I'm new to online dating, but I am hopeful that this will lead to something good. I am a sweet, regular guy who likes to write and is studying to become a teacher

I am finally getting working towards my degree in education, and in my spare time I enjoy checking out new bands, going to the theatre and the movies.

actually listening to people. In every social circle I've been in, I have been the unofficial therapist

The fact that I tend to smile and or have some other happy expression on my face.

Books: The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, The Millennium Trilogy, Room, Long Way Down, Juliet Naked, About A Boy, Breakfast Of Champions, The Sun Also Rises. I don't really read as much as I should. However, now having the kindle on my Iphone is changing that.

TV shows: Smash, Law and Order, NCIS, 30 Rock, The Daily Show, Colbert Report, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Bored To Death, In Treatment, Entourage, The West Wing, South Park, Family Guy, The Simpsons.

Music (this includes composers): Guster, Phish, The Who, Fountains of Wayne, Dispatch, R.E.M., Jack Johnson, Alan Menkin, Stephen Sondheim, Billy Joel, Leonard Bernstein, The Grateful Dead, various Broadway cast albums.

Theatre (this is an important part of my life)

Plays: August: Osage County, Suburbia, Other Desert Cities, Talk Radio, War Horse, Seminar, Venus In Fur, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Pillowman, Frost/Nixon, Reasons To Be Pretty, The Metal Children, Red Light Winter.

Musicals: Les Miserables, Newsies, American Idiot, Beauty and The Beast, Rent, Avenue Q, Evita, South Pacific, The Drowsy Chaperone, Follies, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Next To Normal, Sunday In the Park With George, Company, Merrily We Roll Along, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music ( I really love Sondheim.) Hair, Once, Curtains, The Scottsboro Boys.

Movies: Big, Star Wars, Dirty Dancing (Yes, I am a guy who likes this movie) Beauty and the Beast, Most Disney movies, The Muppets, any Laurel and Hardy movie, The Marx Brothers (favorite one being A Night at the Opera.) Ghost, It's Kind of a Funny Story, North by Northwest, Taxi Driver, Ides of March, Casablanca, Clerks, Anchorman, 40 Year old Virgin, Knocked up, Harold and Kumar. I also love a lot of indie films as well.

1. Family/friends (they aren't things, but I think you get the general idea)

2. A Metrocard

3. A good book to read

4. My Iphone

5. New York City (I know it's not a thing and more of a place. However, I love it so much. I mean, after all, where else in the world could you buy something like a left handed nose picker at 3 in the morning?)

6. Education (In both being in school and learning from and about others that I meet.)

When my next break is. I love school, and I love being in schools and working with kids of various ages. But, the thing that keeps me going is that there is always a break of some sort just around the corner.

To be honest, I don't have a typical Friday night. I could be seeing a movie, play or concert, hanging out with friends or be just as happy curling up on the couch and watching things off Netflix.

Is that I don't really have anything private to admit. I'm sort of an open book in that it takes a lot to make me feel uncomfortable or to find something that I don't want to talk about.

You're interested in talking to someone new.