Your Damon thoughts = my Damon thoughts, basically. I'm always a sucker for the character who is the equivalent of a Tootsie Pop - hard on the outside, but soft and gooey on the inside. Subtlely vulnerable is the perfection description of it. There is a lot of self-loathing there (which is strongly articulated in the scene where he killed Mason a couple of weeks ago), and oh god it hurts. Damon comes off as cocksure, but really it's Stefan who is the more confident and self-assured of the brothers.

(Also since I'm behind on my friends list: congrats on snagging a job!).