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cherryTen things you should know about me.
1. I believe that hatred is bred by fear, and fear is bred by ignorance. No one is born hating, but I think, sometimes, that it would be better if we were. If hatred was something that was built into us, it would be more forgivable than the knowledge that it is something that was taught, that we were preaching ignorance and propagating fear.
2. I'm a from rural Saskatchewan, with everything that entails. 25 person graduating class. Death by elk as a serious prospect. Wheat and flax and days of horizon. Up to six hour drives for basketball/volleyball games, track meets. Northern lights, brush parties, and waiting for the next fatal (drunk) rollover on the grids.
3. With the number of beliefs and belief systems that have existed in the history of humanity, with what we know now to be the truth and what we knew to to be the truth ten years ago, with all the permutations of things have been held to be sacred and profane: I think that to assume we are at some pinnacle of truth is unspeakably arrogant.
4. Making someone laugh makes my day.
5. I have this niggling fear that I am wasting my life in the hard sciences. For as long as I can remember, I've wanted to find something I'm extraordinary at. I've always kind of wanted to find my thing.
6. I have an unfortunate need for validation. This likely a large part of why I went into engineering instead of music, writing, or photography. There's an automatic esteem that comes with being in engineering, and it's possible I'm just afraid of being told that I'm just not good enough at something I actually enjoy. This is why it's quite possible that I will never write the (two) ideas I have for original novels.
7. I find character studies more interesting than stories focusing on relationships. I do enjoy 'ships in fics, though I don't do OTPs, but I prefer them to be secondary to the character interaction and growth. I really don't think that there is enough gen in the world.
8. I am the procrastingatingness procrastinator ever. The more I update, the more frequently you see me on AIM, the more likely it is that I have four term projects due on Monday. (This is not an object example, no.) When it's not crunch time, I'm out with friends. When it is... let's just say that theoreticaly, I'm working.
9. I dropped Home Ec in favour of small motors and welding in grade nine. Cooking is not a thing that I do. It just isn't. I don't do domestic. I hurt myself more in the kitchen than with power tools.
10. I play five instruments, three of which I miss like I'd miss a limb. I don't own my own piano or oboe. I do have a flute, but I live in an apartment with paper walls. My band director was disappointed in me when I graduated without plans to pursue music further, and I still feel I let her down. I feel I let myself down as well.
1. I believe that hatred is bred by fear, and fear is bred by ignorance. No one is born hating, but I think, sometimes, that it would be better if we were. If hatred was something that was built into us, it would be more forgivable than the knowledge that it is something that was taught, that we were preaching ignorance and propagating fear.
2. I'm a from rural Saskatchewan, with everything that entails. 25 person graduating class. Death by elk as a serious prospect. Wheat and flax and days of horizon. Up to six hour drives for basketball/volleyball games, track meets. Northern lights, brush parties, and waiting for the next fatal (drunk) rollover on the grids.
3. With the number of beliefs and belief systems that have existed in the history of humanity, with what we know now to be the truth and what we knew to to be the truth ten years ago, with all the permutations of things have been held to be sacred and profane: I think that to assume we are at some pinnacle of truth is unspeakably arrogant.
4. Making someone laugh makes my day.
5. I have this niggling fear that I am wasting my life in the hard sciences. For as long as I can remember, I've wanted to find something I'm extraordinary at. I've always kind of wanted to find my thing.
6. I have an unfortunate need for validation. This likely a large part of why I went into engineering instead of music, writing, or photography. There's an automatic esteem that comes with being in engineering, and it's possible I'm just afraid of being told that I'm just not good enough at something I actually enjoy. This is why it's quite possible that I will never write the (two) ideas I have for original novels.
7. I find character studies more interesting than stories focusing on relationships. I do enjoy 'ships in fics, though I don't do OTPs, but I prefer them to be secondary to the character interaction and growth. I really don't think that there is enough gen in the world.
8. I am the procrastingatingness procrastinator ever. The more I update, the more frequently you see me on AIM, the more likely it is that I have four term projects due on Monday. (This is not an object example, no.) When it's not crunch time, I'm out with friends. When it is... let's just say that theoreticaly, I'm working.
9. I dropped Home Ec in favour of small motors and welding in grade nine. Cooking is not a thing that I do. It just isn't. I don't do domestic. I hurt myself more in the kitchen than with power tools.
10. I play five instruments, three of which I miss like I'd miss a limb. I don't own my own piano or oboe. I do have a flute, but I live in an apartment with paper walls. My band director was disappointed in me when I graduated without plans to pursue music further, and I still feel I let her down. I feel I let myself down as well.
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Date: 2005-11-30 03:17 pm (UTC)I remember those. Brush parties. And the long drives are why I was never allowed to do sports. I had to stay home with my brothers and sisters. *sigh*
Brush parties are so lame. lol Just AC/DC and Def Leppard blaring on a truck stereo and people falling into the bonfire ...
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Date: 2005-12-01 03:39 am (UTC)Of course, we were less with the AC/DC and more with the Tim McGraw and Eminem.
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Date: 2005-12-01 04:06 am (UTC)I never did get brush parties. Probably because by the time I ever did get to go to one, I was 20 and deeply entrenched in the house party scene in S'toon. I wasn't allowed to go to parties when I was in high school. :P Yes, I am lame.
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Date: 2005-12-01 04:41 am (UTC)In the city, my friends and I mainly go to movies and pubs. Yeah, it's sad.
Of course, school is eating my brain, and I really wish I had more of a social life these days...
We didn't always do brush parties, though. A lot of the time, it was just in someone's farmyard, around a tire fire. We did one of those on the outskirt of town once, only with an burning bin, and there was almost an unfortunate incident with the town catching on fire.
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Date: 2005-12-01 03:41 am (UTC)Which other instruments do you play?
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Date: 2005-12-01 03:48 am (UTC)I also play the bells and the piccolo.
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Date: 2005-12-01 05:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-03 12:02 am (UTC)It's kind of like oil on the water, if you were watching it in slow motion. White and green and blue rippling and unwinding across the sky.
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Date: 2005-12-05 12:55 am (UTC)