So, I'm here because I usually prefer a night in to a night out. I prefer to relax and hang out rather than dress up and go party, and the result of that is that my social circle is pretty small.

I don't really like Bellingham - or rather the tone people take in Bellingham - because I feel like I can't be myself. Maybe if I dressed up in hipster clothes and started drinking PBR and wore fake glasses and bullshitted about how terrible men are I'd get more dates, but in all honesty I can't be fake. I'm completely unable to be like that. I consider that an amazingly great thing.

Honestly I think it's absurd to expect me to be able to summarize myself in a couple paragraphs. "I am large; I contain multitudes" to quote Whitman.

Um... okay here's the deal I'm gonna make with you: I'll write down a few brutally honest statements about my character, and if the majority of them are intriguing to you then shoot me a message, ok?

I can be very blunt and honest, and I refuse to censor myself.

I'm very open about sexuality, despite never been with a woman I could really be sexually open with.

I LOVE - absolutely freaking LOVE - to cook. And I can do it quite well. And if you and I ever date then I would love to host you and cook you a delicious dinner.

I also love to please, not just in a sexual way but I like to make the women I date feel very loved. Some might call me a hopeless romantic.

If I'm emotionally attracted to a woman, I'm physically attracted to her and only her. Other girls just remind me of her.

I generally like older women because I love maturity. That really has nothing to do with age, just maturity.

Let's see... ok I want to say something that will scare off the girls who aren't ready to open up physically (I don't mean like "doesn't put out on the first date", but rather a girl who isn't afraid of sex), but I also want to scare off the girls who aren't ready to open up emotionally. So I'm going to make a weird statement with the understanding that it's weird, but true nonetheless:

I think telling someone you love them is gratifying, both sexually and emotionally.

So yeah. My name's Ryan, I'm the greatest weirdo you'll ever meet.

I'm going to school to get my teaching degree.

Writing, tutoring/teaching, reading people... making people laugh. I dunno... cooking dishes that for whatever reason make girls horny? I never got that connection but... yeah. I do love to cook though!

My cane... haha... and my hair now that I decided to cut it incredibly short and let it grow out. But I suppose when people get to know me it'd be my eyes and sense of humor.

Books: The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, any of Ray Bradbury's short stories, The Sabriel/Lirael/Abhorsen trilogy by Garth Nix, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series...

Movies: I'm a pretty typical guy here... Matrix, Blade, Lord of the Rings, etc etc... though I'll go ahead and throw in some curveballs with American Beauty and The Princess Bride

Music: Green Day, Gorillaz, Linkin Park, Incubus, Disturbed, Nickelback, Nine Inch Nails, Styx, Massive Attack, Beck, Dr. Dre, The All-American Rejects, The Eagles, RJD2, Weezer, Radiohead, Tool, Wolfmother, Fort Minor, Muse, Hot Hot Heat, Jamiroquai, Jet, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix...

Food: I love to cook Italian, Brazilian, Mexican, and I'm experimenting with some variations of various asian recipes, but as I can't/don't eat seafood it's a bit tough to roam freely across the culinary map.

The Internet
Coffee
Video Games
Sex (yep, I do love sex... but then again, if you don't love sex then you just gotta find the right person and then whoooooaaaa boy)
Garlic
Alcohol (it sounds really bad that way, but I'm lumping together beer and hard alcohols... they're all just so tasty!)

Teaching... like different ways to explain different ideas. Sports because it heats up this time of year. Ideas of stuff to cook or how to cook it. And about a half dozen partially developed ideas for novels.

Either relaxing in or out having drinks with a few friends in a chill bar.

I had a string of very bad girlfriends who really messed with my view of women for a few years, but I think I'm ready to (or already have) move on.

Oh and I may have cried during the scene where Dumbledore died in the most recent Harry Potter movie and all the wizards were standing around his body with their wands raised. Not really "cried" though but had that one tear roll down my cheek and couldn't breathe right... I know, I know! I'm terrible!

You want a guy who isn't a pushover, has a bit of a belly (I've been told some girls think it's sexy...), and a guy who's very romantic and values a one-on-one connection rather than some variant of "I'm a wild stallion that can't be tied down!". I dunno, just message me. I wanna meet more people! C'mon you're reading this right now... maybe you're shy, or afraid of rejection, or maybe you're questioning whether or not you're *really* interested in me.

There's only one way to find out, but I could be the love of your life and if you don't message me you're letting me slip away!

Okay that sounded way more needy rather than inspiring, but you know what I mean. I seem to like shy girls so my romantic life is a bit of a paradox... but what's the worst that could happen if you shot me a message?