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Feb. 1st, 2009 09:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnyBeen tagged on facebook for the random 25 things about you meme, but I don't use facebook much. Plus I get friended (and unfriended) at a rate of knots around here, so some of this might be handy. Might copy it over there, possibly, but here it is in any case:
1. There are only so many shelves in the two cupboards that I have for clothes, and it's more important to me that one of the cupboards is used as a makeshift bookshelf/DVD shelf. Therefore all my underwear is stored in a bucket.
2. Ever since I had arthritis for nine months, any time the weather is particularly cold or damp for extended periods I start aching horribly. Cheltenham has been delightful in this respect.
3. I love houmous to the extent that the sudden realisation - due to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tropes - that Rodney McKay would be deathly allergic to it has made me make EPIC SADFACES. D:
4. I haven't been in a RL, physical type relationship since I was 19. I'm now 26. The amount it bothers me varies very much according to mood; it doesn't bother me so much because of the lack of a SO, but because there's a constant itch at the back of my head wondering why I'm that unattractive to people in general.
5. I fell in love when I was 21. It was a mess. Mostly I'm over it, now, which is something that I can think about when I'm having particularly bad downswings and think that, y'know, at least I'm not still hung up on that. Cold comfort is better than no comfort at all. :D
6. I created![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
milliways_bar but no longer have anything to do with it, which really does make me sad sometimes. Even though I don't have time for it.
7. I have a degree in English Language Studies and a Post Graduate Certificate in Education, qualifying me to teach English to 11-18 year olds. I don't think I'm done with education; I'd really love to do a masters in religious studies - preferably the sociology and psychology thereof - and quite possibly in linguistics. Linguistic theory and religious theory squish together in very interesting ways in my head.
8. I have ideas for at least three books, but I'm scared shitless of writing them in case I mess up. In my head they can always remain awesome.
9. When I was a tiny person, I went to a largely hindu school with a hearing impaired unit. I was a white kid who could hear, and I had to wear an eyepatch due to the squint I had; it's probably the only time in my life that I won't be within the majority. I think it affected my perspective, even considering all the ways I was naturally privileged even within that environment; I also think the eyepatch started my obsession with pirates.
10. I love reading about exploration, pirates, wooden ships, even though I recognise the intense amounts of failboat in the raping, pillaging, slave trading, belief in white supremacy, hideous eugenics programs etc. that it led to. I find that hard to reconcile.
11. There is little that will make me dislike you without getting to know you first. Telling me you don't read is a good start, although it's more likely to trigger my pity reflex and make me want desperately to find you a book that you will absolutely love.
12. I have lived in England and Wales, and I have been to the US, Canada, France, Germany and Spain. (Oh, and I peed in Belgium.) I massively want to travel more; I'm thinking about doing a TEFL course this summer in order to help with my EAL teaching, but the fact that I could then use it to go to India, Tibet, wherever also holds some serious appeal.
13. I am getting more used to acknowledging that people exist; I used to need to know what their bedrooms looked like in order that I could have somewhere to picture them when they weren't with me. I suspect that my sanity isn't exactly rock solid, but I suspect that no one's is; I also suspect it makes my brain a more interesting place and has a positive effect on my original writing.
14. My favourite flowers are passion flowers because they look like they come from another planet. My favourite colour is green/teal, and my favourite pattern is stars. Anything with stars on makes me happy. At present I'm wearing my jogging/pyjama bottoms which're bright pink with big white stars on, and they make me grin.
15. I am a hopeless romantic and I love crappy romance films, but really hate Love, Actually. Ew. I also have problems with Sleepless in Seattle, which'd be why I rewrote it with John and Rodney. :D
16. I name everything. Seriously. Both my laptops and both my phones (work and home), my router, all my toys, the space heater my landlord lent me, the old VCR we used to have, my iBop, my slippers back when they were pandas, the TV, anything I'm inclined to yell at. I default to male names, usually, but I've made an effort to change that; my work laptop and phone both have female names and it wasn't even a conscious decision to do that. Huzzah for slowly changing my ingrained misogyny!
17. I really can't see myself getting married, and although I love kids I really don't want any of my own. Perfectly happy to be crazy aunt Nny to any number of my friends' sproglets. This is what you get for showing me Alien.
18. I am an absolutely dreadful friend. I am sweet and I buy things for people and I listen and I hang out; I will come to a store at midnight with you for the Manics album even though I dislike the band and will just sit there reading LotR and insulting the Manics; I will always walk you home/to the train station/wherever; if there is anything I can do to make you happier I will do it. However, I will never remember your birthday, I will completely forget to speak to you for six months and then be surprised that you're weirded out when I call you for a long chat, I will love you forever but get distracted by shiny people. I'm seriously trying to work on this. :/
19. I can probably drink more than you, but you'd have a hard time noticing because I drink so damned fast that I'm drunk first anyway. It's a nervousness thing, a way of having something to do with my hands and mouth that doesn't involve talking to people or displaying my nervousness. I'm trying to fix this because I'm an embarrassment, I think.
20. I'm pretty good at tarot readings, but I don't practice enough. I see them as a form of Rorschach, a way of focussing the mind and bringing to the surface what you were thinking in any case; there's also a certain amount of Tao within my perception of how the world works, although I've only read very very simple relations of what it means. I don't get on well with organised religion, nor do I like the idea that you can't pick and choose from among them. I believe what makes sense to me and I keep an open mind about the rest. It works for me.
21. I was brought up Church of England. It explains my faffing, I suspect.
22. When I was younger, at various points, I wanted to be: a vet, a fireman, a writer/illustrator, a pop star, an F1 driver, a stunt driver, an actor, a bookshop owner, a lifeguard, a cat. For the more famous pretend jobs, I used to practice imaginary answers to the imaginary interviews I would no doubt have. (Some of these ambitions still stand.)
23. I have three tattoos I want, but haven't the courage to get them. I also want to pierce my lip and shave my head, but I'm more invested in keeping my job at present.
24. I am better at cooking than I think I am. This holds true for many other creative things I do, also. :D
25. Mostly, in life, I want to help people and make them happy. That has affected my actions, my reactions and the way that I speak and listen; I am constantly trying to learn ways to not inadvertently screw this ambition up. If I ever screw up within your sight, please let me know so I can do better next time.
If this raises any questions, or there's anything you want to ask me anyway, please feel free. :D
1. There are only so many shelves in the two cupboards that I have for clothes, and it's more important to me that one of the cupboards is used as a makeshift bookshelf/DVD shelf. Therefore all my underwear is stored in a bucket.
2. Ever since I had arthritis for nine months, any time the weather is particularly cold or damp for extended periods I start aching horribly. Cheltenham has been delightful in this respect.
3. I love houmous to the extent that the sudden realisation - due to
tropes - that Rodney McKay would be deathly allergic to it has made me make EPIC SADFACES. D:4. I haven't been in a RL, physical type relationship since I was 19. I'm now 26. The amount it bothers me varies very much according to mood; it doesn't bother me so much because of the lack of a SO, but because there's a constant itch at the back of my head wondering why I'm that unattractive to people in general.
5. I fell in love when I was 21. It was a mess. Mostly I'm over it, now, which is something that I can think about when I'm having particularly bad downswings and think that, y'know, at least I'm not still hung up on that. Cold comfort is better than no comfort at all. :D
6. I created
milliways_bar but no longer have anything to do with it, which really does make me sad sometimes. Even though I don't have time for it. 7. I have a degree in English Language Studies and a Post Graduate Certificate in Education, qualifying me to teach English to 11-18 year olds. I don't think I'm done with education; I'd really love to do a masters in religious studies - preferably the sociology and psychology thereof - and quite possibly in linguistics. Linguistic theory and religious theory squish together in very interesting ways in my head.
8. I have ideas for at least three books, but I'm scared shitless of writing them in case I mess up. In my head they can always remain awesome.
9. When I was a tiny person, I went to a largely hindu school with a hearing impaired unit. I was a white kid who could hear, and I had to wear an eyepatch due to the squint I had; it's probably the only time in my life that I won't be within the majority. I think it affected my perspective, even considering all the ways I was naturally privileged even within that environment; I also think the eyepatch started my obsession with pirates.
10. I love reading about exploration, pirates, wooden ships, even though I recognise the intense amounts of failboat in the raping, pillaging, slave trading, belief in white supremacy, hideous eugenics programs etc. that it led to. I find that hard to reconcile.
11. There is little that will make me dislike you without getting to know you first. Telling me you don't read is a good start, although it's more likely to trigger my pity reflex and make me want desperately to find you a book that you will absolutely love.
12. I have lived in England and Wales, and I have been to the US, Canada, France, Germany and Spain. (Oh, and I peed in Belgium.) I massively want to travel more; I'm thinking about doing a TEFL course this summer in order to help with my EAL teaching, but the fact that I could then use it to go to India, Tibet, wherever also holds some serious appeal.
13. I am getting more used to acknowledging that people exist; I used to need to know what their bedrooms looked like in order that I could have somewhere to picture them when they weren't with me. I suspect that my sanity isn't exactly rock solid, but I suspect that no one's is; I also suspect it makes my brain a more interesting place and has a positive effect on my original writing.
14. My favourite flowers are passion flowers because they look like they come from another planet. My favourite colour is green/teal, and my favourite pattern is stars. Anything with stars on makes me happy. At present I'm wearing my jogging/pyjama bottoms which're bright pink with big white stars on, and they make me grin.
15. I am a hopeless romantic and I love crappy romance films, but really hate Love, Actually. Ew. I also have problems with Sleepless in Seattle, which'd be why I rewrote it with John and Rodney. :D
16. I name everything. Seriously. Both my laptops and both my phones (work and home), my router, all my toys, the space heater my landlord lent me, the old VCR we used to have, my iBop, my slippers back when they were pandas, the TV, anything I'm inclined to yell at. I default to male names, usually, but I've made an effort to change that; my work laptop and phone both have female names and it wasn't even a conscious decision to do that. Huzzah for slowly changing my ingrained misogyny!
17. I really can't see myself getting married, and although I love kids I really don't want any of my own. Perfectly happy to be crazy aunt Nny to any number of my friends' sproglets. This is what you get for showing me Alien.
18. I am an absolutely dreadful friend. I am sweet and I buy things for people and I listen and I hang out; I will come to a store at midnight with you for the Manics album even though I dislike the band and will just sit there reading LotR and insulting the Manics; I will always walk you home/to the train station/wherever; if there is anything I can do to make you happier I will do it. However, I will never remember your birthday, I will completely forget to speak to you for six months and then be surprised that you're weirded out when I call you for a long chat, I will love you forever but get distracted by shiny people. I'm seriously trying to work on this. :/
19. I can probably drink more than you, but you'd have a hard time noticing because I drink so damned fast that I'm drunk first anyway. It's a nervousness thing, a way of having something to do with my hands and mouth that doesn't involve talking to people or displaying my nervousness. I'm trying to fix this because I'm an embarrassment, I think.
20. I'm pretty good at tarot readings, but I don't practice enough. I see them as a form of Rorschach, a way of focussing the mind and bringing to the surface what you were thinking in any case; there's also a certain amount of Tao within my perception of how the world works, although I've only read very very simple relations of what it means. I don't get on well with organised religion, nor do I like the idea that you can't pick and choose from among them. I believe what makes sense to me and I keep an open mind about the rest. It works for me.
21. I was brought up Church of England. It explains my faffing, I suspect.
22. When I was younger, at various points, I wanted to be: a vet, a fireman, a writer/illustrator, a pop star, an F1 driver, a stunt driver, an actor, a bookshop owner, a lifeguard, a cat. For the more famous pretend jobs, I used to practice imaginary answers to the imaginary interviews I would no doubt have. (Some of these ambitions still stand.)
23. I have three tattoos I want, but haven't the courage to get them. I also want to pierce my lip and shave my head, but I'm more invested in keeping my job at present.
24. I am better at cooking than I think I am. This holds true for many other creative things I do, also. :D
25. Mostly, in life, I want to help people and make them happy. That has affected my actions, my reactions and the way that I speak and listen; I am constantly trying to learn ways to not inadvertently screw this ambition up. If I ever screw up within your sight, please let me know so I can do better next time.
If this raises any questions, or there's anything you want to ask me anyway, please feel free. :D
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Date: 2009-02-01 11:06 am (UTC)Not that I didn't love you anyway. But still. Underwear. Bucket.
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Date: 2009-02-01 11:29 am (UTC)#6. Wow really? I know how you feel, albeit on a much smaller scale.
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Date: 2009-02-01 11:56 am (UTC)22. I wanted to be a cat as well! It was an ambition I retained for slightly longer than is strictly normal.
For the more famous pretend jobs, I used to practice imaginary answers to the imaginary interviews I would no doubt have.
I STILL DO THIS.
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Date: 2009-02-01 03:32 pm (UTC)THIS IS ME ALSO D: D:. I am a terrible awful no-good very bad non-birthday rememberer and non phone-caller.
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Date: 2009-02-01 04:22 pm (UTC)b) I badlly need a tarot reading, would you be ready to give me one one of these days? Please please please?
and c) I love you, Nny. I know I haven't been around much lately, but you're often in my thoughts. *hugs*
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Date: 2009-02-01 08:38 pm (UTC)Re #3: Houmous as in the chickpea/garbanzo bean stuff of deliciousness? 'Cuz if so I adore it. Arab/Mediterranean food = win.
I name most inanimate objects I come across, but strangely tend to give many of them one of the same three names: Joe-Bob, Steve or Alonzo. I have an iPod named Tony, a tablet named Rodney and a camera named Anton that break this trend, though.
I am also totally with you on #17. I wanna be the crazy aunt with a New York apartment and a couple of dogs and good taste in random stuff who sends assorted sproglets spontaneously awesome things. :P
Wow!
Date: 2009-02-03 11:48 pm (UTC)I'd yoink this meme, but honestly I'd end up leaving half of your answers in place. :D Especially the "terrible friend" and "awesome-in-my-head books" bits.
I feel like I should send you a picture of my bedroom now, or something. (I think I'd have to replace "stars" with "rainbows" in the "things that make me insanely happy for no reason" thing; my bedroom is black+rainbow. Although for YEARS as a teenager I did have my entire ceiling covered in glow-in-the-dark stars, including ones suspended on monofilament to give the starfield depth. I loved it.)