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nnyHmm.
1. I have fabulous nails that I cut with a nail clipper, no manicures for me, oh no. They seem to grow into manicured shape, though- sorta square. I frequently get asked if they're fake. I wonder if I look like the kind of person who wears fake nails. And then I think for a second.
2. I don't look like the kind of person who wears false nails. I'm the one on the left.
3. I like green. My nails are khaki at the moment, and I'm wearing a bottle green t-shirt advertising a band called Mew. It's supposed to be an angel in the image, allegedly, but it looks more like roadkill bunny. I've been telling people that blue is my favourite colour for so long that I've forgotten to think about it. Clothing-wise, I get on with khaki. It makes my eyes look green.
4. I'm nearly twenty two, and I still have yet to have sex. I don't know how much that matters to me, compared to how much I've been led to believe it should matter to me. Does that make sense?
5. I think I'm allergic to mouse mats. Y'know the weird fibrey stuff that covers the non-rubber side? That stuff makes me itch. Like insulation, and rabbit fur.
6. I have recently admitted that I like pink. This is a big step for me, considering how non-girly I've always been so careful to be. I didn't want to be my older sister. I only like really bright, fuschia type pink, though. Pale pink can kiss my like-coloured arse.
7. I place far too much importance on paper. I scavenge for paper, and save it, and if I have a new notepad it's an event to write in it, it's important. I think that's why I've never kept to a diary. Performance anxiety. Even when I'm the only one to read it. Yes. I'm really that... pathetic? Lame? Shy?
8. I think people are generally sexier with their clothes on. Rolled up sleeves, bare forearms on a reserved person is a thousand times sexier than acres of flesh.
9. I have never broken any bones. I have, however, fallen down stairs and made my head bleed, lots. I think it explains stuff about me.
10. I want desperately to be liked. It's almost pathetic. I dance around arguments and state my opinion in words that won't offend. I dress to blend in. I'd rather be hated than invisible, I guess, but I can't seem to make that a reality.
11. My first kiss was on a train, on my seventeenth birthday, the first time I was drunk. His name was Ben, and I didn't really want to kiss him because I'd only just met him, but he decided to wish me a happy birthday. He refused to believe it was my first kiss because he said I was too good a kisser. I've been told that many times since.
12. I've been angsty since way before I had the teenage perogative. I used to play make-believe games with my friend, long after everyone else had moved on to talking about boys and clothes and shopping, and in the games she'd always have a boyfriend. Picked from heartbreak high, or from some weird dating game she had, or... god, elijah wood, back when he was a tiny sproglet. I'd always be after someone, but not together. Relationships took the fun out of it. Used to put on an american accent, too.
13. I've never been superstitious about thirteen, or black cats, or walking under ladders. However, if I wake up and everyone's left the house, or if I haven't heard from someone in a while, I assume they're dead. It's the first possibility that comes to mind.
14. When my friend, the playing-games one, when she came to college with me she looked at me in my black and eyeliner, said "you're not going to dress like that are you?" and never really spoke to me again. I was also dumped by friends over slash and bisexuality. Did I mention I'm bi? I'm bi.
15. The fact that I'm bisexual doesn't define me. It's not something I'd use to classify myself, perhaps because I've not had sex and I'm not all that interested in it right now. I'm not a part of the LGBT society, nor do I go to gay bars. I guess it'd feel too much like trying to pick someone up, which I don't do. I hate that people seem to find it as important as it is.
16. I have wanted to be a writer since I was about five. Originally I wanted to write childrens books and illustrate them, 'cos that was all I knew. Unfortunately I can't draw... but hey, that's okay. I can't write either. I have no ideas. I have "words, and a turn for their music, but nothing to say" to probably horrendously misquote Shaw. Maybe one day I'll come up with an amazing idea.
17. If my house was on fire, and I could only save one thing... ooh. Difficult. I'd say... well, probably Mimmy. Mimmy is this little money box of a fat black woman with a red spotted kerchief on her head. She's just a random thing that my mum liked, and I was feeling underappreciated one day after doing a million jobs and keeping peace and getting ignored, and she came in and gave that to me. It made me so happy.
18. I'm five foot five point five. With size five point five feet. Since year five. I was a bit of a mutant giant, and always picked for basketball.
19. I really can't write smut.
20. I think letter writing is a lost art, and I wish I had more people to write letters to, and I wish I could be as witty and clever as Bernard Shaw and such- letter writing is most certainly a skill I'd love to possess.
21. I adore writing Aziraphael. He's awfully reserved, and British, and subtly manipulative, and easily embarrassed, and enthusiastic about very lame things. I wish I could come up with a story for him. Oh, and write Crowley. Aziraphael is what I want to be in life. I want a bookshop and tea and jam and slippers and cardigans.
22. I hate clothes shopping. I fear that the sales assistants will look me up and down with a sneer on perfectly lipsticked lips and say "what on earth are you doing here?" I'm afraid I'll get found out. I'd much rather spend hours browsing in a second hand bookshop. Because books like me.
23. I come down firmly on the peanut butter side of the peanut butter vs. marmite debate. Crunchy, for preference.
24. I worry at how litte I remember.
25. I just accidentally went from 23 to 27. I think I should sleep more, most probably.
26. My favourite films, off the top of my head- Pi, Velvet Goldmine, Hard Core Logo, Princess Bride.
27. My favourite books, off the top of my head- The Pornographer's Poem: Michael Turner, The Vintner's Luck: Elizabeth Knox, Hard Core Roadshow: Noel S. Baker, Night Watch: Terry Pratchett, The Crow Road: Iain Banks... I could go on.
28. My favourite bands, off the top of my head- Soul Coughing, Dave Matthews Band, Amon Tobin, Mr Scruff, Badly Drawn Boy.
29. I can slash pretty much anything. No, really. Sorry. Slash can be blamed for my D in IT GCSE, in fact.
30. I can sing.
1. I have fabulous nails that I cut with a nail clipper, no manicures for me, oh no. They seem to grow into manicured shape, though- sorta square. I frequently get asked if they're fake. I wonder if I look like the kind of person who wears fake nails. And then I think for a second.
2. I don't look like the kind of person who wears false nails. I'm the one on the left.
3. I like green. My nails are khaki at the moment, and I'm wearing a bottle green t-shirt advertising a band called Mew. It's supposed to be an angel in the image, allegedly, but it looks more like roadkill bunny. I've been telling people that blue is my favourite colour for so long that I've forgotten to think about it. Clothing-wise, I get on with khaki. It makes my eyes look green.
4. I'm nearly twenty two, and I still have yet to have sex. I don't know how much that matters to me, compared to how much I've been led to believe it should matter to me. Does that make sense?
5. I think I'm allergic to mouse mats. Y'know the weird fibrey stuff that covers the non-rubber side? That stuff makes me itch. Like insulation, and rabbit fur.
6. I have recently admitted that I like pink. This is a big step for me, considering how non-girly I've always been so careful to be. I didn't want to be my older sister. I only like really bright, fuschia type pink, though. Pale pink can kiss my like-coloured arse.
7. I place far too much importance on paper. I scavenge for paper, and save it, and if I have a new notepad it's an event to write in it, it's important. I think that's why I've never kept to a diary. Performance anxiety. Even when I'm the only one to read it. Yes. I'm really that... pathetic? Lame? Shy?
8. I think people are generally sexier with their clothes on. Rolled up sleeves, bare forearms on a reserved person is a thousand times sexier than acres of flesh.
9. I have never broken any bones. I have, however, fallen down stairs and made my head bleed, lots. I think it explains stuff about me.
10. I want desperately to be liked. It's almost pathetic. I dance around arguments and state my opinion in words that won't offend. I dress to blend in. I'd rather be hated than invisible, I guess, but I can't seem to make that a reality.
11. My first kiss was on a train, on my seventeenth birthday, the first time I was drunk. His name was Ben, and I didn't really want to kiss him because I'd only just met him, but he decided to wish me a happy birthday. He refused to believe it was my first kiss because he said I was too good a kisser. I've been told that many times since.
12. I've been angsty since way before I had the teenage perogative. I used to play make-believe games with my friend, long after everyone else had moved on to talking about boys and clothes and shopping, and in the games she'd always have a boyfriend. Picked from heartbreak high, or from some weird dating game she had, or... god, elijah wood, back when he was a tiny sproglet. I'd always be after someone, but not together. Relationships took the fun out of it. Used to put on an american accent, too.
13. I've never been superstitious about thirteen, or black cats, or walking under ladders. However, if I wake up and everyone's left the house, or if I haven't heard from someone in a while, I assume they're dead. It's the first possibility that comes to mind.
14. When my friend, the playing-games one, when she came to college with me she looked at me in my black and eyeliner, said "you're not going to dress like that are you?" and never really spoke to me again. I was also dumped by friends over slash and bisexuality. Did I mention I'm bi? I'm bi.
15. The fact that I'm bisexual doesn't define me. It's not something I'd use to classify myself, perhaps because I've not had sex and I'm not all that interested in it right now. I'm not a part of the LGBT society, nor do I go to gay bars. I guess it'd feel too much like trying to pick someone up, which I don't do. I hate that people seem to find it as important as it is.
16. I have wanted to be a writer since I was about five. Originally I wanted to write childrens books and illustrate them, 'cos that was all I knew. Unfortunately I can't draw... but hey, that's okay. I can't write either. I have no ideas. I have "words, and a turn for their music, but nothing to say" to probably horrendously misquote Shaw. Maybe one day I'll come up with an amazing idea.
17. If my house was on fire, and I could only save one thing... ooh. Difficult. I'd say... well, probably Mimmy. Mimmy is this little money box of a fat black woman with a red spotted kerchief on her head. She's just a random thing that my mum liked, and I was feeling underappreciated one day after doing a million jobs and keeping peace and getting ignored, and she came in and gave that to me. It made me so happy.
18. I'm five foot five point five. With size five point five feet. Since year five. I was a bit of a mutant giant, and always picked for basketball.
19. I really can't write smut.
20. I think letter writing is a lost art, and I wish I had more people to write letters to, and I wish I could be as witty and clever as Bernard Shaw and such- letter writing is most certainly a skill I'd love to possess.
21. I adore writing Aziraphael. He's awfully reserved, and British, and subtly manipulative, and easily embarrassed, and enthusiastic about very lame things. I wish I could come up with a story for him. Oh, and write Crowley. Aziraphael is what I want to be in life. I want a bookshop and tea and jam and slippers and cardigans.
22. I hate clothes shopping. I fear that the sales assistants will look me up and down with a sneer on perfectly lipsticked lips and say "what on earth are you doing here?" I'm afraid I'll get found out. I'd much rather spend hours browsing in a second hand bookshop. Because books like me.
23. I come down firmly on the peanut butter side of the peanut butter vs. marmite debate. Crunchy, for preference.
24. I worry at how litte I remember.
25. I just accidentally went from 23 to 27. I think I should sleep more, most probably.
26. My favourite films, off the top of my head- Pi, Velvet Goldmine, Hard Core Logo, Princess Bride.
27. My favourite books, off the top of my head- The Pornographer's Poem: Michael Turner, The Vintner's Luck: Elizabeth Knox, Hard Core Roadshow: Noel S. Baker, Night Watch: Terry Pratchett, The Crow Road: Iain Banks... I could go on.
28. My favourite bands, off the top of my head- Soul Coughing, Dave Matthews Band, Amon Tobin, Mr Scruff, Badly Drawn Boy.
29. I can slash pretty much anything. No, really. Sorry. Slash can be blamed for my D in IT GCSE, in fact.
30. I can sing.
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Date: 2004-09-04 03:36 am (UTC)Not so sure about the shoe-size though, as mine range form size three-six depending on the type of shoe.
*hugs for the sheer hell of it*
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Date: 2004-09-04 03:37 am (UTC)My mum never managed five foot. I think if I ever have a kid, they'll never manage six foot, just for the continuity.
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Date: 2004-09-04 03:46 am (UTC)*waves hand dismissively*
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Date: 2004-09-04 03:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-04 03:55 am (UTC)And dude, I was riffing off of you.
Also, idea related to your last post, because am too lazy to go back and comment again: why not set up a few Cafépress stores or summat? I bet Milliway's merchandise is a great way to earn money for nothing.
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Date: 2004-09-04 03:55 am (UTC)Well I don't know about THAT, but you can definitely co-write smut!
29. I can slash pretty much anything. No, really. Sorry. Slash can be blamed for my D in IT GCSE, in fact.
Heh, me too. I once slashed Gumby. I felt like a bad, bad person, but it still happened.
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Date: 2004-09-04 04:07 am (UTC)I read Bill Bryson's short history of nearly everything, and slashed historical paeleontologists.
*headdesks*
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Date: 2004-09-04 04:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-04 04:16 am (UTC)I slash poets.
Patrick Kavanagh/Brendan Behan 4eva omg.
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Date: 2004-09-04 04:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-04 04:19 am (UTC)Shakespeare/Earl of Southampton.
Aziraphael/Oscar Wilde.
Jeff Buckley/Rufus Wainwright.
WAH SAVE ME FROM THE RPS!
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Date: 2004-09-04 04:20 am (UTC)I wish I'd done history.
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Date: 2004-09-04 04:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-04 05:13 am (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2004-09-04 07:33 am (UTC)that is all.
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Date: 2004-09-04 07:43 am (UTC)Oh my, yes.
And also? I, too, have recently reverted to my little-girl liking for bright pink. Now, why on earth could that be....? :)
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Date: 2004-09-04 07:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-04 09:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-04 09:11 am (UTC)Slashing pop would be better. Faygo/Vernor's: Theirloveissoregionspecific.
I was a pint-sized drama queen!
Date: 2004-09-04 09:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-04 09:33 am (UTC)(Vernors/Redpop: Theirloveissoohgoddon'tmixthosetogether!)
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Date: 2004-09-04 12:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-04 03:20 pm (UTC)I just realized that your size 5.5 feet might be different than my size 5.5 feet - in US sizes, 5.5 is quite little. It's hard to find a good selection, and I have often wandered to the girls department to find cute shoes. That are much cheaper, so...
And you can so write smut! It is quite lovely smut, at that.
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Date: 2004-09-04 07:59 pm (UTC)Yay! Another singer!
Must also say, I love DMB, and The Princess Bride. But who doesn't love The Princess Bride?
*babbles incoherently*
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Date: 2004-09-04 08:02 pm (UTC)I'm 5 foot 8, but I have size 11 (US sizes) feet. According to a chart I found that's about an 8 1/2 or 9 in UK sizes.
I am not comforted. *hides large feet*
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Date: 2004-09-04 08:10 pm (UTC)I really miss it now that I live in NYC.