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About Me

I'm a 24 year old from Pennsylvania, living in the Houston area. In October of 2007, I packed up all my stuff and moved to a time zone I've never even set foot on, to start a new and exciting chapter of my life. Interested? I know you're not, but you seem to be still reading this....so....

What is it you want to know? Lots of people tell me I'm a fairly intelligent person, and I have a lot of weird interests, a lot of which would bore the average person (and I wouldn't have it any other way). I'm almost always eating (or complaining that I'm hungry), and I'm normally eating something that causes people to ask questions about said food (though this type of behavior is probably a direct consequence of people identifying low-fat Oreo's as "healthy").

There's not too much that I want to put up here, because I'm a firm believer that I shouldn't have to put my personal traits up for you to read, and that you should able to recognize them when you're around me.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I get along with lots of people. Some fellow vegans/vegetarians/health enthusiasts/activists would be great, especially in my area, but here are some other guidelines for an "ideal friend":

- Someone who doesn't think "You say "bitch" like it's a bad thing" is funny. "I have PMS and a handgun...any questions?" Falls under the same category and the same rules apply, it's not funny.

- Someone who doesn't have "sex" listed in their interests.

- Someone who doesn't intentionally leave their car clock running 5 minutes fast granting them the illusion of extra time when going somewhere.

- Someone who doesn't have a picture of them with a beer as their default picture.

- Someone whose last book didn't involve them finding Waldo.

- Someone whose profile isn't completely cluttered with thousands of flashing icons and other garbage which somehow performs the impossible feat of slowing down my cable modem to view a web page. I become infuriated when I can't turn off your profile song as soon as your page loads because I have to wait for all 5,000 of your stupid "Boys are toys" and "Sex machine" icons to load.

- Someone who knows I am a vegan and doesn't feel the need to ask me what I would do if I was trapped on some desolate island and all that was around was animals and there was no fruit.

- Someone who also understands that being vegan eliminates organic eggs and milk from the diet in addition to conventionally produced eggs and milk (You have no idea how frustrated I get answering questions relating to this).

- Someone who finds out that I'm an atheist and doesn't follow up with "Do you worship Satan then?" I can't believe in the King's Horses and the King's Men if I don't believe in Humpty Dumpty.

- Someone who knows the difference between white and brown rice (Come on, even if you're colorblind this one shouldn't be too much of an obstacle).

- Someone who agrees that adding Spell Check to MySpace was the best thing they could ever do, and that nothing will ever surpass that achievement. Spell check doesn't ruin the alignment of the sections of your profile like music and song applications (or large pictures which aren't funny), and it also hides the fact that your spelling skills match that of a 4 year old's.

- Someone who doesn't feel the need to post a bulletin obligating me on my word of friendship to comment on their new pictures of them from the latest party that they got wasted at.

- Someone who doesn't use the phrase "Y'know what I'm saying?". Slang or not, yes, I understand what you're saying. We're probably at a point in the conversation where we have (without words) agreed on the language that we're going to use for this conversation, and it's probably a language I'm quite fluent with, so yes, "I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE SAYING!".

- Someone who doesn't verbally credit the traits of others due to their Zodiac sign. This one really frustrates me and holds back humanity's understanding of the universe. Take my word for it, I'm intelligent because I read a *lot*, question sketchy claims, study patterns and behaviors in people and history, and furthering my expertise in my interests in a never-ending attempt to become to a more worldly person, not because I was born on a Thursday in February.

- Someone who doesn't say "Whatchu know about....(that/someone/something else). If I bring it up in a sentence, and that sentence doesn't involve me asking to enhance my knowledge on the topic, odds are I know quite a bit about the thing I'm talking about, and I don't need you to survey my knowledge with your stupid inquiry. (Do you notice a trend catching on with how much I hate modern lexicon?)

- Someone whose biggest concern in life isn't the fact that they're approaching 30.

- Someone who has browsed this list, gotten to this point, might have been described in one of the previous categories, but didn't take complete offense. I'm not trying to be on a high horse or anything, I just felt like typing up a list of pet peeves, that's all, it's just a *REALLY* long list.

- Someone who can teach me how to pronounce the capital of North Korea. (Yes, I'm serious)

- These two fellows.

My Blog

What I learned from the power outage.

When the power went out in the greater Houston area thanks to Hurricane Ike, I, like every good American, rushed my gas guzzling SUV right to Wal-Mart to buy the largest generator money can buy, with ...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:22:00 GMT

Be more descriptive: Thoughts don’t interface from person to person.

I have a confession to make: I hate almost everyone on this planet who's occuption is (blank) critic. The extent of criticism these people put on the things they review isn't enough for anyone (that, ...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:34:00 GMT

The beauty of the English language.

Have you ever listened to a person from another country try to speak English and struggle so hard, despite years and years of practice, only to hear people mock them later? It's because learning Engli...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:28:00 GMT

News Flash: I’m not pushing my beliefs on you.

I’ve faced some criticism over the past year now that I wanted to write about, but couldn’t quite grasp the words I wanted to use. This criticism is obviously in the form of whenever I tal...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:30:00 GMT

The Christmas Beast.

Is this really the happiest season of all, as the annoying Carol suggests? An interesting thing that I've seen in my personal research when talking to people, is that when you mention Christmas to som...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:23:00 GMT

Is it really bad that we were monkeys?

I got into a bit of a conversation (however short) about evolution, and wasn't surprised to find out that living in Texas there aren't many people who accept this theory (even though it's one of the s...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:59:00 GMT

Are we a nation obsessed with protein?

A little about me before I begin:I've been vegan for over 2 years now, and I've endured the stupid protein questions literally hundreds of times by now. The thing that amazes me is that I get these qu...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:46:00 GMT

My main problems with some ideals of organized religion.

It's no secret to anyone who knows me that I'm an atheist. That said, I've been inspired to write about some ideals, rationalizations (or lack thereof) that I've heard in recent debates that I find di...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:17:00 GMT

I was a guest speaker at Hofstra University in Long Island. (Pictures also)

I started my day at 6 am to get to the train station to get to New York City. This involved traffic in New Jersey, one of my least favorite things in existance.I got there at about 10:45, got my table...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:33:00 GMT

The God-Santa connection.

My first entry in ten months to the day, and it's about religion again.I noticed a connection between God and Santa (aside from the fact that neither of them are real), and I thought I'd share my thou...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:06:00 GMT