The personal side of AT Options

[Astrid]

Sitting here in the school library between classes, ultimately bored and exhausted, I've come up with an idea some of you may either immediately disregard as a waste of time or find some interest in. What is it that we do? How many of us are high school students? College students? Which major? How many of us have completed that tedious part of our lives and achieved a career?

I'm a college student, who after months of trial-and-error has finally settled on Philosophy as an appropriate major. I entered school as a psych major, then chem, then physics, then math, then philosophy and physics, and now just philosophy I finally realized that I wasted entirely too much time trying to pick one and just decided to go for the shortest and most enjoyable. Nothin' better than arguing with a classful of people about the validity of the substance of an inanimate object :D Anyway, I plan to eventually become a professor and mess with my own students' minds. I'll throw enough Nietzsche, Plato and Descartes their way to make them question society and reality all the way to the looney bin. I love my major :D How about you guys?

Also, hobbies. Other than gaming, do you guys like anything? I used to take martial arts for a very brief period of time, but temporarily injured my knee, so I'll switch to archery until it heals. I'd call myself an avid comicbook fan, but after recieving more disappointing news in the direction of the X-Titles, I plan to quit them cold turkey (I've said this at least a million times in the past).

Any writers out there? If so, please participate in the FFXI role playing game on http://www.geneticrevolution-home.com (Heh! Shameless plug )

Anyway, this happens to be the aftermath of my sleepless, in-between-class, Tuesday boredom.

[Astrid]

So we're listin' music favorites now, 'eh? Well, I'll jump in, too. Why not? I'm a *huge* fan of oldschool Dead Kennedys, specifically the Jello Biafra years. Of course, since his departure from the band, saying they went downhill would be a huge understatement. I mean, you go from intelligent, tongue-in-cheek, satirical, political rock, to "Mari-marijuana, they'll catch you if they wanna..." Please ... utter stupidity.

I'm also a fan of AFI because their song-writing style reminds me of the 19th century gothic romantics, even though I'm a bigger fan of the original romantics (like S.T. Coleridge!) and later Transcendentalists (like Thoreau!)

I also love the Subhumans, Minor Threat, Fugazi, etc.

My "fun" bands consist of Motorhead and the Danzig Misfits.

Of course, recently, Dorian's managed to slightly transform my taste in music and mutate it to fit his. Damn *steals Dorian's Dream Theater cd*

heh ..I also really, *really* like the Cowboy Bebob ending theme. Does anyone else think it's surprisingly alluring?


Anyway, I really appreciate everyone's responces. Zerika's seemed the most interesting to me, particularly because he reminds me of my old friend, Vin. Vin's dream life consists of jagermeister, metal and a harley. He's probably one of the biggest doses of honesty and loyalty you'll ever get. He may not be the warmest or friendliest person in the world, but if he is a friend, he will be for life.

Anyway, I appreciate all the responces. Thanks a ton