I'm an optimist... I'm a dreamer. That doesn't mean I never accomplish anything. I just perpetually imagine even more.

I'm a cynic... I'm a critic. I see that the world would often improve if people just lived and let live. Most meddling leads to more hurt.

I'm a nihilist... I'm a relativist. I adapt quickly and easily and feel comfortable with most outcomes.

I dabble in many arts, the most time-consuming being my graduate school studies in computational biology. I work as an instructor while getting paid as a lowly TA, and I still research neurophysiology in the department of comparative biosciences at the vet school. That's right, I am no longer a nuclear physicist. When away from school and lab, I mostly spend time with my amazing girlfriend. We have a poly relationship, so we often go out to chase girls together. We also climb rocks, suspend and pull, pet my industrious cats Applet and Midi, dance at the Inferno or the Mercury or the Cardinal, attend concerts, hike, bike, swim, skate, ski... and snuggle. In my down time, I play music on guitar, keyboard, or saxophone, compose, read, write, program computers, canoe in the boundary waters wilderness area, and research astrophysics.

Since a couple people have asked about the suspension pictures, here's a little blurb: Suspending hurt more than any other masochistic activity I've done, though friends who have gotten branded said that hurts even more. About five minutes after I first lifted off the ground, my body started going into shock. The suspension team saw what was happening, fed me a sugar pill and wrapped me in a blanket. I went back up in the air soon after and swung around for about 40 minutes overlooking the campfire. It was beautiful, exhilarating, and extremely intense. Later suspensions have been much more relaxed and, though always intense, my body now knows what to expect and does not try to go into shock. In addition to suicide suspensions, I've also suspended in superman style in a warehouse, in tandem facing my girlfriend suigyoku, and my latest suspension was a crucifixion for "Easter".

procrastinating, spiking my hair up

my mohawk (I use Elmer's Glue), my amazingly hot girlfriend suigyoku

Books:
Zodiac, A Clockwork Orange, Trainspotting, The Toughest Indian in the World, Godel Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Ender Series, Foundation Series, Walden, The Sparrow, The Da Vinci Code, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, The Big U, Guitar/Piano Music

Movies:
American History X, Gattaca, Fight Club, Heathers, Pump up the Volume, Broken Arrow, Sweet and Lowdown, Dangerous Liaisons, Pulp Fiction, Dogma, Primal Fear, The Stepford Wives, Night of the Living Dead, Blade Runner, Evil Dead, Army of Darkness

Music:
Punk: Bad Religion, SNFU, Dead Kennedys, Screeching Weasel, Subhumans, Ten Foot Pole
Industrial: Combichrist, Hate Dept, Chemlab, Front 242, KMFDM, NIN
Jazz: The Quintet, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Django Reinhardt, Duke Ellington
Classical: Johann Sebastian Bach, Ferdinando Carulli, Matteo Carcassi, Mauro Giuliani, Fernando Sor, Luigi Legnani, Isaac Albeniz

Foods:
Burritos, Noodles, Thai, Chinese, Italian

air, water, food, sex, my guitar, my cats

... wondering how people can have typical Friday nights.

... that I sometimes sneeze when horny.

... you've read this far and aren't scared, yet.