My List of Things that Make Me a Rachel
These are things that I like or I am or I do that are NOT the product of trying to please someone else.
1. Shakespeare
2. Bunnies
3. My bizarre but certainly unique taste in clothing
4. The fact that I always want to touch and smell old books
5. The ability (and desire) to memorize the entire soundtrack of a musical
6. Having brilliant ideas for stories/novels/plays that I never get around to finishing more than three or four pages of
7. My love/hate relationship with precocious children (I pretty much just hate the dumb ones)
8. Animal Planet documentaries
9. Josh Groban
10. Making up songs on the fly to sing to myself about my life
11. Narrating myself in my head
12. Fantasy books that start with reality as a premise and then add in the fantasy, like Charles de Lint throwing fairies at New England instead of Tolkien creating an entire alternate universe, because it's totally cooler to imagine that I could turn a corner and THERE'S A FAIRY instead of magically finding a protal to Middle Earth
13. Dancing to music that moves me, even though I suck at dancing
14. Reading the same book a bajillion times even though I know exactly how it goes
15. Role-playing
16. Star Wars
17. Flan
18. Generalized cute noises (While the specific "kitten" noises are most definately a product of my relationship with Jon, I believe the need to add sound effects to my life is genetic, since my mom does it too. The "meep" phase I went through in 8th and 9th grade was definately of my own invention. (If you don't know about the "meep" phase, really, don't ask.))
19. Dirty jokes
20. Love of British humor
21. Very large trees
22. Very small trees
23. Ordinal linguistic personification - which I thought until just recently was perfectly normal, but is apparently a fairly unique way of perception. Man, I though everyone could subconsciously see the personalities in words and concepts (Monday is a matronly and buisness-like woman, stuff like that, and actually there's a series of books which personifies the days of the week, and it always irked me because they got it SO WRONG.)
24. Athropomorphic personification in general (anyone remember my talking popsicle stick? I find most things have voices, and I like to make them talk.)
25. Glitter, it makes everything better
26. Being half a klutz, like, when I hop around on wet rocks or climb trees with NO problems, but fall on my face walking down the street.
27. Desserts
28. DDR
29. Being a good audience at plays - I get told this all the time by actors that I know, especially at the Blackfriars, since the audience can be seen. They're like, you're always so totally focused on the action of the play and totally into it, and that's a cool thing for an actor to see. Also, I laugh REALLY LOUD. So I'm very noticable.
30. Talking to animals like small, furry people instead of in baby talk (not that I don't lapse into baby talk sometimes...)
31. A mighty admiration and fascination with birds of prey
32. Dying and being beaten onstage (this one's weird, yes, but I often get cast in these roles, and I find them almost sexy, don't ASK me why)
I will add to this list of things as I think of more. I will hopefully be able to make it very long.
There are things that I originally picked up to please someone else that I now do believe I genuinely like (Zeppelin, Magic the Gathering, video games), but for purposes of this list, I only want things that I found/became/liked by myself.
If anyone has suggestions, I will so happily take them.
Edit 3/17/09 at 9:45 am: Up to 11! Whoo!
Edit 3/17/09 at 1:04 pm: 15. Halfway to 30.
Edit 3/17/09 at 4:57 pm: 20 is halfway to 40 which is almost at 50! Ideally, I think I'd like 100.
Edit 3/18/09 at 2:51 am: 25 is a quarter of the way to 100!
Edit 3/18/09 at 5:24 am: 27!
Edit 3/19/09 at 12:18 am: 32, wheee!
1. Shakespeare
2. Bunnies
3. My bizarre but certainly unique taste in clothing
4. The fact that I always want to touch and smell old books
5. The ability (and desire) to memorize the entire soundtrack of a musical
6. Having brilliant ideas for stories/novels/plays that I never get around to finishing more than three or four pages of
7. My love/hate relationship with precocious children (I pretty much just hate the dumb ones)
8. Animal Planet documentaries
9. Josh Groban
10. Making up songs on the fly to sing to myself about my life
11. Narrating myself in my head
12. Fantasy books that start with reality as a premise and then add in the fantasy, like Charles de Lint throwing fairies at New England instead of Tolkien creating an entire alternate universe, because it's totally cooler to imagine that I could turn a corner and THERE'S A FAIRY instead of magically finding a protal to Middle Earth
13. Dancing to music that moves me, even though I suck at dancing
14. Reading the same book a bajillion times even though I know exactly how it goes
15. Role-playing
16. Star Wars
17. Flan
18. Generalized cute noises (While the specific "kitten" noises are most definately a product of my relationship with Jon, I believe the need to add sound effects to my life is genetic, since my mom does it too. The "meep" phase I went through in 8th and 9th grade was definately of my own invention. (If you don't know about the "meep" phase, really, don't ask.))
19. Dirty jokes
20. Love of British humor
21. Very large trees
22. Very small trees
23. Ordinal linguistic personification - which I thought until just recently was perfectly normal, but is apparently a fairly unique way of perception. Man, I though everyone could subconsciously see the personalities in words and concepts (Monday is a matronly and buisness-like woman, stuff like that, and actually there's a series of books which personifies the days of the week, and it always irked me because they got it SO WRONG.)
24. Athropomorphic personification in general (anyone remember my talking popsicle stick? I find most things have voices, and I like to make them talk.)
25. Glitter, it makes everything better
26. Being half a klutz, like, when I hop around on wet rocks or climb trees with NO problems, but fall on my face walking down the street.
27. Desserts
28. DDR
29. Being a good audience at plays - I get told this all the time by actors that I know, especially at the Blackfriars, since the audience can be seen. They're like, you're always so totally focused on the action of the play and totally into it, and that's a cool thing for an actor to see. Also, I laugh REALLY LOUD. So I'm very noticable.
30. Talking to animals like small, furry people instead of in baby talk (not that I don't lapse into baby talk sometimes...)
31. A mighty admiration and fascination with birds of prey
32. Dying and being beaten onstage (this one's weird, yes, but I often get cast in these roles, and I find them almost sexy, don't ASK me why)
I will add to this list of things as I think of more. I will hopefully be able to make it very long.
There are things that I originally picked up to please someone else that I now do believe I genuinely like (Zeppelin, Magic the Gathering, video games), but for purposes of this list, I only want things that I found/became/liked by myself.
If anyone has suggestions, I will so happily take them.
Edit 3/17/09 at 9:45 am: Up to 11! Whoo!
Edit 3/17/09 at 1:04 pm: 15. Halfway to 30.
Edit 3/17/09 at 4:57 pm: 20 is halfway to 40 which is almost at 50! Ideally, I think I'd like 100.
Edit 3/18/09 at 2:51 am: 25 is a quarter of the way to 100!
Edit 3/18/09 at 5:24 am: 27!
Edit 3/19/09 at 12:18 am: 32, wheee!