bleeding heart, unabashedly sentimental, slightly paranoid, regretfully pessimistic, spiritually atheistic, obsessively nostalgic, deeply affectionate, frequently morbid, technologically challenged, hungry for knowledge, anti-authoritarian, anti-institutional, anti-McStarbucks, anti-cool, pro-diversity, pro-androgyny, pro-feminist, death fearing, health obsessed, easily depressed, pathetically impatient, childlike, childish, compulsive day dreamer, oral-obsessed, non-religious Jew, proud user of profanity, artistic temperament without the talent, major drama queen ... all adding up to a static that I keep at bay with meditation and - as much as possible - a sense of humor.