I'm a really laid-back guy, who loves talking to people and getting to know them. I'll talk to anyone usually whether it is a friend, coworker, office visitor, person in front of me at the grocery store. I love getting to know people and finding out their stories. Sometimes, I can be shy around acquaintances that I know but not really well, which seems stupid because I'll still talk to perfect strangers.

I enjoy both acting and singing. I graduated from college with a major in vocal music performance and a minor in theater but I don't really pursue either as anymore than hobbies. I love both musical theater and opera, but more broadly I love music and theatre of all sorts, and art in general. Regarding specifics in visual arts and theater I love minimalism, and music I love modern tonally dissonant music. Quick favorites: Picasso, Tony Kushner, Stephen Sondheim respectively.

On a more personal note: I often feel that a series of contradictions comprise my personality and life. Through these competing ideas I achieve a balance in my life, a little zen-like. For instance as I said earlier, I love talking to people and strangers, probing their thoughts, understanding their story, but at the same time I feel awkward around people who I don't know really well or people who I know but they don't know me. Somewhere in between my awkwardness and extroversion, I have found a balance that allows people to feel comfortable talking to me while not feeling violated by my questions and curiosity. Someday we can talk more about the contradictions in my life and how they work to produce me.

Enough of the ideological BS: I love the outdoors. I love to camp and build fires and hike. Boats are awesome and I love to be on the water. Fishing is fun and ice fishing is even cooler (haha, no pun intended). Although, I squirm when I actually catch a fish, because then I have to touch it to get it off the hook and throw it back. I also like watching baseball even though I can't hit a ball worth a damn. Swimming is one of my all time favorite activities. I enjoy watching movies and I subscribe to NetFlix. Also, I love reading. The written word is like food for my soul, only if it is well-written otherwise its annoying. Usually, you'll catch me reading some stupid nonfiction book over a cup of coffee at the coffee shop.

I currently work as a fundraiser for a nonprofit arts organization. I have the herculean task of beginning a fundraising program for an organization that has never actively solicited donations before. The details of which are rather boring. Someday, I'll start work on my MBA and focus primarily on nonprofit management. There's a small part of me that feels that I need to save the world. Nonprofits seem like the best way to satisfy that part of me at the end of the day.

Singing, listening, rambling about nothing, deep conversations, procrastinating, giving random pieces of unwanted information

I have lots of people I don't know overly well talk to me randomly and tell me every detail of their life story, so I guess it would have to be that I'm approachable and inviting. If you insist on knowing something more concrete, I seem to always be smiling and lots of people comment on that.

a) Detroit Free Press (it's not really a book), The Scarlet Letter, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Song of Solomon, Brave New World, Metamorphosis, The Trial, Why White Kids Love Hip Hop Music, Anything related to Charlie Brown

b) Amelie, Brokeback Mountain, The Pianist, Beauty and the Beast, Motorcycle Diaries, House of Flying Daggers, The Incredibles, Sabrina, The American President, Crash, Star Wars, Casablanca

c) Abridged list: Alternative Rock, Classical, Opera, Jazz, Anything, Placido Domingo, Samuel Barber, Richard Danielpour, Giacomo Puccini, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Mahler, Ella Fitzgerald, Bela Fleck, Tori Amos, Rufus Wainwright, Mike Vasas, Evelyn Glennie, Frank Sinatra, Michael Buble, Regina Carter, Billie Holiday, Madeleine Peyroux, Erykah Badu, Matchbox 20, Coldplay, Radiohead, Diana Krall, George Gershwin, Kurt Weill, Stephen Sondheim, Jennifer Holliday, John Williams, Michael Torke, Clint Mansell, Lena Horne, Danny Elfman, Fall Out Boy, Franz Ferdinand, Plain White T's, Flobots, Kristen Chenoweth, Marin Mazzie, Audra McDonald

d) Sushi is almost like sex in my book. I love grilling. I especially like organic and vegan food (although I am not one myself). Occasionally I get unbelievable cravings for hamburgers, although I don't particularly like them otherwise. And who doesn't love cookies?

1) Music 2) Family 3) Friends 4) Sarcasm 5) Daydreaming 6) Reading material

My future and where I'll end up, my latest failed attempt at love, men, the bare walls of my apartment, why I don't want to do laundry, who I will take to a concert/show/opera with me since I have two tickets, socioeconomic inequality/prejudice/inherent societal privilege, why I actually chose to stay in this small town

One of many places:

1) a concert, jazz group, opera, or show
2) a friend's place/bar hanging out and/or partying with friends
3) one of the multiple things that I'm overcommitted to
4) in my bed asleep or watching a movie while wrapped in blankets wondering why I'm still awake

I often cry at the end of movies: happy ones and sad ones, Sabrina, Amelie, The American President, the list goes on and on. I guess I'm overly emotional. Occasionally a couple commercials have the same effect on me. And don't get me started on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, unless you have a box of tissues.

You've made it through this entire profile and are still reading. You're interested in a relationship. You want someone to help fold bed sheets after they get out of the laundry. You want to have someone else to cook for, so you're not eating leftovers for a week. You want someone to keep warm at night. You want someone to dry the dishes as you're doing them, so you don't have to stop in the middle when the drying rack gets full and put stuff away. You want someone who can discuss the front page article of the newspaper, followed immediately by the latest Calvin & Hobbes. You like someone who listens to rock (not Brittany Spears), then flips to NPR during the commercials.