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[cloakandswagger]

I can be incredibly happy without seeing a single soul but my dad and my dog. Said dad thinks this is weird, anti-career behavior that suggests the loss of fundamental social mechanisms, but in an indulgent, look-at-my-daughter-the-sociopath way. (He also thinks I am the only twenty-something that listens - frequently and fondly - to classic rock.

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[yrpreciousheart]

I guess I'm new around here, and thusly you get an introduction

[cloakandswagger]

Hi Gillian! After reading The Last Samurai, by Helen Dewitt, I’ve had a growing interest in languages. Do you speak any, beyond our friend English? If your department is anything like the Comparative Literature department at my old university, I think you have to learn a language in order to, you know. Compare. XD And there ends my understanding of the discipline. What’s it like? And man, after my time in Ireland, I can sympathize. Europe is not cheap. Did you make friends with Brits, or settle in with American students abroad?

[yrpreciousheart]

I have reading knowledge of French and Spanish, slowly trudging along to learn Portuguese, and am...as fluent as one can be in a dead language in Latin. :D Though, to be fair, I always read translations into English then reference to the originals if necessary. My uni isn't very adamant about speaking other languages. To be honest, I prefer retellings in comparative lit - book to movie, book to tv, short story to novel, poem to whatever, sort of comparison. I don't have enough interest or experience in multiple cultures to really suck the marrow out of cultural comparisons. But, I have to admit I have always leaned more towards my linguistic side of my degree - the literature aspect was kind of a bonus. :)

I've made friends with the hodgepodge that is Britain, really. I have...one properly British friend, and all of my other friends are what you find in London - Bengali, Portuguese, German, etc. 'British' is kind of a relative term now. ;)

:D

[ally_sha]

I am a big fan of self-induced isolation. There is sometimes when there is a "I am not mad/hurt/bitter/depressed I just dont want to talk to you" - stage that people go through. It happens to me often and I spend my time playing Sims, watching my goldfish and reading until I feel like I want to talk to actual person who isn't my immediate family.
I changed my number the same day I graduated high school. Sometimes its good to take a break from people you know, puts things into perspective on who you truly value in your life. A fresh start doesn't necessarily have to start off with a BANG - it can creep along slowly be something you can take your time into growing into.
Ugh, that probably makes no sense. But that was my rambling attempt to reassure you that what I think you are doing and spending your time these days is not really odd. Father is wrong in this case =)

Although Gardening? Really? o_O Haha

[cloakandswagger]

Haha! The Sims was actually a pet vice of mine a year or two ago. I'd had this smooth talking romance-oriented character named Corrigan Howes and kind of started an accidental Mormon-like situation on his street. >> You're right, it's a fabulous game for getting away from everyone! And no fear, that made total sense -- I'm very reassured. :D

And yes, gardening. XD I've wanted to grasp the ropes of basic gardening forever, and though I can remember having a little patch of things as a kid, I want to be able to grow my own food and kind of... have the swing of horticulture, if that makes sense? I had horses when I was younger, and one thing I really enjoyed about the experience was figuring out... the ins and outs of an organism, via analytic / abstract accounts of the critter... and then applying it. I'm trying to do the same thing with the plants: figure out how they work, and experimenting on the basis of that knowledge

[twissie]

Lol, anti-career behavior..? Really? That's... special. I completely disagree with your dad. Some people just like a bit of extra peace and quiet. I know how that goes, I'm one of them ^^;

I did a whole intro post thing in my journal a little while back. But TL;DR version is basically;

Hello, my name is Tove. I'm 25 and live in Oslo with my boyfriend Christian. I don't really talk about him on my journal, but I use the collective "we" a lot, which can seem a bit strange if you don't know that I live with this other person :x

I watch lots of films and play a lot of video games.

I work as a translator at a busy, busy translating firm in Oslo.

[cloakandswagger]

Hello Tove! -nods- Yes, anti-career behavior. XD Apparently job-getters have to be ceaselessly social... which makes a certain kind of sense. I think the old man is thinking of my withdrawal as a kind of hibernation, which is anti-career in the sense that it isn't really getting me one. I love that you're a big disney dork! Man, I wish I had fangirl status in (almost) any category, but I'm afraid I'm really.... un-obsessed. But I dig that you're passionate! And how cool, to be able to speak Japanese! Your job sounds very interesting.

[twissie]

Lol what, that just sounds exhausting ^^;

Haha, yay, thank you~ :]

[cloakandswagger]

I once knew a wonderful shaggy labrador named Boris -- such a great dog name! And haha, that's very true, and probably the reason for the hidden statistic. I remember remarking to a friend about how much I hated the 'innovative expert' archetype in movies -- he gets things done, but employs quirky methods that go against the grain of his discipline. My friend had said back, "Yeah, they always say success comes to creative, enterprising people, but that same level of enterprise and creativity also describes a lot of people who failed pretty badly." Which would be another hidden archetype.

/ BLATHER.

[chordoflife]

I'm Jesse.. the only plants I have grown well are roses and hot peppers.

[cloakandswagger]

Hi Jesse. :D And ee! Hot peppers? Wish I had the skills -- someone told me once that they're real finicky. Roses, too. -bows before your talent-