All About You (Part II)

[Brinniel]

Name (that you go by): Brinniel, Brinn, Erin
Age: 20
Occupation: college student
Future Aspirations: to have a successful career in filmmaking...particularly post-production
Goal in life: see the world, be happy in whatever I do
Short term goals: find a summer job to get some money, get an internship, graduate, return to Europe, meet even more BDers
Passion: traveling
Hobbies: dance, writing, drawing, wwing, watching films
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): having the wonderful opportunity to study abroad. Among other students in the same program, I was famous for going to different countries to meet random strangers (aka BDers)

Fave book: LotR, The Silmarillion, Narnia, His Dark Materials, Snow Falling on Cedars
Fave movie: LotR, Little Miss Sunshine, Sweeney Todd, V for Vendetta, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Juno, Prince Caspian, Amelie, Shaun of the Dead, the list goes on....
Fave sport: dance...I also like to watch the Olympics
Fave store: Best Buy, Barnes and Noble, Hot Topic, H&M (which sadly doesn't exist in Boise)
Fave music: Medieval Baebes, Fiona Apple, Alphabeat, Damien Rice, Imogen Heap, Dido, Kimya Dawson, Apocalyptica...I also love soundtracks of all sorts

What you can't stand: close-minded people
What you plain dislike: bad drivers, Americans who live up to the negative stereotypes that the world gives us (such as loud and ignorant)
Who you admire: Umm...I don't know...my pets?
What you most love to do: sleep, be lazy, go on the computer....on the less lazy side, travel
Your self-confessed flaws: procrastinator, perfectionist, I get easily frustrated, sensitive
What intrigues/fascinates you: culture, astrology
What scares you: spiders
Quotation to live by: Hmmm...I have no idea

Additional comments: It's always interesting to see how much you've changed over the last couple years. For me, a lot has happened since I last filled this out.

[satansaloser2005]

Name (that you go by): Kayla, although it's surprising how many things I answer to (e.g. Sally of course, Shayla (my evil twin from VBS skits we did a few years ago), Midget, Hey You, etc.)
Age: 21, and proud to be one of the few constantly sober overagers on campus
Occupation: student, as well as my actual job which really sucks so I'll just not mention it
Future Aspirations: to become a writer (in particular to write for a Christian theater group, although I don't know how likely that is, so I'll take anything that lets me get the gray cells going)
Goal in life: to serve God with all my life and make an impact for Him, and to make people smile as much as possible in the down time
Short term goals: amusement of others and myself, my "read as much as possible over the summer" regimen, and to graduate from my ruddy college
Passion: my Savior. Also, books of course, anything musical or theatrical or otherwise artstastic (except for art itself, as I'm not terribly coordinated drawing or painting-wise). I'm also easily amused, so I'll do anything even remotely entertaining.
Hobbies: reading, making dorky movies, WW (I spend more time on here than I do with my homework during the school year), working with teens at my church and the summer camp I'm staffed at, providing occasional comic relief (aka being annoying but hopefully in an endearing way....heh) to my friends
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): erm. I've got nothing. In my town, everyone's semi-famous, so nothing really counts. I used to be a dang good clarinet player, but that's gone by the wayside so I'm pretty ordinary. And my dad used to always brag to his friends that I was reading Reader's Digest at the age of three or four. But really, isn't that normal? Maybe I'm just weird. Alternatively, everyone knew me as the little kid who got mad if the teachers misspelled anything. Boy, did I get in trouble for that. Hehe, funny story. They put me in the, erm, the "special class" (sorry, don't mean to sound rude, but you all know what I mean) because I never paid attention (I was always reading ahead and got bored) and couldn't talk right (again, YOU try getting your head cracked wide open and functioning normally. Heh). I got kicked out of the special class after about a week of constantly telling the teacher that she wasn't constructing her sentences correctly and that she had to finish the books we were assigned before she could properly pass judgement on them, and that I didn't want to comment on the book discussion because I had finished the book and didn't want to spoil it for the rest of the class. They hated me. *grins broadly*
Oh....heh. My theater professor always introduces me to student prospects as "the nice bouncing girl", as I'm really perky and apparently bounce up and down all jumpy and perky-like when I walk. Actually, for some reason that's how almost everyone introduces me. Weird.

Fave book: Man, that's difficult. I love anything by Ted Dekker, but even among his works....I guess a brief list of my favorites would include all Ted Dekker novels , Princess Bride, Harry Potter (except for....erm, never mind, spoilers), the CSI novelizations (just because I run out of things to read and get desperate), Appearance of Evil, Sherlock Holmes, all the Grimm fairy tales (if you count that as reading), about any devotional book I can get my hands on. Oh, and the Bible. But that should be a given.
Fave movie: Princess Bride. Also, National Treasure (and it's CLEAN!!!!! well, mostly), Chronicles of Narnia, Thr3e, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean (Care-a-be-an, not Cur-i-bean, just for the record), Back to the Future, pretty much every musical ever (except the Sound of Music), Galaxy Quest, the Prestige, a bunch of old Disney movies, A Knight's Tale, etc. I'll shut up about movies now. I have like 150 of them, so enough said.
Fave TV show (not in the original, but I added it for kicks): Doctor Who. Also, most shows that are now on TV Land
Fave sport: Hate them all. no further discussion needed.
Fave store: Barnes and Noble. Duh. (Alternatively: Voldemart (Walmart). Everyday evil at low prices. )
Fave music: Stellar Kart, Relient K, dc Talk, almost any Christian rock. 50's, 60's, soundtracks to anything good

What you can't stand: The people I deal with at work. Erm, I mean....Sorry. Couldn't resist. When people are completely oblivious to other's feelings, especially after being confronted about it. [rant] Alternatively, people *cough* Fred Phelps....(can I say that on here? Meh.) *cough* who are "Christians" but either act like the world or choose to ignore the trouble that the world is in and turn their backs/treat people like crap because of their mistakes. People, people, please. Everyone needs Jesus, and just because you've figured that out doesn't mean you're better than those who haven't. So don't pretend otherwise. [/rant]
What you plain dislike: Bananas, coconut (actually, I think I may be allergic to coconut, but that's beside the point), anything spicy, and my now-obvious fixation with food. Also, Nebraska weather and crappy phone batteries. Oh, and Russell T. Davies. Fellow Doctor Who fans, I feel your pain. Heh. People who don't close their parentheses. Seriously. I got detention in elementary school for correcting a note from my teacher.
Who you admire: Jesus. A few of my friends who hold me accountable for all my crap and live up to their own advice. My father, who managed to be a really awesome guy even when he was dying.
What you most love to do: sleep. Curse of the narcoleptic. And multitask. Curse of the ADD/IQ>130 woman with the urge to get done as much as possible as soon as possible.
Your self-confessed flaws: I'm kind of....well, I'm easily offended in a way, too much of a girl I suppose. That and my mouth gets away from me. A lot. Which I hate, because then I feel crappy about it for like ever. Pretty much I make dumb jokes or get all weird when I'm nervous or upset. Meh.
What intrigues/fascinates you: Hmmmm. Shiny objects? Hehe. Pretty much everything I've mentioned before.
What scares you: "Well, almost every species has an irrational fear of the dark. But they're wrong. It's not irrational." (Double points for the reference, yes? Yes.) Ummmm, I'm clumsy, so I don't like sharp objects. And heights. Too many head traumas from me going "Oh, look! What's tha....*splat!*". And my mother wonders why I'm an idiot.
Quotation to live by:"My heart always cowers in the defense of my wit." --Cyrano--
Additional comments: "I just wasted ten seconds of your life." --Relient K--
Heh. Thanks for humoring me. I couldn't sleep and figured this was more productive than anything else I could be doing at 3am.

~~Sally~~

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Name that you go by: Neil. All my other nicknames have been out of use for a while now.
Location: Not Aberdeen, Scotland any more. Utrecht, the Netherlands. Both beautiful cities.
Age: 24
Future Aspirations: To marry Eva/Cailín. To get a job I enjoy, to play in a band and to play lots and lots of computer games! Also to learn a few more languages. And visit places, including Iceland, Faroes, Norway and Greenland.
Goal in life: Much like Bilbo, to finish my book.
Short term goals: Keep improving my Dutch. Het gaat al heel goed, hoor. Read more books and find more great music.
Passion: Aberdeen Football Club and Mediaeval Icelandic history.
Hobbies: Playing Championship Manager 2001/2, the greatest game ever.
Famous for: Emigrating, and immigrating. Also scoring the first ever goal for Forehill Primary seven-a-side fitba team.

Fave books: Tolkien, Iceland sagas, history, war, philosophy. And my book.
Fave movie: The Godfather.
Fave TV show: The Simpsons. Nothing else comes close.
Fave sport: Fitba. Aberdeen and Scotland, STAND FREE!
Fave music: Metal. Moonsorrow, Ensiferum, Týr, Finntroll, and lots of others. Also love Sigur Rós and classical. Satan-praising black metal is a big favourite, as is so-called Viking metal.

What you can't stand: Peas and broccoli. Business-talk (particularly misuse of 'concept' and 'philosophy' and chat-speak.
What you plain dislike: Closed minds.
Who you admire: Eirik the Red.
Self-confessed flaws: Lazy. Good for nothing. Thinks of good things to say/do after the event.
What intrigues you: Concepts (the real kind (that's a philosophy joke)). Also, the question of how many boar would be required to conquer London, and thence the world -- keep in mind they will be assisted by no fewer than ten Black Dragons. Countless hours have been spent discussing boar in Archie's (my spiritual home) over drinks as varied as the delightful pear cider of Kopparberg, whose beauty is without equal in the beverage world, and mighty Herold Black.
What scares you: The thought of wasting my time doing things I don't want to. Also: the wrath of Odin.
Quotation to live by: Obey the Warg.

Additional comments: Edited to add some things that needed adding. Though here I must give thanks to our guinea pigs, Fiona the Demoniac, Mephala, Rhea and Fand. Also, thanks to the Warg and Warg Rider Appreciation Thread.

[Lhunardawen]

Isn't it Mephala the Ranger?

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

It's funny that. Cailín thinks her full name is Mephala the Ranger. I will have nothing to do with 'Rangers' (see 'Passion' in my post) and thus she is Mephala to me. If nothing else, Elmo will understand what I mean.

This, incidentally, also explains my complete hatred of Aragorn.

Edit: that will be unclear to most of you. It's a football thing.

[Aganzir]

Name (that you go by): Maria; Pixie Dick to some Downers.
Age: 20. I was born on the winter solstice shortly after midnight.
Occupation: English literature major with art history, gender studies & Hungarian as minors. On my spare time I do things for Amnesty International.
Future Aspirations: Move into a city called Jyväskylä with my three closest friends and live together in a happy platonic polyamorous relationship that involves staying up late roleplaying.
Goal in life: Enjoy myself.
Short term goals: Paint my Seven Deadly Sins series that I've been contemplating for a couple of years already.
Passion: Homoerotic art, lions, Ancient Rome, fictional villains and the human body.
Hobbies: Artsy things, tabletop RPGs, books, Linux and writing letters to dictators.
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): I'm the assertive girl with the freakish long nails and a thing for Scar.

Fave book: The Etched City (Bishop), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Hugo), the Moomin books (Jansson), A Song of Ice and Fire series (Martin), Iron Council (Miéville), Blindness (Saramago), The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), Orlando (Woolf).
Fave movie: The Lion King (Disney) & J'ai tué ma mère (Dolan).
Fave sport: Mounted archery.
Fave store: Tea shops.
Fave music: Anouar Brahem, Leonard Cohen, Patrick Wolf, Orplid, Nicholas Lens, Pink Floyd, The Art of Noise, BWO.

What you can't stand: Circular reasoning, bigotry and homophobia.
What you plain dislike: People who make promises they can't keep. Alternatively, people who don't know what a promise means.
Who you admire: Everyone who accepts being a tabula rasa and picks up a pencil instead of letting others write their life for them.
What you most love to do: Learn absurd obscenities in obscure languages. Jsem šílená čarodějnice, lízej moje boty! Egy hupikék törpike vagyok és az agyádat eszem.
Your self-confessed flaws: I am controlling and short-tempered.
What intrigues/fascinates you: Blood, fire and power relationships.
What scares you: Someone putting a hand blender into my eye.
Quotation to live by: The sleep of reason produces monsters.

[Oddwen]

Name (that you go by): Alice, Evil Alice, Malice and Oddwen are the usuals.

Age: Haa, I actually had to think about it... less than 24.

Occupation: Full-time thrift store, part-time radio.

Future Aspirations: I'd love to raise a family. I'd also like to someday get off my computer and pick up my drumsticks again. And take guitar lessons. And own a car again, so I can sing loudly. Oh heck, let's be honest, I wanna be a rock star.

Goal in life: To be married. To a better rock star than I.

Short term goals: To start a Barrow-Downs rock band. Man, that would be schweet. To get through each day.

Passion: Eating candy, listening to music, reading. I am not an actively passionate person.

Hobbies: Reading, the Sims2, random surfing of the 'net, wasting time.

Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Being the weirdest in a crowd of weirdos.

Fave book: LotR, Pratchett, Sherlock Holmes, most of the Narnia series, Last Unicorn, quite a bit of fantasy.

Fave movie: Ummmm, not so much...The Day the Earth Stood Still, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Stargate (original).

Fave sport: Random acts of violence. Having pun.

Fave store: Secondhand stores. Book & music stores, Hot Topic once in a while.

Fave music: Fair to Midland. Muse. Chevelle. A Perfect Circle. Not country, not rap, not girls. My last.fm username is Oddwen.

What you can't stand: Filthiness. Giant, flesh-eating bugs. Being found fault with. Too much silence. Most current female singers.

What you plain dislike: Swearing & vulgarity. Seeing my friends hurting. CGI in a starring role. Being without candy.

Who you admire: People who can do things I like to do better than I can. This does not apply to surfing the 'net. The Chapman Brothers.

What you most love to do: See 'hobbits' (a typo, but I'll keep it)

Your self-confessed flaws: Too often I am content with what I am and not with what I have, when it should be the other way around. I'm also too sneaky for my own good.

What intrigues/fascinates you: Creating/ed little things. The inconsequential intricacies. Symmetry. Asymmetry. Straight lines. Other people. The secrets deep underneath the mountain that no-one else knows. Shopping.

What scares you: The fact that I have to be me for the rest of my life.

Quotation to live by:

"Comfort the Disturbed, Disturb the Comfortable"

"Common sense won't pay the rent and doesn't grow on trees / But splitting hairs will get you anything you need"

Additional comments: Homeschooled and awesome.