I really wish I knew! I used to get really obsessive interests when I was younger and in my early twenties but it kind of subsided into adulthood. But my pregnancy seems to have brought my obsessiveness back somehow.

My husband took me to see the movie Alien: Covenant back in May. I just couldn't get it out of my head for even a single second ever since then. I saw it in theater four more times.

I watched ALL the Alien movies. Wrote a couple of fan fictions... Bought...a shit ton of merchandise.

And I seem to relate my every experience to some scene or another from an Alien movie. I'm like...an Alien search engine or something. It becomes really hard to resist making Alien movie quotes all the time.

Before this...for the passed maybe six years I was just... mildly obsessed with the Mahabharata. I was like...a Mahabharata encyclopedia, making frequent Mahabharata references and analogies.

My husband and friends actually liked that and considered it insightful and clever. ...But this is an annoying replacement.

Like...it's weird. I don't want to like Alien, to be honest with you.

We don't really get to chose our interests do we? I kind of wonder what would have happened, if I'd never gone to the theater in May.