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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.
