100 reasons...
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scarlatti, but I'm going to make a list of a hundred things about me. All in the spirit of procrastination, of course...1. I'm a girl. No kidding.
2. I'm a British NRI, that is, non-resident Indian, and I want dual nationality as soon as Atal Bihari Vajpayee does something about making it legal.
3. I don't function well on too little sleep. I need sleep. Ten hours a night if possible.
4. I write a lot of things, but fanfiction and slash come into it more than anything else at present. Like many other fangirlies, I find slashy situations inexplicably fascinating.
5. I am the only child of two doctors, both of whom have their own ideas about education. I remember being intrigued by the idea of photosynthesis at the age of five.
6. Continuing on from that, when I was in Kindergarten, my teacher asked, "A is for..."
The class said, "Apple."
I said, "Anaemia."
7. I still remember the whole alphabet (except W) that way. Anaemia, Breathlessness, Cholera, Dementia, Epilesy, Fever, Gout, Hepatitis...
8. I used to want to be a farmer. Thankfully I discarded that ambition.
9. I like red.
10. I can't wear an outfit without a touch of red somewhere.
11. I can't live without light. My room has a main light, two spotlights, and three table lights...
12. My first word was "light."
13. English is not my first language.
14. I hate summer and I hate hot weather. They make me depressed.
15. I keep a Latin dictionary on my computer table. My life all goes wrong without it.
16. I'm addicted to the Something Corporate song Konstantine. I've listened to it over 300 times since October.
17. I like spikes. And chains. My dress sense is best described as "eccentric."
18. I love indigo denim. Pale denim is evil.
19. I have five pairs of jeans.
20. My first "best friend" was our very own Clareyperson -
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osiris13.21. Clare and I went skiing five years ago. I fell over a lot.
22. On the same trip, we had a fight, walked out on each other, then accidentally gatecrashed a doctor's surgery.
23. I read lots of newspapers. On a good weekend, I get through at least four of them.
24. I like bracelets. I'm wearing a pair given me by
purplerainbow.25. I used to be able to quote Heisenberg's Uncertanty Principle - I still know the gist of it, though not the exact words.
26. My favourite car bumper sticker ever is "Heisenberg probably slept here."
27. Poetry leaves me cold.
28. I've always wanted to learn how to play the guitar.
29. I love drama and the theatre, but can't act to save my life.It's a problem.
30. I've had the same email address for seven years, and I've had the internet that long, too.
31. I love sandwiches, to the point of obsession. They play entirely too big a part in my life.
32. I used to be afraid of the washing machine.
33. I'm still terrified of snakes.
34. And lifts.
35. And being touched. I can't stand being hugged.
36. I crave solitude. Too long in a crowd, and I get cranky.
37. You don't want to be around me when I'm cranky.
38. One of my ambitions is to spend a winter in Himachal Pradesh, with nothing but myself and my laptop for company.
39. I love walking. And hiking. And rambling.
40. I live by the sea. I always have. I'm one of those people who always knows which direction the sea is in wherever they are.
41. On the day I was born, three feet of snow fell. Never before or since had so much fallen.
42. I adore being an only child.
43. I'm only spoilt to a certain extent.
44. I love German Shepherd dogs. I used to have one, named Max, who was loyal, soft and fluffy, and mute. Predictably, I adored him.
45. I hate sending text messages. If God had meant us to text people, he wouldn't have given us email.
46. I've always wanted to learn how to rollerblade. Used to be able to do it, at one point, but I've forgotten it all.
47. I'm a hoarder. I can't bear to throw things away. My room and my life are a mess.
48. I grew up in and around hospitals. I've lived in four of them, and spent a lot of time in several more. It's been five years now since the last one, almost, and I'm only just getting used to it.
49. I have a a habit of being a little sarcastic...
No, really.
Becca wants to put "Ya think?!" on my tombstone. Unlikely in the extreme, as I'm going to be cremated.
50. Becca. My best friend. A neat freak, and fine example of opposites attracting.
51. I'm a card-carrying Grammar Whore. I detest bad grammar. And bad spelling. And bad punctuation.
52. I may be a heathen, but LotR leaves me cold. I like the films, and adore Frodo (book and film) but the books didn't do much for me. I finished The Two Towers and never bothered reading the third one.
53. Good quotes make me happy. Though I can never think of a good one when I need one...
No, wait: "This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays."
54. I once went into the Grand Canyon in a tiny little plane. Whee!
55. I get Herbert Hoover and J. Edgar Hoover mixed up. Republican President, 1929, and cross-dressing head of the FBI, but which is which?
56. I am a Liverpool supporter on principle. I have a scarf and everything, but I'm not much of a football person.
57. I've had my ears pierced five times each, but I only have two holes in each ear.
58. I like sitting on windowsills. The window is the first thing I look for whenever I enter a room.
59. My HTML sucks, and I avoid using it wherever possible. In fact, I avoid web design in all its many forms.
60. I once got caught in a snowstorm in New York, and sheltered in the World Trade Center. I'm glad I got to see it...
61. I've had two LiveJournals. I like this one infinitely better, for just so many reasons...
62. I swear. A lot. Fuck.
63. I'm lazy. Very, very, very lazy. I must have been a cat in a previous life, lounging around doing nothing all day...
64. According to my teachers, I have an attitude problem. Apparently, I don't respect them. Huh.
65. I am an agnostic, and would like to think this makes me exempt from jury service.
66. I laugh out loud at books when I find them funny. People around me find this crazy.
67. I can read through any amount of noise, and can sleep through any amount more. I would make the world's worst sentry.
68. I could lurk for Europe.
69. I love roses. I also love anklets. I think this dates back to when I was very much younger... I used to wear two roses in my hair and an anklet around each ankle, and bare feet.
70. Talking of that, I will go barefoot at the slightest provocation. I love the feel of it.
71. I only own three pairs of shoes, and two of them are boots.
72. Lemon cheesecake ice-cream is heaven on earth. My father is on a quest to find the world's best cheesecake, and he gives points out of ten to every cheesecake he eats. The lemon cheesecake ice-cream got 8.5.
73. Talking of my father, I call him Pedar, for some reason I can't remember. He's my confidante and friend and father all rolled into one. I guess I'm lucky.
74. I love automatic writing. It's a form of catharsis for me.
75. Eeyore the donkey is my idea of the perfect cartoon character. He's sweet and cute and depressed and a donkey. What more could you ask for?
76. As a regular thing, I never remember my dreams. When I do, I know they're important and/or momentous.
77. I was named after an Outer Hebridean island, possibly because I was conceived there... *eek*
78. I only wear two colours of nail varnish on my fingernails - black and white.
79. I don't make friends easily. I hate being tied down, which might have something to do with it. I'd rather be free of restrictions than to have lots of friends to hold me back.
80. The first CD single I ever bought was Alanis Morissette's Thank You.
81. I understand and can explain Einstein's General and Special Theories of Relativity.
82. I read the Reader's Digest for the anecdotes. I avoid the articles, they make me sick.
83. This joke always makes me laugh for no reason:
What do a pear and and a banana have in common?
Neither of them can drive a tractor.
84. I am the only person in this house who can work the central heating system. I'm perversely proud of that.
85. I try to listen to other people's problems. It's an old, old habit that I can't break no matter how hard I try.
86. I hate bananas that aren't squidgy with little black bits. My mother claims I once ate six of them in a single night.
87. I have never made a pancake without the help of
osiris13.88. I know much more about golf than I should. I don't understand the Ryder Cup, but I know when the Majors are happening and who's playing in what. I'm mad.
89. I forget to eat more often than not. I can miss breakfast and lunch and reach seven in the evening before realising I'm hungry. I've often wondered if this is a real problem or just something I do.
90. My blood type is O-negative. I'm a universal donor, yay me, but with a very rare blood type myself I should try and avoid accidents.
91. I have a rug in my room that moves for no determinable reason. It has a Tutankhamun motif on it, so several people have suggested it has a curse on it, but I'm doubtful, for if I left it to move the way it wants, it would eventually end up in the shower.
92. I've had malaria and dysentery. Neither were fun.
93. I hate washed socks. To get around this, I wear them without washing until they fall apart from the dirt.
94. If possible, I write with a fountain pen. With any other kind of pen my writing rapidly becomes illegible.
95. I have very long fingers. I don't know if it's something to do with being the daughter of a surgeon or what, but my fingers are much longer than they should be in proportion to the rest of me. I can't wear ordinary gloves very comfortably - I prefer cut-offs.
96. I have incurable wanderlust. I can't sit still for a moment in a new place - I have to explore, find out, whatever. I hate staying in one place too long.
97. I have detached earlobes, which I recently found out is unusual. I can and do fold up my ears completely, which I'm told is weird.
98. I've always had abiding respect for people who can eat fish. It's slimy and wet and full of bones and it smells, and people eat it.
99. I have a bad effect on computers. By laying hands on them, I can induce them to crash simply by willing it to happen.
100. I like pins. I love slipping them through the skin of my fingers - I find this oddly fascinating.
La fin. I finished it, I am insane.
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on 2003-01-21 09:27 am (UTC)I can do that. When I was little I folded my ears and it would stay like that for hours, freaking everybody out.
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on 2003-01-21 02:18 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2003-01-21 09:27 am (UTC)no subject
on 2003-01-21 10:46 am (UTC)like a fairychildgypsycreature
///katie-jane garside
you should write another novel esque thing based on a character like that, and minds like the other one, but kindof...now? and with slashyness xox
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on 2003-01-21 02:09 pm (UTC)Good idea. Though I don't see the likeness between me and Katie-Jane Garside...
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on 2003-01-21 02:39 pm (UTC)she walks around barefoot with flowers in her hair because she wishes she was a fairy or had an original thought
You walk around barefoot and wear flowers in your hair because you were made that way/
the similarities and differences in two not quite properly formed sentences.
Also, I think you should read something by francesca lia block. She writes about weird fairy children stylee its very strange. I havent read it, but I hear violet and claire is good.
Poetry?
on 2003-01-21 12:06 pm (UTC)–
Re: Poetry?
on 2003-01-21 02:18 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2003-01-21 03:59 pm (UTC)Sure, blame the messenger...
Great list, by the way -- learned a lot! :)
14. I hate summer and I hate hot weather. They make me depressed.
Me too.
34. And lifts.
Lifts = elevators in American-speak, right? I have nightmares about out-of-control elevators on a regular basis.
36. I crave solitude. Too long in a crowd, and I get cranky.
Same here.
55. I get Herbert Hoover and J. Edgar Hoover mixed up.
J. Edgar wore the dresses.
100. I like pins. I love slipping them through the skin of my fingers
Ewwww! Now we're about even in the squick department today... ;)
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on 2003-01-21 04:25 pm (UTC)Lifts are indeed elevators. I hate them. I can't ride in then alone - would rather walk up twenty flights of stairs.
J. Edgar wore the dresses... well, I'm thinking of Klinger...
And we are not even in the squick department! No amount of pins could make up for the horrific imagery you placed in my head this afternoon!!
It's the easiest thing in the world to slip pins into your fingers. Push them in just below the skin on your fingertips. With a needle and thread, you can tie someone's hands together this way.
Not that I would be stupid and/or foolish enough to ever try that. Of course not. No. Never.
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on 2003-01-21 05:23 pm (UTC)*choke* Don't be so sure about that...the sewing together of hands squicks me on a fairly deep and instinctive level!
Still, I apologize for the little "horrific imagery" incident this afternoon. :)