5 things about moi:

1. I'm a huge geek. Video games, cartoons, anime, sci-fi, fantasy, I love it all and being a geek-of-all-trades. I do enjoy sundry other things of course, such as hiking, sports, cooking, etc. I'm just a geek first and foremost.

2. I have a tendency to be too imaginative for my own good, in the sense that what I'm thinking often only makes sense in my head until I explain it to others. But then it tends to get good laughs, which is a plus.

3. I am greatly driven by logic. Even in emotionally-charged situations, logic still tends to dictate my words and actions, which I've been told can be quite maddening sometimes by a rampaging significant other.

4. I'm a very optimistic and upbeat person but at the same time am a secular humanist and tend to have a very bleak view of humanity. An odd pairing of outlooks, but it works somehow.

5. I live in the lovely Hollywood District in northeast Portland. I've also lived in Corvallis and Eugene to attend OSU and UO, in central and southern California, and in Texas and Arizona.

In addition to working 30+ hours a week for DHS I'm going to PSU to finish up my undergrad in Political Science. 'Finish up' being a loose term, as I've still got 2 years to go. But who's counting? :)

listening to others and offering up advice, and being the upbeat conversationalist in most any given situation.

Oh and word games; My vision of Heaven isn't much different than the traditional floating paradise, with the exception that mine is strewn with innumerable Scrabble and Boggle pieces and hot intellectual angel logophiles to enjoy them with.

is my extreme ectomorphiness. Also most people seem to be more than a little surprised at such a deep voice coming from such a thin gronky frame.

Books/Authors Some of my favorites are: Neil Gaiman, Anne Rice, Alan Weisman, Chalmers Johnson, Greg Palast, and David Sedaris. American Gods, Memnoch the Devil and The World Without Us are the three most influential books I've read in the last couple years.

Movies V for Vendetta, the Departed, Fifth Element, Gladiatory, Love Actually, Moulin Rouge, Shortbus, the Maltese Falcon, Cold Mountain, Princess Bride, Yellow Submarine and nature documentaries like David Attenborough's Planet Earth or Life Of series.

TV Weeds, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Dead Like Me, Daily Show, Colbert Report, the West Wing, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek (Next Gen, Voyager and DS9), X-Files

Anime/Cartoons Fullmetal Alchemist, Claymore, Wolf's Rain, Cowboy Bebop, Vampire Hunter D, anything by Hayao Miyazaki, Frisky Dingo, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, Futurama, South Park, Family Guy

Video games Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Suikoden, Xenosaga, Metal Gear Solid, Kingdom Hearts, Okami, Castlevania, Vagrant Story, and old-school 8 and 16-bit goodness.

Music Utada Hikaru, Ayumi Hamasaki, the Decemberists, the Flaming Lips, the New Pornographers, We Are Scientists, Placebo, Bjork, Tori Amos, Amon Tobin, Fleetwood Mac

Food I'm pesco-vegetarian, and surprise surprise sushi is my favorite nom-nom. Thai and Indian are delicious too. Not a fan of Mexican or Italian so much. Mushrooms, polenta, Fuji apples, hummus, herb bread, and mint Newman-O's are some of my most-frequently consumed edibles. I don't drink all that often, only when I'm hanging with friends really. But when I do, gin and tonics and Long Island iced tea's are my faves.

1. Love
2. Good friends
3. Romping around in nature
4. NPR
5. Chocolate
6. The interwebz

the most random nonsensical stuff possible. Growing up as an only child in a small town encouraged me to develop Family Guy-esque creativity. You can imagine my delight some 20 years later when along comes a show that's essentially an oriel window into my mind.

getting good and tipsy with my best friends while playing games like Settlers of Cataan, Battlestar Galactica or Little Big Planet.

I squealed with joy like a 13-year-old girl when Tori Amos touched my hand at a concert, and might've cried. Maybe. Like one tear, max.

you fancy some random conversation that'll probably include many things of a geeky nature. I'm almost always up for talking to anyone about anything so feel free to shoot me an IM