HI! People call me Monkey. I'm a weird, geeky person, and perhaps the only person who doesn't complain about writing out a self summary :)

I am somewhat tl;dr. But, if you think you're interested, you really oughta give it a shot. I'm kinda complex.

At this time, I am only interested in dating girls. I leave my preference the way it is because it feels like a lie otherwise. I have strange morals like that.

I scored Chaotic-Good on an alignment test, and if I don't say something here, I'm sure that will be overlooked. I think it describes me rather well, if you want a quick answer.

Short Version:

I Like: anime, banana peppers, cheese, classical music, coffee, computers, DDR, D+D, dressing up in costumes, fall, firefly, grey, harmony, html, invader zim, john stewart, joss whedon, karaoke, katamari, manga, mg(b), mmorpgs, monkeys, monty python, musicals, pizzahol, reverse mullets, rhps, sci-fi/fan conventions, stuffed animals, sushi, tea, travelling, video games, wasabi, webcomics, wintereenmas

I Dislike: artificial grape flavouring, assumptions, grodiness, hubris, hypocrites, loud noises, mediocre authors with good ideas, metallica, onions, people without the patience to read my profile before messaging me, politics, t3h sticky

Long Version:

Sometimes I fall off the face of the earth. It's best not to take it personally.

I am very quiet, and also quite anti-social. It probably makes people really uncomfortable. It also often makes people think I'm disinterested, but that's not what it is. It takes time, a certain type of situation, or a certain type of person to make me chatty. I'm not such by nature.

I get along best with people who are open-minded and non-judgemental. I don't like to debate. I'm happy with what I believe, and I'm happy with what I'm interested in. I'm certainly open to new ideas, or new spins on my ideas, but not if they're shoved in my face.

I get bitchy if I feel I'm not being respected. I can try my darndest to say something before it gets to such a stage, but I often find that I'm not listened to if I'm not a bitch. I wish it weren't so...but it seems to be.

I seem to have a much longer fuse with girls. I don't mean to...they're just so pretty!

I recently made a costume that looks like Max from Where The Wild Things Are. I dress up to go to things mostly because it gives me an excuse. I'm a total dork that way. I intend to make a lot more costumes later--hopefully more intricate ones.

When I'm not doing that, I'm usually playing World of Warcraft. My main is Kaleidoscope. I also have, on the same server, a 79 DK, 74 Hunter, 59 Shaman, 30 Mage, 26 Druid, 22 Paladin, 18 Rogue (who is only a bank), and a warrior and warlock name reserved for when Worgen come out in the next expansion. I have, on other servers, a 70 DK, Priest, and Hunter, and countless tiny alts.

Yes, I am a huge nerd.

I sing along to the radio, often and well. Or at least on tune. And sometimes I sing along with the songs in my head, though usually when no one's listening.

I will try any food once. I've tried frogs legs and chicken feet, for example. Neither were very spectacular. But python is AMAZING.

I love adventure. If I could, I would be the first to jump on board for a spontaneous roadtrip. I often try to plan such things, and they fall through because of finances. I am always on the lookout for out of town cons to go to in order to sate my wanderlust.

I'm working at starbucks right now. The pay is shit, but it's the least soul crushing job i've had in five years, and it has really excellent benefits.

I recently (read as: the end of June '09) broke up with my boyfriend, whom i lived with, so I'm living with my mom again. Which is going surprisingly well...

My plan for the next little while is living in my mother's basement playing video games and working a minimum wage job while helping my sister with her store by making a website for it and manning the front.

My more long term plans include buying a car so I can move to new and interesting places. Toronto and Vancouver are my thoughts right now, until I can find a way to move to Seattle, because I love it there. I do not intend to move back to Calgary.

I had a polydactyl tabby cat named Gizmo. He was reported dead in early October '09. If not for anti-depressants, I would have been in a really bad place, because he's been the one constant in my life for three (ridiculously tumultuous) years.

And I made up with my arch nemesis a few years back. We actually get along really well for having hated one another for probably four or five years.

Singing, computers, and contracting epidemics.

I'm also magical when I bake. I have so far been successful in all my baking exploits, and sometimes I'm more than successful! For example, creating a lembas recipe, and finding a way to make cookies that taste exactly like brownies, since I discovered that I have no baking pan the day I decided to make brownies.

I can cook quite well, too, though I rarely do. Generally, pizza is easier. Or Kraft Dinner, which I must say I like far too much. I figured out how to make alfredo sauce using the random ingredients I found in my house, and it turned out rather quite well, actually. I have also made vietnamese subs and a baked fish that kicked some serious ass.

If my hair is down, they usually notice how long it is.
If they know how old I am, they usually notice how young I look.
If they initially met me here, they often tell me I'm prettier in person.
If none of these are the case...they probably don't notice much about me :)

Short version:

a) Shakespeare; Ibsen; Salamandar by Thomas Wharton

b) History of Violence; Ghandi; Mystery Men

c) Rock, Classical, and Techno

d) East Indian; pizza; coffee

Long version:

a) My favouritest thing ever right now is His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman. They make me think about life in a way that makes it all the more worth living, really. I also loved the movie, because i watched it before reading the book. The Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin is also exemplary. It's the first series I had read in probably 10 years, with the exception of Harry Potter. Harry Potter's fine and all, but at the end of the day it's a kid's series. When I grew out of the Young Adult section, I began discovering that the world is full of mediocrity, and all the more in books it would seem. Perhaps I have bad luck, but it's like one in ten is actually worth reading, and it's the suffering through the nine that gets to me. It doesn't even seem like it's worth it. Shakespeare, I mostly just love. Twelfth Night is my favourite. Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Much Ado About Nothing also rank way up there.

b) My all-time favourite movies are ever changing with the win that I've seen lately. The new Star Trek rocks my world. I could also watch Serenity over and over again. Quentin Tarantino, I am recently discovering, is a genius. I avoided him for years, but have recently seen the Kill Bills and Inglorious Basterds. Both, excellent.

c) I love Coldplay. They were amazing in concert. I also love Metric and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, both of whom have excellent new albums out. Incubus continues to rock my socks in ways I didn't conceive were possible. Chris Cornell was also wonderful live. Everything he touches turns to gold, in my opinion. Garbage seems to tell the story of my life more often than they don't. I used to be really into Matthew Good, with or without the band, but his last few albums deviated from what I loved. He's come back to it through the new one. Nine Inch Nails helps me focus. I can't help but love Fall Out Boy, no matter how I try. Where Classical is concerned, I love Bizet, Chopin, and Shostakovich, not exclusively, but more than a lot of the others. Same with Techno (or Dance/Trance/Electronica/whatever you want to call it)--I love Ian Van Dahl, Milk Inc, and Armin Van Buuren, as well as pretty much anything else.

d) I also love cheese. And sushi. I can't handle westernized Chinese food, because I lived in China for five months and it just doesn't compare. It's hard for me to deal with bland food, and I alleviate that mostly with spice, cheese, or butter. I'm sorry, all you hardcore vegetarian/vegan types, but I love my meat too. Maybe someday I'll even make enough money to only buy the ones that are raised ethically, but all ethical things cost retarded lots of money so it's a bit hopeless right now.

In alphabetical order: blankets, chinooks, computers, pets, sex, and video games.

Many things! Including, but by no means limited to:

1) The future. I think extremely far in advance.

2) Words. I like to be extremely precise in what I say. I say what I mean, and I mean what I say--that kind of thing. I like being able to communicate effectively, and be communicated /with/ just as effectively. Also, I often utilize vocabulary that doesn't usually find it's way into everyday conversation--and mostly, without meaning to.

3) Religious hypocrisy. Because there's a lot of it.

4) Making prettiness on computers, whether in the form of websites or pictures or desktop wallpapers. These days, I'm mostly thinking in terms of websites. Dreamweaver is my best friend in the whole wide world and I loves it ^_^

5) Video games. Mostly Warcraft. I'm a big huge geek.

6) Where I'd like to run away to, and how soon.

7) Invader Zim. Just because it's teh awesome.

probably at home, watching Full Metal Alchemist and Bleach, or at karaoke. Or, even /more/ likely, playing video games. I'm rather lame, and prefer quiet nights in to loud nights out. I don't relax by being blasted in the face by loud music, thanks.

I have genetic depression--and if you don't believe that it's a real disease, don't bother telling me so, because it bloody well is.

You have something to talk about!

Because I don't really like talking about myself, so "Hi; how are you?; tell me about yourself." isn't really going to work. That's why I filled out my profile, y'all--so I can get right down to the talking about things, and forgo the talking about myself part.

And, I do apologise, but if you write "h r u" instead of "how are you", I won't even bother to respond. I only barely tolerate "u" as "you" and the other plethora of unnecessary shortening of words. Trying to communicate with me using a sentence that consists of nothing but letters will give me an overwhelming urge to just flat out ignore you.

And if you're male, please make sure you're not hitting on me, kthx. Unless you're basically Gregory House, because then I may not be able to control myself. ^_^