LJ Interests meme results

chapstick:
I've been a habitual user of chapstick for as long as I can remember. I stopped using cherry-flavor when I was in middle-school because everyone else thought it was lipstick. Bitches. Anyhow, my only consolation is that I'm not alone.
d&d:
My first exposure to Dungeons & Dragons (and the pen & paper RPG gaming hobby in general) was in Boy Scouts. My Scoutmaster ran a few games at camp for the older kids. I didn't really get into pen & paper RPGs until college, and then there was much gaming to be had in the dorm when I moved to UT Austin. For most of the 90s I was too busy killing myself with work, part-time graduate school, and a complex social life to game. After my separation from appleang, I picked up the hobby again through the RPGA and have been playing regularly for the past 6 years. I'm burning out though, so I suspect I'll be backing off the gaming hobby again soon, or at least switching to home games.
fiona apple:
IIRC appleang heard this one while working at Bookstop, and I love her sound: soulful lyrics, fabulous voice, and the amazing power of the piano to grab at my emotions.
love ridden is a favorite.
indigo girls:
A friend in college played almost nothing but Boston. Like a 5-disk changer of it would play for the entire day and I would barely notice when one song ended and other started. Rarely he played something else, and one of those albums was the Indigo Girls. They played Austin once or twice every year, and play the Seattle area annually, so I've seen them live probably a dozen times.
logic:
My academic background has always favored science, and logic is the foundation of scientific thinking. As a hobby it is has done nothing but get me in trouble when applied to relationships.
monthy python:
"Look matey (picks up parrot) this parrot wouldn't voom if I put four thousand volts through it. It's bleeding demised!"

"It's not, it's pining."

What's not to love? Classic fanboy humor.
paganism:
I was introduced to neo-paganism by a girlfriend I met through the SCA my first year of college. I've never been a particularly religious person, but I've always felt a level of spiritualism. The neo-pagan view point tends to fit well with my own world-view in terms of tolerance, individualism, respect for nature, and the focus on the physical world as the 'blessed state'. I'm not particularly entranced with magic, divination, or many other traditions associated with neo-pagans.
role-playing games:
Beyond Dungeons & Dragons, I've played a lot of different pen & paper RPGs, GURPS and Shadowrun being the ones I play the most besides various flavors of d20. Computer RPGs tend to be my favorite genre.
science fiction fandom:
SF conventions tend to be a meeting point for a number of alternative communities, gaming, and media fandom. Given my tastes in movies and books, I tend to find a lot of fellow fans here. It can all probably be traced back to the fact that my mom's a Trekkie and encouraged my brother and I to watch a lot of classic Trek growing up.
wicca:
Wicca is a particular brand of neo-paganism that is probably closest to a single religious tradition that fits my world-view. I tend to be pretty sporadic about attending rituals for the Sabbats.