Summaries are hard. I'm a nerd who loves nerds. I enjoy geekery, politics and debate. I work a lot and I wish I could work more. I love spending time around people; mostly I like to entertain (that is to say, I like to host guests at my house). I enjoy cooking for others though most of my recipes serve fourteen or so people.

I tend to speak my mind and more than willing to stand up for what I believe in. I consider myself to be open minded, grounded and easy to get along with as long as you don't take things too seriously. I editorialize a lot, make sarcastic comments and observations about most situations - especially about myself; I speak, you might notice, in parentheticals.

I'm an avid blogger and so I tend to talk about my opinions more than I talk about myself, which puts me at a disadvantage in writing this summary.

I love getting to know new people, learning about them, their lives and their quirks. I am generally inquisitive and am always doing whatever I can to soak up information when the opportunity presents itself. I don't ever want to stop learning so I read constantly; finding a new and interesting book will make my week.

Currently my time is divided amongst my jobs and home-life which are inextricably interwoven. I work in the home as a live-in care provider for a retired veteran who I met years ago when we worked together. I take care of the house (cleaning, cooking, maintenance) and we get along famously. Additionally I do freelance work as a web design, layout artist and proofreader. I also write for the local paper.

I work outside the home part-time in a grocery store as a shelf stocker (working nights); I originally took this job for the exercise but have since become attached to working in retail (there's something wrong with me, to be sure).

I would say that I am very good at speaking, and writing and have exceptional grammar and a strong vocabulary. Perhaps that's a little snobbish to say, but it's true.

I am also good at learning new skills and soaking up information. I am an expert debater, a very adept researcher and a wholly inquisitive person.

The first thing that people probably notice about me is my very blue eyes, and the hats that I am perpetually wearing.

And I'm tall.

When it comes to music I can pretty much listen to whatever is playing. The only thing that makes me dislike a song is its lyrics, not the genre.

I enjoy food preparation of all sorts, but I enjoy pasta and Italian food a great deal. I am not a vegetarian, but pasta gives one the option to create vegetarian dishes, which I enjoy a great deal because eating meat is something about which I feel a great deal of guilt.

I can find enjoyment in almost any movie - with the exception of movies which depict raw, realistic suffering (horror-type movies). I can even manage those movies if I have the right shoulder to bury my eyes in; I went with a friend to see SAW III in the theatre and made it, oh, about twelve minutes in to the film before I had to leave. I don't really know what I was thinking.

I love to read. Non-fiction more than fiction, but I will read either if the option presents itself. My favourite fiction, strangely enough, are rather elementary books that I read in school. They're great stories that are, for me, timeless and evoke memories of school and learning as well as the stories themselves. I love Shakespeare and enjoy reading his plays as well. Non-fiction, however, really is my passion. I find it hard to pass up a book on a topic about which I know little or nothing. Science, history, art, geography, any or all of them.

The Internet (computer inferred), friends, family, books, warm clothes and soap.

Everything. I enjoy pondering, thinking, brainstorming. It's fun.

At home, watching YouTube videos, blogging and probably checking this site.

I am transsexual.

...you know why a T-Shirt with "there's no place like 127.0.0.1" on it is funny.

...you think that in 2009 it's very sad that we still need to have directions on the back of shampoo bottles.

...you're interested. :)

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