What to post?

[keepingintouch]

I would love to be active here, but it has been a long time since I've kept a journal and I no longer really know how to do so. I certainly don't know how to keep an "open" one, which this would be, about me as several me's. So, I don't know...

And, so, I'll go with unorganized, random facts!

Cory:


* I am the host, generally am the one fronting, and I make most the out world decisions. I'm an ESL teacher, and currently teaching elementary school aged students. I love talking education, learning, linguistics, and literature.

* I graduated from college *10 years ago* last December. (Jimmeny crickets, I. Am. Old.)

* When I let Journey mostly do the introductions without thinking about them too much, I let him choose "Cory" as my name, because it's a name I've always loved and sounds very gender-neutral, so it is a good central name for all of us to use. It wasn't until several hours later that Nate suddenly began laughing at the name, and I realized it could be a bad joke. And I know it will be now. At least we didn't go with Corey as a spelling.

* In the past, I was almost militantly against thinking about having any sort of relationship ever. Due to having some amazing friends who've shown me through their lives that relationships can work, I am less militant about it, but I still shrug it off.

* I am actually pretty child-like in a lot of ways. I like very few things that could be rated "for teens", and definitely nothing above that in ratings. I am mature and can talk about mature things, but things less than innocent freak me out, especially when they're entirely unnecessary.

* The Incredibles is The Best Movie Ever. The Neverending Story and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with Gene Wilder are really close seconds!

* I love, love, love books, but mostly I love books that are geared toward pre-teens. I also love to read nonfiction. But because I do not live in an English speaking country, books are really hard for me to come by.

* I love to get to know people! Please feel free to comment and ask questions! (I am going to try to get others to do random facts too.)

Comments

[valerianhouse]

Willy Wonka is one of our comfort movies, we will just watch it when we're down and it helps.

[keepingintouch]

It's a great movie! Do you have other comfort movies?

[valerianhouse]

Yeah! Labyrinth and Legend are our other big time comfort movies. We also will watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy pretty much at any time for any reason (and now have added Hobbit movies to that, even though we have some issue with the Hobbit adaptation).

[valerianhouse]

Replying to add bc we're Old and no one has heard of it, Legend is a fantasy film from 1986 I think, starring Tom Cruise for some reason and also Tim Curry plays the villain, ugh, we love it.

[keepingintouch]

Yes, I know Legend, and actually think of that one before I think of the newer one. I get it terribly mixed up with all the other movies that are similar from the 80s, with unicorns and muppets and granny textures. The only one that I watched a billion times over was Neverending Story (when I was a kid, Artax was as good as a unicorn). I was otherwise preoccupied with Ninja Turtles and Fairy Tale Theater, I think. Maybe films very similar to Mary Poppins (Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang, Bedknobs and Broomsticks) also. I thought all the dancing men were Van Dyke and was quite enamored with him! If I'm ever able to do so, I should definitely consider doing an '80s family film marathon and finally figure out the difference between all those movies!

[valerianhouse]

We don't get it mixed up with anything, but we've watched it over and over and over so it's burned into our minds hahaha >>
Ooooh Neverending Story is good! We never had a tape or recording of it growing up so it was a thing we remembered in a sort of halfway sense for a long time.

We also used to watch the Hobbit cartoon which apparently some people were really scared of as kids but we were in love with it, like we loved the book. We're lifelong Tolkien fans I guess.

We liked (and still like) a lot of Disney musicals and things like that. I wholly support 80s family film marathon btw.

[feather_song]

Hey now. We graduated from university about 16 years ago. :)

Your movies are all good ones. :) You put me in the mind of, maybe I ought to post some intro stuff on our journal too.

Oh, and yay YA fiction! It's not exactly pre-teen, but have you read What's Left of Me?

- Aisling

[keepingintouch]

No, anything published before about 2006 and isn't super popular or Newberry award winning I probably don't even know about. Most of that time, I have been living in Korea so that is about my access and have a hard time reading things through the computer. But I can definitely run to the used bookstore to see if it happens to be there. It looks very interesting!

That said, Ingrid Law is my favorite more recent author.

Journey is trying to convince others to at least give him permission to post intros. He'd definitely be interested in seeing yours. (He says more air for the balloon will help it launch. I am just waiting for the day he makes a post full of his weird sayings that in turn makes no sense to anyone except for us.)