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I’m a bard from Potidaea, traveling the land with a warrior princess — oh wait no, sorry, that’s Gabrielle. But I do love to tell stories! Aaaaand everything else in my usual "This is me!" essay ended up falling under one of the other questions. And then they have even *more* questions! Yeah, I'm not going to get to all of them tonight, let alone fix my intro.

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I describe myself as a knowledge devourer instead of a bibliophile because I don't just like books; I voraciously ingest whatever information I can find, in whatever format is convenient. I’m an INFP in Myers-Briggs terms and I have an eidetic imagination. My top five values are empathy, optimism, harmony, curiosity and authenticity. My sense of humor is at turns abstract, silly and/or dark; so of course my favorite show of all time is "Dead Like Me", which was an afterlife workplace dramedy. (Well, I don't count the followup movie, which I'll just say was no "Serenity", to be polite.) I even used Audacity to turn the opening theme into my current ringtone! I also made my text message ringtone from a snippet of the drumming intro to "Coffins" by Explode Into Colors; great band, I'm still bummed by their June breakup. At least I saw them once first, live at the Doug Fir! That happens to be my favorite music venue… um. Bit of a tangent there, sorry.

I'm a 5'8"-tall white dude, slim yet out of shape. Fortunately, I'm damn cute and dress well! So there's that, at least.

College Graduate

For my degree, the University of Dallas — the one in Irving, not UTD in Richardson — and then the occasional class at Portland State just for fun.

I'm currently working in security. Unfortunately, I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I grew up… so when I grew up, I wasn’t what I wanted to be. I finally get that I was meant to be a reference librarian — answering random questions all day long is my idea of heaven — so I'm applying to grad school for that. I'm also updating my tech skills so that I can get back into database report development in the meantime.

I've been around.

I will fill this in later.

I will fill this in later.

I make a point of going out to live music shows as often as I can, since otherwise I mostly just go home and read after work. We have a great local indie music scene and I’d love to explore it with you.

You’re an unconventional woman; whether geek, nerd, hippie, goth or whatever, you know what it’s like to be different and you like me that way. You’re a gentle soul, NF on the Myers-Briggs — bonus points for using Nonviolent Communication — and you prefer to collect experiences rather than things. You love to read and have a rich fantasy life (and perhaps even "Rich Fantasy Lives"). You design your relationships to meet your (and your partner’s) needs instead of others’ shoulds, and you want kids… maybe not for two or three years, but sooner rather than later. You value people over property, civil rights over authority, and questioning your own beliefs over defending them. I don’t have a particular physical “type” like some guys do; but of course, health is always attractive.

I'm trying to decide whether to switch from LAME -V0 to FLAC. Still using Exact Audio Copy and AccurateRip, of course. The question is whether I'm willing to spend several times as much disc space to make sure that there won't be any differences between the file and the CD, despite never noticing any. Oh wait, that kind of answers it, doesn't it? I guess I'll stick with LAME for now.

I love beer! I mean, good beer. Craft beer. Preferably local. Wine is pretty cool too, except chardonnay, because I don't like wine enough to pay as much as it takes to get a palatable chardonnay. I mean, why bother when you can practically pick a syrah blind and get something worth your while? However, one of the many things that I learned in college is that I don't like liquor (or "fortified" drinks) of any kind. I gave it plenty of chances and it's just not my thing.

I will fill these last things in later.

I deeply miss my childhood mutt Honey and calico Meow. They were both super-friendly, which I've since learned is not as normal for cats; the ones like Meow that would rather be carried around than ignored are really special. I can't have pets right now, but someday.

I'm a liberal ex-Republican. I keep getting pushed further to the left in revulsion at movement conservatism (now re-branded as the Tea Party), to the point where I'm at the democratic socialism and green end of things.

I'm an agnostic ex-Catholic. I went through a crisis of cognitive dissonance when I realized that some of my old beliefs about the world were false. I saw that I couldn't do the trick of being properly rational (equals self-skeptical) about material things while being faithful about spiritual things. The devoutness of my religious faith had served to train my brain in gullibility, which was bad for me, and so any (intangible) god/goddess/pantheon worth worshipping would want for me to doubt his/her/their existence. At least Gaia is right here, and we really are dependent on Her, so Earth worship is cool with me as actually being kind of rational if that's what you do.

I quit smoking over seven years ago and it was the hardest thing that I ever did. Willpower wasn't enough; I had to make a plan and follow through, and I did. I'm quite proud of that, but I'd rather not risk getting re-addicted and having to go through that again, so no smokers please.

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