Do you have "odd" interests?

[Deanne]

Share them!

I don't think this is odd, but I get some odd looks from friends. I sometimes get short-lived obsessions to learn about things that most people really don't care about. I'm reading a fictional book called "The Historian." It's a Dracula kind of book, but Dracula hasn't yet made a personal appearance. All the historic references in it made me curious about who Dracula really was (the *real* Dracula), so I've been spending my lunch hours the last few days learning about him. Now I'll probably have nightmares!

Whenever I hear of a genetic condition or disease, I have to drop everything to do a Web search for it to learn more.

Funny thing is, I'd think this would make me good at Trivia, but I really suck at it and refuse to play because I'm sooooo bad! I guess in one ear, out the other!

[MyssAnne]

Deanne, you sound like me and my fiancee, I get interested in a subject, such as vampirism, which I did a couple of years ago, and get obsessive about it, then I drop it. My fiancee will study something extensively til he knows it inside and out, then drop it to pursue another interest.  I too would be horrible at Trivia. I've tried, never been able to get into it!

[Sunny]

I know what you mean. When I visited Gettysburg's battle field I became preoccupied with researching the battle and other civil war things. I rented a bunch of civil war movies and read a lot of books about the subject. Other times they are archaeological related interests. Usually history oriented.I guess that's how we learn things. Our obsessions could be worse!

[SpeedFleX]

lol thats not odd, thats just human! 

People tell me that this is odd: I want to build a Magnet Motor also called a Perendev. I don't think it will work but I wanna try^^

It's find searching for info on the internet for it too

[livecam]

Whenever I hear of a genetic condition or disease, I have to drop everything to do a Web search for it to learn more.

Funny thing is, I'd think this would make me good at Trivia, but I really suck at it and refuse to play because I'm sooooo bad! I guess in one ear, out the other!

Hey, whats odd about wanting to know more about stuff?  Its called curiousity and it means you're pretty bright!  With the internet information about almost any subject is always close so why not learn more if you want to.  In the past you would be running down to a library and playing in the card catalogs with something called the Dewey Decimal System if you wanted information on something you didn't know anything about.  That was such a hassle most people would lose interest before they ever got there.  You aren't odd or anything else so keep it up!

[keefer51]

I have become obsessed with answering e-mails from Russian woman. Let me explain. I am on a few thousand   of those dating sites. I never joined any yet. Anyway the Russian dating scam started. I would receive a couple of letters a day from Russian women professing their everlasting love to me. For a price of course. After a few letters they come up with a sob story about needing money to come over and see me. I did some research and found a couple of sites where these women are on. I didn't care though. I mean i am a 52 year old man receiving pictures of women claiming to be in their 30's and some even younger wanting to marry yours truly. When i write back i have been married three times already and am on dialysis they mysteriously dissappear!!!! I am very careful what i open due to viruses. I have this feeling the letters are coming from some cranky housewife in hoboken New Jersey with curlers in her hair smoking a cigarette and watching her favorite soaps. Keep the letters coming sweetheart!!

[livecam]

Careful of those Russian women.  They aren't in Hoboken, they are in Russia and what they want is marriage.  What they are looking for is an American husband and preferably one with a few bucks.  The money is secondary though because an American marriage gets them into the country and eventually lets them become citizens which lets them take advantage of all our country has to "offer".   Its the same with women from any third world country you'll find on dating sites targeting Americans.  I know of one man who after breaking up with his wife was desperate to find someone new.  He dated a bunch of women here but had a long distance thing going with a woman in China.  She conned him into sending money several times with one of the reasons being to put together airfare for a trip here.  Guess what?  He never saw her!  Now, this dude is a corporate VP and has megabucks but he fell for this nonsense just as easily as anyone else could.  So, enjoy the pictures and letters but don't let it get any further than that!

[lola]

I have become obsessed with answering e-mails from Russian woman. Let me explain. I am on a few thousand   of those dating sites. I never joined any yet. Anyway the Russian dating scam started. I would receive a couple of letters a day from Russian women professing their everlasting love to me. For a price of course. After a few letters they come up with a sob story about needing money to come over and see me. I did some research and found a couple of sites where these women are on. I didn't care though. I mean i am a 52 year old man receiving pictures of women claiming to be in their 30's and some even younger wanting to marry yours truly. When i write back i have been married three times already and am on dialysis they mysteriously dissappear!!!! I am very careful what i open due to viruses. I have this feeling the letters are coming from some cranky housewife in hoboken New Jersey with curlers in her hair smoking a cigarette and watching her favorite soaps. Keep the letters coming sweetheart!!

Damn K you found out what I do for a living except I'm a cranky housewife from Minnesota

[keefer51]

  I knew it was you lola!! No i would never send any money. I would never be that alone. I think i just have this sick sense of humor.

[angela515]

I don't think this is odd, but I LOVE learning anything about space. I watch anything to do with space on tv. I have to learn anything about it I can. I feel as if I am drawn to it, as though it's my destiny to know all this information about space although I may never use it. Same goes with anything about Egypt.

[oswald]

you must be an alien.     

[SpeedFleX]

I don't think this is odd, but I LOVE learning anything about space. I watch anything to do with space on tv. I have to learn anything about it I can. I feel as if I am drawn to it, as though it's my destiny to know all this information about space although I may never use it. Same goes with anything about Egypt.

Thats because Aliens came from Outerspace to build the pyramids^^ and like oswald said, you must be an alien trying to get back home, the pyramids are the key!

[angela515]

  All good by me. 

[livecam]

I don't think this is odd, but I LOVE learning anything about space. I watch anything to do with space on tv. I have to learn anything about it I can. I feel as if I am drawn to it, as though it's my destiny to know all this information about space although I may never use it. anything about

Not odd at all, lots of people like knowing about space, spaceflight, and just whats out there.  I confess to missing school when I was a kid when the first manned launches were happening.  I was 6 when Alan B. Shepard launched on the first suborbital manned mission and can remember watching the black and white coverage of it.  Even now I won't miss a Shuttle launch or landing whether its live or recorded.  If you get the chance to go to Washington, DC the National Air and Space Museum has a large collection of flight hardware from both the U.S. and Soviet space programs.  It is a fascinating place, you could get lost there for hours without keeping track of the time.  In my own life I worked for a NASA contractor covering Shuttle landings at Edwards AFB and went to high school with a future astronaut.  Too bad it didn't rub off!

[angela515]

If you get the chance to go to Washington, DC the National Air and Space Museum has a large collection of flight hardware from both the U.S. and Soviet space programs.  It is a fascinating place, you could get lost there for hours without keeping track of the time. 

Been there, done that, would love to do it again. I also have been to a launch in person in C.C Florida. Awesome!!

[icecream]

Well i don't have any odd interests but my husband was going to school for awhile to be a mortician.He owned an old hearse which we camped in for awhile.He just got rid of it last year.It was a 1973 hearse.I was
creeped out at first but then it was kinda cool.He wants to get an even older one when we move to our next
house.