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Worms games, Psychonauts, Team Fortress 2, Youtube, internet, and at this very moment L Lawliet

I need to play that. I found it at Big Lots for $4,
but I haven't really opened it yet

I'm agreeing with you SabbraCadabra:
I think I'm going...... to have a mental break down if something else like that get's posted *points fingers in direction of mouth while making retching noises*

Public services, public services, public services.....

Ok, theres more than that: Gaming, sudoku, reading, news and current events, helping out others.

Hm.

My biggest obsession, and will never be replaced is: PHYSICS

I read text at the level of College Graduates and I am a Senior in High School. The career that I am pursuing is Theoretical Physics with a Master's in Electrical Engineering.

My other obsessions are:
- Programming
- Logic
- Rubik's cube
- Puzzles (mostly to do with logic)
- Electricity/Electrical objects (I have a fascination with Electrical Engineering)
- Steam Engines
- Calculus and Algebra
- PATTERNS
- Architecture

The big one- NASCAR (particually David Ragan. Y'all should know that by now! )

Pokemon

UFOs

Wicca

Worring whether or not the television schedule is safe enough for me to keep the set on

WP (okay, not that much)

My son's have been varied over the years, but have similar themes:

preschooler and early elementary years: dinosaurs, dinosaurs, dinosaurs and sticks

later elementary years to present (19 years old): Movies and books of: Star Wars, DK Comics, Harry Potter, Pokemon, Anamorphs, & other fantasy themes. Acting these out. Making lists of what he's acted out. Sticks! (Drum sticks, walking sticks, twigs from trees when others are not available)

When m deep thinking I walk around, usually I go into the kitchen, boil the kettle andeat some cereal out of the box, now that's strange

My first real interest was dinosaurs too. In second grade my teacher had me teach the class because of it.

Add me to the list of those interested in dinosaurs when she was in elementary school.

I have a lot of interests. I tend to cycle through them, so that I'm not on all of them at the same time. These are some of the ones that are more intense and frequent. I find that I have trouble mastering any of my interests because there are so many, and there just isn't enough time.

I'm also interested in names, especially archaic names that don't get used much anymore. I make lists of names I like and rank them. I used to pay a lot of attention to the meanings and categories related to specific topics. I'm more interested now in studying naming trends at the SS website using Excel to make charts and graphs. I've recently discovered that the census site has lists of last names, but I've not studied those as closely. You might think I'd be good at remembering peoples' names, but when I meet new people I usually forget.

I like Sci-fi/Fantasy & have been trying for a long time to write a sff novel. I'm trying to channel my interest in names into naming characters especially since I could never have enough children to use all my favorites.

I love homeschooling. I like to read about homeschool curricula, methods, and activities. I'm trying to write my own curriculum guide for exactly what I think should be taught in each subject at every grade level and keep lists of what I consider the best books for each subject at each grade level. I do not, however, have children.

Various computer games although I haven't mastered any. My favorite is Civilization, but I don't play it the right way. I turn off all the competing civilizations and just play with one that I control. I play on a very large pangea map and try to spread my civilization to take advantage of as many resources as possible while building my civilization and wealth before time runs out.

The tv show LOST and trying to figure out its mysteries

Drawing floor plans for my dream home which is a geodesic dome

Knives

pluto - etymology rocks! I also have a thing about words, and obscure languages. I'm currently attempting to learn Lushootseed, or Coast Salish, a native language of the Pacific Northwest. It's spoken by only a handful of people, although they are attempting to revive it, and it has 27 consonants including the lateral coronal fricative, which is like saying L but forcing air out of the sides of your mouth at the same time (and is the reason why the name Si'aL got changed to 'Seattle') and the voiceless lateral affricate, which sounds rather like the clicking noise you make to call a horse to you. Wish me luck...

I was also another dinosaur freak as a kid, and later too. (I met Jack Horner at the Natural History Museum when his book on T. rex came out. It was bizarre...all these US camera crews were around, and this reporter guy kept grabbing random people in the line and asking them what they thought of Jurassic Park. I had to tell him I hadn't seen it yet.)

Other things which are among my obsessions about now:
The city of Seattle
Nirvana and/or Kurt Cobain
Human anatomy
SF/fantasy
Collage/assemblage
Hanji-e puzzles
Collecting old photos, postcards and other ephemera
Alternative religions, spirituality and mythology
Afterlife beliefs and shamanism
The Gnostic heresies
...lots of things here and there vfor a little while, but right now the above are all pretty consistent.

[quote="ThatRedHairedGrrl"]pluto - etymology rocks! I also have a thing about words, and obscure languages. I'm currently attempting to learn Lushootseed, or Coast Salish, a native language of the Pacific Northwest. It's spoken by only a handful of people, although they are attempting to revive it, and it has 27 consonants including the lateral coronal fricative, which is like saying L but forcing air out of the sides of your mouth at the same time (and is the reason why the name Si'aL got changed to 'Seattle') and the voiceless lateral affricate, which sounds rather like the clicking noise you make to call a horse to you. Wish me luck...


This is really cool! How did you come to discover this language? I think it's really wonderful you may be aa part of preserving history that otherwise may sink into oblivion. Do you happen to have a career related to words, too? My son's dad is severely hearing impaired and his hobbies include collecting and restoring antique typewriters and telephones--methods of communication. I find it interesting that many of my friends have hobbies that actually build an area that usually would be considered an area of difficulty for them by the NT world.

I see it like this, I have two obsessions, one intellectual and one emotional.

Intellectual:
Plants. Taxonomy and Ethnobotany especially.

Emotional:
Music. In particular the relationship between frequency, rhythm and states of mind.

So you know these truly are obsessions, I cannot express just how difficult it is not to proceed to write 20 pages worth of words about these two topics right here right now. Because I really want to. I would ramble on in endless monologue. But I'll spare you

Just part of my general Seattle obsession, because it was the language spoken around that part of the world before white settlers arrived, and now some of the remaining local Indian tribes are trying to revive it. There's a great site here with more about it: http://www.tulaliplushootseed.com/ (you can hear, and see written down, some of what I've been trying to describe...it needs a special font which I don't have on my computer!)