What's your current obsession?

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Maybe that's why I feel such ennui right now, no obsession.
I've had a lot, here are some in no particular order:
Barbies
Jack the Ripper
serial killers
Marilyn Monroe
make up and beauty books from the 50s and 60s, I own over 100
makeup
clothes
sewing
olestra
Andy Warhol
scientology
Weibo Ludwig
suicide
Boy George
blogs

Online Poker
Psychology
Stoicism
Reading news online

Self-help books

Science Channel
Discovery Channel
History Channel (especially ww2 stuff)

Dexter (series about a stoic serial killer who kills serial killers)

movies with Stoic characters- Gone Baby Gone, Rounders, Gladiator (off the top of my head)


I always tell people I'm boring even though most people find me interesting and fun. I look at my list and it confirms it

I don't even like going out...

jazz
bebop
soul
hip-hop
graffiti
rapping
producing
cooking
certain video games
certain TV shows.
certain movies.
writing.
aspergers
social interaction
drugs (yes, taking them. Also researching deeply into their history chemical make-up and effects. Ask me anything about Dextromethorphan hydrobromide/polystirex)
writing
lyrics...
drawing
this site
myself
my family
my dog
a whole slew of other stuff I don't have on my mind right now.

It alternates between pretty much this stuff. I get stuck on one and stay with it for a week or 2 then get reminded of another and do the same thing.
This is how my life has continued since I was self-aware. The only thing that changes are the subjects and how I look. It's pretty weird, but hey, that's life. A weird confusing place I don't fully yet understand. Know one does. We try, but no one does. Biggie and Tupac planned each other's deaths. Look it up... Not really I just made that up. Their deaths were entirely sensible. Rich black men living in a developing society still recovering from racial tension and economic crisis. Idk I must sleep now.

My obsessions through life has been:

As a child: Pippi Longstocking (Tv show from the 70's)
Other tv characters, which only people from Scandinavia would know.
E.T.
Horses
My Goat
The univers
As a teenager: Horses
Graffiti
Drawing
Trying to be like other teenagers
Dance (ballet, jazz and contemporary dance)
As a grown up: Dance (took an education, and made it my living until i was about 26 years)
Buddhism
Islam

Recent ones: Growing chili plants (for the past 4 years)
AS, ASD, ADHD, etc. (for the past 3 years)

Greetings from Scandinavia

I might have posted this somewhere, but I'll post it anyway.

My current obsessions:
- Online radio broadcasting
- Wrong Planet
- Super Sentai series
- Photoshop
- Reading magazines
- Listening to video game OSTs (Super Mario Galaxy I and II, Bully/Canis Canem Edit, Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection)
- Tinkering with my laptop
- Interacting with fellow autistics online

...

Can't think of anything more I am obsessing myself with... Count thinking of obsessions as one of them!

peakbagging

Current,
Buicks from 1963 -1972, specifically the 1965 buick skylark
Plastic model building
Silence
Timelapsephotography
German military aesthetics from mid 30s to mid 40s
The color olive drab
Obtaining slow drying glue
My ex girlfriend
Sleep
Obtaining the cheapest possible trainticket from france to here and deciding what day that would be and how long I would be waiting between trains with an optimal waitingtime of approximately one hour.
The various shades of rust as a result of temperature,humidity and the quality of the used steel/iron

Past
The Roland TR808 drumcomputer
The supermarine spitfire
Psychedelic drugs
The doors
Minimal Techno
Nutella
The friendships I've ended
The russians
Lost and 24
The second world war
A girl that would become my girlfriend but is now my ex (see current)
Surinam
The benefits of analogue versus digital
Finding an ideal matras for a reasonable price.
Obtaining a deeper understanding why some girls have mistaken my aloofness for mysteriousness and wrote poetry for me and invited me for sex. (this has nothing to do with finding a matras for a reasonable price.)
Defending my kingdom from the invaders from planet Q149 and succesfully execute counterattack (which i have,)
The dutch history from 1602 till 1672
Finding out how I ended up on a branch of a tree in a forrest while the names of a friends and 2 of his mates were carved in that exact branch where i sat on.
Peak oil and it's impact.
Star wars (1977), i've seen it at least 40 times
BMX bikes
The lego 8860 car
Finding refuge and solace
Clan of Xymox

I love Alligators! I love all sorts of animals but my favorite at the moment is alligators. I go to spend time with them when ever I can at Paynes Prairie. I even sat down next to a 9ft alligator for an hour and a half. The largest one was a 14ft alligator that casually walked right past me.

Other obsessions: Music,Cars,Gargoyles and everything to do with nature!

I'm ignoring you. I'm ignoring you. I'm....looking up stirling engines online and will be busy for the next couple hours. Curse you!



Yep. This is me. The moment I find something interesting and want to learn just a tad little bit about it, I'm usually off and running with it from anywhere from the next couple of hours to the next couple of years. I was curious how planes flew, so I signed up for flight school and learned.

I got into tools and woodworking, and wanted to get into mechanics (yes, auto mechanics) about a year ago until I lost my friend that was also into that stuff, and now it pains me to think about those things even though I loved them sooooo much while learning about them.

I just picked back up cross stitch after a friend of mine keeps talking about hers. It's been 20 years since I last did cross stitch and now I hate that I have to put it down to accomplish other things, like the whole eating and sleeping and going to work kind of activities.

My long-term is puzzles of all sorts, which is how I got into cognitive psychology and A.I., because those are two puzzles that I would LOVE to solve. I also love creating things, building things, and putting things together. I love solving problems as long as I can think of it as a puzzle to be solved, like setting up accounting systems at work, but I don't like the maintenance stage of such systems, as that gets ridiculously boring and I need the constant stimulation. When helping people move, my roommate will find out that things need to be taken apart and put back together in the new location or things organized a certain way, so she has a habit of saving those things for me for when I show up, because most other people grumble about having to do those kinds of things, versus "just point me to the box and I'll move it".

I'm currently between obsessions. My old ones are boring to the person i am now, somethings sorta changed me over the last year and now i'm looking for something new . I think i might end up trying something i didn't have patience for when i was younger, im spending a lot of time atm reexamining things i've previously passed over because at the time i passed over them i knew that my general youthful impatience wouldn't let me get the most out of the interest.

Healthy living, and arts (music, art, literature).

getting back into competitive chess
my new teaching job!
Day hiking

Music:
Neon Trees
Heather Nova
Val Emmich
Lisa Marie Presley
Fun
Garbage
Joshua Hyslop
Cyndi Thomson
random indie techno online
The Wanted
Charlotte Sometimes

C++,
Train myself,
World of Warcraft,
Diablo 3,
Digimon Zero Two(Always been)

My Current Obsession:

Ayn Rand
Dexter
and being an evangelical christian aspie (i'm reformed baptist & charismatic christian). I know I'm not alone.

Diesel Engines - Specifically Cummins B Series engines for the last 25+ years

Secondary Interest - Chevy Big Block engines in the uncommon sizes since I was 10 +/- years old

Recently, last 10 - 12 years or so, Autism Spectrum and Asperger's
Am intending to get an official diagnosis in the near future. Starting to see a shrink next month.

high-powered pen lasers of all colors
audio restoration
adult entertainments
music and its high-fidelity reproduction via interesting electronic/electromechanical gizmos
i would really love to get into video restoration but that is so expensive.