I'm always looking for new people to meet and get to know, but I'm enough of an introvert that I'm not very good at meeting people. I'm not especially concerned with the percentage of the match, its more interesting to talk to people who have ideas different from mine.

I'm a cat person though I don't have one at the moment. Actually, I've been accused of being a cat and have mastered at least a few phrases of cat vocabulary -- though only the ear based ones, I haven't figured out the tail. Cats seem to like me.

I feed myself by being a computer geek. I'm not entirely sure why they pay me for it, but hey, I'm not complaining.

Hobbies include sca, music and composing (I play the harp), woodcarving, and reading. I go fencing at least once a week. I play kol and usually hang out in normal. This list is subject to change without notice. If you do happen to notice, would you let me know? I don't always realize it either.

I have some weird food issues that I'm still sorting out; so I do a lot of cooking from scratch. My current suspects are sulfites and/or Tyramine. Since I do cook so much I'm reasonably decent at it and I've been told that my noodles and cheese is fantastic. I'm also starting to figure out pita bread.

I'm me. All the rest is details.

(OkCupid says I should answer in a language I know. I still think it would be more fun to answer in a language I don't know.)

Plans for life include enjoying myself, finding wonderful new people to be around, enjoying the people I already know, and doing something worthwhile. Just what constitutes worthwhile changes from time to time, especially when I'm easily distracted by...ooh, books!

Seeing patterns in things and in situations. Cooking. Learning new things relatively quickly, at least when they interest me. Listening. Procrastinating. Being easily distracte...ooh, books!

Not a clue, you'll have to tell me. That I'm fuzzy maybe?

Books: Anything by James Joyce, or M John Harrison. Jane Austen, Douglas Adams, Dostoyevsky, Victor Hugo, Tom Stoppard, and a number of other authors. A range of scifi and fantasy.

Music: Early music, renaissance, baroque, and modern classical music. (Not that I dislike the intervening styles, just not listening to as much lately.) Abney Park, The Callen Sisters, Dead can Dance, The Divers, Maureen Mcgovern, pink floyd, queen, etc, etc, etc, ad infinitum.

Missing category, webcomics: Tales of the Questor, Girl Genius, Schlock Mercenary, Ozy and Milly, Freefall, Questionable Content, Xkcd, and many, many more.

I still have not been able to come up with 6 things that I couldn't do without. This question and I just do not get along.

I'm usually thinking about something, but the subject can vary from the esoteric to the trivial. Music, sociology, lunch, fencing, crafting, missing socks, social structures, computers, sex, linguistics, have I watered the plants today, complex abstrac...oooh, books!

Sitting in front of the computer? Many other nights I'm not, just that Fridays end up a bit strange.

I really, really, really want a lute.

You're interested in talking to me. I promise not to bite unless you ask. Seems simple enough.

Note number 2: Ignore the note that used to be here -- the IM does work for me after all.