A meme, of Researcher

[electricpaladin]

Look at your LJ interests list on your User Info. If you have fewer than ten intersts, list all of them. If you have fifty interests, list every fifth one. If you have between fifty and seventy-five interests, list every seventh one. If you have over seventy-five interests, list every tenth one. Then, tell everyone exactly what it is about these things that interests you so much.

Aikido: Aikido is resistance through non-resistance, fighting by not-fighting. As a martial arts style, it is something I can practice without compromising my principles; as a philosophy, it is brilliant and compatible with my Judaism. I kind of fell out of it this past year (after being involved for only a semester, which makes me kind of pitiful), but I'm going to try to get back into it. I need to see if I can find an Aikido dojo in the Bay Area that has classes in the evenings...

Communism: I have a lot of friends who are much more seriously interested in communism than I am. For me, it is a seductive ideal, something to study, though I'm not sure it could ever work, or ever really has. No matter how much I think about it, though, I can't dispell the idea that a society based on equality and cooperation, without money or monetary ambition, would be something to fight for, if it could be made to work.

Jazz: What can I say? It's one of the greatest music movements there is.

Magic: I have always been interested in the idea that there are things in the world beyond our current understanding, perhaps beyond our capacity to understand. This, for me, is magic. Whether or not it can be harnessed or controlled by human beings is something else altogether. I'm not too sure what I think about that.

Mythology: I have always been fascinated by the myths people tell, both as a scholar of cultures and religions and as a storyteller. I have always believed you can tell a lot about someone by the stories he tells, whatever he believes.

Roleplaying: One of my favorite hobbies. Enough said.

SoMA: The Society of Mutual Autopsy, a website that is sort of a cross between a communal blog and magazine recommended by my friend Aaron Wooden, the minister's son. It's a group that examines the vicissitudes of American religion. Most of it is about Christianity, but I still find it fascinating.

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[settingshadow.livejournal.com]

If you're interested in *ever* hearing from me, it'd be beneficial if you gave me EITHER a working e-mail address or a phone number...
...or you know, fax number, snail mail address, telegraph account, chip to have Tom insert inside my brain for telepathic communication...

In all seriousness, I'd like to talk, and I'm a little costernated that you're not really seeming to give me a way. My phone number was posted in my livejournal, and Abby also has it. I'm still regularly checking my CS account.

[electricpaladin.livejournal.com]

Sorry! My oberlin account is still working, and will until I switch it to an alumni account. Also, my yahoo address works. I won't list it here for fear of robots, but it's the one I joined Aggravated Damage with. Also, I still have the same cell phone.

I'll give you a snail mail address once I move out of Abby's house.

[settingshadow.livejournal.com]

Mark, dear, did you see the post in which I pointed out that I lost my cell phone and thus needed to be furnished with numbers?

Never mind, I was in a really bad mood and just kind of convinced you were purposely blowing me off and a I feel better now. I'll send you an e-mail after Hell Week is over. And I'll be grateful that I don't need to ask Tom to install a chip, as that would be embarassing after my insistence against said chips.

-RDG

[ladypimpernel.livejournal.com]

Becca- Taking the opportunity to mention that I am not, in fact, blowing you off or avoiding you, I'm just being depressed and busy and not talking to anyone. And then you called tonight while I was at work. I'll call you tomorrow?