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I find the world's beauty overwhelming, even when people are at their ugliest. The mediocrity of ideas in humanity's modern institutions, however, astounds and depresses me. Sometimes I drink too much. I grew up in America's Deep South -- Mississippi, specifically -- and taught Cotillion when I was in high school. My personality has been to dust and rebirth three times so far. I live and breathe modern-day Rome -- Washington, DC, specifically -- but have an interest in its counterpart to the East, rising back to its place after a brief respite. I've even dabbled in learning the language.

I'm excessively flirtatious and may have the most diverse dating history of anybody I know, decorated by both genders and many ethnicities. Sometimes it gets me in trouble but I do my best to keep it in check. I regret I know only one language fluently, but am glad a useful one was chosen for me.

My heart tends to stay in many, many places at once. I have a vast and boring intellectual bureaucracy to keep that facet of me in check. But, it's good at managing risks.

I disavow the notion of Aristotelian logic, including its hot topic of the day, human sexual orientation. The world is more complex than that.

Like many people in Washington, I get invited to fancy parties and know exciting people, but I don't know why. Maybe everybody gets a brief chance to be a cool kid, and this belated one is mine. I wonder when it ends. Hmm...

Years ago, I got lost on the River Gambia in a rain storm, led by a one-eyed captain who didn't have a compass. On a different trip, I was shaken down by the Russian mafia and managed to get out of it giving up only 300 MDL ($20). I first held a gun when I was six years old and my father set me down in a swamp to hunt alligators. I walked around Iceland at three in the morning, talking to a Frenchman contemplating suicide. I shook over a thousand hands at a wedding in an Indian desert town. I love the national anthem of Azerbaijan.

I have not owned a TV or microwave for years. They fall under my general umbrella of frivolous and possibly damaging technologies. This is somewhat ironic since I work in a technical industry. After college, I applied to 2,000 jobs before I got an interview, so don't bitch to me about the job market. I've managed to perform well over my career, but now realize I probably should have chosen a different one. I daydream about doing relief work in Africa. Unfortunately, that doesn't come with a retirement plan.

I'm poorer, less professionally successful, less educated and less traveled than probably the majority of the people I know. I'm often plagued by feelings I haven't done anything useful with my life and that I have underlying and nearly insurmountable deficiencies. But maybe that's just an early mid-life crisis.

I'd probably love to talk to you. Drop me a line.



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