I don't feel like listing everything about myself, so here's what I feel comfortable sharing.
I'm in my late thirties, half-Asian, bisexual (mostly female-biased), single, not looking. I was raised Reform Jewish but arguably haven't really kept the faith.
If you're into the whole Myers-Briggs thing, I'm INTJ. I can fake extroversion pretty well, and I'll open up to people I know intimately, but generally in social situations I'm a weird combination of smartass and wallflower.
I love Earl Gray tea, coconut flavored anything, Thai curries, and, as everyone knows, bagels. :P I hate mushrooms, spam, dim sum, seafood and sea life in general.
I tend to shop at Army surplus stores for my casual clothes. I HATE suits and dressing up. My favorite color is red, although I tend to mostly wear green or black.
For fun I like hitting up natural spaces (especially the California redwoods), geocaching, photography, visiting ghost towns and abandoned places, and obsessing over wacky stuff in the desert like the Mojave Phone Booth.
As far as sit-on-my-ass hobbies go, I like shortwave DXing, playing puzzle games like Portal, card games like poker and blackjack, '80s-era console stuff (or anything reminiscent of it), and watching anime (usually of the crazed Gainax variety, like FLCL).
I like most kinds of electronic music, '80s music, chiptunes, third-wave ska, outsider music, and deliberately horrible punk covers of old favorites. My favorite podcast is the Nerdist.
I spent my childhood in the Bay Area and my teenage years in Los Angeles. I've been to eighteen states in the U.S, one province in Canada, and roadtripped across half of Mexico as a teenager. I've been to Burning Man, Space Camp, a World Expo, and over twenty conventions.
I've been in fandom a long time, and I used to be a lot more hyper and spastic and annoying. I've mellowed out a lot, thanks in a big part to the grace and patience of my friends. I used to have a webcomic called Dume which I hope to someday revive, although I have a lot of life stuff to figure out first.
That's all the important stuff, although if you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Half-Asian, eh? What flavour of Asia, if you don't mind me asking?
I'm quarter-Japanese, myself, which means I get the brunt of a lot of jokes about how perverse and bizarre "my country" is. Mostly just from my partner, admittedly.
This says nothing about that second face you have in the middle of your chest, nor why it only speaks broken Russian and often whistles in tones too high for the human ear to pick up.
See, now this is a good and proper introduction. I have been striving to write one like this since I started using the internet, practically. I am jealous of you intro, is that odd?
I've pondered now and then about trying geocaching, but I don't know much about it. Seems like a weird and neat thing, though. Don't you do something like hide tokens, then other people find them?
Heh heh, thanks. x)
With Geocaching, sometimes it's tokens, sometimes it's little random junk (like foreign coins, or a penlight, or a kazoo, or whatever), and you take something and leave something else. Once in a great while rich folks will put out geocaches with actual nice stuff in 'em, although that's pretty rare. It's a fun thing to do if you like hiking, kinda feels like treasure hunting.
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I have no idea how I'm supposed to see all these journals and think "Why is everyone else so dang cool."