Explanation (1?)

Can Still Update this entry if people are curious about more things...

Thinking Too Much: I just have this habit of overanalyzing everything, and thinking too much about any topic I start thinking about. And since I have a tendency to want to think about everything I do... (Plus it's one of those fun group activities: and you can do it while you're walking, too!)

Really Bad Israeli Pop: This is Israeli Pop music, not Israeli Soda- I'm from the Northeast US of A, I don't say Pop when I mean Soda... But well, I'm a big fan of Israeli "Folk" Dance (you can even tell by the ridiculous ways I refer to it: it takes a bit of an obsessed nut to refer to part of their activity in quotes), and sometimes if a dance is good, the music can get away with being really bad, and I'll still like it (not usually). But more often, it's just that I hear a song while I'm dancing to it, and more often than not I'll like the song, at least enough, even if it's lousy. And since I have to work ot understand the words, they can get away with a lot, and I Still won't just moan and go "Oh my gosh, that's tacky and horrid". (ALthough I do have a tendency to notice that I can understand whole chunks of lyrics and note that "If I can understand that much of the lyrics, they just can't be very good").

Squirrels: Junior year of high school, we ended up with this running joke about squirrels, somehow... ANd then I saw them on someone else's interests list, and decided I might as well add them myself. But anyways, the joke started off, I think, with my friend noting that the word for 'squirrel' in Latin was the same as the word for 'rabbit', however there was a separate word for 'hare', and my other friend, qianian spending the rest of the year pointing to squirrels and saying "rabbit" when we were walking home from school. And later that year, someone else went chasing squirrels during our youth orchestra break, and fell flat on his face in the gravel- he had, for some reason, decided that they were watching us, like the mice in DOuglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide. And at some point we tried to envision our conductor with squirrel tails hanging from his siut-coat rather than the tail-coat he usually wore for performances. I don't know, it stuck with me, even more than the ducks from 8th grade, possibly just because it's a bit more recent.

Sf&f: Science Fiction and Fantasy, which I have on my list in a gizillion ways for some reason. I guess I really wanted to get that across when I was last fussing with the list.

Speculative Fiction: A broader, more general term that encompases Science Fiction, Fantasy and other things related. Just because some things don't fit Too well in either category, and because this sounds much nicer and really is a better description. Oh, and because I'm sort of dorky about labels, if you hadn't already noticed...

IPA: the International Phonetic Alphabet. I like it, it's fun, and that's about as complex as it gets. azpuchaz taught a phonetics class at SCSU (Southern COnnecticut State University) one year, and I was her guinea pig, and enjoyed it then, and then I got to revisit it this semester in Linguistics (in which I am shortly off to take a final, which I probably ought to be studying for...), and it's just fun. Except I really wish the people who compiled it would have made up their minds a bit more firmly, so that people stop using several different symbols for the same frickin' sound, and disagreeing on how to describe certain sounds...

BORG: Brandeis Official Readers' Guild, back after a very short stint as NEOBORG (due to some weird issues dealing with F-Board last year). It's our Speculative Fiction club, with a name engineered to come out to BORG in acronym, because the people who came up with it were apparently Trekkies. (I like Star Trek, and it's a good name for a club, I certainly don't object- just so no one gets me wrong here). This year I'm Chief Cook and Librarian, last year I was Herald. Aka, I'm theoretical leadership, and sometimes active leadership as well: it depends. Gabrielle (our Bastion of Righteousness) is my frying pan, although next semester I think I want one I can cook with as well, lovely as she is as an assistant.

Explanation (1?)

Can Still Update this entry if people are curious about more things...

Thinking Too Much: I just have this habit of overanalyzing everything, and thinking too much about any topic I start thinking about. And since I have a tendency to want to think about everything I do... (Plus it's one of those fun group activities: and you can do it while you're walking, too!)

Really Bad Israeli Pop: This is Israeli Pop music, not Israeli Soda- I'm from the Northeast US of A, I don't say Pop when I mean Soda... But well, I'm a big fan of Israeli "Folk" Dance (you can even tell by the ridiculous ways I refer to it: it takes a bit of an obsessed nut to refer to part of their activity in quotes), and sometimes if a dance is good, the music can get away with being really bad, and I'll still like it (not usually). But more often, it's just that I hear a song while I'm dancing to it, and more often than not I'll like the song, at least enough, even if it's lousy. And since I have to work ot understand the words, they can get away with a lot, and I Still won't just moan and go "Oh my gosh, that's tacky and horrid". (ALthough I do have a tendency to notice that I can understand whole chunks of lyrics and note that "If I can understand that much of the lyrics, they just can't be very good").

Squirrels: Junior year of high school, we ended up with this running joke about squirrels, somehow... ANd then I saw them on someone else's interests list, and decided I might as well add them myself. But anyways, the joke started off, I think, with my friend noting that the word for 'squirrel' in Latin was the same as the word for 'rabbit', however there was a separate word for 'hare', and my other friend, qianian spending the rest of the year pointing to squirrels and saying "rabbit" when we were walking home from school. And later that year, someone else went chasing squirrels during our youth orchestra break, and fell flat on his face in the gravel- he had, for some reason, decided that they were watching us, like the mice in DOuglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide. And at some point we tried to envision our conductor with squirrel tails hanging from his siut-coat rather than the tail-coat he usually wore for performances. I don't know, it stuck with me, even more than the ducks from 8th grade, possibly just because it's a bit more recent.

Sf&f: Science Fiction and Fantasy, which I have on my list in a gizillion ways for some reason. I guess I really wanted to get that across when I was last fussing with the list.

Speculative Fiction: A broader, more general term that encompases Science Fiction, Fantasy and other things related. Just because some things don't fit Too well in either category, and because this sounds much nicer and really is a better description. Oh, and because I'm sort of dorky about labels, if you hadn't already noticed...

IPA: the International Phonetic Alphabet. I like it, it's fun, and that's about as complex as it gets. azpuchaz taught a phonetics class at SCSU (Southern COnnecticut State University) one year, and I was her guinea pig, and enjoyed it then, and then I got to revisit it this semester in Linguistics (in which I am shortly off to take a final, which I probably ought to be studying for...), and it's just fun. Except I really wish the people who compiled it would have made up their minds a bit more firmly, so that people stop using several different symbols for the same frickin' sound, and disagreeing on how to describe certain sounds...

BORG: Brandeis Official Readers' Guild, back after a very short stint as NEOBORG (due to some weird issues dealing with F-Board last year). It's our Speculative Fiction club, with a name engineered to come out to BORG in acronym, because the people who came up with it were apparently Trekkies. (I like Star Trek, and it's a good name for a club, I certainly don't object- just so no one gets me wrong here). This year I'm Chief Cook and Librarian, last year I was Herald. Aka, I'm theoretical leadership, and sometimes active leadership as well: it depends. Gabrielle (our Bastion of Righteousness) is my frying pan, although next semester I think I want one I can cook with as well, lovely as she is as an assistant.