Didn't we just go through an apocalypse (again)? I guess I'll take that as a cue to update my OKCupid profile, as my last self-summary was getting a little worn out.

So rather than trying to be cocky and coy, I'll just give you the straight dope: I'm straight, single, vegan, disease- and drug-free (this includes the 420!), financially independent, very much into healthy living & the outdoors, and I have a car.

I just starting doing CrossFit. Pray for me.

In the past, I've been a Goth-punk teenager, a disgruntled cook, a student journalist, and a non-profit fundraiser/recruiter. Currently, I'm back in school and working as a community college supplemental instructor in Biology (this is just the school's fancy name for a position that combines tutor with teacher's assistant and peer counselor). With luck and hard work, I'll be done with that in less than 2 years, then ready to move forward with my plans for world conquest.

Oh, I had a script optioned once, and that was enough to swear me off The Industry for good. But I do still keep several writing projects on the back burner, for when I'm done with school.

I don't really need to work for the next few years, so I've gone back to school to finish a degree in Geology/Paleontology. Also, once a week, I work as a vegan cook, just for something to do.

My long term plans include: learning to scuba dive so I can swim with coelacanths in the Indian Ocean; hiking through Transylvania and Wallachia to survey the fascinating geology/paleontology of the place (dwarf dinosaurs!)... squeezing in a Dracula tour along the way; and ruling humanity with a benign fist before I die.

Vegetarian cooking, writing, teaching/communication with others to help them acheive their potential, and staying up past my bedtime to fill out profiles on dating websites.

I've never been defeated at Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

I don't look my age, apparently. Most people assume I'm in my early to mid 30s.

Food -- Full disclosure: I am a vegan, for all the reasons people think are crazy. Now, most people see the word "vegan," and immediately think of what they can't eat. But, my experience was the opposite; when I went vegan, I discovered thousands of tasty things I could eat, that I'd been missing out on because I'd been wasting my time eating meat at every meal! It would be nice if you felt the same way about eating animals as I do, as I don't plan to spend my life with someone fundamentally opposed to my beliefs. But, you can take baby steps if you're not there yet. :)P

Music -- Recently discovered "gothic country/dark roots/cemetery & western" music, and I'm loving the genre. It reminds me of the old days, when I was the Goth-punk kid with the secret stash of classic country albums under the bed... except now the world has caught up with me! Some artists from the genre include: 16 Horsepower, Woven Hand, Hank Ray, Munly, Graveyard Train, Ninth House, Ghoultown, Those Poor Bastards, Strawfoot, Sons Of Perdition, and Legendary Shack Shakers (just to name a few). I also dig Voltaire, classic country & western, a smattering of hip-hop and quite a lot of the standard L.A. hipster music.

Movies -- OK, I admit it; I like mainstream movies. But unlike you, I'm willing to admit it. ;P I don't particularly have a favorite director, or actor/actress, or screenwriter. I don't care if a movie was made by a big studio, or by an underfunded one-legged Trotskyist lesbian dwarf film student. I don't think indie automatically equals good, and big budget automatically equals bad. That's not to say I don't have preferences: I'm a nerd, so if it has monsters, ghosts, or creepy-crawly things going bump in the night, or steely-eyed gunslingers seeking justice against even badder men than themselves, or spaceships and robots, then I'm game. I'm more impressed by movies that win Saturns than Oscars. And I have a new and pretty intense crush on Bollywood.

Television -- I don't have cable, so I get all my TV from Hulu, iTunes, and Netflix. I am a Doctor Who fanatic; as Trekkies are to Star Trek, I am to the Doctor. I watch a lot of 90s shows, cancelled series I never caught the first time, and Law & Order SVU, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report. Also, see "Movies," above.

Books -- I read a lot of non-fiction about science and nature, and a lot of sci-fi and horror fiction. And I'm usually in the middle of more than one book at a time. Currently reading ""The Bonobo And The Atheist" by Frans de Waal, "Feed" by Mira Grant, and "Prince of Ayodhya (Book 1 of The Ramayana)" by Ashok K. Banker. Beyond that, see, "Television," above.

Stephen Jay Gould, Carl Sagan, Michael Shermer, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking.

1) Orange juice from my Jack LaLanne Power Juicer.

2) The scent of used books.

3) The sound of distant trains.

4) The songs of hidden night birds.

5) The knowledge that those birds are cousins of the velociraptor.

6) My awesome goth-cowboy hat.

obscure, arcane science-y things, like Triassic pterosaur evolution, the sauropod hiatus, and the air-speed velocity of unladen swallows.

Doing homework, watching Chiller or hanging out with my special friends.

I almost never take the freeway anywhere within the L.A. metro area. I'm in no hurry and I have nothing to prove.

Message me? It's my job to message you.

But, I'd like to hear from you if you're in shape (which, to me, means you can pick heavy stuff up off the floor, do a 5K, and eat whole, unprocessed plant foods almost exclusively, with a little "cheating" for special occasions); if you rarely drink alcohol and never do drugs (including weed!), except for medical reasons; and you already have an interesting life of your own apart from me.

A few tattoos and piercings don't hurt; neither do a lot. ;) If you're without body-mods, that's totally awesome, too.

If you can get past those hurdles, I might text you later... :)