So much blank space with no limit stated as to word count. It's an author's wet nightmare if you will, especially when the topic is myself!

To say that the words below represent me well would imply either that I think myself super eloquent or intensely boring. I try hard to be one and hardly consider myself the other though, so that leaves me with a stalwart "here goes!"

Rather than giving you the usual generic "I like to laugh'"s and "I enjoy good dinners and great conversation"s, I'll begin with a few appropriately aggrandizing self-appellations and follow-up by pointing out just a few handpicked idiosyncrasies. I am, above all else, a lover of language and words. An utter linguaphile if you will. I speak terrible French and understand/read Japanese better than I converse with it at this point. I think our ability to share thoughts and abstract concepts with eachother is something akin to magic, and love to learn new things whether mundane or profound. I think of myself as a happy medium between spaz and scholar, really.

I'm obsessed with immortality through the arts and am working on a novel at current...but then again, aren't all authors? XD I'm also a staff writer for an online geek magazine, and a anime/sci-fi/fantasy reporter at local conventions. I cosplay, interview, edit video and photos, write articles of all sorts...and that's not even my day job! (My secret identity is a swim instructor...and a damn good one at that!)

I am a student of philosophy and a humanist, yet I still defer to faith driven morality. I believe a life well lived is one lived with others as your focus. I enjoy epicurean philosophy and have a bias toward ataraxia. I build my own computers. I go to church and love the feeling of spirit, love and community. I still count myself as a skeptic though, and hold that it's important to back up what you believe. I am a disciple of the school of passion and conviction, and hold that these are the keys to finding 'one's path' (if such a thing exists). I am a catharsis connoisseur and a curious, creative creature.

I also like alliterations and terrible puns.

Statistically, I'm likely not that different from a good many people on the planet, but hold as fact that I'm more charismatic than any other 'me' you could run into.

I love the word and sensation of schadenfreude, but I enjoy it most when it pertains to people who deserve it. I suppose that makes me a supporter of Kharma. (Otherwise, I swear I'm kind-hearted and empathetic).

I view success as the number of generations a person will be remembered after their death. I view a life well lived, not as one with no regrets, but as one which you wouldn't change for fear of altering the outcome.

I hate calling myself an 'aspiring author' because I know how published writers view the term. They translate it as 'lazy'. I am not that. I'm published and pretty decently recognized by nomme de plume, but have yet to get a book out. I hope to have it done by 2014.

I like people unless they're malicious or spiteful, and even then I believe that there's probably a reason. Chances are that you're an incredible, interesting, insightful person, and I count both of us lucky where the chance to chat is concerned!