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And now for the next three volunteers on the list:

sinanju

Interests: Fudge, Guns, Scott Joplin

Icons: George Even If, NPC Caridad Torres, Pretendy Fun Time Games

sophiedb (who doesn't have many interests listed, BTW)

Interests: Dorset, Bournemouth, Travel

Icons: Sluggy, Cheese, Jon

silvercobwebs

Interests: Common Rotation, Lip Gloss, Candles

Icons: Coffee Leads To Sex, Purple Alert, Book Group

Three more later!

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You're right, I don't have many interests.. hmm.. should fix that one day.

Interests

Bournemouth: my home town, next door to the town I live in now (Poole) *lol* I go halfway round the world and end up near home. The town's name literally means "stream mouth", with a tiny little stream known as the River Bourne (oxymoron!) flowing through the town centre and into the sea. It's a nice enough place despite being very touristy with very little history - a 200 year old town sandwiched between two (Christchurch and Poole) that are approx. 1000 and 2000+ respectively. Trouble is that most people in Britain have heard of the upstart, but not the other two - sacrilege - and are generally under the impression that Bournemouth is a town full of retirees and drunken students. Sadly, they are also correct.

Dorset: my home county *lol* Historically Bournemouth wasn't part of Dorset - the boundaries were changed 30-odd years ago - but as far as I'm concerned I'm a Dorset girl before being a Bournemouth girl. Beautiful, beautiful countryside with truly amazing coastal geology - World heritage Site! - and full of history (Celtic forts and burial sites, Roman invasion/massacre, wreckers on the beaches), Thomas Hardy's novels and funky local words like "grockle" (="tourist"). My parents used to take my brother and I on cycle rides or walks from an early age, visiting various villages (and their pubs) every sunny Sunday, regardless of the season *lol* I will truly miss Dorset when we finally move to NZ.

Travel: hehe, my passport is my friend. I love travelling. I think I've visited something 25-30 countries so far, though further explorations have been stalled by domesticity. We used to visit my grandparents in France a lot when I was little, then I started venturing out on my own with school trips to Germany, Italy, Austria.. Next up was Kenya/Tanzania, a roadtrip across the US and the biggest "holiday" of all, a one year visit to Australia that became three! And I still didn't see the whole bloody country *rolls eyes* I definitely need to travel more, especially Asia, S America and more of Africa.

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Icons

Sluggy: this is my "pissed off" icon, featuring the ever-lovable (read: psychotic) Bun-bun. I used to read Sluggy online religiously, then stopped when I went to Australia and my internet access fell apart. Apparently the comic isn't half as good as it was, now, but I remember splitting my sides back at uni and that's good enough for me :)

Cheese: need you ask? Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeese.. something I really really really want to eat. Soon. The end is nigh. Anyway, yes, cheese: anything smellier than old boots, gooier than melted chocolate (mmm.. chocolate..) and/or mouldier than a compost bin. Yummy yummy yummy. This icon is usually reserved for foodie type posts/comments or something cheesy in a corny way, though the wording - "vive le fromage!" - is me taking the mick out of "vive la France!", so it can get used in relation to anything French too.

Jon: like

sinanju, I play in the

crossing_lostrp playground (though I've slacked a lot recently due to lack of energy). Jack O'Neill's clone was one of my first characters, whom I gave the name of Jon Murphy, and he can be lots of fun to play when I'm in a snarky mood.. which is most of the time. He's done a pretty good job of hiding his age and being the world's most irritating not-teenager :) I reckon the odd mini!Jack appearance on SG1 would have been fun, but the lack of canon regarding what he did with his "new life" is excellent bunny-fodder :)

Also,

sinanju's Fun Pretendy Time Games icon is great. I love it when that one pops up to remind incipient drama queens that we're meant to be LAUGHING and that any character-torture is just that: nothing to do with their player. Thankfully most people in CL are adult..