I actually find mocking sarcasm attractive in a lot of situations, but I guess it takes a particular kind of personality to appreciate it

I dislike people who are actual raging bitches, but it's really not that difficult to tell the difference. The key is not actually being a raging bitch, and occasionally people can slip into that particular mode of behaviour.
But what Ileia says is totally also true. I think I had fairly poor first impressions a lot of AMVers I got to be good friends with since. Then again, I was also such a giant douche in my first couple of years on the .org, I probably shouldn't be talking

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And because I have to be at least as cool as Castor, here's 10 more things .__.
- Letting me loose in bookstores is financially irresponsible and risky. Letting me into music stores is financially ruinous. Oddly, when it comes to DVDs, or to dealer rooms at anime cons, I'm usually pretty shrewd and choosy. Probably tells something about my priorities.
- I love growing, collecting, and heck, even don't mind killing things for food. However when it's not for food, I really don't care that much. So I'm cool with fishing and growing vegetables, but never cared that much for lawns, flower gardens, fishing for sport, and what have you.
- Kinda related to the above, I grew up in a big city (or "the streets", if you will), but also spent a lot of time in the countryside as a kid. I actually think this is one of the most important and valuable things about my upbringing, and has really made me appreciate the differences. Given the choice though, I'd prefer to live in a big city.
- My nearest near-death experience was almost drowning in a lake. Strangely, it felt really peaceful .__.
- Never had my own pets, although my relatives did and I've periodically lived with cats. It turned me into a total cat person. Wish I had the space for one.
- I'm overedumacated. In fact I think the only person on the forums here who's got more education under their belt is dwchang (and even then, I think he's ahead of me by like a year, and possibly actually less time spent in education because I'd had periods where mine stalled). I'm currently at the end of my 3rd year of my PhD in communication design. My dream used to be a teacher and work in academia, but once I found out that the two seriously get in each other's way, I'm not so sure anymore... I've actually been rather disillusioned with the whole system lately. But I guess I have to finish what I started :/
- I didn't have my own room for most of my life, and in fact my first few years I spent living in an apartment that had 9 people in 3 rooms (including living room). So while I like quiet space and need it to work, I find it very unnatural to live on my own.
- Back in Russia, I once nearly ended up in juvenile court, and spent almost 2 months not going to school and dealing with police and school district authorities... for punching a girl in the face. Mind you, this was in grade 6, and said girl was a serious bully who was like a foot taller than me. Not to mention full of shit. So to this day, I don't regret it.
- Three of my close relatives were/are dedicated communists; one is a pro-democracy, liberal activist. Several of my more distant relatives are Russian Orthodox, one of my grandmothers is Lutheran, two of my cousins are Jewish, my father was an Evangelical preacher for a couple of years, and I went to a Catholic high school. Despite (or because of) that, I'm neither religiously nor politically aligned, and shun organisations with dogmatic views of anything. At the same time, I also often refer to myself as both socialist and Christian, while mocking some of the underlying problems with both, and praising other things about them. I consider all of that a blessing to my critical thinking and my ability to relate to people. Go figure

- My goals in life used to be teaching, traveling, owning a (small) airplane, and writing books. I'd still love to do all of those things, but having run up against the realities of them, I'm not sure I can call them goals anymore. They're complicated and no longer run away with my imagination. If anything, my goal and focus in life is to find somewhere nice to settle, someone nice to settle with, and to be able to do WORK (i.e. actual, meaningful stuff that has as much lasting benefit to other people as possible, as ethically as possible). I think that's called growing up. Yup, I grew up .__.