having accidentally restumbled upon my own profile, i realised it was unbearably dorky so the time has finally come for me to do smth about that. especially because i should really be writing on my damn paper... but moving on.

most of the older things i wrote here are still true, it's just that they need to be said differently. with the certain don't-give-a-damn-am-in-it-just-for-shits-and-giggles approach to life that is yet to fail me :)

my self-summary is, i fear, gravely lacking a plot backbone, because, honestly, i'm all over the place most of the time and thinking up random shizz that good, honest folks probably wouldn't, shouldn't, etc. (don't think PedoBear, just having very quirky, batshit-insane-bordering-on-ludicrously-genius ideas), which of course makes me the accidental life and soul of parties, so it tends to work out somehow :)

more about me? oh, i dunno. i'm fascinated by conceptual mixes and chimeric merges of all kinds (which is a nicer, fanciful way of saying i have a terrible time choosing almost anything); i refuse to grow up and leave my Land of Whee to join the bloody system, although the odious latter is finding ever more dastardly ways to catch up with me (it's currently implementing the doomsday scheme called grad-school-with-job-hunt); i also seem to derive great pleasure from the puzzled and laughing faces i trigger in people, but that's just me being a Peter Pan turned freedom fighter, i guess (you know, releasing people from their bland existence one WTF at the time).

so i'm a writer at heart, with quite a broad scope of interests and curiosities, currently doing a literature (and stuff) PhD because, hey, unless i strike gold within the next 2-3 years, i'll have to take on a "serious, grown-up" job. but so far, life's good, if hectic, and that extra cheer i may occasionally come by is never hoarded selfishly inside, but shared with all those i hold dear.

I am flabbergasping, grinny, and faithful.

currently trapped between trying to like what i can have and trying to have what i'd like, most notably inching my way on the long & narrow path of academia.

- putting smiles on people's faces by doing quirkily hilarious stuff (see above)
- mishearing things (and, generally, perceiving things quite differently than most folks, colour-blindness or not), usually to giggling results
- daydreaming and/or ignoring reality for the sake of my own fiction plots, or simply pondering sci-fi/fantasy-ish what-ifs (you know this is you, too, if you go into a shoe store and you're not wondering whether a certain pair also comes in black but whether it gives +2 or +3 agility)
- overanalysing and self-bashing (hey, it took me years to get to this kinda skill level)
- fixing interesting food and drinks combos (it's just the world that's not ready for'em yet)
- learning languages and doing some actual writing, if only i can be bothered
- setting up bracket pitfalls of short-term amnesia in everyday convos
- making lists of how to tackle other lists

if i haven't forgotten my ninja mode on, they notice my facial hair experiments (much tamer by now, so i should just say my stubble or my goatee but anyway). also, my emotions aren't all that subtle, so i suppose my unpokerlike face is another readily noticeable thing (i may be gaga, but i'm surely no lady :)) ). my smile (where available) or my randomness, perhaps?

A. The roster goes smth like this: Phantom (S.Kay), Perfume (P.Sueskind), House of Sleep (J.Coe), The Malaussene Saga (D.Pennac), Tokyo Cancelled (R.Dasgupta), various stuff by Borges, Coelho, A. Nothomb, D. Lodge, Haruki Murakami, Nick Hornby, etc

B. the order may vary, but here's where it's at: Amelie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain), The Unbreakable, V for Vendetta, The Phantom of the Opera '04, Rent, The Count of Monte Cristo, Nightmare before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, Sweeney Todd, Bicentennial Man, Stranger Than Fiction, Vanilla Sky, The Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club, Matchstick Men, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Memento, As Good As It Gets, Highway 66, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Pan's Labyrinth, The Prestige, The Fifth Element, Une Longue Dimanche de Fiancailles, Con Air, the Hannibal Lecter movies, the Saw movies, Hot Fuzz, Transformers, Shrek (esp. I) , Dragon Hunters, Spirited Away, Paprika (and the others by the dearly missed Satoshi Kon), Howl's Moving Castle (and most Studio Ghiblis, let's be honest here), most Pixar movies, many Disney movies (nothing beats Beauty and the Beast ^^ but Lion King and Little Mermaid are also pretty good), a coupla historical fictions (The 300, Braveheart, Rob Roy, The Last Samurai, Hero, Kingdom of Heaven, Troy, Gladiator etc), the Batman movies (particularly Batman Begins and Dark Knight), the X-Men trilogy, Spawn, Hellboy 1&2, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk (2008) (yeah, ok, most superhero movies :P), Pirates of the Caribbean, (i suppose even the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings movies, tho i wouldn't necessarily call them faves), Star Wars (yes, *all* of them :P), the Matrix trilogy, Day Watch/Night Watch (Dnevnoy Dozor/Nochnoy Dozor) and truckloads of others i can't really recall right now.

B'. i'm not what u might call an otaku, but i surely do love me some anime ;) particularly such titles as Samurai 7, InuYasha, One Piece, Paranoia Agent, Mushishi, FullMetal Alchemist, The Book of Bantorra, Samurai Champloo, FLCL, Katanagatari, Death Note, Yu-Gi-Oh, Bleach, Guyver the Bioboosted Armour, Soul Eater, Fairy Tail, Nurarihiyon, Shaman King, Gintama, Grendizer/Goldorak, S-Cry-Ed, R.O.D., Avatar the Last Airbender, 12 Kingdoms, Dark Butler (Kuroshitsuji), Naruto, Digimon (not so much Pokemon, tho :P), Witchblade, DBZ and Sailor Moon (i was 12, gimme a break :P) (and many others i've forgotten :/ feel free to suggest titles)

B''. since i've got to anime series, might as well mention the others, too (tho, arguably, this will be a very gruelling task as i may have forgotten many of my beloveds from my by-gone days of tivo idling). but, tentatively, here we go (mind u, this is a list of past and present, live-action/fx and animation/cgi, and on the actual tube or on "second-hand tv", aka the Godsent that are the hosting/streaming sites):
Farscape, Fringe, Heroes, Andromeda, Babylon 5, Stargate (haven't watched much of the Atlantis spin-off, though), Mortal Kombat: Konquest, CSI:NY and CSI:LV (the original), X-Files, Profiler, the Star Treks (mostly all, not so much the era of Cpt. Kirk, though), Godzilla: TAS, Criminal Minds, The Amazing Race, Survivor, Sanctuary, Reaper, Demons, Merlin, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (but not too much of Xena), Power Rangers in most incarnations, though Zeo remains a clear favourite (i still am bedazzled by them, even for all their silliness :P), the various TV incarnations of the X-Men (especially Evolution and the original series), same for Batman and heaps, heaps more, e.g. Ben10. will add as soon as more pop into my head

C. don't really play favourites, will mostly just listen to stuff i can find, but Susumu Hirasawa is a god among men and he always manages to cheer me up/energise my work, etc. As does the gorgeous soundtrack of Andrew Lloyd Weber's Phantom of the Opera. After that, i'm pretty big on Ok Go (who are brilliantly imaginative), Queen, Rammstein, Metallica, Aerosmith, Marilyn Manson, Enya, Peter Gabriel, Regina Spektor, Pet Shop Boys, Dido, Roxette, Sting, Kylie, Shakira, Sean Paul, Avril Lavigne, September, much of ABBA, The Beatles, Taxi, Holograf and Phoenix/Pasărea Colibri (Ro. bands), ambiance music like Cafe del Mar, most Irish/Celtic/medieval-sounding tunes, "world music" (Far-Eastern, African and Central-American - the more mixed with rock-ish tunes, the better), a bit of dubstep and just oodles of others noted for individual tunes as well (including movies/tv shows' soundtracks).

D. let's see, i like Chinese, Japanese (sushi bars rock^^), Turkish and Near-Eastern, Mexican, Thai, Italian, Polish, some African dishes and most of my traditional Romanian cuisine; i'm generically appreciative (or at least curious) of most forms of (culinary) experiments. insects can be quite yummy also :D (uhm, fried/otherwise cooked, i meant...)
i don't cook (but i'd like to) [update: have leveled up to being able to bake cookies :3] but i make some mean pancakes & sandwiches, even the odd salad :D (and i absolutely *lurv* olives, tuna, pineapple (such a versatile and decadent king of fruit, but i certainly enjoy all of its subjects too), peanut butter, mince meat (pies), lasagna, various pastries, spaghetti bolognese (and all their crazy Italian family ;) ), cream soups, ice cream, pizzas, cheesecakes andand... um, *blush* let's just say i'm not picky)

friends/feeling needed, God, me & my writing, the internet, sight (you don't wanna know), spices :)

what don't i? it starts from one place (usually my writing plots) and it ends up on the other darn side of the galaxy before i know it. consider yourselves warned. what-ifs and causal ponderings are usual favourites, though, as well as character names (i so love names and decrypting meanings in them) or puns (i honestly carry a list with me *blush*), how things work, how languages work, how people work (i really enjoy people-watching - and no, this does not make me a stalker, thankyou).

probably on the internet, either idle (if i'm somewhere watching a movie or having a drink or smth) or active, researching or chatting. or both. make that all three sometimes :)) results may vary, so try your chances. i don't sleep too much anyway :D even though i likely should :|

ah, the internetz up to its old tricks again, eh? ;) but what's a little dirt between... uh, complete strangers miles and miles apart? hell yeah. so my confession roll call would necessarily include:
- i tend to be cra--variable, let's say, at practical things that [insert preferred cussphrase] society normally labels as necessarily "male". oh well. never stops me from trying, though :))
- i can be moody and prone to depressive dips (see the self-bashing mad skillz above), quite the irony since most people only ever get to see my grinny, joker mask. but those that wish to get close to me, beware: u'd better come packing a lot of sunshine :) [update: this has quite improved over the last 2 years or so, but i'll still never turn away an upbeat wannabe partner ;) ]
- i'm no superman (le gasp, right?), even though i seem to constantly try and fix the problems of those around. sometimes i even pull it off wonderfully ^^

- you wish to grant me 3K wishes, free of charge (and that includes possession of signer's soul. i'll carefully read the fine print, you know)
- you're a real person (no mall zombies or corpdrones, please) - but then again, said baddies won't have made it this far lest for infiltration purposes
- you have nothing better to do, really (how original, n'est-ce pas? :p) and want (or are willing to impart) some fun. fun is always good