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trinityvixenComment on this post and i will choose seven interests from your profile. You will then explain what they mean/why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.
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droidguy1119 with the following interests:
Australia
The country I was obsessed with visiting for most of my life. I finally managed it in the first part of my senior year at college. I cannot fathom why I was so keen to go, but I'm very glad I did. I met loads of chill people, saw amazing things, and generally enjoyed the shit out of myself.
Bruce Museum
Back when you could afford to go on jaunts to nowhere in a car and when I lived in a place where jaunts to nowhere were more fun than anything available in town, I would drive myself and my high school friends up north along the Hutch and 95. It was a route I was taking every day to my Senior Options project at the Norwalk Aquarium, and I kept passing this sign for a place called the Bruce Museum. My former roommate was incredulous about the name of this place for some reason, and we had to drive by it. We have, to date, never gone inside, so I have no idea what is even housed at the Bruce Museum. Former roommate is convinced that it is a collection of objects named Bruce, including the two model dinosaurs that are outside of it. I think it's an art museum, but the mystery is too much fun, so I've avoided looking too much into it.
Cheese
I like cheese? This should be self-explanatory. The fact that it's included in my list of "interests" is a little bit sad, though.
CUSFS
Columbia folk know this one well: Columbia University Science-Fiction Society. The place that made me even more geeky and even less ashamed to be so. It's where I metfeiran, roommate of some seven years now, in and out of school, because I declared that my favorite literary character was the Dark Phoenix.
To be fair, I need to add FAS^2 to this interests list, since that's where I met so many of the lovely Aussies I still converse with.
Footy
Australia Rules Football! More graceful than soccer, though just as exhausting, and way more thrilling than football or rugby, though just as potentially dangerous. I will never forget to this day watching a Collingwood footy player make an amazing catch and then descend a full two-three feet over a pile of men without hurting anyone. Part of the rules is that you have to, if possible, avoid hurting the other players (they're not wearing, like, ANY padding). I thought that was brilliant, and this guy came down like a dancer. With the ball. Amazing sport.
Sano
For my snake. The name came from Ruroni Kenshin for my favorite character at the time, Sanosuke. I never finished the series, but when I was unable to resist buying myself a snake as a pet in college, I thought (or one of the people with me did) of the name "Sano-snake" (which sounds almost like the proper pronunciation of Sanosuke). And it stuck. He was a ribbon snake who was beautiful and stupid and lazy (reptiles actually make really boring pets). I wore him on my wrist when I went out to the hallway printer in college, freaked a few people out. I had him for two years, and he died all of a week before I left for Australia. (My mother fretted that it was her fault for some anomalous reason. My sister was relieved because she didn't then have to take care of him. I was sad, of course, but I had to admit the timing couldn't have been better for that sort of thing.)
Scott
I've always loved the name, but everyone knows this on here because of my abominable crush on Scott Summers (Cylcops). Anyone who doesn't know the story of my Cyclops-the-blow-up-doll birthday story really needs to hearfeiran tell it. Suffice to say, I will never not be associated with this character, not even years after I've fallen completely out of comics.
What this meme has taught me: I really need to edit this interest list.
I was tagged by
droidguy1119 with the following interests:Australia
The country I was obsessed with visiting for most of my life. I finally managed it in the first part of my senior year at college. I cannot fathom why I was so keen to go, but I'm very glad I did. I met loads of chill people, saw amazing things, and generally enjoyed the shit out of myself.
Bruce Museum
Back when you could afford to go on jaunts to nowhere in a car and when I lived in a place where jaunts to nowhere were more fun than anything available in town, I would drive myself and my high school friends up north along the Hutch and 95. It was a route I was taking every day to my Senior Options project at the Norwalk Aquarium, and I kept passing this sign for a place called the Bruce Museum. My former roommate was incredulous about the name of this place for some reason, and we had to drive by it. We have, to date, never gone inside, so I have no idea what is even housed at the Bruce Museum. Former roommate is convinced that it is a collection of objects named Bruce, including the two model dinosaurs that are outside of it. I think it's an art museum, but the mystery is too much fun, so I've avoided looking too much into it.
Cheese
I like cheese? This should be self-explanatory. The fact that it's included in my list of "interests" is a little bit sad, though.
CUSFS
Columbia folk know this one well: Columbia University Science-Fiction Society. The place that made me even more geeky and even less ashamed to be so. It's where I met
feiran, roommate of some seven years now, in and out of school, because I declared that my favorite literary character was the Dark Phoenix. To be fair, I need to add FAS^2 to this interests list, since that's where I met so many of the lovely Aussies I still converse with.
Footy
Australia Rules Football! More graceful than soccer, though just as exhausting, and way more thrilling than football or rugby, though just as potentially dangerous. I will never forget to this day watching a Collingwood footy player make an amazing catch and then descend a full two-three feet over a pile of men without hurting anyone. Part of the rules is that you have to, if possible, avoid hurting the other players (they're not wearing, like, ANY padding). I thought that was brilliant, and this guy came down like a dancer. With the ball. Amazing sport.
Sano
For my snake. The name came from Ruroni Kenshin for my favorite character at the time, Sanosuke. I never finished the series, but when I was unable to resist buying myself a snake as a pet in college, I thought (or one of the people with me did) of the name "Sano-snake" (which sounds almost like the proper pronunciation of Sanosuke). And it stuck. He was a ribbon snake who was beautiful and stupid and lazy (reptiles actually make really boring pets). I wore him on my wrist when I went out to the hallway printer in college, freaked a few people out. I had him for two years, and he died all of a week before I left for Australia. (My mother fretted that it was her fault for some anomalous reason. My sister was relieved because she didn't then have to take care of him. I was sad, of course, but I had to admit the timing couldn't have been better for that sort of thing.)
Scott
I've always loved the name, but everyone knows this on here because of my abominable crush on Scott Summers (Cylcops). Anyone who doesn't know the story of my Cyclops-the-blow-up-doll birthday story really needs to hear
feiran tell it. Suffice to say, I will never not be associated with this character, not even years after I've fallen completely out of comics. What this meme has taught me: I really need to edit this interest list.
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Date: 2008-07-09 05:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-09 07:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-09 06:32 pm (UTC)Not that that's a word.
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Date: 2008-07-09 07:52 pm (UTC)børk børk børk, dulce et decorum est, firebending, irrational no day, prince hal's leather pants, swyving, and wit.
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Date: 2008-07-09 06:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-09 07:57 pm (UTC)ballroom dancing, collateral damage, four-wheelers, irish folk music, quirks of grammar, subtle inflection, and sunny days.
(Presumably the last one is not a reference to Sesame Street?)
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Date: 2008-07-09 07:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-09 08:06 pm (UTC)asian art and culture, food, horror, mystery, mythology, roleplaying games, and travel
I don't post memes on my own LJ, so I'll answer here instead . . .
Date: 2008-07-10 12:05 am (UTC)food: What can I say? I love to eat. I love trying new foods. And I love eating a well-cooked meal, whether it's completely new or an old favorite.
horror: One of the genres I enjoy reading (and watching) and would like to write. To a degree I already have--my Warhammer trilogy is dark fantasy bordering on horror and my StarCraft book is really SF-horror.
mystery: Another favorite genre. I'm a mystery buff, and the original novel I was working on during NaNoWriMo last year is a contemporary mystery.
mythology: I've loved myths and legends since I was a kid. Several of the papers I did during grad school were on mythology, and many of my games and stories have featured myths in some way. I actually had a novel idea about twenty years ago that I always meant to do and never got around to. Gaiman did instead--American Gods is basically the same idea but done his way (not that I'm claiming he stole it or anything, just that once he wrote American Gods my writing mine became a moot point).
roleplaying games: I started gaming when I was twelve, gamed all through junior high and high school, played during college and grad school, and we're still gaming today. I also co-wrote my first RPG back in 1992, branched out to write for other companies a year or so later, wrote my first solo game in 1994, and for a few years supported myself almost entirely on game writing.
travel: I love to travel. That's simple enough. I love going places I've never been before, seeing the sights, the people, taking in the scents and tastes. If I was rich we'd travel at least a few months out of each year, going all over the world.
Re: I don't post memes on my own LJ, so I'll answer here instead . . .
Date: 2008-07-10 03:49 am (UTC)Re: I don't post memes on my own LJ, so I'll answer here instead . . .
Date: 2008-07-10 01:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-09 07:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-09 08:09 pm (UTC)brazilian dance, chronicles of amber, forensic science, i am kloot, loose tea, marsupials, and tart noir
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Date: 2008-07-09 08:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-10 03:52 am (UTC)Daria, ergonomics, japanese gardens, jewelry-making, mindless internet games, pegasus, and strangers in paradise
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Date: 2008-07-09 10:46 pm (UTC)Maybe Bruce Campbell and Bruce Willis are at the Bruce Museum. And Tron. And The Hulk. And the shark from Jaws
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Date: 2008-07-10 03:50 am (UTC)And picking a favorite cheese is like picking a favorite child. That you eat. Yeah, I didn't think that metaphor through.
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Date: 2008-07-10 04:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-10 03:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-10 08:01 pm (UTC)anthropology, bullshitting about superheroes, linguistics, planetology, pulps, rpgs, and world building