Do not adjust your monitors - I am actually posting something in my own journal! *gasps of shock*
So I haven't posted anything here for over a year, and I'm not really starting up again now either. Mostly I thought my LJ was long-overdue for some pruning and tidying up. So I've de-friended a whole bunch of people from back in the day. It's not personal in any way - basically I'm still only really using this for communities, and I haven't been reading many personal journals on my flist for over a year now. I'll only probably post the odd meme here so I more than expect the same de-friending treatment back! Live long and prosper, ttfn and etcetera.
On the odd meme note though, I did want to steal this one from![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
agent0fchaos:
25 Random Facts
1. I have poor self control when it comes to things like going to bed before midnight or later on work nights. I know I’ll get sleep deprived and grumpy, but there’s always one more X to watch/read/do…
2. I don’t understand how people can cope without a “current obsession”. What do they spend all their time thinking about?
3. At various points in my childhood I wanted to grow up to be an RAF dog handler (I wanted a German Shepherd dog), a librarian (I love books) and a computer programmer (I like computers). Currently I work in the regulation of childcare and enjoy it, even if it’s a time-limited thing. Yet I really don’t like children. Sometimes I make no sense even to myself…
4. Childhood family holidays aside, if I travel somewhere it will usually be solo. The idea of trying to plan a holiday with another person frankly horrifies me, and I anticipate I would kill them by day two when we had different opinions on where to go/what to see/which coffee place to stop at. And I don’t want to end up in a foreign prison.
5. I consider cheese to be a separate and key food group in its own right. Mmm, cheese…
6. If I could cancel all soap operas (in the UK things like Eastenders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, etc) I honestly would. I don’t know why but I really, really dislike them and even more so the obsession with the latest trying-to-top-the-others ridiculous storylines. Millions of people get entertainment from them, and I would feel like a git spoiling their fun. But I’d still do it.
7. I always have a desire to go to the highest point I can find, wherever I am, and see the view. But then I see a higher point, and then a higher one after that. Before you know it I’d be on Everest and dead from lack of oxygen. So I try to restrain that impulse.
8. I am unbelievably hypocritical. When I cycle I had cars and pedestrians, when I drive I hate cyclists and pedestrians and when I walk I hate cars and cyclists. And don’t get me started on bloody buses.
9. I crochet “granny square” blankets for family and friends. I’ve probably made around a dozen ranging from baby-size to giant. I find it very relaxing. But I find knitting completely incomprehensible.
10. If I could change one thing about my childhood, it would be to force the young me to pick an instrument and learn it. Even if I didn’t turn out brilliant – which is likely – I’d like to be able to stumble through a chord or two on something.
11. I spent most of my time at university wandering around with short, spiky dyed hair, Doc Marten boots and an old army surplus jacket. A friend described me as looking like a militant lesbian (I’m neither).
12. On a linked note my twin sister (when she also had short hair) and me were once mistaken for a lesbian couple when we were in a bar with some friends. It wasn’t even a lesbian bar. I fail to follow this female with short hair = must be a lesbian thing. And anyway, ew – she’s my twin sister for goodness sake!
13. I believe that everyone should volunteer some of their time and/or money to a good cause of some description, if at all practicable. Not for any religious or grand philosophical reason – just because it’s a nice thing to do. Even five minutes or 50p is better than nothing at all.
14. I can get sea-sick sitting in an inflatable ring in a swimming pool.
15. I am terrified by the idea that the government has decided that I should be allowed to drive. In my heart I believe that very few people are truly responsible enough to be in charge of a tonne of metal going seventy miles an hour, and I am not one of the people on that very short list.
16. As a child I was fascinated by unexplained mysteries and the paranormal. Aged around nine or ten I read a graphic description of alleged spontaneous human combustion where a woman’s legs suddenly caught on fire seemingly from nowhere, and the flames couldn’t be put out. That was my ultimate worst fear for years afterwards.
17. I like to cook but am not very good with following recipes; teaspoons and tablespoons tend to get mixed up, I miss out fairly vital ingredients then wonder why my cake batter is so solid (hmm – forgot the eggs). Chucking everything in a pan and heating for a while seems to work much better for me.
18. For a year or so at primary school I insisted on wearing two watches; one on each wrist, both set to the same time.
19. I have one taxidermy squirrel (called Cyril) and I covet more so I can build a squirrel army to rival the Janitor on Scrubs.
20. Although I’m not a redhead, after about five minutes of exposure to sunlight I break out in a giant freckly mess. I like my freckles though, possibly due to my Nanny always telling me when I was little (and even frecklier) that they were “sun kisses”.
21. I probably only leave reviews on a quarter of the fanfiction I read. Sometimes because I feel uncomfortable trying to come up with something nice to say about a fic I didn’t enjoy, but other times it’s just because I’m feeling lazy. I don’t particularly like that about myself, but I don’t anticipate changing my behaviour any time soon.
22. I can’t have pets currently due to renting, but I love cats. I can foresee myself turning into a crazy cat lady. Hopefully the good type, who maintains personal hygiene and doesn’t throw cats at passers by while shouting incomprehensibly.
23. I flit back and forth between atheism and agnosticism, and would probably be more vocal about this if I wasn’t so averse to offending people. But if foolish people knock on my door and want to talk about religion then that’s their look out…
24. If someone walks along the pavement in a slow and meandering fashion lost in their own little world, and there is no good reason for this, I believe people should be allowed to trip them up.
25. I love the taste of old fashioned cough syrup and would drink it by the bottle-full if I could.
So I haven't posted anything here for over a year, and I'm not really starting up again now either. Mostly I thought my LJ was long-overdue for some pruning and tidying up. So I've de-friended a whole bunch of people from back in the day. It's not personal in any way - basically I'm still only really using this for communities, and I haven't been reading many personal journals on my flist for over a year now. I'll only probably post the odd meme here so I more than expect the same de-friending treatment back! Live long and prosper, ttfn and etcetera.
On the odd meme note though, I did want to steal this one from
agent0fchaos:25 Random Facts
1. I have poor self control when it comes to things like going to bed before midnight or later on work nights. I know I’ll get sleep deprived and grumpy, but there’s always one more X to watch/read/do…
2. I don’t understand how people can cope without a “current obsession”. What do they spend all their time thinking about?
3. At various points in my childhood I wanted to grow up to be an RAF dog handler (I wanted a German Shepherd dog), a librarian (I love books) and a computer programmer (I like computers). Currently I work in the regulation of childcare and enjoy it, even if it’s a time-limited thing. Yet I really don’t like children. Sometimes I make no sense even to myself…
4. Childhood family holidays aside, if I travel somewhere it will usually be solo. The idea of trying to plan a holiday with another person frankly horrifies me, and I anticipate I would kill them by day two when we had different opinions on where to go/what to see/which coffee place to stop at. And I don’t want to end up in a foreign prison.
5. I consider cheese to be a separate and key food group in its own right. Mmm, cheese…
6. If I could cancel all soap operas (in the UK things like Eastenders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, etc) I honestly would. I don’t know why but I really, really dislike them and even more so the obsession with the latest trying-to-top-the-others ridiculous storylines. Millions of people get entertainment from them, and I would feel like a git spoiling their fun. But I’d still do it.
7. I always have a desire to go to the highest point I can find, wherever I am, and see the view. But then I see a higher point, and then a higher one after that. Before you know it I’d be on Everest and dead from lack of oxygen. So I try to restrain that impulse.
8. I am unbelievably hypocritical. When I cycle I had cars and pedestrians, when I drive I hate cyclists and pedestrians and when I walk I hate cars and cyclists. And don’t get me started on bloody buses.
9. I crochet “granny square” blankets for family and friends. I’ve probably made around a dozen ranging from baby-size to giant. I find it very relaxing. But I find knitting completely incomprehensible.
10. If I could change one thing about my childhood, it would be to force the young me to pick an instrument and learn it. Even if I didn’t turn out brilliant – which is likely – I’d like to be able to stumble through a chord or two on something.
11. I spent most of my time at university wandering around with short, spiky dyed hair, Doc Marten boots and an old army surplus jacket. A friend described me as looking like a militant lesbian (I’m neither).
12. On a linked note my twin sister (when she also had short hair) and me were once mistaken for a lesbian couple when we were in a bar with some friends. It wasn’t even a lesbian bar. I fail to follow this female with short hair = must be a lesbian thing. And anyway, ew – she’s my twin sister for goodness sake!
13. I believe that everyone should volunteer some of their time and/or money to a good cause of some description, if at all practicable. Not for any religious or grand philosophical reason – just because it’s a nice thing to do. Even five minutes or 50p is better than nothing at all.
14. I can get sea-sick sitting in an inflatable ring in a swimming pool.
15. I am terrified by the idea that the government has decided that I should be allowed to drive. In my heart I believe that very few people are truly responsible enough to be in charge of a tonne of metal going seventy miles an hour, and I am not one of the people on that very short list.
16. As a child I was fascinated by unexplained mysteries and the paranormal. Aged around nine or ten I read a graphic description of alleged spontaneous human combustion where a woman’s legs suddenly caught on fire seemingly from nowhere, and the flames couldn’t be put out. That was my ultimate worst fear for years afterwards.
17. I like to cook but am not very good with following recipes; teaspoons and tablespoons tend to get mixed up, I miss out fairly vital ingredients then wonder why my cake batter is so solid (hmm – forgot the eggs). Chucking everything in a pan and heating for a while seems to work much better for me.
18. For a year or so at primary school I insisted on wearing two watches; one on each wrist, both set to the same time.
19. I have one taxidermy squirrel (called Cyril) and I covet more so I can build a squirrel army to rival the Janitor on Scrubs.
20. Although I’m not a redhead, after about five minutes of exposure to sunlight I break out in a giant freckly mess. I like my freckles though, possibly due to my Nanny always telling me when I was little (and even frecklier) that they were “sun kisses”.
21. I probably only leave reviews on a quarter of the fanfiction I read. Sometimes because I feel uncomfortable trying to come up with something nice to say about a fic I didn’t enjoy, but other times it’s just because I’m feeling lazy. I don’t particularly like that about myself, but I don’t anticipate changing my behaviour any time soon.
22. I can’t have pets currently due to renting, but I love cats. I can foresee myself turning into a crazy cat lady. Hopefully the good type, who maintains personal hygiene and doesn’t throw cats at passers by while shouting incomprehensibly.
23. I flit back and forth between atheism and agnosticism, and would probably be more vocal about this if I wasn’t so averse to offending people. But if foolish people knock on my door and want to talk about religion then that’s their look out…
24. If someone walks along the pavement in a slow and meandering fashion lost in their own little world, and there is no good reason for this, I believe people should be allowed to trip them up.
25. I love the taste of old fashioned cough syrup and would drink it by the bottle-full if I could.
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