Mmmm... procrastination...
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jeymienComment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along.
It's quite possible this will be incredibly spammy! Cause I can be very longwinded about things I like.
erinm_4600 chose:
It's quite possible this will be incredibly spammy! Cause I can be very longwinded about things I like.
erinm_4600 chose:Canadian Studies - Well, when I was first choosing stuff for my degree, I spent my first two years going back and forth between geography and sociology for my minor and I really couldn't find anything at the 300 level for either that I wanted to take. Then I discovered the interdisciplinary Canadian Studies program and decided hey, that looks easy. (yeah, basically what I thought). And I got to take stuff from all different areas as long as they were Canadian! It seemed pretty cool. By the time I was at the end of my degree, I was in an advanced honors reading couse for Canadian Studies and wishing I'd made THAT my major instead of anthropology. It's really a fascinating area, getting to study about your home country from so many different backgrounds, rather than just sticking to history classes.
David and Leigh Eddings - I think books by these two authors were some of the first I ever read. (Other than Tolkien cause man, who hasn't read The Hobbit and if you haven't, go do so!) I now own all the books these two have ever wrritten. David didn't get his wife co-author credit until he'd written about 4 series. I highly recommend anything written by them, but definitely start with the Belgariad quintet. These are classics to me. I also wish I could write like these two. They were and are a huge inspiration to me when it comes to writing.
Gaming - I'm an avid gamer. From my first time playing computer games on a Commodore 64 and picking up controllers for SEGA and NINTENDO games, I've been into gaming. I currently own a wii, 2 ps2's, xbox 360 elite, my pc, a psp, a ds lite, a gameboy advance, a game boy color, 2 original NES, a sega game gear and a sega genesis. I suppose if I had been more into sega I'd have a dreamcast (sega fan boys look down on me not having one). Anyways, I currently am hugely into World of Warcraft. I'm beta testing their expansion right now and REALLY looking forward to it being released.
Iron Man - I have to admit to being a late comer to the Iron Man phenomenon. I never read the comics. I didn't even think I'd go see it right away, but a friend dragged me to the opening weekend and I walked out in love. Sure, it didn't help that Robert Downey Jr is possibly the sexiest man alive (to me).. but I loved the movie, and it was the best of the summer for me so far (The Dark Knight is running a close second though - it just didn't have RDJ). So now I'm hooked.
Mercedes Lackey - another amazing author. (I read alot). In fact, she's an inspiration to me, I'd love to write like her some day. Her Valdemar books are some of the best I've ever read. I wish I had a Companion.. or a Tayledras bird.. or elemental powers like in her Elemental books.
MUDs - Well, this goes back to gaming. Back in the summer of 1998, I was living in dorms on campus and playing FF7. I had made it to Sephiroth and kept dying to his supernova (drove me nuts). So anyways, the friend of mine who'd lent me his FF7 game was playing this text game online all the time, called Astaria. And foolish me, I asked about it. So I rolled up my first character on there and started. Anyways, a MUD is a Multi-User Dungeon, and they are the forerunners of today's MMORPGs. I still play Astaria to this day actually. I've got a link to it on my page here too. Most muds have died out now, what with graphical games attracting people and such, but there's a few still going. Astaria at one point had over 200 people on at night, now it's dwindled to maybe 30 or so when I pop in (I fully admit I probably help contribute to this, as I am not on there as much as I used to be). But it's where I met alot of friends, people who I care about alot. Some of my best friends were made on there. I had a bridesmaid come from Detroit to be in my wedding, met her through MUDS.
Robert Jordan - another favorite author. His Wheel of Time series is all I've really read of his though. Sadly, he died without finishing this series, but the last book will supposedly be ghostwritten with all the information he managed to write out before dying. The world is a less bright place without this man in it. Just like David and Leigh Eddings and Mercedes Lackey, I look up to this author. (even if he seemed to get mired down in the middle of the series - I still bought them and read them, that says something).
David and Leigh Eddings - I think books by these two authors were some of the first I ever read. (Other than Tolkien cause man, who hasn't read The Hobbit and if you haven't, go do so!) I now own all the books these two have ever wrritten. David didn't get his wife co-author credit until he'd written about 4 series. I highly recommend anything written by them, but definitely start with the Belgariad quintet. These are classics to me. I also wish I could write like these two. They were and are a huge inspiration to me when it comes to writing.
Gaming - I'm an avid gamer. From my first time playing computer games on a Commodore 64 and picking up controllers for SEGA and NINTENDO games, I've been into gaming. I currently own a wii, 2 ps2's, xbox 360 elite, my pc, a psp, a ds lite, a gameboy advance, a game boy color, 2 original NES, a sega game gear and a sega genesis. I suppose if I had been more into sega I'd have a dreamcast (sega fan boys look down on me not having one). Anyways, I currently am hugely into World of Warcraft. I'm beta testing their expansion right now and REALLY looking forward to it being released.
Iron Man - I have to admit to being a late comer to the Iron Man phenomenon. I never read the comics. I didn't even think I'd go see it right away, but a friend dragged me to the opening weekend and I walked out in love. Sure, it didn't help that Robert Downey Jr is possibly the sexiest man alive (to me).. but I loved the movie, and it was the best of the summer for me so far (The Dark Knight is running a close second though - it just didn't have RDJ). So now I'm hooked.
Mercedes Lackey - another amazing author. (I read alot). In fact, she's an inspiration to me, I'd love to write like her some day. Her Valdemar books are some of the best I've ever read. I wish I had a Companion.. or a Tayledras bird.. or elemental powers like in her Elemental books.
MUDs - Well, this goes back to gaming. Back in the summer of 1998, I was living in dorms on campus and playing FF7. I had made it to Sephiroth and kept dying to his supernova (drove me nuts). So anyways, the friend of mine who'd lent me his FF7 game was playing this text game online all the time, called Astaria. And foolish me, I asked about it. So I rolled up my first character on there and started. Anyways, a MUD is a Multi-User Dungeon, and they are the forerunners of today's MMORPGs. I still play Astaria to this day actually. I've got a link to it on my page here too. Most muds have died out now, what with graphical games attracting people and such, but there's a few still going. Astaria at one point had over 200 people on at night, now it's dwindled to maybe 30 or so when I pop in (I fully admit I probably help contribute to this, as I am not on there as much as I used to be). But it's where I met alot of friends, people who I care about alot. Some of my best friends were made on there. I had a bridesmaid come from Detroit to be in my wedding, met her through MUDS.
Robert Jordan - another favorite author. His Wheel of Time series is all I've really read of his though. Sadly, he died without finishing this series, but the last book will supposedly be ghostwritten with all the information he managed to write out before dying. The world is a less bright place without this man in it. Just like David and Leigh Eddings and Mercedes Lackey, I look up to this author. (even if he seemed to get mired down in the middle of the series - I still bought them and read them, that says something).
