Extra Curricular Activities

[Wandrail]

I'm kind of curious here, other than listening to metal and drinking, what are some of your interests? Like, intellectual pursuits and obsessions, etc.
Be specific - for instance, I am currently obsessing over biblical archaeology, antediluvian theories of many sorts ( I am a creationist) creationist science, stuff like that. Some different things dealing with parts of the brain we don't use and their theoretic uses in the past, proof of races of giant men and the connection between them, ancient legends and heroes and the biblical Niphelim...among lots of other things like my continuing obsession over irish culture, hiustory and myth, and my love of America.

I ask because its personal crap that no one at work or anywhere usually knows about you, the things you're really curious about and interested in, and I always wonder what people are into in that regard. Or say nothing at all and be a right wanker.

 

[Lethe78]

Aside from music, and getting stoned, I am totally into handwriting analysis. It is so fascinating what you can ascertain about someone simply by the way they write. Actually, I would go to college for it, however in my area of the country, there are no colleges that I have found which specialize in that specific field.

I am also very much into music, and am capable of playing a host of them, (although some of them quite poorly). My band has a shitload of written music, but unfortunately, we have no place to jam out at right now. Add to the injury; even if we had a place to play, and colaborate, we have been lacking a bassist for the past year, so that is holding us back.

Somehow, I have managed to inadvertantly digress from interrests of mine, to a complaint post, lol.

 

[tara]

I'm going to do volunteer work at the Tulsa animal shelter!!!!!!!!

 

[Wandrail]

I'm going to do volunteer work at the Tulsa animal shelter!!!!!!!!

Awesome! Just be careful, lest you with your soft heart take home every critter that doesn't get a home right away.

And Lethe, man...I had to take a handwriting analysis test for a job interview a couple months ago and it sucked. They made me write in cursive which is something I realized that I have complketely FORGOTTEN how to do with any proficiency. I still wish I could have gotten the results from it...

 

[Lethe78]

Did they request it to be done on unlined paper as well? What kind of job was it for?

 

[Wandrail]

Yeah, it was unlined, and my writing tends to slant down to the right, which was great. Of course, they told me the results are not factored into hiring...

The position was kind of proprietary to the company, a company that manufactures, hosts, and supports software for insurance companies. I would have (and i almost got it, too) maintained the overnight tech support, file transfers (havign to do with stocks and finances) and maintenance at first.

 

[Lethe78]

I didn't know that jobs interviews actually did that. I have heard rumours but....

 

[Wandrail]

The company is certainly...unique in some of its interviewing practices. It was a loooooooong interview. I was there for two damn hours. Honestly it was first i'd heard of anyone actually using handwriting analysis. I'm curious about the methodology of it.

 

[Lethe78]

People can tell if you are an honest person, how aggressive you are, what your work ethic is like, what type of sense of humour you have, etc. You would be amazed at everything you can find out about someone.

 

[Jax]

I've been hella busy lately trying to get Symphony X's fan club ready to launch, as well as doing research into pressing their fan club CDs ourselves. I've been a DJ on Ytseradio for 4 years now and still love it..we were pretty much the first organized internet prog/prog-metal station, celebrating our 5th birthday this year, so I've been trying to plan out some birthday celebrations for the DJs and listeners. For offline fun, though, I love to read (I'm a hopeless bookworm, my two 72" bookcases are full to the gills so it looks like I'll need another soon), I like doing counted cross stitch when I have spare time (which is a rare commodity lately), I like gardening, have had an interest in doing some candle making, & have been quite interested in the whole history of "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland..I love all things Irish/Celtic.

Wow talk about rambling..

 

[Lamia The Great]

Lately I've been spending a lot of time in school, so most of my free time is spent lounging when I'm not cutting out bits of paper to glue to matboard.

The thing I've been doing most is listening to Led Zeppelin, absolutely fantastic I'd be reading a book this weekend also but I left it in my apartment and forgot about it until I got home.

Other than that my summer's pretty vacant aside from heatstroke.

 

[FailingAcension]

Besides being a super-avid musician, I am into history (esp. military history and aircraft history). And I really love flying. My dad is a pilot who has TONS of flying hours and is a crazy good pilot (flying under powerlines ) and he takes me and my friends up sometimes, but now since I'm old enough I'll be taking offical lessons from an instructor within the month!

 

[mourningstar]

my thesis and me staring at the ceiling trying to get some inspiration don't leave me too much time lately, but my principal interests are science (no, i don't wear a white dress and play with phyales causing dangerous explosions, i just read about it), cinema, marketing, agatha christie's books...
oh, and since i'll move to the uk i'm reading in english, watching movies in english, i sometimes even talk to myself in english.
if you're thinking i'm not getting any results for it, shut up please

Aside from music, and getting stoned, I am totally into handwriting analysis. It is so fascinating what you can ascertain about someone simply by the way they write. Actually, I would go to college for it, however in my area of the country, there are no colleges that I have found which specialize in that specific field.

wow, makes me want to write a page, get someone to scannerise it for me and send it to you...

 

[tara]

I also have a mountain bike that I got for free but it's been too hot for me to even think about riding it...

 

[Sonnenritter]

Other interests, eh? I mostly spend my time with computers, and am working towards my A+ certification and Network+ certification. Whether it is building, fixing, or dissecting a computer, I'm often enjoying what I'm doing (unless it's explaining what I'm doing to a person that thinks AOL is an OS). Though I often get pissed in the process, it's a good challenge to fix a network that someone, with no clue as to what they were doing, set up.

I also share a similar interest with Lady. I read quite a bit and tend to lean towards either the classics or books in the fantasy genre. I've stopped reading so much recently due to just being lazy, but I plan on starting again when I start working the third shift.

I'm also interested in language. Though I know only assorted words and phrases from other languages, I find the history of the languages intriguing. I mostly focus on Germanic languages (which include Dutch, German, Swedish, English, Danish, Norwegian, and Icelandic) but I did do a little bit of research on Latin and its offspring.

 

[Jax]

Awesome, Sonnenritter, I like the fantasy genre also, who are some of your favorite authors? Off the top of my head, some of mine would be Moorcock, Feist, Saberhagen, McCaffrey, Zelazny..I'm sure I could come up with more if I sat & thought about it, though (or went & checked my bookcase, hehe!).


I enjoy reading the classics as well..somehow I got through school without having to read a lot of the great literature, so I've been checking it out on my own. Books to me are like music, you can never have too many/too much.

 

[nØthing]

Aside from music, which I love listening and making, I play sports all year (football, wrestling and track), and I also love to draw and write. I'm also interested in the outdoors and the wilderness along with star constellations and their legends. I could be out in the forest forever, even if it's by myself. I love the outdoors.

 

[†_Aragorth_†]

I am a weather photographer and webdesigner asides listening to music...I am playing drums, too
if anyone is interested in photos...check here my gallery: http://www.marko-weather-photography.com

 

[Wandrail]

I read a hell of alot of fantasy literature, too...Robert Jordan, Morgan Llywellyn, all of the ones everyone grew up with like Weiss and Hickman and Tolkein etc etc. I also love Lovecraft (sorry for the redundancy there) all of the Robert E Howard Conan stuff, and various horror and other unique authors.

 

[The Navigator]

writing, writing, writing. And reading. And arson.