Twenty-five Things
6 February 2009 @ 11:37
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As the Earthen Witch vaguely mentioned people might do this ‘meme‘, I thought, also vaguely, that I would. 1. I am half Irish, with both my Mum’s parents being from Eire. Hence the fact that I have vastly curly hair. 2. My favourite smell is the smell of my dog(s), in particular the smell between their toes. 3. I couldn’t cook at all until I met Chicken, and once set fire to some spaghetti (yes, the dry pasta spaghetti, it was poking out of the pan on a gas hob… Oh, don’t ask…) I was cooking for as a romantic meal for my ex. 4. I would like to be a lecturer in political philosophy without having to be an academic, I also hope one day to get it together to write a book. 5. I have started writing three. Books, that is. 6. I cannot read phonically, I see letters and words in my head and have to visualise words. 7. Since I was a kid I have had two dogs, a cat, a Guinea pig, three gerbils and three hamsters as pets. 8. Their names were/are Beano, Ferris, Orson (although everyone called him Charlie), Percy, Thomas, Maisey, Pip, Sniff, Pinkie and Sooty. 9. My favourite colour is red, although I wear mostly black. 10. I have three phobias. 11. When I was a teenager I had bad OCD. I used to have to do things in sets of nine or twenty-three and had a number of ‘tics’. 12. I have small feet for my frame, they are a size five or six. They once prompted a bloke I knew to say ‘such small feet for such a big lass’. 13. I watched at least the highlights of every single game of Euro 1996. 14. I have written this blog since 2003, although a hard drive failure caused a large section of the archives to be lost forever in ’04. 15. I had to be induced, as I was two weeks overdue. 16. I decided I was a non-authoritarian Communist at the age of twelve, following some study of the Russian revolution, and became an anarcho-feminist at thirteen, it was a year later when I decided I would like to do a degree in Politics. 17. I had had three favourite films and three favourite books so far in my life. They are Citizen Kane, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain, Why the Whales Came by Michael Morpergo, The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde and The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger. 18. I have supported Arsenal since I was six, when I went to a testimonial match with my brother Jon. His friend gave us a lift in his black taxi cab, we listened to the match scores, I was addicted… 19. My childhood ambitions were to be a vet, like James Herriot, or a criminal barrister. 20. I hate being untidy, but I realise I am. Very. 21. I also hate that I worry so much, but realise that I probably always will; almost constantly. 22. It still breaks my heart that I got such a low score on my Larkin/Lawrence paper at A Level. I know I wrote well and interestingly, but that it wasn’t the current theory on them parroted. I recently read an article on Lawrence waxing lyrical on just what I wrote in the paper, which annoyed me still further. 23. My mother says that I was ‘born at 27′. 24. I have a terrible weakness for computer geeks… 25. I still love Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley, so there! Comments Off |
