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a non-American patriot! I love it!

The weirdest obsession I have is probably names. Names are such a perfectly commonplace thing, but people get so irritated when I complain that somebody's name is either spelled incorrectly for the pronunciation they're using, or pronounced incorrectly for the spelling they're using. Or when I inform them that though this name may sound distinctive, the meaning is rather unflattering in a particular language. Or when I fill them full of unwanted information about the naming conventions used in various different places.

My slightly more normal obsessions are computers, video games, collecting kaleidoscopes, and memorizing song lyrics.

Reading, which is pretty normal. However, I spend so much of my time reading, which is not normal. I think I read at least 100 books or journals/year, which means I read around 2 books per week. Yeah, I'm a fast reader.

Other obsessions:
newspapering
tennis
indiepop

It's listening to Eyedea now.

They've come and gone over the years, but here are a few:

1) Dictionaries -- I used to just sit and read them, and once tried to put together a lexicon of Indo-European roots that I could use as a language. Yes, I was very young.

2) Greek mythology -- I started reading these stories in about the 3rd grade, and am still going strong with them, although now I just tell myself the stories, rather than reading them. Also Irish and Welsh Celtic mythology. Don't care for Roman or Norse myths.

3) History -- various periods at various times, including WWII, the US Civil War, McCarthyism, Medieval England, family history stories and Republic of Texas history. I drive my daughter nuts with this one. "Mom! Lay off the history lecture!"

4) Gardening -- I collect plants, books about plants, magazines about plants and gardening, plant facts, etc. My garden itself is kind of haphazard, but I like it.

5) Archaeology -- various topics including historical archaeology, the American SE Archaic and Woodland periods, Greek and Roman periods, and the use of remote sensing data and other technology in archaeology.

6) Herbalism -- all forms

7) Sci-fi online fan fiction -- this one really bugs me, because I can't seem to let it alone, even when I want to. Not the shows so much, just the fan fiction. I call it brain candy -- or crack on a bad day.

8 ) Quilting, Needlepoint and Knitting collecting -- I don't actually produce anything, just can't seem to finish a particular project, but I love to collect the patterns, fabrics, yarns and stuff. I love the feeling of doing handwork, too, but don't really care whether anything comes of it.

9) Books -- I'm an inveterate bibliophile. Whenever I'm feeling down, I hit the used bookstores. It cheers me right up. Of course, I'm now buried in books. I have whole stacks I haven't gotten around to reading yet.

10) Religious history -- doesn't matter which one. I love them all.

Patricia

Im obsessed with Asperger's and have been for over a year now,before that it was vikings.I'm trying to channel my intrest into art so i have something usefull for myself in the future but i get to obsessive and I'm finding it hard.

Somebody mentioned names? Me too!

I hate my own name, so I have been studying names and what they mean and where they came from since I was a child. I think that people who invent illogical spellings for names are certainly ret*d and antisocial.

Also, beads.

I collect beads. I make jewlery, even though I don't wear it for the most part. My favorite kind is peyote stitch. I am teaching myself how to cover things with peyote stitch, which I find fascinating. The peyote stitch/beading thing has been going on for about 15 years.

I collect books, mostly about religion, spirituality, and beads.

I am fascinated with religion. I don't have a religion, partly because they're all sexist and don't welcome eccentrics. That and I believe in dinosaur fossils. I am obsessed with religion anyway. I have visited all kinds of churches and temples. I have lots of books about different faiths. I have tried to stop, but I can't.

Crafts of many kinds. Right now I am making a grocery bag out of grocery bags. I am crocheting it with 'plarn', plastic yarn, that I make by cutting up grocery bags. I also fused grocery bags together with my iron (Between waxed paper. Don't ruin your iron. )and that's going to be a bag. I also have a beading project or two and an embroidery project in progress. I am a craft addict.

Sheesh. I'm sure there's more.

My main obs.. er interest is Etymology (the
study of word and name origins).This derives
from Greek etumon= true sense of a word
and logia = science/theory/study of.
Other interests are history,geography,football
(soccer),music,mythology.

The way stories work, dogs.