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2. 20 facts about you
Dude, that field is WIDE OPEN. How to decide what to tell you about? Hmm. (Halfway through - it is very hard not to make this into a subtle self-criticism, but I'm doing my best!)
1. The words/phrases I am most likely to overuse are 'awesome', 'dude', 'totes, yo' and 'sweet as a nut, yo'. I am a freakin' embarrassment.
2. I like savoury things way more than sweet things, and am way more likely to overindulge on kettle chips than on chocolate.
3. In the past 10 years I have lived in Cardiff, Southampton, Bath, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Frome, Waterlooville, Southsea, Upminster and Sheffield. I have lived in 13 different houses. I am very tired of moving.
4. I have a degree in English Language Studies, a Post Graduate Certificate in Secondary English Education and am just about to start a Masters in Digital Library Management. I also have grade 5 in piano, grade 6 in drama and grade 1 in ballet. Aw yeah.
5. I am not a good cook.
6. My favourite music artist is Amon Tobin, who is an electronica artist who creates incredible soundscapes. I have seen him three times (but bought five tickets, I took my little sister twice) and spent unbelievable amounts of money on his discography. It was all worth it.
7. I cannot budget for shit. I'm working on it and getting better, definitely, but it's taking time and a lot of effort.
8. I have had two major relationships in my life, one of which was largely internet based. As a result of this I have very little experience of sex (and barely any that took place sober) and frankly I'm unimpressed so far.
9. Although I am very very hard on myself when introspective, I am very very good at making progress and improving myself, and I work very hard at it. The ability to see this as a positive rather than focusing on the flaws that make it necessary is a sign of good progress. *proud*
10. I have four piercings in each ear but they are not symmetrical. I also have a tattoo on my wrist (it means alone, but in a good way!) and am currently having another designed to go on my left arm, and have another planned.
11. I love nail varnish ridiculously, especially Barry M. After a massive clear out I have 21 at the moment, all of which are red, blue, green, purple or metallic. My oldest nail varnish is a glow in the dark one from the Smithsonian air and space museum which I bought at Millicon in 2005.
12. Relatedly, the only con I have ever been to was for a game I created, and I was treated like a bit of a celebrity. This may have spoiled me for conventions forever.
13. I got a D (heh) in my IT GCSE because I was too busy reading slash fanfiction to do the work. (To be fair, one of the other candidates got 11 A*s and a B in IT; the teaching in my school was notoriously shit). The slash was Mulder/Krycek and Krycek/Pendrell and a lot of it was pretty terrible.
14. I am 30! I like 30.
15. After many years of not particularly thinking about it, followed by a few years of soul searching, I am a decided atheist. ETA: a timely, relevant and massively resonant blog post by Apiphile: An Atheist on Religion. It's incredibly worth reading and articulates my thoughts far more clearly and eloquently than I could.
16. My favourite place in the world so far is Winchester Cathedral.
17. I have rheumatoid arthritis, a gluten intolerance and a basically useless right eye. I didn't want to be an astronaut until they told me my vision isn't good enough (frankly the idea of being in a place that will KILL YOU DEAD if machinery fails scares me a lot, but I am still utterly fascinated by the ocean).
18. My first name is a town in the holy lands and my surname is a river in England. My surname is also in the domesday book, and my mother's maiden name was also a town in England, making me the Englishest English ever to English. (BORING).
19. I like naval history and have favourite pirates. I went sailing on a wooden ship a couple of years ago and it was incredible, and I am sad I no longer live near the Victory.
20. My favourite art-related place is the room in Southampton art gallery where the Perseus Cycle by Edward Burne Jones hang. I can literally spend hours in there, looking at the process and the unfinished outlines and the brush-strokes and the unutterably perfect feet.
2. 20 facts about you
Dude, that field is WIDE OPEN. How to decide what to tell you about? Hmm. (Halfway through - it is very hard not to make this into a subtle self-criticism, but I'm doing my best!)
1. The words/phrases I am most likely to overuse are 'awesome', 'dude', 'totes, yo' and 'sweet as a nut, yo'. I am a freakin' embarrassment.
2. I like savoury things way more than sweet things, and am way more likely to overindulge on kettle chips than on chocolate.
3. In the past 10 years I have lived in Cardiff, Southampton, Bath, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Frome, Waterlooville, Southsea, Upminster and Sheffield. I have lived in 13 different houses. I am very tired of moving.
4. I have a degree in English Language Studies, a Post Graduate Certificate in Secondary English Education and am just about to start a Masters in Digital Library Management. I also have grade 5 in piano, grade 6 in drama and grade 1 in ballet. Aw yeah.
5. I am not a good cook.
6. My favourite music artist is Amon Tobin, who is an electronica artist who creates incredible soundscapes. I have seen him three times (but bought five tickets, I took my little sister twice) and spent unbelievable amounts of money on his discography. It was all worth it.
7. I cannot budget for shit. I'm working on it and getting better, definitely, but it's taking time and a lot of effort.
8. I have had two major relationships in my life, one of which was largely internet based. As a result of this I have very little experience of sex (and barely any that took place sober) and frankly I'm unimpressed so far.
9. Although I am very very hard on myself when introspective, I am very very good at making progress and improving myself, and I work very hard at it. The ability to see this as a positive rather than focusing on the flaws that make it necessary is a sign of good progress. *proud*
10. I have four piercings in each ear but they are not symmetrical. I also have a tattoo on my wrist (it means alone, but in a good way!) and am currently having another designed to go on my left arm, and have another planned.
11. I love nail varnish ridiculously, especially Barry M. After a massive clear out I have 21 at the moment, all of which are red, blue, green, purple or metallic. My oldest nail varnish is a glow in the dark one from the Smithsonian air and space museum which I bought at Millicon in 2005.
12. Relatedly, the only con I have ever been to was for a game I created, and I was treated like a bit of a celebrity. This may have spoiled me for conventions forever.
13. I got a D (heh) in my IT GCSE because I was too busy reading slash fanfiction to do the work. (To be fair, one of the other candidates got 11 A*s and a B in IT; the teaching in my school was notoriously shit). The slash was Mulder/Krycek and Krycek/Pendrell and a lot of it was pretty terrible.
14. I am 30! I like 30.
15. After many years of not particularly thinking about it, followed by a few years of soul searching, I am a decided atheist. ETA: a timely, relevant and massively resonant blog post by Apiphile: An Atheist on Religion. It's incredibly worth reading and articulates my thoughts far more clearly and eloquently than I could.
16. My favourite place in the world so far is Winchester Cathedral.
17. I have rheumatoid arthritis, a gluten intolerance and a basically useless right eye. I didn't want to be an astronaut until they told me my vision isn't good enough (frankly the idea of being in a place that will KILL YOU DEAD if machinery fails scares me a lot, but I am still utterly fascinated by the ocean).
18. My first name is a town in the holy lands and my surname is a river in England. My surname is also in the domesday book, and my mother's maiden name was also a town in England, making me the Englishest English ever to English. (BORING).
19. I like naval history and have favourite pirates. I went sailing on a wooden ship a couple of years ago and it was incredible, and I am sad I no longer live near the Victory.
20. My favourite art-related place is the room in Southampton art gallery where the Perseus Cycle by Edward Burne Jones hang. I can literally spend hours in there, looking at the process and the unfinished outlines and the brush-strokes and the unutterably perfect feet.
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Date: 2013-09-05 01:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-05 05:29 pm (UTC)*sad grabby hands of distance*
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Date: 2013-09-05 09:33 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-09-06 03:55 am (UTC)In the meantime, who are your favorite pirates????
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Date: 2013-09-06 06:52 am (UTC)First is Cheng Shih, also known as Cheng i Sao. She was a Chinese pirate who, on the death of her husband, took over his huge pirate empire and ran it effectively and viciously. They were so efficient, in fact, that they stole ALL OF THE BOATS and the government had to give them amnesty in order to get boats back.
Second is William Dampier (technically a privateer but frankly it's a very thin line). Grumpy flouncy explorer type who was the first to map ocean currents, circumnavigated the globe thrice, was on the ships that dropped off and picked up Alexander Selkirk, who was the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe, was the first to bring back a lot of words such as 'flamingo' and one time when the Captain refused to stop off for food and water when he wanted was like 'FINE THEN WE SHALL ALL STARVE' and slammed off to sulk in his room.
Finally, Captain Stede Bonnet. He basically had a mid-life crisis, bought a ship and outfitted it with guns, named it the REVENGE (omg the dread pirate bonnet) met up with Blackbeard, got either a) injured or b) captured, hang out on Blackbeard's ship where he had a pirate library and was often seen aboard in his dressing gown and then was, y'know, eventually caught and hanged.
*_*
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Date: 2013-09-06 04:07 pm (UTC)How fascinating!!!!
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Date: 2013-09-06 12:41 pm (UTC)3 houses in 10 years? OMG!!