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[thewingedword]

Comment 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 that others can play along.

seanarenay asked me about seven things:

1. celadon

Celadon is one of my favorite shades of green, which is my favorite color-wheel color. It takes its name from this exquisitely beautiful Chinese pottery that learned about when I was having my passionate love affair with Chinese culture. I love both the color and the art, and it represents a lot of what I love about ancient cultures.



2. foil wrappers

My cat loves to play with tiny balled-up foil wrappers. It's gotten to the point where, if I so much as crinkle a wrapped piece of chocolate, he's immediately waiting at my feet for his toy. It's absolutely adorable and I love his kittenish ways.

3. genetic engineering

I've read books on this, and written multiple essays, and it's something fascinating that always stimulates my interest. How far could we go with this? Preventing congenital and hereditary diseases, strengthening resistance to common illnesses and injuries- or further. Enhancing intelligence, strength, health, and appearance. Lengthening lifespan. Further yet, adapting humans for the incredible lifespans, mental stability, fitness, and unique traits required to travel and live on other worlds. People who are capable of surviving in the dryest desert, the most ice-bound tundra, half-amphibious mermaid-people.

I realize that we'll probably invest more effort into solutions rather than preventions, and eventually into terraforming rather than self-adaptation, but it almost seems more fair to do it the other way around. Haven't we caused enough trouble changing external things to fit our needs?

4. paint under my nails

Probably my favorite part of the painting class I took. A lot like having lead- or ink-smudged fingers, sore muscles from exercise, a hoarse throat from concert-screaming, or even guitar calluses. Something I can show off, and take perverse pride in, and something that makes me feel maybe a little like a legitimate artist even though I am one hundred percent not.

5. physics is my girlfriend

Physics is totally my girlfriend. Sometimes she's really easy, and easy to get along with, and I love her for it. Sometimes she's a complete bitch and shuts me out and I can't understand a thing she's saying, but no matter how frustrated I get, I love the challenge. And I say dweeby coupley things like "Just knowing Physics gives me this warm glow of happiness and satisfaction."

6. sharing initials

One of my random passtimes is trying to match the initials of people I know with quasi-famous people. I, for example, have the same initials as Edgar Allen Poe. It takes a brave and/or crazy person to be my friend, truefacts.

7. stargate (I've never seen any Stargates! Um, I don't really know what it is.)

Stargate is/was a TV show! Stargate: SG1, specifically, since they made a Stargate: Atlantis spinoff recently. Stargate was my very first fandom, back when I was all wee and cute, and I still know people from those ancient days. The show recently came to an end after something like ten seasons, which is just insane. I will always be fond of it.

Taken from arsenicjade 

Reply to this post, and I will write one thing I love about you. Maybe more than one. Then (if you want) repost to your own journal and spread the love.

I really hope people comment for this one, because I love you all and I want to talk about it! Feel free to ask for either or both memes, I can take it.

Comments

[kitaloon.livejournal.com]

\o/, gasoline, kittens, live music, mac cosmetics, switch, undying love

I hope you don't mind me saying that your interests are absolutely fascinating. Your mindset is very different from mine in an interesting way, and so I chose interests that were more "I want to know why this is important to you," than "I want to know what on earth this means!"

I love you because you are different. I love that you're willing to talk about things that mean a lot to you, which takes a lot of strength. I love your makeup and your tattoos and your creativity and your perseverance. I love that, through the miraculous powers of internet and fandom, my nerdy Quiz Bowl-playing physics-loving self gets to be friends with someone as cool as you.

[fallingfortruth.livejournal.com]

I love Quiz Bowl! I doubt people believe me when I say this, but I am such a huge nerd it's not even funny. When I went to the local normal high school my Sophomore year I was on the Quiz Bowl team and in the Honors program. I was a National Merit Scholar, even with as mathtarded as I am. My favourite shows to watch for casual TV watching are usually on the Discovery Channel.

I love that thanks to the miraculous powers of the internet and fandom I get to be cool. :D

(I am so going to type up the answers to this presently. LJ spam, ftw!)