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As several other people have said, this might just be the best Livejournal post ever.

shameless begging

Since I can't swing the trip myself, @#$%. Is anyone planning on going to Comic-Con this week who might be willing to obtain for me the MirrorMask shirt from Dark Horse? Suitable bribes in addition to the cost of the item can be arranged.

Who am I? I am the walrus...

Today is Sweetmorn, day 55 in the season of Confusion, 3270.

I asked this of someone in an email exchange earlier, and thought I'd toss it out to y'all to see if anyone else wanted to play along.    If you had to pick somewhere between three and five things that you think are essential to understanding who you are, what would they be? (With the disclaimer that I fully realize no one I know could be accurately summed up in five bullet points, it's just a starting point.)

For me, I suppose it would be:

1. I am often outgoing and gregarious in online interactions, but in person I'm quite shy until I know someone well.  This often seems to come across as being cold and unfriendly, but that's not the case at all (at least I don't think so); it takes me a little while to get past the fear of reaching out to other people in person.  If you know me from online and then meet me in real life situations, you might be a bit taken aback to notice that while I may flirt outrageously or talk non-stop online, I at first will probably be fidgety and nervous and have trouble making direct eye contact when I first interact with you in other settings.
   
2. I am depressed to varying degrees more often than not.  Usually I manage to stay functional, but at times I will withdraw into a shell and not have the energy to do the social things I otherwise enjoy or the motivation to do stuff like answer email in a timely fashion.  That last bit has been especially true in the last year or so.  My antisocial tendencies are almost always due to depression and not any lack of desire to hang out with people.
   
3. I need some kind of calendar/scheduling program; without one I chronically forget things I'm supposed to be doing.  My schedules slip because I get distracted and wander off to (OOH, SHINY!!) other things if I don't have it written down in front of me that "I will do this at this time".  I think this ties in to my lack of focus that might be depression-related, might be ADD-related, not entirely sure which (if not both).
   
4. I also need time to be by myself.  I chafe at the idea of spending all day, every day in the company of someone, anyone, else;  it drives me crazy. Even if it's just retreating upstairs for a bit with a book and/or a CD, I need that separation. 
   
5. While I certainly ogle attractive members of the appropriate sex(es), what really, seriously attracts me to someone is their brain.  I have a bit of a fetish for smart people, I must confess.  I've developed crushes to varying degrees on several folks on my friends list that I may or may not have ever met in person (such as this person, or this one, or this one, among many examples; shut up, Brian ;) ) just by virtue of reading what they have to say and really enjoying the way they say it.

Hrm, that was an easier list to come up with than I thought, but I'll stick with my original "up to five" plan.