"Five" meme

[melluransa]

Comment to this post saying "FIVE!" and I will pick five things I would like you to talk about. They might make sense or be totally random.

Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself, hopefully for the rest of eternity!

Thanks to kseenaa and previous lj users for sharing this, and for asking me my five questions! Let's merrily perpetuate this! It's a fun one. :) kseenaa asked me about the future, fandoms, books, comics, and music.



What are your plans for the future?

My plans for the future are to graduate and get an awesome job, and move away from where I live now to the West Coast! My awesome job will be as a speech therapist somewhere. I'm leaning towards working in a pediatric hospital setting, because I like the organization of hospitals. Some of my other options are working in public and/or private schools, private practice with a company or even my own company, and care/nursing facilities. Everywhere but the public schools are what appeals to me. And as for moving? I'm thinking middle to northern California, but I'm still open to ideas and locations.


What fandoms are you into and why?

I'm going to interpret this as my current fandoms, and not include any of my past fandoms (there are many)

Tokio Hotel! YEP. There are so, so many reasons why. The big ones are their music, the friends I've made because of them, them as a group and their dynamics with each other when they're performing or doing an interview or something, everything that is Bill, everything to do with twins being twins, the community of fans that I'm in, Tokio Hotel Fiction. TH is my fandom universe right now, it's definitely the reigning fandom for me.

K-pop! I adore all the music. Adore it. Music music music! K-pop is probably 85% of what I listen to. But additionally, yhere's always something new and fresh, there's so many artists to get interested in, there's so much talent, it's so sparkly, and it has its legends and classics. The fandoms in kpop are very varied and very weird, and I love all the inside jokes that develop within them. More specifically, I like YG artists (Big Bang, 2NE1), MBLAQ, Clazziquai Project, and some scattered songs here and there from a bunch of artists. I find that I don't like SM artists, which include SHINee, SNSD, Super Junior, f(x), and EXO-K or EXO-M. They are not interesting enough for all the hype and ballyhoo about them. Plus, their fans get kinda sorta extremely annoying on twitter sometimes... especially the SHINee and EXO fans.

Harry Potter! I was such a HP nerd in school. The books were coming out right when I was 9 or 10 years old, so right at an impressionable age. I tore through the books, reading ravenously. I did all the silly stuff like applying temporary lightning tattoos on my forehead, running around in a bathrobe and a stick, and completely losing myself in imaginary play. I got the first novel in Spanish, and it was the first book I'd ever started, read, and completed that was in Spanish. I didn't get much merchandise, since I'm not really into merch. I did get the boardgames... so Uno, Quidditch cards, Harry Potter Clue, something about the Mystery in Diagon Alley, and something with little plastic knuts, sickles, and galleons that you toss and add up sums. Oh yeah, and the legos. I got so many Harry Potter lego sets (which are really REALLY cool) and I still have them all on a shelf in my bedroom. I'm still into the HP fandom! Lately, I've really been enjoying the movies and falling completely in love with the Draco/Harry aka Drarry pairing in fanfic. That pairing is the reason I joined AO3. Oh my god, that pairing is divine.


What books do you like?

I love sci-fi, futuristic, fantasy kind of things. If it's about robots, aliens, and multi-planetary kinds of deals, I love it. If it's about the degradation of human society and culture and/or the end of the world, I love it. I love suspense and terror books, even sometimes the gory awful ones where everyone dies. They may or may not die violently. I also like sad endings, although I like happy endings almost as much. I'm also partial to books about mythology and fantasy. My favorite book I read recently was Robopocalypse by Daniel Wilson, and there are a lot of others I read (and even get for free on my nook book from Barnes and Noble) that I greatly enjoy. Some recent titles I've read within this year and enjoyed were:

Smallworld by Dominic Green
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Wetweb by Robert Haney (I LOVED THIS ONE SO MUCH)
Story of My Life by Helen Keller

Most of these were free on nookbook! I just scrolled through the nookbook (which has a name, and his name is Joon) and listed the recent ones I've read and liked.


What comics are you into?

I've never been into comic books! But I used to read a lot of manga. My faves were Rave Master, Dazzle, Fruits Basket, and Ah! My goddess. I don't have any complete manga series though. Thank goodness for mangafox.com! It let me finish the Rave Master and Fruits Basket series! I think Dazzle is still being published in Japan, but here in the states the publisher dropped it for its unpopularity! I haven't checked the Dazzle mangafox page in a few years, actually.


What music do you like?

This is like asking me what body part I'd like to cut off. I really can't pick and all are dear to me! My favorite music group of all time is La Oreja De Van Gogh. I also like rock-pop like Tokio Hotel, pop/electric like Kpop, classical music like Beethoven, movie and video game soundtracks (I saw Nobuo Uematsu in person. BE JEALOUS), Celtic-sounding music, hip-hop/light rap, electronic, hard electronic, electrio-modern jazz, and some latin music (especially tango).

I also play piano. I used to play drumset, tympani, concert snare drum, accessory percussion, marching band percussion like the snares and tom-toms, all kinds of cymbals, and keyboard percussion instruments like the marimba and xylophone. I used to want to be a drummer for my career. I can sing too, and I don't sound half bad. I also like to make music on the computer with software, and my program I use is Garageband for mac. If you want to hear me and some of the songs I've made, click my youtube. I'm not much for composing music or making original stuff. I prefer to play and reinterpret what already exists.

Comments

[zeph317toho.livejournal.com]

I just did this, too! But, if you wanna hit me, I can do five for you. *bats eyelashes*

I'm going to check out your book recs! They sound really cool!

Your plans for the future are awesome and exciting. I hope that you get everything you want and have worked so hard for! <3<3<3

And I would dispute what you said about not making your own music. You are a talented musician, and I love and adore the songs you've written for me! Even if it's just lyrics and adaptation -- you are amazing!

[melluransa.livejournal.com]

Awesome! I'll check out yours and five you too! You deserve all the high fives that exist in the world! o/*\o (that's two people high-fiving each other and there was a little impact between their hands like a little burst of awesome).

I really like books in which robots take over the world. Wetweb and Robopocalypse were about that! But the former was gradual nonviolent takeover while the latter was violent takeover. The Windup Girl is about robots again, but so much more than that. The robots in that story are slaves to the humans, and there's themes touching upon culture, ethics, socioeconomic status, business and economy, science, and humans messing up nature. If you want to think, Windup Girl is good. If you want to be entertained and/or frightened, the other two are good.

Smallworld was bizarre and interesting, about a very very small planet and the family that lives on it. Very eventful planet, it is. There's a jail cell cube spacecraft from which one can never escape, and it was supposed to float though space for eternity... but accidentally lands on their little planet. There are some really odd religious themes in this book, and it's really funny in a very weird way. Eventually you realize there aren't any religious themes at all. It's weird to explain, and all the funnier and more ridiculous for it.

And Story of My Life is fascinating, especially for me analyzing Helen Keller's acquisition of language, her acting-out behavior, her sensory deficits, the nature of her education, the compensatory strategies she used, the efforts of her caregivers, the accommodations her teachers and professors made for her, the history behind sign language and braille... you get the idea! I'm reading it as a speech-language pathologist would, and I'm glad I have that knowledge base because it makes me appreciate her amazing achievements all the more.

Yes, I have penned my own few original songs! They are all very special, because I don't compost originals for just anybody! I can count how many original ones I've made on one hand... *counts* There's 5, and Zephmellownoid is among them. :3

[kseenaa.livejournal.com]

Now that's some interesting books right there. :-) I'd say you share a taste in books with my hubby, peting73. :-) He likes books like that to! :-D Among others, but yeah... SciFi is a favorite for him. :-)

Sounds like you have pretty good plans for the future to! :-D Why not public schools, though I gotta ask? I mean, someone with your education and skill would probably be able to do a lot of use and help a lot of kids in public schools! :-)

[melluransa.livejournal.com]

For not working in public schools... it has to do with the public schools here, especially in my state.

--There is no funding to help pay for resources and materials. If I got an office (pretty big IF there, too) it would be the size of a closet.
--There are so many children, so so many and I'd have a caseload of maybe 70 kids I'd have to see every week. Scheduling time that the kids can see you is a nightmare (I've done it once). It means that the kids often must be in groups, which isn't the best because say one kid is deaf, the other kid has severe cognitive impairment, and one kid can't say his "s" sound. It's not the ideal group for the kids, or for me.
--Time is limited. Sometimes this means you have to try to get the teachers involved. This is a challenge all its own. Teachers are incredibly busy. Some teachers are happy to help the kids and be flexible, while others are so set in their ways (example: "I've been teaching for 25 years so don't you come in my classroom and tell me what I have to change -- it's not happening.") Just the thought of working with those kind of people.... @_@
--There are tons of laws you have to comply with. It involves a lot of jumping through hoops sometimes. Also, there are IEP meetings.... IEP meetings are lengthy team meetings involving a lot of paperwork, and every child I would treat requires an IEP meeting.

The only good points about working in a public school are the joys of working with children, and that I'd get time for vacations in the summer. I feel that for who I am, and my style of working and speech therapy style, and my personality... working in a school wouldn't be the best fit for me. I'd be so stressed out. I wouldn't do as good of a job as I could, to help the kids in the way they best deserve. Other people flourish in the public school setting, so I have so much respect for them! I see myself doing a lot better in a hospital kind of setting.

[kseenaa.livejournal.com]

:-( That so, so sucks. It is usually in schools like that... where the need is the biggest. :-P Let's just hope not to many think like that, since that would make the need even bigger, since in the end... NO ONE will work in public schools and them kids will get no help what so ever. :-/

I worked as a librarian at a school-library at a school where there were A LOT of troubled kids that had troubles reading, troubles learning the Swedish language since they were refugees from war-torn countries, kids with troubles at home... etc, etc, and so on and so forth... Let's just say there? I wasn't only a librarian. Oh no. I was a mom, a therapist, a friend, a sister, a teacher, a psychologist all baked into one... working very closely with the teachers. unfortunately, I only had that job for... 6 months or so. I loved them troubled kids. It was one EXHAUSTING job... But so, so giving to. I was knocked out when coming home every day. And. It was my first job as a librarian, no less...

[melluransa.livejournal.com]

It sounds so much more than being a librarian! Wow. It's exhausting by it's the most satisfying exhaustion in the world. :D

[kseenaa.livejournal.com]

It was extremely satisfying. :-) And the many of the kids still say HI to me when they see me on the streets, even if it is a year ago I worked there. :-)

[yerawizardamber.livejournal.com]

ahh! this sounds fun :) hit me up!

Also, HP board games were the BEST. I used to have a game that came with a bunch of obstacles, and you set it up and had to levitate a ball around it (there was an air vent below the ball you had to twist) in a certain amount of time...it was intense. So fun.

[melluransa.livejournal.com]

Yo. Your five are: unwind, pets, books, language, and energy. You can interpret those however you wish!

Oh man, I forgot about the levitate-y ball game!!! I never got that one, but I saw it on the commercials and wanted it so bad! That's so cool! I don't know if it was the fact that they were Harry Potter games and had that HP label, or just that the games themselves were cool -- HP board games were so awesome. I've never had as much fun with other board games.

[elizabeth21r.livejournal.com]

I'm being sincere when I tell you this, your determination in life and your future plans totally make me want to find something I would want as passionately as you seem to want your dream-job. You have a certain thing in your head - maybe not all details figured out, but the general idea - and you know what you want and what you have to do to get it, and that motivates you to work harder, and it's just so admirable =) It just makes me so happy to see people I care about have moved on from the "I don't know what to do with my life" phase.

I hope with all my heart that you'll achieve all you truly want <3

[melluransa.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yes, that's me. I know where I want to be and how to get there. I'm really lucky to have that direction in life. You know the phrase "I found my calling," or stuff like that? Well, it's really freaking hard to find your calling. Where do you even look? I was so lucky to get a couple of nudges in the right direction by the right people, and spurred me to where I am now.

I hope I can maybe be one of those people for you! That I can nudge you to go take off running and never look back, so you can run off into the sunset (Bill will be there to take a picture) and find your path too! Thanks so much for your sincerity and well-wishes! It means so much to me, more than you can even imagine.

<3<3<3 I love you, sweet Lillypop.

[elizabeth21r.livejournal.com]

I've pretty much lost all hope of that ever happening by now! The thought of Bill and the sunset is a nice image though, so thank you for that <333

I wouldn't mind your 'fives' either =) <3

[melluransa.livejournal.com]

You're welcome? XD No matter what you say, I will always believe in you. :)

Fives for you! Water, color, books, movies, movement.

[melluransa.livejournal.com]

Hey Lilly, do you want a "five" too? :3