Sam’s Blog

25 Things About Me: In no particular order

1. I am only truly still when I am asleep (aside from breathing, obviously). If you cannot see me moving or fidgeting or wiggling my foot or messing with my hair or shifting sitting position every few minutes I am probably wiggling my toes inside my shoes. A lot of the people in my extended family are equally twitchy. If we stay still very long we go to sleep.
2. #1 gives me some trouble when I’m trying to concentrate on schoolwork. Treadmills are good places for me to do extended reading.
3. I fall asleep in class pretty frequently.
4. I love windows and brightly lit rooms. Dim/”romantic” lighting is nice in its own way, but I like to be able to see properly.
5. I found a small chunk of brillo pad in my food once in a dimly lit restaurant. Couldn’t see my food very well so I found the chunk by biting down on it. Ew.
6. Someday my home will be full of non-flowering houseplants and big fishtanks full of cool fish.
7. I am allergic to everything with fur.
8. I love reading.  When I was younger I’d check out 5-6 books from the library every week.  Eventually I had to stop doing this because I’d read all the books of interest in the children – young adults sections.
9. I do not  have a favorite book but do have several that I like more than others.  They’re mostly young adult fantasy novels and classics like Pride and Prejudice.
10. Manga and anime amuse me but I lose interest in most of them pretty quickly.  I only purchase Mushishi and Ouran volumes; everything else I catch on onemanga.com because I am cheap.
11. I love hugs and tend to get depressed if I don’t have enough physical contact with my friends and family.
12. I do not like it when people I don’t know very well try to touch me.  Entrance to my personal bubble is a privledge, not a right.  :P
13. It also bugs me when people wearing heavy perfume or cologne get all touchy because the smell sticks to me.
14. People ask me surprisingly frequently if I eat fish.  This question confuses me.
15. I do eat fish sometimes but prefer shrimp and shellfish in general as long as it’s cooked.  Canned tuna’s a good source of protein when food sources are limited and you have no kitchen.
16. I was actually tagged for “16 things” but I like the number 25 better so I’m going to do that instead.
17. I’m typing and posting this to my blog mostly because I prefer the posting system to FB’s notes.  FB eats my abbr tags. Haha abbr tag.
18. Sometimes my brain will only supply the Spanish counterpart to the English word I want.  I’m not that fluent in Spanish; my brain is just being contrary.
19. If you see me stop moving and stare into the distance for a bit it is because I am thinking about something and have forgotten that I was walking or the result of my thought process will determine which way I am going to go and I need to stop while I’m figuring things out.  Either that or I have seen a bird or squirrel and am watching it do something silly.  Don’t worry, I’m not broken.
20. I am completely fascinated by fish and am not entirely sure why.  I think it’s how they move…
21. I have a very dry sense of humor.  If you think I just made a joke I probably did.  :P
22. I worry when my friends disappear and I don’t hear from them for more than a day or two.  If you’re fighting dragons then please let me fight them with you; I’ll freak out so much more if I don’t know what’s going on with you.  The quickest way to convince me that you don’t like me (and that I should go away and leave you alone) is to keep me in the dark.
23. If you need my help then just say what you need straight out.  If I can help you I will.  If I cannot for some reason then I will tell you.  Trying to butter me up with small talk just irritates me and makes me want to refuse your request out of sheer contrariness.
24. I rarely watch TV and don’t listen to secular radio that often so many pop culture references go right over my head.
25. I accepted Christ as my Savior at the age of 7.  My faith in Him grows stronger the more I learn about His creation.

I was actually tagged ages ago but just now felt like doing it.  :)

Where art and science collide

So I like fish. Most of you have figured this out by now. They make good pets, have interesting behavior patterns, and they just look cool. I’ve been looking a little longingly at the fish posters around the Zoo department for a while and have actually gone so far as to look for posters on the internet for possible purchase. I discarded that idea pretty quickly though since poster + shipping = expensive.

But here’s where the art comes in. A few moments ago I was watching Pez motoring around his tank and thought “You know, if you want a fish poster you could just make one yourself…”
“…”
“Ohmygosh I could!” *glee*

I have no idea if I will actually design, draw and print out a poster of cool fish species but the very fact that I had the idea and was so thrilled has to mean something.

Perhaps I have finally gone insane. We shall see. I need to find other science/art people to see if this sort of thing is common or if it’s just me.
Combining your passions, I suppose?