ceitfianna | A Meme Thing

Reply to this post and I'll give you five words I associate with you. They may be serious or may be funny. This is from

neenie and its a nice distraction since even though I think Michigan now has all my stuff I'm still all tied up in knots.

Tomorrow I'm going to volunteer at the library and then maybe go see Star Trek again. Then Friday I'll head up north to spend the weekend with

bookelfe and probably

rushin_doll along with lots of other fun things. My hope is that I will know about Michigan by my birthday which is June 8th, I want someone magically here to give me a back rub. Now onto the five words.

Irish I'm Irish on both sides of my family, my mother's family from Cork and we're not quite sure about my dad's since Fitzgeralds are all over Ireland. I've been to Ireland a couple of times now and its one of my favorite places in the world since its beautiful and it just feels comfortable to me. I like the idea of being connected with the word Irish.

New Zealand The three years I spent in New Zealand were a fantastic mixture of being independent for the first time in my life and almost losing it when I tried to work on my thesis. I miss it a lot especially Wellington because it was my idea of a perfect city, not terribly big, utterly walkable and right on the water. Its crazy writing this because I know that there's a lot I can say about New Zealand but I'm not quite sure where to start, it felt like home for a time and whenever I see anything about it anywhere, there's an ache.

Robin Hood I think Robin Hood was my first fandom since in elementary school, I wrote fanfiction about Will and the other men and the first story I ever told was of Will's hanging. I like to think of myself as hopeful and there's something wonderfully hopeful about the Robin Hood legend. A lot of why I love it can be traced to the N C Wyeth illustrations which created an image of a world that I wanted to go to. I grew up near a forest too and there's an incredible magic to Sherwood and the sense of old magic close by.

RP I started RPing at summer camp when I was about twelve, in this amazing game run by an Austrian guy who looked kind of like an orc, he was tall with this wonderful face. He forced us to think about character first and my half elf Bard Gwyn started at level 5 since I created a wonderful background story for her. There was also a point where he took away our character sheets and just forced us to really talk everything out. I completely fell in love since at that point I'd been doing acting and performing in various forms and this let me use a whole other type of imagination. My sophomore year of high school, my boyfriend started a Vampire Larp that went on for ages with some good and bad but I discovered White Wolf and Changeling so that by the time I went to college, I ran my own Larp. I miss Larping a lot because you can improv and dress up both of which I adore. Danii pulled me into Milliways by talking about it a lot and at first I wasn't sure who I was going to play but there was an aha moment and I started with Will. RP on LJ has made me so happy and gotten me writing again though also missing other types of RP, tabletop and Larp since the people at Milliways and the other games are just so fantastic.

Quakerism Both of my parents converted to Quakerism before I was born so I was really raised in the Swarthmore Meeting and it was a wonderful place for me. I love Quakerism because really at the heart of is we can all talk to God and there is God within us all. At the moment I'm not a full member of a meeting but I do want to be and I still identify myself as Quaker. I like how its such a wonderfully open and understanding community with not a lot of excess things attached to it. Though when I've been in places like Greece, I adore learning and enjoying the beauty and power of something like Greek Orthodoxy but I do see myself as a Quaker.