with interest

(See, this is what happens when you spend half the workday trying to set up a new computer: you FALL BEHIND ON YOUR DAILY POSTING SCHEDULE. Tragic.)

21 days for Dreamwidth, #12:
What do you consider the five most "telling" interests from the list on your profile? Why?

• having too many books, because my love affair with books is not only about reading, it's about the physical presence of the library as Home.
  
• statler and waldorf, because they encapsulate so much of what made the Muppets great. "I've a good mind to go home." "If you had a good mind you wouldn't be here in the first place!"
  
• military brats, because I'm fascinated by the ways we're broken and the ways we healed around it.
  
• the waste land, because its depth of allusion and gorgeous language Changed My Life.
  
• affection, because it's vital.

And #13:
Do you have any unique interests on your user profile? What are they? How'd they get there?

Several. I've not really updated my interest list since importing it from LJ however long ago, and most of these are shared there.

• blaming the patriarchy: Jeez. I cannot believe no one else on Dreamwidth is interested in blaming the patriarchy. How is that even possible?
  
• cat vacuuming society: My writing group. None of the other members are on LJ or DW. (Actually I think Jen-in-charge has a Livejournal account but she doesn't use it.)
  
• fleeing to canada: It seemed like a good idea at the time.
  
• homing from work: I stumbled across this in someone else's profile, and it seemed like a really good idea. Soon I'll be homing from work at home, which is less impressive.
  
• jazz fish zen: An obscure picture book from the mid-nineties.
  
• lacuna: An obscure role-playing game from the mid-2000s. I keep hoping other fans will pop up.
  
• military brats: My obsession with brathood dates back to reading the book four years ago.
  
• owain glyndwr: The last Welsh Prince of Wales, disappeared in 1610 or thereabouts. Also the namesake of my first car. For awhile I wanted to run away to live in Wales.
  
• red bell peppers: Tastiest of veggies. Seriously, no one else on DW likes these?
  
• snowpocalypse: Feb 2010. God, that was wonderful. I have never seen so much snow and I probably never will again. Okay, so I can understand how no one but me would like this.
  
• spring peepers: Among the things I'll miss in Vancouver. I was once unable to hold a conversation at Pandapas Pond in B'burg because they were so loud.
  
• the scribblies: The Interstate Writers' Workshop, a bunch of formerly-Minnesota-based fantasy writers who put out some of my favorite books.
  
• the treachery of images: Magritte's painting of a pipe. Ceci n'est pas une interest.
  
• tjhsst: My high school, whose full name is longer than its physical address and several time longer than its URL. For a year or so everyone I knew on LJ was from there.
  
• tjst: Jefferson Shakespeare Troupe, the best part of high school, even once I'd graduated.
  
• zarf: A genuinely weird and awesome guy.