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I love my opera singer. I have 3 cats. I have a big brain. I believe in personal responsibility, integrity, and honor. I believe in capacity and self-actualization. I'm a geek. I try to balance my decisions as though I would both live forever and die tomorrow. I believe there's value in acknowledging impermanence. I'm given to both introversion and extroversion, although rarely at the same time. I was raised by a pack of wild corndogs. I try to balance everything with laughter. I love to laugh, and I love to cry. I love to make others laugh (I prefer "with", but sometimes I have to resort to "at"). I'm big on balance, too, in case you didn't get that. I prefer "truth" to "nice", both in terms of giving and getting. I'm rather forward, especially if you ask my opinion. I tend to be rather free with myself. I'm rather self-indulgent (I'm just such a nice guy, I don't have the heart to deny myself anything). I believe they call that hedonism. I tend to indulge my friends as well.

I like: Opera singers, Laughter, kitties, contrast, goth clubs, motorcycling, billiards, computing, reading, singing in the shower, conversing, holding hands, nuzzling, spooning, intimacy (tie between intellectual and emotional for first; physical second)

• have a love affair with the English language.
• can carry on a conversation about something abstract.
• think that the word "racist" is misused.
• don't need to be right (but like it anyways - see section on "vices").
• don't need to be humiliated to be humble.
• are capable of critical thought.
• aren't into dogma.
• understand the things they don't like.
• are able to self-monitor and self-censor.
• are capable of empathy.
• know that you can be a realist and have a positive attitude.
• are old enough to appreciate life and young enough to not be dead.
• know that life and death aren't mutually exclusive, that you can live your life in a way that makes a statement long after you're in the ground, and that you can also be so devoid of spirit that you can be dead while you're still breathing.
• gain nothing by demeaning others.
• know how to treat themselves and others with dignity.
• can embrace their vices and still live in moderation.
• know how to drive courteously (and even do so on occasion).
• don't feel a need to enforce their morality on others.
• aren't afraid to be weak.
• like to communicate and know how to listen.
• need challenges and know how to challenge themselves.
• believe that human interaction is the point of it all, that we are a gift to each other, that we are the finest that we can give.

You know... adults!

Did that list seem too long? Like a bit too much to ask of a mere mortal?
RAISE YOUR FUCKING EXPECTATIONS!!!

You don't have to be all that and a bag of chips - I'm no superman either. But really, people, if we're going to play the role of adults on TV, we might as well try practicing a little just once in a while in real life.