[3W4DW] 12. What do you consider the five most "telling" interests from the list on your profile?

... Why?

(I preface this post by noting that I have spent a good deal of the day in the kind of agony where I VERY GRUMPILY stay horizontal in bed. Hence: grumps.)

• $lj::will_not_work_without_steam_radiator -- this one is... something of a tradition among DW devs, expressing a particular type of exasperated fondness (or, you know, just plain exasperation) with the way Brad put together the LJ codebase. And it also neatly encapsulates the way I will say "come on, you little fucker" to tools and to tyre levers, and "come on sweetheart, you can do it, aren't you a darling" to my wheelchair and to my experimental kit. (Yes, please do at this stage imagine me cooing gently to a furnace running at 1350degC in a hydrogen-rich gas mixture, because that is exactly what I am like.)
  
• cavalier cookery -- no, not as in the Roundheads, as in "offhand or unceremonious". Because I cook until done; because I cook with my ears and my nose; because I add some of this and some of that. Because cooking grounds me and makes me whole. Because cooking is part and parcel with the culture I've been very carefully handed.
  
• headology -- lit. "study of heads". Source: Discworld. Burrowing in people's heads - in your own head - in a very practical get-your-hands-dirty sort of a way.
  
• lumps of rock -- I'm a geologist. It's what we do.
  
• stories with dragons in -- fierce or friendly or both. Because I like to be taken out of my head, and to other places, and I like curling up and being told stories. Because the world is stranger and more beautiful than I will ever fully grasp.

my degree via the medium of pop

These are the songs I listened to endlessly. This is the music that kept me safe through the nights. Content note: I spent a lot of my degree depressed, and in various states of suicidal. This isn't incompatible with me having had a fantastic and enriching time but it does mean that a lot of these songs aren't easy. Some of my accompanying writing gets quite graphic about this.

( Content notes start applying here. )