# Special Interests are my Special Interest ### A running list in no particular order... - **Rocks.** The OG special interest and still something I enjoy collecting. At one point I wanted to be a geologist. - Rock-adjacent things including gemstones, geodes, small things with cool details, dice, gameboard pawns, leaves, and more. - **Cats.** My love for cats goes pretty deep. I have a book about cat breeds that I got when I was about 10 years old. I'd study it all the time and I still have it. It's one of the few books from my childhood that I still have. - **The Ocean.** Ocean creatures, sea shells, ocean water...everything about the ocean is really cool to me. I had a collections of animal encyclopedias when I was young and I read the ocean one far more often than I read the others. - Some of my fiction books include tons of ocean elements. In [[Vaenas Overview|Vaenas]] there's a whole nation based on the ocean. - **Art.** Drawing, painting, sculpting, multi-media, digital design, and more. It's always been part of my life. - **Writing.** To me, writing is the best way for me to communicate. Turning that into art through fiction is an extension of that. - **Technology.** I like computers, software, apps, etc. It's fascinating to me and I like learning new coding techniques and stuff like that. - **Fashion and High Heels.** In high school I got *really* into shoes and fashion. Most of it stemmed from watching project runway. Yes, I wanted to be a model. No, I'm not sad that my height made that virtually impossible for me to achieve. - **The Titanic.** I watched the movie a million times, had a book about it, a game, a 3D puzzle, and have recently put together a Metal Earth sculpture for it.