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zita_skyandano. Ikuze!
The Future: This isn't really something about me, cheater :p My plans for the future aren't all that grand. Step one after Striker and I finish school is to get the hell out of Toronto. I've had just about as much of this city as I can take on every level XD Where to go from there is a bit tricky, though. I could pretty much live anywhere in the country, but the wife's not a big fan of the cold, so that rules out... everywhere from the BC interior to central Ontario. The east coast isn't exactly a place you go to
find a job (though that might be changing in the next couple years if they can get their oil industry going - fat chance with Alberta's guy Harpo running the show >_>), and Quebec has been officially vetoed. That pretty much leaves the southern half of Ontario (which I'm not all that fond of) or the west coast ($$$$$$!). We also need to consider the size of the community we move to - I can teach anywhere, big or small, but with Striker in the tech industry we kind of require something at least on the city level. Of course, I'd like to travel first before we throw ourselves right into it ($$$$$$!). Personally, I want to see some places in Europe that aren't on the typical travel list: Finland, Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, in addition to the usual Netherlands, Germany, etc. I have no real interest in seeing France or the UK (since I live in France/UK Junior!), but I might want to pop by the latter anyway to harass
silverwindblade ;)
Writing: Ah, cruel mistress. I have so many ideas to write, but so little time or energy. All of my effort goes into writing papers for school... which I guess I do quite well, but they're not nearly as enjoyable as pounding out a few chapters of sci-fi or fantasy fiction. Lately I've been in more of a mood to try to
make time for working on some of my writing projects, though, with fresh ideas always popping into my head, mostly due to reading a lot of alternate histories, as well as the very excellent Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Canadian author Steven Erikson. I don't know if you can get the books outside Canada, and I feel sorry for you if you can't, because he really has a unique way of telling a fantasy story where he integrates his knowledge as a trained archaeologist and anthropologist into his work, that will probably affect my style in the future. Makes me feel less bad about being a history geek :p
Roleplaying: Arguably my main hobby since I was about 14, and consequently, how I met my wife. There's been a lot of really screwed up relationships between roleplayers that I've witnessed over the past eleven (!) years, but I'm happy to say this is one of about four that I know have worked out. I got my start in roleplaying via video games - back in primary school, me and a couple friends used to write a lot of fanfiction for various platform RPGs (Chrono Trigger, Lunar) that we played... as well as BattleTech *cough*. Later on when home internet connections actually became feasible and worthwhile in northern Ontario, one of those guys came back to me and told me about these sites online where we could, quote, "Like make our own Chrono Trigger characters and write about them with other people." Ossim! Eleven (!!) years later, here I am running three RPG boards of my own and having participated in about a dozen web-based roleplaying projects. Perhaps ironically, I have never played a Chrono Trigger fan character or in a CT game. I would probably play Toma. Poor, unfortunate, awesome Toma the Explora.
...I just realised, that probably isn't MEDIEVAL COLA that you pour on his tombstone. Huh.
Guild Wars: The only MMORPG I can afford! Actually, that's probably not quite true, I'm just a cheapskate. GW is a game that pretty well fits my MMO 'lifestyle'. I don't need to devote a double-digit percentage of my whole life to the game in order to build my characters up to a decent level of power and equipment, since the mechanics favour skill over hours played (the trick isn't having that 'godly' weapon or piece of armor, but finding proper skill and equipment combinations). Since I'm not paying a monthly fee and issues of server malfunctions or data loss NEVER come up, whenever I get sick of it I can just put it on the shelf for a few months, then pick up again when the urge strikes. Currently I have a character from each of the professions save Mesmer, though my favourites are my rare earth elementalist Xifeng Zheng, my bow-spike ranger Faerian Stormfall, and my assassin Genshiro Ikeda - whom I'm training as a critical-barrager with the eventual hope of replacing my aforementioned ranger as my primary long-range attack character. GEEK OFF.
Macross: Simultaneously my favourite anime and sci-fi series. I've had a love affair with Macross literally since before I could remember, and before I even knew it
was Macross. The "first" time I encountered the series was when TeleToon aired Macross Plus when I was in grade 10, and I was instantly hooked by the action, crazy visuals, and complex characters. I learned that it wasn't actually my first exposure to the franchise, though, when my dad sat in on my viewing of the third episode and said, "Oh I remember this. You used to watch this stupid show when you were five." It turned out Macross = Robotech XD In any case, I've been a big, big fan of the series since then, although I still think Plus was the best of the bunch. I think what really stands out for me are the characters and the superb storytelling, distinct from other sci-fi/action/mecha anime like Gundam; not to say Gundam is brainless, but it does get formulaic and throws so many characters at you that there isn't much time for significant development. A Macross series can go entire episodes with minimal to no variable fighter action, and I'd still be hooked just because of the character interaction. There aren't too many series out there where the main romance cultivated over the long term between two protagonists actually falls out!
It's late and this is getting long, so I'm going to do
myuumaster's and
somethingsoft's in another post WHEN I FEELS LIKE IT!
disappointed
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!