Okay so I think my first crack at this turned out way too blasé and impersonal, so we're gonna give this another shot.

It's honestly rather hard to summarize yourself when you have no clear conception of who that self is. Now the last thing I mean by that is I'm uncomfortable with myself. On the contrary, I'd say I'm pretty awesome. But what aspects best constitute oneself and should therefore be described? Circumstances, habits, idiosyncrasies, matters of taste, ideologies, passions, modes of thought? I think by now I've at least shed a little light on that last one.

Maybe as a compromise, I can take each general personality trait and spell it out individually with a particular example alongside all the rest in one long stream-of-consciousness description. Let's do it.

In no particular order, I'm a Kierkegaard reading, Ninja Gaiden(original NES) playing, newspaper comic drawing, meaning of life thinking, swing dancing, ocarina playing, 8-bit music listening, video game programming, gym going, tea drinking, mentally masturbating, conversation stimulating, city walking, club going, romantic gesturing, humorously self-deprecating, nice guy.

You can fill in the rest of the blanks as you go along.

Tack on apolitical, areligious, but not amoral. I actually fancy myself a virtue theorist of sorts. I know that I agree with Schopenhauer on at least one thing when he said that he was not interested in the times but "the eternities," which is why I'm much more prone to study the ethics of politics, as Aristotle would have had it, instead of political science or policy making.

I would also like to eventually get a small, brown, shaggy dog and name him Heraclitus, only to then try and pick up girls with him by telling them the story of how he taught all the other dogs at the kennel that the two opposing forces of the universe are love and strife and that thus, the one basic substance of the universe is fire.

By the end of this page you will probably notice that I find quite a bit of enjoyment in sketching an amusing portrait of my self-conception.

I'm going to school for engineering, though it's really because I have no idea what else I might do for a job, and randomly taking philosophy classes on the side.

I've actually come to realize that I enjoy drawing moment diagrams and computing beam deformations, so that worked out pretty well.

Once out of college, I hope to work on progressing in my self-actualization in New York City, of all places. That's where the dog mentioned above comes into play.

Over analyzing anything, particularly silly things, Battletoads, sketching from life or doodling cute cartoon people, solving systems of linear equations, traversing quite possibly the entire spectrum of humor, telling self-deprecating stories, method acting (especially when conversing impersonally, and I'll take note that I still haven't had the opportunity yet to try my hand at writing authentic, old age love letters to someone, which I still think would be good fun), making hot chocolate, DDR, waltz, Frisbee, and constantly talking to myself.

My smile, I've been told, though I usually dress well enough for that to be noticed as well, not that I define my sense of self by my clothing.

I usually don't read much outside of the fields of philosophy, psychology, physics, logic, religion, or politics. Not meaning to be pretentious here, I just enjoy unenjoyment. Also add graphic novels.

Some books that I've tried to read and probably haven't finished yet: Either/Or, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Republic, Walden, The Analects, Enquiries Concerning the Principles of Morals, Being and Time.

Current intellectual interests:
Kierkegaard's journals
Aristotle's Ethics
The legitimacy of the democratic state
Trying to beat Civilization 2 (I hate the modern era)

I'll try my hand at a top five... actually make it six... here: Waking Life, Forest Gump, Robin Hood Men in Tights, A Goofy Movie, Gladiator, and Network. There's a nice mix.

I'll also add that while I watch hardly any TV at all, I still have one show on DVD, which is Boy Meets World.

I'm open to listening to most music anytime and have listened to much more normal things up until recently, though now in my own time I usually stick to obscure, weird things like Nerdcore and video game related music. Favorites include The Protomen, YTCracker, MC Hawking, The Minibosses, Powerglove, and music from the Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Megaman, and Castlevania series. The latter group is mostly constituted by remixes, be they electronic, rock, or orchestral. However, my favorite thing to listen to will forever and always be the 5 Centimeters per Second OST.

Whatever healthy stuff I can afford to cook for myself.

Philosophy
Nintendo
human contact
a sketchbook
public transportation
my mp3 player

Everything, including questions regarding the self and identity, ethics, the meaning of life, what it means to be human, the nature of the universe, how I should waste my time, what would make for a good comic.

Playing Mario Kart.

Or if I'm at the arcade, playing Time Crisis 2.

I buy books much faster than I can read them, so they end up all piled up.

Whenever I try to draw a certain facial expression on one of my comic characters, I unconsciously make that same expression on my face in order to get it right.

I've already reached the pinnacle of my quest to become a purposeful human being by beating Through the Fire and the Flames in Guitar Hero on expert(no more than 3 times). It can only go down hill from here.

I used to nerdily believe that emulating DDR while dancing at a club was acceptable. Wow was that stupid.

I'm accustomed to eating approximately the same things in the same portions every day, albeit with variations in spices and sauces. Food = fuel.

I can only play fake drums.

You're a weirdo.

Or if you enjoy engaging in Socratic dialogue.

This quote gives a good insight into my thoughts on relationships, platonic or not, at the moment:

"Certainly friendship calls for an understanding, but not the kind in which the one always knows what the other is going to say, no indeed, what it needs is that the one never knows what the other is going to say. If it got to that point the friendship would be over."
S. Kierkegaard