I suppose I could add some bland unoriginal diatribe here about who I am and where I'm from and what kind of ice cream flavor gets me all happy inside but I don't think that's quite my style. Although...seeing as this is the intro screen and the 'About Me' section, I may as well give you a little 411. Let's see...
1. I'm big on people. I'm a friendly guy, enjoy being friendly, and having friendly people around me. The mean people, yeah, they pretty much suck and need to go away...them, and the people asking me for money too. Friends are extremely important to me. Life isn't any fun all by yourself. There's no one to laugh at or talk to or have crazy adventures with. So friends are always a good thing to have around. When I'm not around friends, I tend to watch people a lot. Not in like some sort of stalker creepy way, but just sort of like when you're standing around at the mall and waiting for someone and you're looking around at what everyone else is doing around you. You watch how they interact with each other, how people react to what's going on around them, the friends they spend their time with. You start to ask questions in your head too, or at least I do. What got them up today? Are they someone important? What made that old lady so pissed off? How does a 9 year old have enough cash for all those toys, and why do his parents let him run up and down the escalator like that? Did that guy really just eat his 9th Auntie Anne pretzel? For some reason, these things intrigue me. I try to figure out the answers, even though I rarely run up and try to find out for sure. Now, if only I could figure my own life out, I'd be set.
2. You know how there are a lot of people out there that get to college and don't know what they want to do with their lives? They sit there with a big 'Undecided' sign on their dorm door until Junior year when their parents threaten to cancel their tuition payments, and they end up as a Communications or English Major, which imo are the most unspecific majors ever created. And not to knock on either, since there are plenty of people in those majors that I'm sure actually -do- have a plan...but for the people I'm describing, choosing that major means they're still undecided and went with the safest undecidable bet. My problem is the exact opposite. I know what I want to do with my life. The problem is, I have -too- many goals for my life. Instead of having no path to walk down, I walked through the Forest and found 20 different ways to go. I want to explore every one of them and I'm still stuck at the fork in the road. How does one choose?
3. I spend entirely too much time on frivolous (or rather, what others view to be frivolous) things, as noted in numero uno above, and not enough time on the really important stuff (see ..2). Yet, for some reason, I don't know how to motivate myself to change the priority around. If anyone has any insight into this dilemma, I'll gladly buy you a scoop of (insert happy ice cream flavor here) and talk it over. In the meantime, though, I'll just go on enjoying my vices: movies, television, music, computers, and women. The fab five, not in that particular order, either. I saved the best for last. I think Simon Wilder summed it up pretty well: "Yes, they are, they're perfect. Don't matter if they're skinny, fat, blond or blue. If a woman is willing to give you her love, Harvard, it's the greatest gift in the world. Makes you taller, makes you smarter, makes your teeth shine. Boy, oh, boy, women are perfect."