I just figured out the best approach to reaching the ideal frame of mind boasted by Zen practitioners: Appraise yourself, try to be honest, but sell yourself at the same time. Mind blank and a bit euphoric.

I think it's my brain shooting me up with endorphins to bring equilibrium to the disarray of trying to guiltlessly pawn myself off as some lothario... I'm not.

I am, however, honest. I have a knack at making people feel great about themselves at their worst.

That's me... when all else fails, Adam is there for you.

My name Adam, by the way. I can help you move your couch.

What do women want to know from guys they date?

I'm sane. Yeah I had an odd childhood, but I've done very well when you consider it.

I am from Mississippi. No, I am not a racist or a sexist(consciously). Yes, I do have a mild accent, but it comes and goes.

I went to school for broadcasting and communications with a minor focus in Physics.

I like to work out but I am not endurance athlete(ie-not scrawny). I've always wrestled and recently took up Judo. I enjoy staying active.

Sometimes I go a few days without shaving. I do this for myself. Why do I do it? I don't know. I enjoy it, though.

I am one of the best cooks I know. I worked for the Food Network for a few years and picked up a lot of culinary tidbits. I use them well.

I can and will talk about anything. ANYTHING. I enjoy it. I don't have to babble on and on, but if you want to talk... I'll talk.

I work in television in a nice little protective bubble of the industry called operations. Specifically, I work with satellite and fiber transmissions.

To put it in even simpler terms, I bring Oprah, Pro Wrestling, Pro Football, and the Yankees to people's television sets.

Go me.

Figuring stuff out if the resources to do so are available.
Cooking.
You know... "stuff".
Getting people to laugh, even at themselves... and at me, too.
Pointing out irony.
Pointing out anything... sometimes I can be a kid like that.

Either my eyes, my lips, my cheeks, my glasses, my arms, my shoulders my height(though, I recommend you openly compare... I'm pretty much average), that I smell good, that I look tired(I'm usually not... I have that sleepy look, sometimes)

These are all things people have mentioned.

Oh... possible downside to me. I don't "let people win" when I think or know(yes, I know there is a difference) I am right.

Possible upside... I dislike it when people just "let me win" and always fold with proper convincing. And NO, it's not like pulling teeth to convince me. So... really... what would the world be like if we all went believing what someone argued simply because they had the guts to voice it? We'd all be HAVING that shot of Tequila, going ahead and WEARING those bulky cargo corduroys(which I like to pronounce 'kWAH-de-WAH'), or going ahead and READING all of those Harry Potter/Twilight books.

Books: The Alienist- Caleb Carr, The Freedom Manifesto- Tom Hodgkinson, A Burglar In The Library- Lawrence Block

Movies: Big Trouble In Little China, Shaun Of The Dead, Anything Kurosawa

Music: Tool, The Mars Volta, Michael Gira, David Eugene Edwards, Goodie MoB

Food: Thai and Vietnamese, Indian, Italian(but up North, I consider this American food, really. Because what's more American than Italian, up here?) Peruvian, REAL Mexican.... and, well.... "Down Home Cookin'"

Dogs
Kurt Russell movies(greatest living American actor)
My friends William and Olivia
Being able to just get out and walk around
Being able to go lift something heavy when I am stressed
My ability to make up explanations for banal things

Sparrows, food, the ideology of William Godwin, what music would sound like if I made it, movies as I wish they had gone, Venture Brothers quotes, how to be a nicer person(no, really, this plagues me)

Ever wonder what the hell this "enemy" thing is on OkCupid?
I mean... I absolutely DON'T want someone to agree with me all the time.
Then I would feel like I was dominating a relationship. It would not bring new things into my life. Diverging paths and new insights would NEVER happen. I'd go buy a Filipino mail order bride if I wanted that.

I don't have typical Friday nights. Anything can happen. I'm not that "Anything can happen, wild guy".... inevitably, anything proves to be able to happen. I'm just subtle about it.

It's harder trying to figure out what I won't admit. I don't really hide anything.

Oh, ok.

When my mother lost her job due to disability, and the time between filing for federal disability benefits and actually getting them, I lived in my car for a couple of months to help support her.

If you like guys without criminal records, that hold open doors for you, don't TELL you what you want, let you be you, point out strange things you might not have noticed, like cartoons(but are legally an adult!), can draw something more than a stick figure, have never been seriously hurt by a man(or are at least willing to put full faith in the fact that not all men are heinous beasts), and generally like spending time with people.

Oh... I can see through most lies... so, really... don't bother. I don't take a hit to the ego if you would rather play bar trivia with the folks from work than... hell, whatever I would have planned.

Sometimes bar trivia is fun :P

You don't have stupidly hairy forearms... you know who you are.