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My self-summary Propose an edit

Ask me to describe anything else but myself, and I'd do a bang-up job. Myself, though. That's a tall order.

I'm smart, friendly, easy-going, and funny. I'm not into clubs, but I love concerts. I'm not that into coffee, but I'm always up for going out for a cup, and some nice conversation. I prefer the American version of The Office and the Japanese version of Iron Chef. I think Hank Aaron's still the Home Run King. I have no musical talent whatsoever, but I couldn't live without music. A picture may be worth 1000 words, but I'll still take the 1000 words.

I sing in the shower. And in the car... Just about anywhere people can't hear me.

I'm a night owl (is there such a thing as a "day owl"? Shouldn't it just be "owl"? And what's the daytime version? "sunflower", perhaps?). Short of a nice sunrise and Chik-Fil-A breakfast, there's very little in this world worth getting up early for.

No matter how low my expectations are, politicians always manage to underperform them. I'd love to care about politics, but it's so fruitless. My energies are better spent on something useful. Like playing Wii.

I write poetry.

I think it's amazing that people take what Dubya says seriously, and that it's a crime that we can't all just agree that we're screwing over the environment. I think "No Child Left Behind" must have been designed specifically to leave children behind.

I love my mother. She's the best.

I disagree with the importance we place on standardized tests, yet I make my living teaching kids how to do well on them. How ironic, don't you think (and true irony, too, not the Alanis Morissette "isn't this an unfortunate coincidence" definition)?

I'm not afraid of parenthetical asides (obviously); I dig a well-placed semicolon, too.

Anything else you want to know? My shoe size? 14. My favorite color? Blue. My porn name? Alva Shadow. My favorite Ninja Turtle? Donatello.

Any other probing inquiries? Feel free to ask. I like a good probing every now and then.

What I'm doing with my life Propose an edit

I work full-time at a tutoring center. I teach just about everything K-12, but mostly SAT. I really enjoy the work. Even when I'm having a bad day, I still know that I'm doing some good in the world. Which is a nice feeling.

I'm really good at Propose an edit

Boggle. Freaky-good, actually. I also enjoy Scrabble and the NY Times Sunday Crossword (in pen, natch). My Wii Tennis rating is above 2000. I'm also a decent at juggling, writing poetry, and freestyle rapping (just kidding about that last one).

Oh, and as you may have figured from the previous box, I'm something of an expert on the SAT.

The first thing(s) people usually notice about me Propose an edit

I'm not sure what to say here, since people usually don't notice me right away (I'm not what you'd call socially obvious, at least around strangers). Besides, it's not the first thing you notice about someone that's really important. It's the 50th thing, the 100th thing, and so on. Who wants to focus on someone's most obvious attribute anyway? How uninteresting. Didn't we learn anything from Beauty and the Beast, Roxanne, Knocked Up, etc?

My favorite books, movies, music, and food Propose an edit

Books: Middlesex, Catch-22, anything by Orson Scott Card or Don DeLillo, George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire books, Kurt Vonnegut, Neil Gaiman, histories, ee cummings, A.E. Housman, and so many more.

Music: Indie Rock, Guster, The Shins, The Long Winters, Death Cab For Cutie, Jump, Little Children, Rilo Kiley, New Pornographers, Arcade Fire, They Might Be Giants, and, again, so many more.

Movies: The Incredibles, Shawshank Redemption, Office Space, The Big Lebowski, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Wayne's World, Knocked Up, Karate Kid

TV: Planet Earth, The Simpsons, The Office, House, Daily Show, Colbert Report, South Park, Scrubs, My Name is Earl, 30 Rock, Flight of the Conchords, etc.

The six things I could never do without Propose an edit

My new macbook. Music. Creativity. Books. Being Goofy. Starburst.

I spend a lot of time thinking about Propose an edit

Words. I'm a vocabulary dork.

On a typical Friday night I am Propose an edit

Trying (and failing, inevitably) to get to sleep early, since I have to work Saturday morning.

The most private thing I'm willing to admit here Propose an edit

I have a serious crush on Pam from the Office (but who doesn't, really?). I'm not even a celebrity-crush kind of guy, much less a fictional-character crush kind of guy. She just owns me.

You should message me if Propose an edit

You're interesting, and can handle both intellectual and goofy discussions. Simultaneously.

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