A Meme
Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tesserae said: Talk to me about art glass, beer, cooking, jim/blair, reading, torchwood, and
writing...
art glass
I think the easiest thing to do is just to give you a link to the Fragile Beauty community on LJ, and let you stare at the pretty pictures. And if you can read Russian, you can even understand what they're talking about! Basically, this interest stems from my liking for glass paperweights, which goes back to the one my mother had. I used to hold it in my hand, round and smooth and heavy, and turn it and look at it from different angles to get the 3-D effect. I have a small collection of about six paperweights.
beer
This would be beer as in: not!Miller Lite, not!Budweiser beers. Microbrews and foreign beers. My dad is a beer lover, and my brother took that to a whole 'nother level, and is quite an expert and connoisseur. I enjoy going to festivals and brew pubs with them and sampling different varieties and different brewers. I don't like anything too hoppy, although hoppy ales smell wonderful! And stout is a bit much for me because the dark-roasted malt is a bit too reminiscent of coffee, which I don't like. Beer. You can pair it with food, like you would a wine; you can cook with it...
cooking
I lived on my own for years, and cooking didn't mean much to me. I'd try a new recipe now and then, get ideas from food I ate in restaurants. But a lot of my cooking was one-pot meals, like Hamburger Helper with some vegetables tossed in. And don't get me wrong, I still do that! But when I found myself with people to cook for, everything changed. Now I watch the Food Network and print recipes off the internet and try new things like fennel and parsnips, and grow herbs, and cook with beer and wine, and season with pink peppercorns... it's a lot of fun for me now.
Jim/Blair
The main characters on The Sentinel tv show. Jim Ellison is a detective with heightened senses and Blair Sandburg is the grad student writing his thesis about Sentinels. A friend points him in Jim's direction, and Blair tells Jim what he is, and begins to help him learn to control and use his senses to fight crime. And then Blair moves into Jim's loft for a week or two or two thousand, and the slash just writes itself! I wasn't too impressed when I first started watching. A cop show, and not really all that good. Shit blowing up, car chases (and horses and cycles and boats... *g*.) And then, before I knew it, I was completely sucked in: rewatching episodes, reading fanfic, and eventually writing some, too. I've consciously stepped away from the fandom to concentrate more on SG-1 exclusively (although I stray from time to time), but I'm so very fond of these two guys.
reading
I got my first library card when I was five and I never looked back. The first thing to do when I move is check out the library and get my card. I was one of those kids who carried a book with her everywhere. I would read while I was walking to grade school, although I'm pretty sure I looked up before crossing the street. I read fewer books now that I'm reading online so much, and sometimes I miss them. Over the years I've immersed myself at various times in science fiction, mysteries, Gothics, romances, biographies, history books. Nowadays it's Age of Sail and Grandma's Romance Novels!
Torchwood
Gosh, I haven't even seen an episode of this in forever, it seems! Well, it's all about Captain Jack Harkness, immortal cutie pie who's randy for anything within reach. I followed him to Torchwood after his guest stint in the TARDIS, and I watch the New Who because I loved the classic Doctor Who. I can't quite remember when/how I got into Doctor Who, but I always used to watch a lot of PBS, and I've always been an Anglophile, so I probably just stumbled into it. Torchwood, a.k.a. the Jack/Ianto show. That is all.
writing
I've been writing fanfiction for about four and a half years now. I know I've learned a lot, about what to do and what not to do. I can remember at about age ten acting out a tag to a Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode using marbles to represent the characters. So I guess I was always telling myself stories; they just weren't going down on paper until recently. And the really nifty side benefit to writing is meeting so many lovely people. :-)
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