I'm a polyglot anatomist who writes novels and has too many hobbies :)

[dionysius]

Hi, my name is Richard, I'm 22, and live in Perth, Scotland. I just moved to DW from LJ and am looking for some friends here.

I graduated anatomy last year, and this is a major interest of mine; I'm interested in the sciences in general. I am also a writer; I'm working on my second novel, and write poetry and lyrics on the side. Other interests include learning foreign languages (working on 11!), coding, crochet, geography, and ancient history and mythologies.

I don't really have criteria for the friends I add, but I do like to connect with someone beyond us simply reading each other's entries. That said, I don't expect (nor give) comments superfluously for their own sake, but it's nice if we interact more than a couple times a month!

The things I write about are mainly my day, my hobbies, and my musings. Just so people know what they're in for: I have lupus, so I do write about it, but I try to keep positive about my health, and have been told I write very optimistically about my disability. :) I am working through the 5000 Question Survey as a nice way for others to get to know me, but also for my own self-analysis. Occasionally I put up photo posts (under a cut if more than four or so).

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LANGUAGE! /also classical musician

[claire_chan]

Which eleven are you studying, Richard?

(I'm Claire/23/Philadelphia-area-of-the-US)

How many more than a couple times monthly should we interact? /busybusybusy

I see your lupus and raise you a car accident's brain trauma injury!
For that reason, I have to deal with my Uni's Office of Services for Students with Disabilities a bit more frequently than I'd prefer.

5000 Question Survey? That sounds like the ultimate in meme-age.

I write mostly about what's going on/what I'm thinking about, aided by Socrates. Most of my DreamWidth is readers-only, but here is something recent that is public. I don't even know why that one is public. Maybe because of the Communism thing? I joined the Communist Party of the United States of America a bit ago. I dunno. I approve of the idea of militant-socialism more than the losing-the-Cold-War part of things.
I study the USSR and about twenty-eight other things like Latin/Greek, Sociology, Newswriting, and the oboe.

Anatomy sounds interesting! Of all the sciences, I like Physics and Astronomy the most - but not the staring-up-at-the-stars-and-philosophising junk like some of my Classics classmates... <_< >_> I find that boring and mind-deadening. I loved studying the structure of the universe a year ago - the chemical anatomy of stars, the maybe-five kinds of stars, the different kinds of light, and all of the Physics behind it. :D Tycho Brahe, Copernicus and all them.
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving... and revolving at 900 mph!

Re: LANGUAGE! /also classical musician

[dionysius]

I'm pretty fluent in German, trying to reclaim the French I've forgotten, working on Russian. Because I've picked up some Italian (enough to get by in Italy on holiday, anyway), Spanish, Dutch, I decided to work specifically on them. And when I made a blog for my language skills, I decided to start on Finnish, Swedish, Polish, Czech, and Slovenian to round things out so I'd cover Europe pretty much! :)

I feel pretty bad when I say "contact" as a requirement as I can be bad at getting onto these sites, but basically I like to make comments where I can, and it's nice to keep a dialog going a bit if it happens.

Ouch! Well, it sucks you suffer from it, but then it's kind of nice to find other people with chronic health issues. :P

I love astronomy too. :) (My sister is a Classicist, haha, and while I love much of the study, I'm not here for their "science" :P).

You seem totally awesome, by the way, and I'm adding you back. :)

Re: LANGUAGE! /also classical musician

[claire_chan]

Impressive! I speak (and sing in) Russian better than read or write in it, and mostly struggle with German. Wow! I don't know very many European languages besides the whole Latin/German/Greek/Russian thing. Maybe a little French, not at all confident in Spanish.

Well, this is only useful if you actually talk with the other person.

You learn to live with it.

Ooh, she is? :D I feel bad claiming Classicism cos my University's Classics department is about as dead as Latin is supposed to be. I think their "science" is a loose interpretation of the word.
Science comes from sciens [scientis], the participle "knowing [of knowing]", you know!

ETA: Oops, I got excited and hit comment before I was done. Thank you so much! And the Facebook thing, too. Talk with you more later!