Well, for starters I’m not really sure I believe in the concept of the self, at least not as a stable and enduring center of activity. We’re always in a state of becoming so it makes it hard to pin that down. That’s my under developed philosophical stance which I accrued over four years of studying really interesting yet mostly useless continental philosophy and political theory in college. I still enjoy it and at times miss it. I keep on thinking about going to grad school for something similar, but the practical side of me that also knows I don’t really want to be a college professor, keeps holding me back.
I love aesthetic pleasure: paintings, prints, photography, architecture, various moments of sunlight shading and reflection, sounds (from music to the shrill howl of BART), warm beds and showers, food and drink,(but I hate the word foodie).
I’m pessimistic, sarcastic and critical but still very accepting when it comes down to it.
I just returned from what I referred to as my "sabbatical", in Spain, living the good life, primarily in Barcelona, with a few trips to other places, including Morocco (partly because I’m fascinated with nomadic cultures and becoming a land pirate (not in a “I’m gonna steal your land” sort of way, but in a way which you can find out more about if you ask.)) I miss it there already, and would probably still be there if it weren't for the impossibility of getting a work visa. I would say i have somewhat European sensibilities, and really value spending time abroad and travelling in foreign countries.
I of course think I’m funny, but I’m definitely not the funniest person I know. I particularly enjoy laughing at the ridiculous, the absurd and the witty.
I love road trips through the southwest in the middle of the summer with no air conditioning. The way one can leave their body behind when it achieves such a sweltering state of misery on an endless straight road is fascinating to me.
People have called me a scenester, a hippie, a jock, a butt-rocker, a preppie and a dork, but I’d like to think that I don’t really fit into any of those categories completely so that’s why I get them all.
I’m passionate and jaded, patient and restless, selfless and mildly narcissistic

Currently? Trying to get my feet back on the ground after arriving back in this country, doing some restaurant work and trying to get to a point where I can eventually open my own place. Even though I said above that I'm not really ready to go to grad school I’m probably going to whip out an application or two this winter and see what happens. I'm also getting a little more interested in film lately and will be trying to take some film and video editing classes shortly. Other than that I’m having fun, eating delicious food, trying to stay in contact with friends, getting really upset at the state of our nation's health insurance, doing the odd art project here and there, writing, sticking my head out the windows of cars and trying to keep my eyes open while simultaneously breathing normally through my nose . Generally holding it together while trying to progress as an individual who lives in a ridiculous world that they care about.

Analyzing, day dreaming, rolling cigarettes, making cocktails, understanding the abstract, spooning and Sunday afternoons.

That they can’t quite figure out what my ethnic background is and that I’ve got purty eyes. I would like to think that they notice I have a penchant for sarcasm, but in reflection I often realize that they just think I have some really bizarre views and strange reactions or beliefs.

I'd much rather find out about an interesting book than recycle the list of ones I enjoy but books and authors I like are: Invisible Man (Not Wells but Ellison), The Accursed Share (Georges Bataille), Lots of Nietzcshe, I Want a New Gun (David Lerner), Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (various), Moses, Man of the Mountain (Zora Neale Hurston), Mark Twain (really though, his dark comedic genius and insight into the follies of humankind is unsurpassed), Bukowski, Thomas Pynchon, Hannah Arendt, Dostoevski, Neruda, Foucault, David Wjonarawicz (whose name I can never spell, maybe I don't like him enough), some stuff by Delilo, Silko (Alamanac of the Dead), Zadie Smith Haruki Murakami (his short stories particularly, novels not so much) Richard Lange (Dead Boys), more short stories that rock my my world with a simple desperate beauty. Bob Lablaw's Law Blog.

Movies: Magnolia has been my steady favorite for the last two years or so. Umm... I don't really want to make another list right now. I have good taste, and am open to seeing more films, let's leave it at that.

Music: Lately it's been Otis Redding, Fugazi, Mos Def, Fiona Apple, Radiohead, Blind Melon, Make-Up,Blur, Cap'n Jazz, The Zombies, Sam Cooke, The Fall, Flaming Lips (early stuff), Jane's Addiction, Nina Simone etc...

Food: Sushi and any form of fish, but raw is better and then there's ceviche to straddle the divide. Mexican (I do after all live in California), Italian. This is going to turn into an endless list. I like it all. I don't eat that much meat and honestly don't really jump out of my seat for dessert. Places I want to go out to eat include SPQR, Wood Tavern, Camino, Cyrus, Delfina, etc. whatever. I love food in all its forms, especially Sunday dinners at a friends house.

Hot water under pressure ( I actually really like to go backpacking, but this is what I always miss the most, along with:
Good cookin’
When traveling abroad I have realized that the only two things I have that I really don’t want to lose are my:
a)Passport
b) iPod (yeah I feel lame saying it, but imagine not only an entire life with no music but also a really, really, really extended bus ride without it)
A pen (particularly one of those G7 gel ink ones)
Wheels (My car could probably go pretty quick and I wouldn’t care, but when I got a nice bike recently I realized that money can buy a small piece of happiness)
The more I think about this question the more it annoys me. It’s just to loosely phrased and vague. You know what I’m talking about.

My future, people’s motivations, obsessions and delusions (individually as well as culturally), how science and atheism are really similar to religions, the Los Angeles Dodgers, why Europe has figured out certain things that we just don't get, this weird world that we’ve created and can’t really control , the eternal debate: which is better: French press coffee or espresso? (one is gritty the other silky, but both nice), the nonexistence of perpetuated dualities, the billions of people running to and fro in their own little lives with their own unique perspectives and frames of existence, what I should get involved in in my new neighborhood.

Sunday and Tuesday are my Fridays. Friday is my Tuesday. I do what I want when I want. But seriously: cooking dinner with a friend, at a bar near you, going out to dinner, taking a break from reading a book to surf the internet, hanging out on the couch with my roomate...

That I’m on an online dating site. Primarily because there’s a lot of people that I know that I don’t want to admit that to. It honestly makes me feel kind of weird.
But… in the interest of playing the game: I get annoyed at people in motorized wheelchairs who think its okay to take up a car lane at 5 miles an hour ( its ok, I can bitch about the handicapped because my dad is in a wheelchair).

You’re an intelligent and creative person who has strong opinions. Some zest is a must. (Being into rock climbing would also be pretty cool)