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Got hit up by this meme again:
Comment on this post with the phrase "Hey, bubs" or "Beam me up, Scotty!" and I will pick give you five words that somehow remind me of you. You will then make a post on your journal explaining what these words mean to you.
From shinealightonme:
Teal'c hair
AUUUUGH WRY. I still don't understand why Teal'c decided he needed to grow his hair out. HE WAS SUPERFINE WITH A SHAVED HEAD. Which is why I am going to continue to pretend the hair is actually a small fuzzy creature akin to a Tribble that is, like, always napping up there or something. (And Teal'c cares for it and calls it Fred.)
Schoolwork
Oh foul bane of my existence. In ways, I'm lucky - my schoolwork is art work. But it can be a real pain, too, because I have to devote hours of my life to it in ways I don't think people in other majors do. I mean, today, for instance, I logged another 6+ hours into a sculpture I'd already spent 16+ on. I'm so close to being done I can taste it, but I still have a lot of work to do. And that's not including the blind terror I have for the sculpture: is it going to crack? Will it be able to stand on its own once it's fired (it can't right now. Well, maybe, but I'm not going to risk it). Did I poke enough air holes into it, so it won't explode in the kiln from trapped air? Did I even find all of the hollowed out pockets? Should I cover it in slip or leave the clay raw right through the second firing? I
Ed Elric
Oh, Ed. <3 The things I share in common with him make me laugh. We are both very short and have an intense loathing of milk (I have since adopted his "I REFUSE TO DRINK ANYTHING THAT WAS SECRETED FROM A COW" as my own.) He's one of my favorite characters in that series (Maes Hughes takes the number one spot, because he is Maes-frickin'-Hughes) and I am waiting in breathless anticipation of the next chapter omg.
Sci-fi
Because I was basically raised on Star Trek and Star Wars, it's not really a surprise to me that science fiction is my genre of choice. I love it. I love love love it, actually. I don't always like it, though, because the sci fi I usually end up reading is either too bland, to focused on the science instead of the adventure, or tries too hard to be epic and falls short. :/ I've gotten really picky about the scifi I read/watch because of this. D:
TV loving
Om nom nom TV. It's funny, before I stopped paying for cable I didn't watch half the TV I do now. (Basically: oh, Hulu, what would I do without you?) I had one or two shows I watched religiously, but that was it. Now I have upwards of ten and the list keeps growing. I like keeping it running while I work - it's a good alternative to music sometimes - and I've been really impressed lately with the imagination and creativity going into television lately...even though there are also a lot of failures. XD
From imadoctornotalj
STAR TREK
Oh boy! Well, I've been a Trekkie since I was a little kid. I grew up watching Star Trek IV and the Next Generation and DS9 (Star Trek IV was my go-to movie when I was sick for years), but fell off the wagon when I was in high school (though that didn't stop me from loving the movies and squeeing whenever I caught it on TV). I was very apprehensive about the new movie - I avoided any and all information on it right up until it came out - and only went when my parents offered to take me.
The rest, as they say, is history. It was like coming home, in ways, seeing that movie. I mean, that ship and those people had been some of my earliest imaginary companions (joining a cast of creatures I made up, lulz) and I had spent some time learning how to do the Vulcan Salute and wishing Jean Luc Picard would my second father if something happened to mine.
College life
Oh lawdy, where to start with this. My college life has been one crazy after another, from late-night, mid-winter fire alarms, bomb threats called on the building across from my dorm (which led to me being locked out of the dorm for the better part of a day), the fire in my dorm the day before Easter weekend, the water main breaking in the art building so we had to wail, "but I have to go to physics" if we needed to go to the bathroom, some kid with a toy gun pretending to shoot up the other art building a few months after the Virginia Tech shootings (thankfully that was one of the few days I was not in that building), the Haz Mat team getting called in to deal with an incident in another dorm, to the dance party that took place on top of the honors' dorm roof...
And that's not including the night I woke up to the sounds of my roommate and her boyfriend screwing each other, or the all-but non-verbal smackdown I had with two drunken boys who decided to knock loudly on my door at three in the morning, or the fact that my first RA's brother was dating an old friend of mine, or the single most awkward moment of my entire life to date: walking down the hall in my robe after my shower and greeting my roommate's boyfriend as he walked down the hall to the showers in nothing but a towel.
It's also not including what's happened to me since I left the dorms. Now I get to hear drunken college students singing "Somebody to Love" and all of the songs from Rent and I get to hear the bars play the strangest, most eclectic collection of music I've ever heard outside of my own.
SCIENCE!
Trufax, my life is like one big circle. I was raised on scifi, and so understanding science concepts was an offshoot of that, which only made me like scifi more, which made me hungry for more science (to better understand/write my beloved scifi). I probably would've loved science anyway, because I love learning about how the world works and how all of it comes together.
TBH, I'm really just fascinated by everything. The way humans work, the way animals work, the way the Universe was born, the way it changed, the way things are changing even now, and shifting and growing and expanding...it's all crazy, and it's all kinds of awesome. Science is our planet's magic, and it works damn well. <3
The Big Bang Theory
I have no words to express how much I love this show. My dad kinda sorta got me hooked (I watched the pilot when iTunes had it for free, and sadly the pilot is not the strongest episode so I wasn't to keen on it, and then Dad had me sit down with him and watch a few other episodes and I was completely hooked). It pushes all my favorite buttons - geekery, snark, science, and discussion of intense geekery.
Oh, and Penny and I come from the same city, kinda sorta (I wasn't born here. Military brat. But I've lived here longer than anywhere else, so yeah). Omahans represent~!
Fantasy
Fantasy isn't usually my genre - I much prefer scifi - but I do love me a good dose of pure fantasy every now and again. I tend to read more urban fantasy than anything related to high fantasy - I'm a big fan of LJ Smith's Nightworld series, and I have a feeling I'll adore the Dresden Files as soon as I get around to reading them - as high fantasy tends to be written in a style I can only stomach on occasion.
Comment on this post with the phrase "Hey, bubs" or "Beam me up, Scotty!" and I will pick give you five words that somehow remind me of you. You will then make a post on your journal explaining what these words mean to you.
From shinealightonme:
Teal'c hair
AUUUUGH WRY. I still don't understand why Teal'c decided he needed to grow his hair out. HE WAS SUPERFINE WITH A SHAVED HEAD. Which is why I am going to continue to pretend the hair is actually a small fuzzy creature akin to a Tribble that is, like, always napping up there or something. (And Teal'c cares for it and calls it Fred.)
Schoolwork
Oh foul bane of my existence. In ways, I'm lucky - my schoolwork is art work. But it can be a real pain, too, because I have to devote hours of my life to it in ways I don't think people in other majors do. I mean, today, for instance, I logged another 6+ hours into a sculpture I'd already spent 16+ on. I'm so close to being done I can taste it, but I still have a lot of work to do. And that's not including the blind terror I have for the sculpture: is it going to crack? Will it be able to stand on its own once it's fired (it can't right now. Well, maybe, but I'm not going to risk it). Did I poke enough air holes into it, so it won't explode in the kiln from trapped air? Did I even find all of the hollowed out pockets? Should I cover it in slip or leave the clay raw right through the second firing? I
Ed Elric
Oh, Ed. <3 The things I share in common with him make me laugh. We are both very short and have an intense loathing of milk (I have since adopted his "I REFUSE TO DRINK ANYTHING THAT WAS SECRETED FROM A COW" as my own.) He's one of my favorite characters in that series (Maes Hughes takes the number one spot, because he is Maes-frickin'-Hughes) and I am waiting in breathless anticipation of the next chapter omg.
Sci-fi
Because I was basically raised on Star Trek and Star Wars, it's not really a surprise to me that science fiction is my genre of choice. I love it. I love love love it, actually. I don't always like it, though, because the sci fi I usually end up reading is either too bland, to focused on the science instead of the adventure, or tries too hard to be epic and falls short. :/ I've gotten really picky about the scifi I read/watch because of this. D:
TV loving
Om nom nom TV. It's funny, before I stopped paying for cable I didn't watch half the TV I do now. (Basically: oh, Hulu, what would I do without you?) I had one or two shows I watched religiously, but that was it. Now I have upwards of ten and the list keeps growing. I like keeping it running while I work - it's a good alternative to music sometimes - and I've been really impressed lately with the imagination and creativity going into television lately...even though there are also a lot of failures. XD
From imadoctornotalj
STAR TREK
Oh boy! Well, I've been a Trekkie since I was a little kid. I grew up watching Star Trek IV and the Next Generation and DS9 (Star Trek IV was my go-to movie when I was sick for years), but fell off the wagon when I was in high school (though that didn't stop me from loving the movies and squeeing whenever I caught it on TV). I was very apprehensive about the new movie - I avoided any and all information on it right up until it came out - and only went when my parents offered to take me.
The rest, as they say, is history. It was like coming home, in ways, seeing that movie. I mean, that ship and those people had been some of my earliest imaginary companions (joining a cast of creatures I made up, lulz) and I had spent some time learning how to do the Vulcan Salute and wishing Jean Luc Picard would my second father if something happened to mine.
College life
Oh lawdy, where to start with this. My college life has been one crazy after another, from late-night, mid-winter fire alarms, bomb threats called on the building across from my dorm (which led to me being locked out of the dorm for the better part of a day), the fire in my dorm the day before Easter weekend, the water main breaking in the art building so we had to wail, "but I have to go to physics" if we needed to go to the bathroom, some kid with a toy gun pretending to shoot up the other art building a few months after the Virginia Tech shootings (thankfully that was one of the few days I was not in that building), the Haz Mat team getting called in to deal with an incident in another dorm, to the dance party that took place on top of the honors' dorm roof...
And that's not including the night I woke up to the sounds of my roommate and her boyfriend screwing each other, or the all-but non-verbal smackdown I had with two drunken boys who decided to knock loudly on my door at three in the morning, or the fact that my first RA's brother was dating an old friend of mine, or the single most awkward moment of my entire life to date: walking down the hall in my robe after my shower and greeting my roommate's boyfriend as he walked down the hall to the showers in nothing but a towel.
It's also not including what's happened to me since I left the dorms. Now I get to hear drunken college students singing "Somebody to Love" and all of the songs from Rent and I get to hear the bars play the strangest, most eclectic collection of music I've ever heard outside of my own.
SCIENCE!
Trufax, my life is like one big circle. I was raised on scifi, and so understanding science concepts was an offshoot of that, which only made me like scifi more, which made me hungry for more science (to better understand/write my beloved scifi). I probably would've loved science anyway, because I love learning about how the world works and how all of it comes together.
TBH, I'm really just fascinated by everything. The way humans work, the way animals work, the way the Universe was born, the way it changed, the way things are changing even now, and shifting and growing and expanding...it's all crazy, and it's all kinds of awesome. Science is our planet's magic, and it works damn well. <3
The Big Bang Theory
I have no words to express how much I love this show. My dad kinda sorta got me hooked (I watched the pilot when iTunes had it for free, and sadly the pilot is not the strongest episode so I wasn't to keen on it, and then Dad had me sit down with him and watch a few other episodes and I was completely hooked). It pushes all my favorite buttons - geekery, snark, science, and discussion of intense geekery.
Oh, and Penny and I come from the same city, kinda sorta (I wasn't born here. Military brat. But I've lived here longer than anywhere else, so yeah). Omahans represent~!
Fantasy
Fantasy isn't usually my genre - I much prefer scifi - but I do love me a good dose of pure fantasy every now and again. I tend to read more urban fantasy than anything related to high fantasy - I'm a big fan of LJ Smith's Nightworld series, and I have a feeling I'll adore the Dresden Files as soon as I get around to reading them - as high fantasy tends to be written in a style I can only stomach on occasion.