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Comment on this post, and I will choose seven interests from your profile and ask you to explain what they mean, and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your journal so that others can play.

The list yubsie game me consists of :
all berries are delicious
saving stories
SJA kinds pwn Torchwood
organizing other people's books
baroque choral music
getting angry in character
the postman


all berries are delicious
The alternative was to list each one individually: blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries... I thought I'd just get my love of them out there in a simple manner. Sadly, I have never tried some of the other varieties of edible berries. One day, one day.

saving stories
"... And in the novel, as in life, whether he lives or dies depends on which story he believes."

"And this I do believe."

"Which is why I tell these three stories over and over again. The story of the time my son and I came to Canada. The story of my short career as a basketball player. The story of an old man and his garden. "

"And there are others."

"I tell them to myself, to my friends, sometimes to strangers. Because they make me laugh. Because they are a particular kind of story. Saving stories, if you will. Stories that help keep me alive."
-Thomas King from The Truth About Stories

sja kids pwn torchwood
When it gets right down to it, I'd rather have my pesky alien dilemma solved by Sarah Jane and her companions friends. As yubsie pointed out, they're vastly more likely to save the day from problems they didn't create themselves. (Dysfunctional Torchwood, ilu!)

Because it's the kids' spin-off of the franchise, the stories also tend to be more "Everybody lives" oriented and the end result is that the kids come off looking infinitely more competent than Torchwood.

organizing other people's books
I really like organising stuff! Especially books! That was always my job when we were kids with clean up to do. I still get this really intense satisfaction from the job and other tasks for a similar nature. (It's oddly absent when it comes down to my own things - which explains the state of my living spaces :P)

baroque choral music
I like to listen to it, but I love to perform it. There's a raw sort of power to it that could knock you off of your feet. I'm not entirely sure why it's so - I'm not religious and I often can't even understand the language the songs are in (lots of church music!) - but I always feel as if it were a massed force that we're letting free when we sing our four, five, six part harmonies.

getting angry in character
Many of you have never seen or read me (Katie, not my characters) angry and those of you that have probably don't need more than one hand to count the instances. It's an emotion I don't really let myself feel and refuse even more strongly to show. In real life, I tend to be quiet and reserved, but entirely approachable.

Being in character lets me lower that inhibition. It's always a fight for me to play a scene aggresively; when I grabbed gulfpirate's character by the neck and slammed him hard against a tree, I was so anxious about it that I nearly didn't play that part of the scene out., except that I knew that Cassidy, my character, would never have let it slide, after what she'd just heard and been though.

Doing something I would never do, even if it's just yelling and rolling the dice, accessing emotions I try to squash, even if they are still apart, is such an incredible rush.

the postman
I should confess now. I have a penchant for the post-apocalyptic. I love seeing how people get on when all of this comes to dust. It's why I liked "The Chrysalids" so much too. Who are we when the re-world has to reshape itself? What carries over, what changes? I don't seek the genre out, but I rarely fail to enjoy it.

With that introduction, it's not going to surprise anyone when I say that "The Postman" is a post-apocalyptic novel. Set twelve years (if memory serves) after the end of civilization as we know it, the story focuses on Gordon Krantz, a lone wanderer who stumbles on a long forgotten United States Postal Service vehicle. He takes the dead postal worker's clothes because that's how you live in a survivalist culture, but as he continues to travel, people respond to the jacket and cap. The symbol of the Postman grows and grows, until it's rapidly out of Gordon's hands. Aside from creating an interesting and realistic post-apocalyptic culture, I loved the idea of a mailman unexpectedly carrying both letters and hope. I love that it's a postal service, of all things, that is rebuilding a nation. There are some other interesting twists too!

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I think that anyone gonig through Ontario high schools has had to read it! Still, I think it's a reasonably popular (or at least, resonably well tolerated) choice.

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