I am very linguistically oriented. If I care about you, I've investigated the meaning of your name, variants in other languages (particularly ones I study or am conversant in), your native languages (if something other than English), the native languages of your family/ancestors. I have dissected the patterns of your speech and accent. This is a kind of love for me.
I am, at my core, very green. I love to be in places where there is an abundance of non-human life (particularly photosynthesising plant life). I prefer to use my feet, my bicycle, or public transport to get around, though I am very interested in the potential of bio-diesel. I eat less meat than most, and am sporadically vegetarian, because that reduces my impact on the ecosystem.
I'm not very black-and-white. I don't like when people try to distill sexuality into dual and opposite camps (gay, straight or lying, where lying isn't a real camp). Nor do I like when that is done with race, nationality, personal relationships (ah, the romantic/platonic divide; fine if it works for you, but it's really simplistic, and I find people assuming that I follow their rules), gender, sex (there are X chromosomes and there are Y chromosomes; people are a bit more complicated than just chromosomes), politics (I may be leftist in some ways, but I'm more conservative in some others than I'd care to admit to some people). People are simultaneously more complex and simpler than the consensus seems to suggest. I get tripped up in assumptions, certainly, but I respect myself, and you, much more if you at least try not to.
One of my weaknesses is that I rely too much on people being who I think they are.
