "straight" while messaging someone who uses labels such as nongendered or gender atypical in their profile...well, you'll probably get no response. No. Seriously. Have something useful to say, or at least make yourself interesting. "Hi there" is such a throw-away line, it tells me that I interest you about as much as any other person you would pass on the street.

Likewise, I tend to make judgements about whether or not I'd like to speak with someone based on their profile photos. So for those of you with photos, remember that your photos are the first impression people get about you on this site. For those that don't include photos, remember that your lack of a photo is the first impression people get about you on this site. And having said this, just because you may not think you're much to look at doesn't mean I will think the same. After all, I feel that way about myself, and yet you've clicked on my profile!