Reading, listening to music, watching/following sports (baseball, football, basketball), listening to music, occasionally taking very long walks, and playing Scrabble (I play online at the Internet Scrabble Club under the same handle I use here).

Young Frankenstein, Dr. Strangelove, The Graduate, the Monty Python movies, Rushmore . . . but I'm not much of a movie person.

TV: The Simpsons (until about season 10), The Office, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Home Movies, The Kids in the Hall.

Jazz, rock, oldies, gospel, blues, classical, other stuff.

Favorite artists not represented below include Fred Hersch and J.S. Bach.

Mostly classic lit., especially English. This year I've mostly been reading/studying the Bible, Shakespeare, and related books/authors.

In the recent past I've read, among others: Montaigne, Dante, Homer, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, and Anthony Trollope.

Other favorites include Virginia Woolf, Wallace Stevens, James Joyce, the Brontes, Emerson, Whitman, and many more.

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English PhD dropout . . . living at home, unemployed, with too much spare time and too little privacy . . . have SA, ADD, depression, and who knows what else . . . am very passive, timid, tentative, inactive, unassertive, unconfident, avoidant . . .

I do like socializing, but only with people I feel comfortable with. I suppose that's a pretty big "but," since I avoid most of the people I do know and don't take advantage of most of the acquaintanceships and quasi-friendships I'm lucky enough to have. I guess I just feel more comfortable with people who have some of the same problems I do, which is why I'm here.

The most frustrating thing of all might be that I have no clear goals or dreams--I'm not sure what I'd want to do with my life even if SA weren't in the way. But I think that if I could just support myself somehow (a big "if") and spend my life with someone I like, that would be enough. We'll see what happens.