My name's Nick, Nicholas, Nikolai... And increasingly less often: Panda. Nikkō is my new personal favorite. I'm a veritable linguaphile and something of a traveler.

I love weather of all varieties, but especially the violent brand. Umbrellas typically unnecessary. I'm a fan of astronomy and trying to find constellations, although I'm out of practice. I love fiddling with my tarot deck. Don't believe in it really, but it's a fun psychological tool to use with your friends. Also, Yoshitaka Amano is a godly artist.

So... I'm pretty boring. And, I think, a fatalist. Just throwing that out there for no apparent reason. I'm rather shy by nature, but if I know you rather well, I can be pretty outspoken.

Also, as can be evinced by my profile, I have a problem with being concise.

Attending FSU as a senior with a Spanish and Japanese double-major. Swinging a linguistics minor as well.

Wanting to translate. Mostly text like books or websites. Despite this seemingly homebound type of work, I'd like to travel often. After college, I'd like to go to Japan for a year, maybe Spain... Graduate school for translation studies... And such.

Erm... Etymology, maybe? Mythological references? Also, typically, school.

That I'm shy and seemingly not talkative. Also kind of clumsy and without balance, even though, arguably, kung fu should've knocked that out of me.

Books:
The Amber Chronicles, American Gods, Battle Royale, The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, Creatures of Light and Darkness, The Death Gate Cycle, DragonLance, Eats Shoots & Leaves, Everworld, Eye of Cat, La Familia de Pascual Duarte, Good Omens, His Dark Materials, The Immortals, In the Garden of Iden, Invisible Monsters, Lord of Light, Lullaby, The Magus, The Picture of Dorian Gray, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Rose of the Prophet, The Scarlet Letter, Shogun, Stardust, Survivor, The Twelve Kingdoms, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Movies:
300, Amélie, The Beat that my Heart Skipped, The Boondock Saints, Clerks, Clue, Crouching Tiger, Day For Night, The Edukators, Eternal Sunshine, Ever After, The Fifth Element, The Fountain, Garden State, Harold and Maude, House of Flying Daggers, Juno, Kill Bill Vol.1, Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios, Only Human, Pan's Laybrinth, So Close, Speed Racer, Stardust, Stranger Than Fiction, Y Tu Mamá También, Zatōichi

Music:
Apoptygma Berzerk, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, Barenaked Ladies, bôa, The Bravery, Bright Eyes, Cafe Tacuba, Coldplay, Electric Light Orchestra, Fiona Apple, The Grand Canyons, Hard-Fi, Idlewild, Imogen Heap, Kaiser Chiefs, The Killers, Maximo Park, Muse, Oasis, Of Montreal, Panic! At The Disco, The Postal Service, Remy Zero, Rise Against, The Smiths, Travis, Uematsu Nobuo, Under Graph, Yann Tiersen

Foods:
Bamboo? Hah. ...Pierogies, okonomiyaki...cosas así

Television:
Alias, Animaniacs, Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica, Cowboy Bebop, The Daily Show, Dead Like Me, Family Guy, Heroes, Journeyman, Gilmore Girls, Hex, Nip/Tuck, Pushing Daisies, ReBoot, Wonderfalls

Videogames:
Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy XII, Kirby, The Legend of Dragoon, Super Smash Bros.

1) Watermelon, artificial flavoring and otherwise.

2) Origami chocobos.

3) My language books, phrase-books, and dictionaries.

4) Cuddling.

5) Novels.

6) Jaspanglish.

Not necessarily in that order.

Languages I want to learn... Fate and free will... Relationships... Why people think and do what they think and do... etcetera...

Usually just with friends hanging out. Also just as likely in my room by myself with homework or a book or a movie or some such thing. Or sleeping. Yay, sleep!

Maybe that I'm a hopeless romantic?...Or maybe that I like or used to like Ace of Base?

You're not creepy.