Alright: you don't want to be friends? Please just say so. It's just the worst to ignore messages :\ I have been the worst a couple of times.

I am here to make friends. I want feel a strong connection with someone else. I want to share new experiences and ideas with someone, to have them broaden my horizons, and to enjoy reveling in our shared interests.

I have a wildly dangerous baby (climbing and opening everything), so it's difficult to get out and meet new people. I don't have as much freedom to drop everything and chat up strangers in public at wherever it is that strangers socialize (I'm obviously out of practice).

I'm a graduate student in theoretical physics. (No, I don't watch "The Big Bang Theory"--physics is not like that.) I recently got my MS and I'm currently working on my thesis. When I grow up in a year or so, I intend to be a college professor. While I would prefer to work at a small school, I will probably just end up at any place that's willing to pay me a little money to talk toward sleepy and disinterested students.

self-deprecation. Aw, who am I kidding? I'm shit at that, too.

My face. Obviously. It's right there on the front of my head. What the hell?

Skip this section, I doubt you really care about the things that I like.

Books: I like to read. I think my favorite fiction authors are Vonnegut, Murakami, Coetzee, Marquez, and Adams. I also like Eugenides, Atwood, and McEwan. I am forever over Palahniuk, Easton Ellis, and Stephenson (UGH). Speculative fiction is dear to me (e.g. Heinlein, Asimov, Jordan). I also really like short pieces, like things by Gaiman and Sedaris.
I'm starting back with more nonfiction now--working through some things on feminism and gender.
I will not die until I have started and finished Tolstoy, Pynchon, and Foster Wallace. Soon.

Movies: I like movies that cause me to feel joy, sadness, surprise, fear, occasionally anger or disgust, or any combination thereof. There's no favorite esoteric genre, get that bullshit away from me. I really DON'T like most schlocky rom-coms, most frat boy comedies, or most mindless horror-movies-of-the-week. I'm sure the one you're thinking of is an exception, though. Suuuuuuuure.

TV: I watch a lot of television. It's a problem. I can't list all of my favorites. Some ongoing favorites are Breaking Bad, Mad Men, QI, The Daily Show, Homeland, Sherlock, and Community. Shows I'm still watching because they're fine enough include Dexter, True Blood, The Venture Brothers, The Walking Dead, Adventure Time, and Futurama.
Shows that have ended but I still love them include BSG, Pushing Daisies, The X Files, Six Feet Under, Arrested Development, Lost, Farscape, The Wire, Firefly, Home Movies, and lots of British stuff.

Music: I don't want to play the game where we try to out-esoteric one another. Only assholes list obscure artists and genres to be impressive. If you have something good, tell me about it so I can hear it. I like Neutral Milk Hotel, The Mountain Goats, The Tallest Man on Earth, Joanna Newsom, Interpol, Radiohead, and The Strokes. I really DON'T like any country that's happened in the last 30 years, or most of the music that makes up the Top 40. (Really? Dollar signs in your name? that's not even an allowed thing.)

Food: In no particular order I like Indian, Japanese, Chinese, incredibly unhealthy homestyle cooking, Thai, Mexican, Italian, French, German, and NOT Korean. Sorry, both Koreas; it's just not good enough to keep me coming back. Nothing personal.

Puzzles to solve. Internet to learn. Media to consume. Goals to accomplish. Nemesis to vanquish. (Seriously, I need a new nemesis. Apply via message.)

puzzles, science, fiction, and film. And food. o_O Oddly enough, every possible pairing of those things.

I think a lot about how to be the best parent. That's a lot of constant pressure.

I also think about my job, so that's black holes, extra dimensions, and time travel.

I'm trying to overcome the butthole scientist in me and learn to be interested in new topics. I've found gender studies to be interesting. Next up, who knows?

babysitting :| Occasionally I will be doing actual research. I would LIKE to be at a bar or grabbing dinner and a movie with friends. Let's DO this.

I have a problem when it seems like other people are trying too hard. It doesn't happen all the time, but on occasion it is unbearable. The things people write on their OKC profiles to sound interesting? The way that guys and gals will flirt with each other and try SO HARD? It makes me uncomfortable.

I have this condition where I will tell you anything you want to know.

I don't think I can message you first. I just don't really want to be a bother to you. I can't really handle the idea of inconveniencing other people. I will consider myself a decent father at the very least if I can impart to my children the ability to consider how their actions are affecting those around them.

I have an easier time overlooking idiotic flaws in attractive persons. Oops.

I really wish I were the smartest. I just want to know everything. Maybe you could tell me part of it?

you want to be friends. I swear that I am an OK guy. I just don't really get to meet new people and want to grab a few drinks.

you like things that I like.

you think it is acceptable that gay and lesbian couples can have children and that creationism has no place in science classrooms.

you can teach me something. Art or politics or philosophy or opera or sociology--just drop some knowledge.