Monday, March 01, 2004
And Now for your Regularly Schedualed Whinge...
Okay, not really. I thought I'd use this time to try one of those '100 facts about me' things. Here we go.
1. I don't honnestly believe I'm interesting enough to warrent 100 facts.
2. I own a dog. She is the cutest little long-legged fluffball of a terrier ever.
3. I may be obsessed with the notion of null gender.
4. I have been obsessed with the uber powerful child figure ever since the never ending story's Childlike Princess.
5. I live with my mother and brother, in the house owned by my mother's boyfriend. There's a truck stop across the road.
6. I see my mother rarely these days.
7. I get into trouble a lot for not keeping contact with friends.
8. I see no point in pestering my friends if I don't have anything important to say.
9. I believe Disney's Robin Hood was my first Cartoon Crush - certainly the first I can remember.
10. I dislike people asking me how [insert random enjoyable activity here] will help me in my future career.
11. My mother is the main perpotrator of this.
12. My spelling is really bad.
13. I am the same height as my father, if not a little taller.
14. I'm scared of men, spiders, the dark, and people in general.
15. I get palpatations of the heart for no clear reason.
16. I also get regret attacks and the odd attack of fear in sudden stabs.
17. 'Washi' means 'Eagle'.
18. I have that tattoed on my abdomen, undernieth a piecting I have with an eagle's head pendant.
19. I plan to get another tattoo once I turn 21.
20. I am an airhead. Have been since primary school.
21. I hung out with the wrong people at the start of highscool.
22. I tend not to be very opinionated, due to being able to identify with most sides of the arguments.
23. I have been in councilling once, with my mother.
24. It was because she needed someone to watch me while she worked, and it seemed everyone hated me and refused to have me in their house.
25. I cried. I still hate myself for that.
26. I'm not good at making friends (which, coupled with my tendancy to drop contact, leaves me with few friends)
27. I love dogs and all things canine.
28. I'm lazy.
29. I hate myself for a lot of things.
30. I'm not a very nice person - I don't think I'd like me if I wasn't me.
31. I go to university, mostly at Mawson Lakes.
32. I like the sound of magpies.
33. I'm extremely adept at procrastination.
34. I havent' read a book for ages.
35. I have been on a fanfiction kick lately.
36. Yaoi mostly, and a lot of comedy, but the odd Yuri is good too.
37. I bus almost everywhere.
38. I don't like walking home when it gets dark.
39. Angel, my oldest surviving character, was named for one of my old nicknames that developed from a drama production.
40. I should have concidered how early I'll be getting up tomorrow before I started this.
41. I love music. Almost any kind - I'm not quite so big on rap and hip-hop, but that's mostly because it's not my thing.
42. Some music, such as Shine On You Crazy Diamond or Still Got The Blues has this musicality to it that just... It's almost better than sex.
43. In some cases, it IS better.
44. It's the guitars - I have a thing for rock.
45. My Themesong is Popcorn.
46. My secondarry theme should be More Than A Feelin' in my opinion.
47. I like to sing. I do so a lot.
48. Mostly it's in the privacy of the Rumpus room whn there are few other people in the house.
49. I love to dance as well. It helps me be fit.
50. I'm phenominally unfit.
51. I don't like to be in situations where I feel threatened. This means most situations.
52. My eyes are my best feature.
53. My nose really ruins that. I have a very english nose.
54. My gran used to look a little like the queen, in my opinion.
55. I'm not very good at talking.
56. Which is odd, because i'm not terribly precious with information about me.
57. I try to answer questions about myself as honnestly as possible.
58. Except for the questions 'How are you?' and 'Are you okay?', which have the automated responses 'fine' and 'yes'.
59. My brain and my mouth had an argument when I was young, and they haven't spoken since.
60. My mouth often goes off on its own and does what it pleases while my brain stands behind it screaming at various other bodyparts to relay messages to it. Usually 'Wait for me damnit!'
61. refer to fact 16 to see the result of this.
62. I have been told that I am wierd, but I've yet to recieve conclusive proof, and so choose not to believe this fact.
63. Too many people use being wierd as a way to make themselves stand out.
64. But not as many as use being depressed or morbid as a way to stand out.
65. I often feel very violent, but rarely act on this.
66. If I could cry from frustration easier, I would have lower stress-levels and would be a happier individual.
67. I have a boyfriend, whom I'm phenominally happy with. But I don't want to brag :P
68. My circle of friends in year 8 needed Zoe to translate what I said into plainspeak for them.
69. I've dumbed down my vocabularry quite substantially since then, to the point where I make up words rather then try to remember the right one.
70. Mosquitoes love me. I don't know why.
71. The fist poster of an actual person/s I had up in my room was a Savage Garden one.
72. I love my Lain wallscroll.
73. I have trouble justifying things that I don't wear or eat to myself as purchaseables, so I rarely by these things for myself.
74. I have a lot of hand-me-down clothing, a lot of it very hippy style.
75. I wear it fairly often, especially when it's hot.
76. I love fluffy things, like fluffy blankets, jumpers, bear-suits...
77. I enjoy sewing and designing outfits, but I rarely have the oportunity to do so.
78. My life has been mostly untouched by great tragedy (the loss of my grandmother being the worst), a fact for which I am grateful.
79. I cried for days when Whitey, my mouse, died.
80. My cousin, who is only a few months younger than me, has become a drunken racist lout, bless his soul.
81. I am facinated by religion, especially mythos.
82. I am slightly totemic, especially with reference to the Eagle and the Dog.
83. The dog is the creature I associate myself with.
84. The eagle is the creature with the most lessons to teach me, and I associate myself heavilly with his lessons. Old man eagle sees spirits, and guides through reaching.
85. I'm proud of the marks I get - study is one of the few thins I can do well.
86. So I get upset when I don't do well.
87. I enjoy writing as well as drawing, but drawing is easier and faster, and people seem to apreciate it more then my writing (which leaves much to be desired).
88. I wanted to be a writer when I was young, and was concidered to be quite good at it, but my mother told me I wasn't good enough at it to do it as a living, and I should focus on something else.
89. That may be why I didn'y show her my drawing until two years after I'd started drawing seriously.
90. She didn't really get what I was doing when I did.
91. People often come to me for advice, especially involving relationships. I still don't know why.
92. It has been suggested that I may be empathetic.
93. I used to reply to this by suggesting the em be dropped, making it far more accurate.
94. To this day, I can argue the philosophy of Digimon as though it were some high religious text.
95. I like to have fun and laugh far more thne I like to be confronted and made to feel inadiquite. so shoot me.
96. I dislike horror movies, although there are some I don't mind - It's the exessive blood, gore and especially medical procedures I can't stand.
97. My favorite book in my youth was Watership Down.
98. I adore Sonic/Tails. He reminds me of all the happiest times of my life.
99. I like to create stories. I have a few bumping together in my head as we speak, formign themselves out, tring to make themselves known - and it makes me sad to think that so few of them will ever be told. Stories exist to be told, characters come to me to be born - and it upsets me to think I can't give them this.
100. I can't believe I made it to 100. But it got easier towards the middle.
