Well, the subject header says it best: which aspect of your life expresses most about you as a person?

When I still worked at Uni, I would've said that my job expressed quite a lot about me. Now that I'm managing projects for the British Council, that's no longer the case to the same extent. I like my work, but it's not really an expression of myself quite as much as it used to be.

I like playing music, but I'm not sure that my playing expresses that much about me. However, what I read and what I watch is probably more indicative of who I am at this point. As does directing plays... but I haven't done that for a while.

I probably express most of myself in my relationship with my close friends and with Cass. (It's quite possible that everyone will pretty much answer the same to this question... )

What about you?

I think there are a couple of things.

Certainly my relationships with others - though I would stress that this INCLUDES lovers.

My photography and love of cemeteries.

My insatiable appetite for books, education, and smart people.

But biggest - probably my cooking and need to feed people. I really do LOVE to feed people. I put love in my food. If I am making sure you are fed then I am showing you that I care about you. In this way I care for many people. I think in some ways this is the most expressive part of me.

all my aspects are so intergrated that it is difficult to discern them.. but I would have to say my Brìd aspect..

this is a chant a beloved friend and sister created for Brìd (and the many spellings of Her Name):

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I am the fire in the hearth
I am the breath of the bellows in the forge
I am the herbs and the healing waters
I am the double-edge of the poet's tounge

that covers all of me: Cook, Healer, Crafter, and Bard.. well with a nod to all.. the Priestess.. and Teacher..

*shrug* my thirst for knowledge, the loftier the better?

I like to cook for people and make things for people. I suppose that expresses that I'm really very passive. um.

I would say my service in the S.C.A.

Things that express the most about me as a person:

Star Wars.

My stories and my writing.

My relationships.

My education and experience.

My sound effects.

The novels and comics that I read.

My creations.

My ever-growing.

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Originally posted by Maeve:
I like to cook for people and make things for people. I suppose that expresses that I'm really very passive. um.

Hey, making stuff is not passive. It's active. And something most people can't find the time for, so there.


Me, besides my relationships with people (and not just friends and family, but anyone), it would probably be my professional career: the type of job I do, how I do it, how bloody long it's taken me to finish studies and take things seriously -as I get side-tracked and distracted and lost and then come back-, how I've never ever done anything that doesn't personally interest me, how I am slowly but surely specialising myself in the areas I enjoy most, how I deal with my clients, confidentiality, fairness, even how I do come across a relatively inexperienced despite not being so becaus eI'm so insecure...
For me, there's no other way of doing it. My occupation is the way in which I make my living, and as such it HAS to be a part of me and represents who I am in society and the world. Plus, if I'm going to spend most of the day in one single activity, man it'd better be something I'm proud of and have fun with.

Er, my expression, I think. My face.


Ity's not always like this:

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sitting at the coffee shop reading a book, or writing on my laptop, listening to my mp3 player, dressed the way that i dress. that pretty much says it all.

I don't think anything in particular expresses me as a person, but only because I don't think a person can be expressed that way.

my optimism.

my love affair with the ocean

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Originally posted by smalltown:
my love affair with the ocean

Yahr, a harsh mistress she be.

Aye, the widow maker.

That's a tricky one, since nothing ever stays the same for long, life is continually evolving along it's winding path. But it does make me think, I wouldn't say the aspect is my work, relationships or appearance even (and this makes me a lil sad). I think I'm in a transitional period.

Hrmm... so in answer to the question, I think the aspect would have to be the books I'm reading.

How I deal with media, probably.

I spend a lot of my time doing things that involve media...

Print, video, audio, the net...

Other than that, my odd sense of humor, perhaps...

I can find some slapstick and other stuff like that funny, but I really love satire and humor in written form. Clever wordplay, silly mistakes.

I doubt I'll ever be skilled enough to write quite like that, but I'll at least try to appreciate it...

I try to find the humor in many situations...but I'm not particularly optimistic...

fresh, sliced tomatoes

There is no sense-making thread

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There is no sense-making thread

That's a good thing, because we so rarely make any.

The sky above our backyard. It changes many times a day here at seaside.

The small Rapa Nui statue someone's erected on their rooftop in our street.

My left elbow that got shattered in an accident years ago. It's almost completely normal, but there's a scar and you can feel some wire and nails under the skin.

Untitled track #1 from the Sigur Rós album ().