All About You (Part II)

[Laurinquë]

Name (that you go by): Robyn, though some people call me Lauri, Robyna, Bunny, or even Woeback.
Age: 17.
Occupation: Bored high school senior.
Future Aspirations: To graduate from high school, have enough time/chaperones/money to go to the British Isles with TheGreatElvenWarrior next summer, and to study botany at a university in the UK next year.
Goal in life: To be happy. To get an education, a job as a horticulturist, and to travel and travel and travel. And maybe to get married and have a child. Who knows.
Short term goals: Getting up in the morning and finishing my homework. And also to get a time machine.
Passion: TGEW knows! But for the rest of you: travel, flowers, being an anglophile, reading, internetting, and imagining.
Hobbies: Internetting! And other things like: reading, gardening, learning words, being outside when there is something other than snow to see, and being a nassty Paul McCartney fan girl!
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Being eccentric, for knowing 'all' about the natural sciences, and for being an intolerable Tolkien fan and anglophile.

Fave book: Ah hem. Why am I on this website? Also: The Red Tent, Siddhartha, and historical fiction in general.
Fave movie: I'm really rather fond of the Beatles film Help! as well as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Across the Universe.
Fave sport: I did some fencing last year. It was great fun pretending to battle the Nazgûl!
Fave store: Barnes & Noble bookstore. Why? I'm not sure, after all it takes all of my money anway.
Fave music: The Beatles (if you hadn't noticed already!), Dido, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Coldplay, and *ducks* ABBA.

What you can't stand: Close-minded people, violence, cold and darkness, those who don't like reading, proofs, and people who value development over the preservation of nature.
What you plain dislike: Writing non-fiction rubbish for school, interacting with people who I don't know, falling into bottomless pits, maths, my spontaneous combustion on the second Tuesday in May, etc.
Who you admire: Lommy! And anyone who has the courage to stand up and do what they think is right, whatever it is.
What you most love to do: Be outside on a nice day with my best friend.
Your self-confessed flaws: Procrastination in the extreme and sloth.
What intrigues/fascinates you: Everything! But to be more concrete: evolution, geology, botany, genetics, psychology, and the past.
What scares you: Icebergs, they give me panic attacks. Things in deep water, thinking about the passage of time, the London Underground, and the Empty Child.
Quotation to live by: "Be yourself, whoever you are."

Additional comments: I'm incredibly brilliant only not really. Also that it's 3:30 AM and I have to get up to work as a barrista tomorrow.

[wilwarin538]

Oh my, I did this back in 2005, hehe, definitely needs some updating (interesting to see how much I've changed)...

Name (that you go by): Vanessa
Age: 19
Occupation: university sophomore in Psychology, and I work at an awesome book store named Chapters
Future Aspirations: to gradute university either from teachers college or with a Child Development Masters
Goal in life: to be a mom
Short term goals: get rid of this flu, and do some homework maybe aswell
Passion: music and I'm gradually getting more and more passionate about working with kids
Hobbies: music, reading, violin, guitar, and WW of course
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): for being a really dumb smart person, no really, I get good grades and am one of the only people most of my friends know who can understand Shakepeare and knows the Greek alphabet, but I say some really dumb stuff

Fave book: well, LOTR (obviously), then Time Traveler's Wife, The Historian, Jennifer Government, Elegance of the Hedgehog, Merchant of Venice, and many others
Fave movie: LOTR, Star Trek, Much Ado About Nothing, Princess Bride, Monty Python, The Incredibles, any and all Johnny Depp films (mainly Sweeney Todd, Benny & Joon, Edward Scissorhands and POTC)
Fave sport: not big on sports, but soccer isn't so bad
Fave store: Chapters, books books books <3
Fave music: Coldplay, The Fray, Lifehouse, Colbie Caillat, John Mayer, Math Nathanson, Eagles, Paramore

What you can't stand: unecassary changes, people who are too afraid to discipline they're children and have obviously never heard of Pavlov, people who don't consider Psychology a ligitimate field of study, and closed-minded evolutionists (open minded ones aren't so bad)
What you plain dislike: talking to people I went to highschool with who's names I can't remember, the colour yellow
Who you admire: my mom
What you most love to do: listen to music loudly while driving at night, best thing ever
Your self-confessed flaws: procrastination, and maybe a bit too stubborn
What intrigues/fascinates you: music, haha, uhm, Psychology and Greek/Roman History/Myths
What scares you: deep water, creepy sounds in the dark, being on the second level of my house when I'm the only one home (first floor is just fine, don't even ask me why)
Quotation to live by: "Be yourself, whoever you are." (Laurinque's, I'll keep it)

Additional comments: uhm, you guys are the coolest!!! haha

[Hakon]

Name: Alexander although I go by Alex. I do have some friends who call me Prince Ali, there is a long story behind that. My health teacher calls me by my last name.
Age: 15
Occupation: Sophomore in highschool
Future Aspirations: Right now just to graduate high school and then college. I am still not sure where I want to go with my life.
Goal in life: To succeed and maybe one day actually be happy.
Passion: Learning, writing, reading, watching great films and tv series and expressing my opinions.
Hobbies:Same as above.
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Being the man with all the answers and opinions. I am also famous for being cynical and always looking angry.

Fave book: I don't have one. I will just say the current book I am reading which I love. After the War by Frederic Raphael.
Fave movie: I am not sure. There are some movies I like a lot but not enough for the title of favorite.
Fave sport: My best sport of course, archery. I also like fencing but I am not as good as I would like to be at that.
Fave store: None.
Fave music: Don't have any. It depends entirely on my mood well not really my mood but what I feel like listening to. I will shut up now.

What you can't stand: Close minded people, obese people, religious nut jobs, my mother, our current school system, my sister, certain songs, George W. Bush and the current way the world is heading.
What you plain dislike: The same as above and a few more things which I am listing in the next sentence. People who think they know everything about relationships and people who are obsessed with a certain food.
Who you admire: My father, my fathers father, Rod Serling, William James Sidis, Daniel Tammet, Tolkien, Lovecraft and many many more.
What you most love to do: Look at hobbies and sports.
Your self-confessed flaws: Not really sure what they are as in I am not sure if I want to post about my flaws.
What intrigues/fascinates you: Everything to an extent. Pretty much everything except for stuff I don't care about such as celebrities and all of that stuff.
What scares you: Spiders, snakes, anything in the deep sea which is why I love to write about sea monsters and other stuff like that and finally my greatest fear of all ladybugs.
Quotation to live by: Look at my signature.
Additional comments: I have none.

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Name (that you go by): Peter
Age: I was so much older then I'm younger than that now
Occupation: Selling my body and time to afford the things I like to do
Future Aspirations: Trying to combine the things I like to do with work or committing the perfect crime so I need not work for money
Goal in life: Be as happy as I can without making anyone else unhappy
Short term goals: Finish and publish a book I'm working on
Passion: Music, Literature, other physical and aesthetic pleasures
Hobbies: Music, writing, sports, out-doors activities like fishing and hiking, seeing the world (but I don't care for actual travelling)
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Not much for bragging

Fave book: Oh there are many... Everything by Tolkien obvioulsy, Naked Lunch by Burroughs, Heart of Darkness by Conrad, Dispatches by Herr, Master and Margarita by Bulgakov, Lolita by Nakobov, A Clockwork Orange by A Burgess, The Sheltering Sky by Bowles. a few Scandinavian books you wouldn't know of (well maybe the other Scandinavians would...er I could I could go on and on.
Fave movie: Not much of a movie-buff but I'll go for Clint Eastwood's The Unforgiven
Fave sport: Football, playing tennis and shooting pool
Fave store: A certain second hand books and vinyl store
Fave music: Most (but far from all) of what I like was recorded before I was even born. I like music from a lot of genres and at the moment I've a thing for fusion and jazzy rock like The Soft Machine, Steely Dan, Zappa, Miles Davies etc. I'm a big Dylan fan and feel that the Kinks could do no wrong 1966-71.
What you can't stand: Intolerance, Hypocrisy, Bureaucracy, modern society's craze for security and control
What you plain dislike: Most of what is played on radio or shown on regular cable TV
Who you admire: My parents, Leonard Cohen
What you most love to do: ******* **** and then ******* **** while spinning great tunes on the turntable. Spending quality time out in the nature, especially in Norwegian fjords
Your self-confessed flaws: Procrastination, mood driven social ineptitude
What intrigues/fascinates you: Existance, space and time
What scares you: The dark side of group mentality, the truth
Quotation to live by: Hm. how about: Deserve's got noting to do with it, spoken by Eastwood's character as he shoots Gene Hackman in the above mentioned film

Additional comments: Interesting to read what other members have written, but you're rarely surprised, are you? You get a pretty good feel for who someone is by reading what they post on a forum like this I think. Sometimes ever better than people you meet almost every day in real life...

[Loslote]

Name (that you go by): Here, Lottie or Loslote; in RL, Kristen
Age: 15
Occupation: Student
Future Aspirations: Physics professor...eventually.
Goal in life: to die in my sleep.
Short term goals: not to have cold feet in the morning.
Passion: Tolkien (um....possibly didn't need to include that)
Hobbies: reading, writing (humorous fanfics and poems), drawing (mostly elves), eating (usually food), sleeping (as often as possible)
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Being way to o nice. So are pretty much all of my friends. If two of us get to a door at the same time, we'll wait for the other to go in first until the end of the world. Also, in my house, food goes to waste really often because we don't like to eat the last of anything in case someone else wants it. Also, I'm famous for my memory. I can remember anything I read. Not exactly photographic, but similar. And for my randomness.

Fave book: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Fave movie: The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde
Fave sport: Can reading count?
Fave store: Um...Amazon?
Fave music: Country

What you can't stand: the cold.
What you plain dislike: Improper grammer. (and yet, look at all of my responses. )
Who you admire: My mom.
What you most love to do: read/write/draw
Your self-confessed flaws: I am far too trusting; I am seldom serious; and I depend far too much on the good opinion of others, which leads me to try to please everyone way too often; I can never say no to anything.
What intrigues/fascinates you: trivial knowledge.
What scares you: disapproval.
Quotation to live by: "I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do the day after."

Additional comments: Thinking...thinking...nope. I got nothing.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Originally Posted by Loslote

What you can't stand: the cold.

I think you might have a little problem here.

[Lush]

Awww, what a great thread this is. Glad to see it was revived.

It's odd, I filled this thing out over 6 years ago, and I don't think I've changed a whole lot. I still listen to Manu Chao and even write about sports occasionally. Maybe I stopped evolving and am now slowly becoming a degenerate. (Or was I always a degenerate? Hm, yeah, don't answer that...)

[The Saucepan Man]

My original response was on the first thread, which seems to have been lost in the mists of time. So here we go again ...

Name (that you go by): There are some who call me ... Tim
Age: 42
Occupation: Korprat-Loyer
Future Aspirations: I am pretty much contented with my life - so more of the same, I suppose.
Goal in life: To see my children grow up happy, healthy and successful in whatever they choose to do.
Short term goals: To finish this questionnaire.
Passion: My family.
Hobbies: Board games, Sport (as a spectator, natch), Internet browsing, Making Playlists on my I-Pod.
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): At the moment, giving up smoking after 22 years on 20+ a day. 7 months and still struggling (but still going).

Fave book: Difficult to pick out one. Other than The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit etc, probably The Magus and Wuthering Heights. I recently enjoyed Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Northern Lights and Cloud Atlas, and have been working my through Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. Currently reading Bad Science.
Fave movie: Again, difficult to pick out one. So here's a huge list instead: Alien, Blade Runner, Brazil, A Bridge Too Far, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Cloverfield, ET the Extra-Terrestrial, Ghostbusters, Jurassic Park, King Kong, The Lord of the Rings, Life of Brian, Lost in Translation, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Pan's Labyrinth, Shaun of the Dead, Star Wars, The Terminator, The Thing, Toy Story, 12 Angry Men, 28 Days Later.
Fave sport: Football (England and Chelski), Cricket (England) and F1 (Button and Hamilton).
Fave store: The Game Shop in Aldershot. And anywhere else that sells board games.
Fave music: Once again, it is impossible to pick out any one style or group, so it has to be another huge list: Air, The Arcade Fire, The Beatles, Blur, David Bowie, Kate Bush, The Charlatans, The Chemical Brothers, Coldplay, The Cure, The Divine Comedy, Dodgy, Doves, Elbow, Feeder, The Feeling, The Fratellis, Goldfrapp, Gomez, Gorillaz, Kasabian, The Kinks, Lemon Jelly, Madness, Mansun, Oasis, Pink Floyd, REM, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, Scouting for Girls, The Specials, The Stone Roses, The White Stripes, The Who, Robbie Williams. And much much more. I love music me.

What you can't stand: People who dawdle. Wherever - whether shuffling in the tube, bumbling around on the pavement, or pootling along on the motorway. I hate dawdlers.
What you plain dislike: Those who demand their rights without acknowledging their responsibilities.
Who you admire: The wonderful Mrs S.
What you most love to do: Listen to Music. Drink wine. Play board games with Mrs S. Preferably all three at the same time.
Your self-confessed flaws: Laziness and perfectionism. Which is an appalling combination. I want things to be perfect, but I'm generally too lazy to make them so myself ...
What intrigues/fascinates you: Mysteries. Although I am a lot less credulous and superstitious than I was in my younger days.
What scares you: Spiders. I am a pathetic arachnophobe. As are the rest of the family. Which makes dealing with spiders in the house rather tricky.
Quotation to live by: Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Additional comments: Do I get the job?