If you are new, read to see what image I want to give off.

[Chinaski]

In the spirit of making it somewhat easier for people to get to know me, I have decided to introduce myself formally as well.

My name is Elias. I am about 1.96 (yeah, that's the metric system, you barbarians!) Although I live in Switzerland and am as eurocentric as they come, I am also an American citizen, and try to retain something of the New Yorker. I am staunchly left wing, and can be a bit of an asshole sometimes, as well as very arrogant (but never beyond the point of self-awareness). I can be extremely blunt and say exactly what I think and damn the consequences, but if I actually care about you I will think before I speak. I value intelligence and culture highly, to the point of developing a severe case of misanthropy because of the overwhelming human stupidity I come into contact every day with. I am a musician; I play guitar, write songs and sing; you can find some material on youtube by searching for either "Elijah Fynmore" (my acoustic set) or "Soul's Mirror" (my metal band). Currently I am single and depressed about it, which has caused me to greatly increase my consumption of alcohol. While I already rarely have the opportunity to consume more than an ineffective amount, now whenever I do have the chance to go out I always end up exaggerating and getting thrown off the wrong bus at 3 am. I also seem to have forgotten how to use paragraphs. Oh well.

[The Curious Squid]

Nice to meet you formally FS.

I'm paco and I'm not an alcoholic, just scottish. I too wake up on starnge buses far from home and hate the general public.

[Woodbutcher]

I too woke up on a strange bus, but decided to stay where I was. How the bus took me from Finland to Canada I'll never know, but I suspect it was winter, and it followed a winter road.(Winter roads are made into remote Canadian communities along frozen lakes and swamps.The only other form of travel into them is by plane.)