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silveradeptUsers befitting and knitminder ask about me:
I'm curious about your home life. Do you live with pets, partner(s), housemates? What's the most interesting thing about where you live, and what leaves something to be desired about it? / Likewise, what do you do? Is it your intended goal or do you have your sights set on something else? Are there fun things you've read/played/attended recently?
So, hello, I'msilveradept, and my household consists of myself, my significant other, and three pets, two dogs and a cat. It was two and two, but we recently had one put down because of heart disease that was slowly killing him. He didn't have much time with us, and that wasn't anywhere near fair to have him for such a short time. We have space to take on a housemate, if finances required it, or we found someone else we wanted to share our household with.
I live on the western side of the state of Washington, USA. It's quiet suburban life, of a sort, considering major urban metropolises are a short drive away. That's one of the biggest drawbacks to it, however - since those metropolises (and even city bits) are driving distance away, there's very rarely anything that one can do that's within walking distance of the house. This makes meeting new people and building a big circle of people you know in real life much more difficult. Even though I'm happy where I am, I miss being able to walk everywhere I want to go and to have all sorts of neat things happening around. To its benefit, where I live has a front and back yard, which is very important when you have pets that are trained to void their bladders and bowels on natural grass. I suppose the interesting part about it is that it's situated so closely to major areas, so that if we had time and money, we'd be able to enjoy a lot of different things. The cultural diversity here is greater than where I was raised (and to some degree, where I went to university), with the possibilities of "EthnicityTown" being used to describe certain swaths of the metropolitan area nearby, as is the religious diversity (if you know where to look, that is).
I actually moved out here because I was offered a job in this area and the state I was in, well, sinking ship that even the rats are fleeing is an understatement about the economy of the place, and that was before the housing crash that made things tha tmuch worse for everyone else. So, speaking of jobs, my stated profession is Polymath-in-training. I don't think I'll ever make it to full-fledged polymath status, but it'll be a fun thing along the way. What I do for making money, however, is work as a children's librarian in a county-wide library system. It is the profession that I've wanted to do since I had an inkling of a profession that I wanted to do. It's one of the few professions where a polymath-in-training can increase their knowledge and display it at the same time, and working with kids allows me to indulge in my love of storytelling and theater, as well as keep sharp on new technological beats and get paid to have teenagers playing video games in the library every now and then. I very much like my job, and I would prefer to keep it, so talk of budget cuts or of people who erroneously believe libraries no longer serve a purpose (my circ and usage stats beg to differ) always makes me nervous. I also think I'm in a Saving The World position, but also realize it's not very likely that I'll actually see the consequences or how things turned out, so I have to stay optimistic.
As for things seen/played/read recently that were fun, well, the new Doctor Who series is in order, and I'm looking very much forward to it. I'm finishing up Lucky Star volume 7 and making mental comparisons between it and Azumanga Daioh and Genshiken (slotting it in the middle in terms of insider-otaku knowledge needed to enjoy this particular slice-of-life), and I've found a nice love of the Super Hero Time block, specifically, the Heisei Kamen Rider series (which I started on with Kamen Rider Den-O, the time-travel story) and the Super Sentai series (although, that one can be hit or miss) - both borne out of my younger self liking the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers series and a desire to peek under the hood and see what the source material they were drawing from was. (It's worth doing, if you like/d Power Rangers - the stories are way different.)
If Neil Gaiman wrote it, I will want to read it at some point in my life.
Glee is both charming and horrifying at the same time, because of the way they accurately portray the horrors of high school and the way they steadfastly refuse to let intelligent characters find their own way in their relationships.
And I'm so very far behind in my games that I despair of never catching up. I'm a single-player RPG fan, which is a very difficult thing to stay when you've got a partner, pets, and a place to upkeep. I'm find that I don't care much for FPSes due to a lack of skill, but that I will play 2d and 3d fighters, despite that same lack of skill. I have rolled Katamaris both great and small, and I love LittleBigPlanet, despite having to treat it much like a single-player game in terms of playability until I can get my partner up to skill on video game controls and inputs. (Actually, Katamari has been helpful in helping us practice communication through co-rolling. It shows that I'm really not very good at it at all, which is frustrating.)
There's more than I'm describing, and if you're curious, just ask, but hopefully that gives you a little bit of a view of what my life currently is.
befitting and knitminder ask about me: I'm curious about your home life. Do you live with pets, partner(s), housemates? What's the most interesting thing about where you live, and what leaves something to be desired about it? / Likewise, what do you do? Is it your intended goal or do you have your sights set on something else? Are there fun things you've read/played/attended recently?
So, hello, I'm
silveradept, and my household consists of myself, my significant other, and three pets, two dogs and a cat. It was two and two, but we recently had one put down because of heart disease that was slowly killing him. He didn't have much time with us, and that wasn't anywhere near fair to have him for such a short time. We have space to take on a housemate, if finances required it, or we found someone else we wanted to share our household with. I live on the western side of the state of Washington, USA. It's quiet suburban life, of a sort, considering major urban metropolises are a short drive away. That's one of the biggest drawbacks to it, however - since those metropolises (and even city bits) are driving distance away, there's very rarely anything that one can do that's within walking distance of the house. This makes meeting new people and building a big circle of people you know in real life much more difficult. Even though I'm happy where I am, I miss being able to walk everywhere I want to go and to have all sorts of neat things happening around. To its benefit, where I live has a front and back yard, which is very important when you have pets that are trained to void their bladders and bowels on natural grass. I suppose the interesting part about it is that it's situated so closely to major areas, so that if we had time and money, we'd be able to enjoy a lot of different things. The cultural diversity here is greater than where I was raised (and to some degree, where I went to university), with the possibilities of "EthnicityTown" being used to describe certain swaths of the metropolitan area nearby, as is the religious diversity (if you know where to look, that is).
I actually moved out here because I was offered a job in this area and the state I was in, well, sinking ship that even the rats are fleeing is an understatement about the economy of the place, and that was before the housing crash that made things tha tmuch worse for everyone else. So, speaking of jobs, my stated profession is Polymath-in-training. I don't think I'll ever make it to full-fledged polymath status, but it'll be a fun thing along the way. What I do for making money, however, is work as a children's librarian in a county-wide library system. It is the profession that I've wanted to do since I had an inkling of a profession that I wanted to do. It's one of the few professions where a polymath-in-training can increase their knowledge and display it at the same time, and working with kids allows me to indulge in my love of storytelling and theater, as well as keep sharp on new technological beats and get paid to have teenagers playing video games in the library every now and then. I very much like my job, and I would prefer to keep it, so talk of budget cuts or of people who erroneously believe libraries no longer serve a purpose (my circ and usage stats beg to differ) always makes me nervous. I also think I'm in a Saving The World position, but also realize it's not very likely that I'll actually see the consequences or how things turned out, so I have to stay optimistic.
As for things seen/played/read recently that were fun, well, the new Doctor Who series is in order, and I'm looking very much forward to it. I'm finishing up Lucky Star volume 7 and making mental comparisons between it and Azumanga Daioh and Genshiken (slotting it in the middle in terms of insider-otaku knowledge needed to enjoy this particular slice-of-life), and I've found a nice love of the Super Hero Time block, specifically, the Heisei Kamen Rider series (which I started on with Kamen Rider Den-O, the time-travel story) and the Super Sentai series (although, that one can be hit or miss) - both borne out of my younger self liking the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers series and a desire to peek under the hood and see what the source material they were drawing from was. (It's worth doing, if you like/d Power Rangers - the stories are way different.)
If Neil Gaiman wrote it, I will want to read it at some point in my life.
Glee is both charming and horrifying at the same time, because of the way they accurately portray the horrors of high school and the way they steadfastly refuse to let intelligent characters find their own way in their relationships.
And I'm so very far behind in my games that I despair of never catching up. I'm a single-player RPG fan, which is a very difficult thing to stay when you've got a partner, pets, and a place to upkeep. I'm find that I don't care much for FPSes due to a lack of skill, but that I will play 2d and 3d fighters, despite that same lack of skill. I have rolled Katamaris both great and small, and I love LittleBigPlanet, despite having to treat it much like a single-player game in terms of playability until I can get my partner up to skill on video game controls and inputs. (Actually, Katamari has been helpful in helping us practice communication through co-rolling. It shows that I'm really not very good at it at all, which is frustrating.)
There's more than I'm describing, and if you're curious, just ask, but hopefully that gives you a little bit of a view of what my life currently is.
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Date: 2011-04-30 02:03 am (UTC)Although I am enamored with Doctor Who, I had to step away from it starting in reboot season 5 (starting with Eleven). I personally like Eleven but was... less than thrilled... with the return of River Song. Is season 5 worth suffering her?
... Katamari!
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Date: 2011-04-30 03:45 am (UTC)Series 5 is worth suffering River Song, because she's not present through most of it. Just at the beginning and at the end, and her role is mostly nonessential.
Series 6, so far, has brought her back for the beginning. I do not know if she will have a more integral role through this series or not. She is balanced, however, by the presence of Pond, who is just as great as she was.
Ka-ta-ma-ri! The Prince is definitely in on this.
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Date: 2011-04-30 06:15 am (UTC)I'll have to give season 5 another chance then. There is hope.
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Date: 2011-05-01 03:24 pm (UTC)Do give Season 5 another chance. Amy Pond is brilliant and not worth missing over River Song.
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Date: 2011-04-30 12:00 pm (UTC)Mine is: what role do religion and/or spirituality play in your life? (in the present, that is)
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Date: 2011-05-01 03:24 pm (UTC)