I'll actually just list a bunch of my enthusiasms (or perhaps obsessions might be a better word...), it'll give you an idea of what it's like to be around me.

trees, elegance, R.E.M., sparkling little rivers, hippie sensibilities, Scottish accents, sculpture, clay, figuring people out, Seattle, food, music in general, desolate landscapes, making my friends who don't yet know each other meet then watching them have great conversations, beer (particularly the dark, complicated ones), cool crisp days, comfortable shoes that look spectacularly fancy, long nights of drinking and mad conversation, Doctor Who, Islay scotch, skirts, being barefoot, climbing things, dancing, Miyazaki, collaboration on artsy things, cities, wildernesses, making clay turn into people who never existed but who I love ever so dearly, storytelling, grand theories that may or not make sense, optimism, cynicism, Methos, sardonic looks, wry grins, absurdity, kilts, solitude, helping people create things based on the crazy ideas they've got in their heads, inexplicable kindness, fancy words, swimable oceans, people with ridiculous enthusiasms.

Lists like that are terrible, aren't they....I regret creating it, but I'm too lazy right now to destroy it and then have to put something in its place.

Indulging the above, mainly.

Not noticing that my apartment needs cleaning.

Probably that I'm a bit on the larger side. I'm fairly fit, and love long hiking trips, but if you need someone skinny, you'd best look elsewhere. No hard feelings.

Books seem too personal for some reason.

Stranger Than Fiction, Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds, Hellboy, Brokeback Mountain, The Iron Giant, Wall-E, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc, In Bruges, Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, Spiderman 2, House of Sand, Chi-hwa-seon, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Up Series, Definitely Maybe, Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day, The Dark Knight, Lord of the Rings (especially the design special features), The Man From Earth.

music:
http://www.last.fm/user/lythea

Food is wonderful.

books, human contact, trees, solitude, the means to make art, music

Thinks like why it's so hard for two quiet people to have great conversations. I used to think of it as a sort of magnet polarity, and I could almost feel my social effort rebounding back on me. I think a better concept, though, is to imagine a line between the two people attempting to converse, and calling that line 50%. If one can only get to about 50% at absolute maximum, like me (at least when I'm sober), then conversations with outgoing sorts resting comfortably at 60-80% are delightful, while conversations with others who can barely achieve 50% will be strained, and below that pretty much impossible. And I've had it confirmed by one of my friends (outgoing of course) that trying to relate to other loudish sorts can be, well, trying. So too much overlap is also a bad thing, and I think this theory's better. So there's a little glimpse into my brain, I guess.

Anything from watching a movie at home by myself to going out with a dozen friends. I'd like to start seeing more "high culture" sorts of performances, like dance or theater, or classical music, or...maybe even opera...no, not opera. Maybe opera.

I like blueberry yogurt.

I'm certainly not going to tell you what books I like, or anything crazy like that.

You like to be thinking about things, and you care about things.