hi, my name's seth. my old self-summary was really long and i thought i'd try a different tack since my life changed enough to warrant a rewrite anyway.

BEFORE I BEGIN:
I am looking for somebody who goes to UofA that would be willing to let me buy their annual UofA bus pass from them. if you drive and won't be using your buspass, and want to hook me up, i will pay you the 140$ or so and be very grateful. i'm going to Pima Community College this year, and could really use it.

UNSEXY BUSPASS UPDATE: um, i put the buspass thing up probably three months ago almost, and NOT A SINGLE PERSON has even mentioned it to me, so THANKS FOR YOUR GENEROSITY, U of A STUDENTS OF OKCUPID! i look forward to academically DOMMING you in the future.

PS, if some u of a person wants to hook it up (AGAIN, at NO COST TO YOU, i will pay for it, it's included in your tuition to have a cheap annual buspass) PLEASE DO. prove me wrong, and do a good deed.

i'm a state certified caregiver and my last job was doing full time private in home care for a really cool guy named ray. ray passed on on april 1st, 2008 and i took the money i'd saved and i moved out of my apartment and back down to the phoenixish area. to chandler. into my aunts house.

UPDATE (5/23/09): ...and then into my boyfriend's house. in tucson.

i don't have a car or a license and i never have had either of those things... and don't really care to if it's at all avoidable. i DID learn how to drive in 2007, but yeah. thought you should know that before you read further. some people think it's really fucking superscrub but whatever. i've made it this far without it, gas is stoopid expensive, and i've seen an inconvenient truth, thank you very much. plus, phoenix has busses.

UPDATE (5/23/09): ...as does tucson.

i could have stayed up in prescott where i was living. gotten a job at a nursing home until the next private care gig popped up, but i thought i'd go to college instead. i recently decided i'm gonna go after my bachelors at least instead of just getting an associates rn- and i am looking at getting into a competetive university program... u of a is my current top choice. i'm going to get my rn, save money like a mofo for 2 or 3 years, get my student loans forgiven while i save and after i've got a nice pile of money in the bank, i'm thinking i want to go work abroad for unicef or something similar for a while- at least a couple years, but probably more. The older i get, the more i feel like the focus of my life is going to end up being work, with ever-diminishing focus on, say, my romantic life. still, i think it would be really cool to meet some guy with similarly adventure oriented ideals to go do good with, but i'm cool with alone-ness. this mexican fortune teller told me when she was reading my palm that i wouldn't have a long term love in my life, just a series of lovers. maybe sad, maybe i'm just not romantic material, maybe i'm becoming too driven to be accessible or maybe i'm psyching myself out with this bullshit. it doesn't matter. i'm going to do this shit, and if i have to do it alone, i have enough self esteem and hand lotion to cope with that. i want to do exciting stuff for good reasons. i want adventure and helping people is cool. i got a fortune cookie one time that said "by helping someone else today, you may also be helping yourself." rock on, fortune cookie. rock the fuck on.

UPDATE (5/23/09): ...having said that, i have a boyfriend.

ok, and obviously i'm long winded. this was supposed to be my abbreviated synopsis.

i don't like ONE SPECIFIC TYPE of guy... you know how different people do it for you for different reasons? that's how i am. i'm open minded, i think. please feel free to message me if you have a feeling that we'd hit it off. we can be friends, too. i'm nice.

as above

and... i just started volunteering as a family mentor to a refugee family for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) here in tucson. They are a pretty amazing organization providing all sorts of really important services to the HARDCORE disenfranchised all over the world. look into the organization yourself or find out how you can help at their website, http://www.theirc.org/. If you have any questions about the IRC or anything, i would be happy to answer them for you (if i am able).

you know what, though? this is just blank space so i'm going to use this spot to go on a little rant.

about usernames:

does anybody else out there find themselves filled with irrational rage when they come across guys who actually put the word ADONIS into their name? OH MY GOD, what the HELL is wrong with you? if you're hot enough to have the unmitigated gall (not to be confused with Gauls, or so i'm told) to even have that OCCUR to you, then you are so hot that you don't NEED to call yourself 'dnvrAdonis007' you can call yourself 'ieatmyownpoopandlivewithmymom1932' and as long as you put up pictures, you're going to do just fine.

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my job, finishing what i start, trying to be nice, conversation (if you're halfway responsive, that is), taking it easy my brother charlie. cooking.

i imagine it varies and i'll just sound like an arrogant douchebag if i venture a guess.

this is the part where i like to divide my audience into groups: people who think i have amazing taste in culture stuff, people who think i'm pretentious, and finally, people who don't know who the hell i'm talking about.

'infinite jest' by david foster wallace is a good book.i'm really jealous that i'm not that clever. it is literally an infinite book, though, so some archeologist is going to find your skeleton holding your copy in three hundred years. be warned. i like tom spanbauer, old douglas coupland, older michael chabon (jesus christ- ok, you're jewish), brett easton ellis (i LOVE him, but don't read american psycho on amphetamines- you'll never fully recover), dorothy parker (still the cleverist bitch in lit history), chuck phaluhniuk (i know that's spelled wrong, but i hardly think that that's my fault. his name's a fucking riddle), neil gaiman- american gods and sandman more than his more cutesy stuff. he's better when he's being darker. um um um... michael cunningham, although 'evening' was maybe the worst film i've ever seen and i'm actually kind of disgusted with him right now as a result. he's revealed himself to be repulsively self-obsessed... i mean, i know writers write themselves, but he could hide it a little better instead of making himself the fulcrum of tragedy in everything he does... it's gross. i liked that susanna clarke book that was so long... mr strange? i don't remember the title, but it was good. i know it's pretentious, and i won't be able to spell it, but i actually DO enjoy doestoyevsky, and am reading 'the idiot' right now in addition to 'infinite jest'. um um um... gabriel garcia marquez, umberto eco, reinaldo arenas, bukowski... the guy who wrote 'drown' is a genius.

um, movies... i LOVE movies. i like the night watch series from russia. gregg araki is an undervalued genius imo, david fincher is great. i like foreign film and that runs the gamut from almodovar to fellini to bergman to the amorres perros (i can't remember the guys name, but he's amazing and is the guy who did 21 grams and babel). i really love guillermo del toro and i think he's going to be revered as god-like sometime soon. i like asian horror but not so much the remakes that won't stop... there hasn't been one for a while, though, huh? i like christopher guest, but i think the joke is getting a little old. um um um... julien schnabel should do more movies, i love him. i think lars von trier is god, and yeah dancer in the dark was good (ok, fucking great) but the kingdom is formidable as well... and dogville and manderlay redefine confidence in the audience. i like julie taymor- she's a poetically visual genius, but i hate the beatles (i like maybe ten songs... that's maybe not the same as hating, but i'm definately a stones kind of boy) and um... i don't really like that rachel evan wood girl very much. i don't know if i'll watch 'across the universe' anytime soon, but i loved loved loved 'frida' and go check out 'titus' as jessica lange is just an amazing (almost demonically) evil bitch.

music is tricky for me to summarize... let's do category. alt-country, alternative (which encompasses a LOT), punk, classic rock, indie (i'm not an obscurist, though- i don't have the time to unearth ridiculously unknown bands, and i rely on magazines and word of mouth and internet radio shows and stuff to inform me), some brazilian music like gilberto gil and caetano veloso and tom ze and seu jorge etc, classic country... i try to like rap but it's not something i regularly reach for although i love missy elliot. i like the roots. in general it's a sexist and homophobic medium imo, although the exceptions to the rule are great. outkast is cool. kanye west is cool, but he's just abhorrently arrogant. um um... i don't hate classical music. i actually like it but don't know tons about it. i like schubert. not into opera, but haven't seen lots of it.

i love food. i am not a picky eater and while i have loved picky eaters in a romantic way several times in my life, it always breaks my heart a little bit when it is revealed that they are adamantly against entire CULTURES in terms of food. what if we get together and we fall in love and we go on a trip someplace awesome and you make me go to mcdonalds three times a day because food in italy is 'gross?' what would that do to our children? i'll tell you what- it'll TEAR THEM APART INSIDE. i hope you're happy.

sushi is good. my favorite restaurant is sabuddi's in phoenix and that's israeli. greek food is awesome. vietnamese food is great. the noodle soups with veggies and cilantro is so good and i need to eat that soon. i love italian food but try not to eat it that much and if i do i make it myself with lots of vegetables... i need to get a grill. not really into barbeque or MEAT as a restaurant choice. don't like steakhouses. i like mexican food a LOT. have recently gotten to eat a bunch of el salvadorian food, and it's pretty damn good. i also love pizza. pizza is the cheesy starchy monkey on my back.

my beloved aunt, strong support system (meaning friends, i guess), goals, freedom (meaning not being institutionalized and also meaning being able to travel outside of the united states and visit and live in other places), a vast and varied diet, media (primarily meaning film, music, some tv and um... i may be internet dependent at this point as well)

my friends, how i can help those i love, moving forward and advancing in life in a variety of different ways, my family which basically means my aunt and grandpa... my education (a disproportionately large percentage of the time, unfortunately). books, movies, songs. my job. perception in general. how the world communicates with the individual. lots of stuff.

speaking the international language of l-o-o-o-o-o-v-e... or studying. i'm always studying. kill me. i also enjoy the occasional movie.

not super in shape, not a big floppy lard ass, either. my torso is somewhat hairy ("ewwwwwwwww!" screamed the 17 year old emo boys that nair their armpits) but i wouldn't describe myself as a yeti or anything (or liken myself to animals in general, ie bear, pup, cub, etc... so strange... what's that even about?).

On Second Thought: UPDATE 5/23/09-You know what, though? I'm pretty much sexually retarded, so i concede the possibility that my discomfort is my own problem. Also, i think it's pretty cool when people are comfortable in their own skin. I myself am NOT that comfortable in my own skin, and i never have been, so who knows? maybe i'm JEALOUS?! MAYBE I HAVE BEAR ENVY?!

please don't come on really strong, i know you don't mean it and it just makes you look emotionally retarded. i don't have brain damage and i handily recognize bullshit.

not snobby, don't drive, not slutty, not prudish either... i don't have TONS of time to be reassuring you that i care about you on the phone, so if you're emotionally stunted or immature, maybe you want to pass on me. just be secure with yourself, be NICE, and um... yeah, i guess that's it. i'm on yahoo im once in a while, youreviltwin1981, if you are so inclined.

you have a feeling that we'd get along.

OR:

if you are a guy who identifies as either gay or bisexual and have NOT cited David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs or Gregory Maguire as favorite authors... it would be like getting a message from a unicorn or el chupacabra or something, and it would EASILY make my week.

You should NOT message me if:

YOUR ENTIRE PROFILE IS IN CAPS BECAUSE WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?

You should NOT message me if your profile reads something like this:

I AM A 23 YEAR OLD GAY BOI LOL ,I LOVE TECHNO ALMOST ANY KIND WILL DO, I LOVE ROMANCE, LOL LOLZ OMG SRSLY LOL LOL WHEEEE I'M A FUCKING IDIOT

(btw, i only embellished from LOLZ on- the majority of that sentence is from a real profile on okcupid.)

please note that i don't mind gayness or flamboyance or superduper mega gayness. i DO mind the incredibly stupid. the guy who wrote the profile blurb above probably needs to be in a group home.

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