For the sake of getting to know all of you reading my journal, here's a meme from hatman!

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 others can play along.

The ones he picked for me and my answers follow!

1. d&d: I started playing Dungeons & Dragons when I was ten. My babysitter and her husband (who at that point were more like friends than people taking care of me) taught me and two other kids she looked after how to play. It became one of our favorite passtimes, and I always remember it as the most fun I had during the years we played together. Once I started high school, we didn't play anymore, and I've missed it terribly. I've played with some people at college, but we always run out of time with classes and everything else. Hopefully I'll have a regular group again some day.

2. millennium actress: An anime directed by Satoshi Kon. I first saw it on a day I was home sick from school. I felt really terrible, so my dad took me to rent a movie so I could just sit on the couch and relax. I picked Millennim Actress because I liked the cover... and then proceeded to watch it once with subtitles, and I loved it so much that I immediately put it back in to watch it without subs. My dad came home from work half way through, so we started it again from the beginning. So, I watched it 2.5 times in one day, and since that have bought it and watched it countless times more. I also watched it on my first date with my boyfriend.

3. peach juice: Peach juice! It's so yummy! I don't know what more to say... hehe. I really like it. Peach necar is really strong, but nice mixed with other things.

4. costumes: I've always liked costumes as long as I can remember. My mother and I would make a halloween costume for me every other year, and then I would wear it 2 years in a row. In high school I started making one each year. I also put together some costumes for rennaisance faires starting around middle school. Then I found some friends who were into cosplay and realized that costumes didn't have to be just for halloween and renn faires! Since then I've made lots and lots and lots of costumes. I think it's one of the most fun things ever. When I'm in a costume, I can be whoever I want, and I feel a certain kind of freedom to be more wild and interesting than my normally more reserved self. Kind of like being on the internet!

5. purple: My favorite color. I also like green, and the two together make a nice combination. I died part of my hair purple a few times. I also have a lot of purple clothes.

6. R. Scott Bakker: R. Scott Bakker is a fantasy author from Canada. I really like his style. I like his The Second Apocalypse series (see below) better than his book Neuropath, but Neuropath still had some interesting ideas. I'd like to see what he'd come up with if he wrote philosophy.

7. The Second Apocalypse: A very loooong series by R. Scott Bakker (see above). It's a fantasy series set in Earwa, which rather obviously parallels certain parts of real world geography and history, but with magic and prophets. The series is incredibly disturbing, and perhaps belongs partly in the horror genre as well as fantasy, but despite how much it disturbs me I can't stop reading! I am fascinated by the world and the characters Bakker has created, and his writing is of top quality (aside from a few overused phrases, like "the darkness came swirling down," which he seems to use every freaking time someone is killed. hmm.)


p.s. Look! Adorable robot! http://www.tweenbots.com/
Thanks to sky for sharing that one. ^_^