First post! Does that make me the king nerd?

First post! Does that make me the king nerd?

So I've heard that anyone who goes through college without having dated is a hopeless loser. I'd rather not believe that, since it sounds like me.

But hey, I haven't been interested in doing things the way everyone else does. Even so, seems like I should go on a casual date at least once in my life. So here I am, posting on a goofy message board personals section, since I don't have anything remotely like a social scene. Instead, I've been reading books! I am an English major focusing on creative writing, and boy do I love reading stuff. I read movie reviews in stead of seeing movies, I read about dating, marriage, and raising kids instead of doing any of those, I read about video games instead of playing them, I read about music instead of making any. I also read a lot about writing. (I'm not sure how much that has helped.)

I used to read Craigslist personals, but saw that most everyone who uses free personals sites doesn't bother with spelling. Not a good sign. I mean, I don't get annoyed by people talking all casual like, and what not, I'm no picky English major, but to not check spelling an era of tools that can do it for you, thats just too large a character flaw.

So anyway, context dictates that I should describe myself somewhere here.

I am a Scandinavian-German-Irish-American humanoid, citizen of this fair state, freckled, brown haired, red bearded, six feet hight , non-drink'smoke'drug'cornsyrup'caffeine(not that there's anything wrong with that) imbiber, and thanks to a gratifying amount of will power, I am not overweight!

My interests are writing fiction, photographing nature, hiking through nature, shooting at select items in nature, driving through nature, studying natural sciences, (quantum physics, clouds, ants, metallurgy, nutrition, wolves, and other carnivorous mammals, and some omnivores and the occasional herbivore) I also like computers and robots.

I don't like it when people think I'm going to judge them for not having so large a vocabulary, because I understand that most people have found better things to do than read dictionaries for fun, and Wikipedia, and the entire dinosaur section of the North Spokane library.

At the advanced age of twenty six, I would really like to get to know someone who has some fractional amount of similar interests, Which has been thwarted by the comical fact that searching for such persons has not been on my list of interests.

Anyway, in the area of lifestyle; I like baking my own bread, cooking from scratch, but I also eat candy bars if I'm sort on time. Despite my attempts at being understanding and inclusive, I really hate television. Unless its a high grade anime or on par with the nineteen eighties BBC series The Secret Life of Machines, I probably won't be interested. I love science fiction, but haven't heard of anything worth viewing. I think I've developed something of a medium prejudice. Genre-wise I have no boundaries, though I gravitate to SF, fantasy, beast fables, philosophy and Christian theology.

pushing off from books for a while, I an keenly oriented towards homeschooling, Protestant Evangelical fundamentalist Christianity (but undecided on the big C and A). I dream of one day building my own house, (our own house,(what and audacious thought!)) My career options before me are deciding between farming with my dad or being a teacher, with computer repair and fiction authoring somewhere in there too.

What else? I'm a big fan of yodeling, polka, trance techno, ambient, “classical music” and I rather like The Killers.

After all that I wonder how much of that really matters, I've discarded interests before, how much of what I happen to like is really necessary? Its more of where I've been than who I am. If I could write out a perfect description of my core personality, would such a statement be accurate a year later?

So thats what I am about, in short. I'm totally not putting an email address here because its available elsewhere, and If anyone wants to respond, you better be brave enough to do it in public, so that at the very least, someone can come by and find it amusing.

Sincerely,

Grady Houger