Blast from the Past: 10 Facts About Yourself

[Gryffindorian]

I just realized (by looking at the dates) that some facts were posted exactly one year ago. And now, the continuation ...

Posted by TorontoTrekker, December 29 2010 04:57 PM
I suppose I should provide a list...
1. I've met dozens, if not hundreds, of celebrities through my work on conventions, and Lou Ferrigno is the only one I've ever embarrassed myself in front of. After he signed his autograph for me, I was talking merrily away at him about how impressed I was that, all these years later, he was still in such amazing physical condition. He smiled, and thanked me, I walked away, and then I realized... the man is stone deaf. (I was told that he's also an excellent lip-reader, so he did understand me... whew.)
2. Until about four years ago, when I went back to school and subsequently got a job as a Web developer, I may very well have been the youngest COBOL programmer outside of India.
3. I don't consider dinner complete without dessert... preferably ice cream, despite the fact that I'm lactose-intolerant.
4. I'm a Life Master in the North American Contract Bridge League. (That's not nearly as impressive as it sounds. Besides, I haven't played competitively in seven or eight years.)
5. Having been asked by a friend to accompany her to an audition for a musical, I subsequently sang as well (having done a fair bit of musical theatre in university, I thought, what the hell). They thanked me, I thanked them, I walked out... and upon reading a sign on the wall, discovered that I had just auditioned for the Broadway production of "Rent". (No, I didn't get the part. )
6. I was married in 1993, in a United Church ceremony, before the law recognized same-sex marriage. It didn't last; he left me about four and a half years later for another guy with whom he'd been cheating on me, and they were subsequently married via the banns. It made national news up here, and led directly to the legalization of same-sex marriage. As you can guess, I wasn't terribly thrilled. As my friends say whenever I bring up the subject, "BUT HE'S NOT BITTER!"
7. I'm a character in the Tanya Huff novel The Better Part of Valor. And Tanya did a pretty good job of portraying me (she should have - we've known each other for about 25 years), though the character gets more nookie than I do.
8. I'm known among my circle of friends as a Pet Shop Boys fanboy, though I've only gotten to see them live twice. If I'm at a karaoke place, and they have any PSB song other than "West End Girls" (I'm kind of tired of it), I'll be on stage eventually. (Though I'd appreciate it if anyone had one of their songs that was less than 20 years old... "Opportunities" is starting to lose its charm, too.) I'm also a fan of Erasure, Depeche Mode, and Rufus Wainwright.
9. With a friend, I submitted a spec script to Star Trek: Voyager. Their guidelines said to expect a response within two to eight weeks - 18 months later, we got a rejection. Though a couple of scenes mysteriously similar to scenes from our script did find their way into season 7 episodes.
10. I've been bowling in leagues since I was 8 years old - I started with 5-pin (which I think is only played in Canada - in addition to only having 5 pins, you get three balls, and the balls are smaller) but I started bowling 10-pin about 15 years ago. My current league average is 165, and my highest game ever was one in which I started with seven consecutive strikes, and ended up with a score of 244 (I had a 235 the same night).

Posted by Kestra, December 29 2010 08:17 PM

6. I feel my prettiest in Indian clothes.
7. I have slight allergic reactions to most fruits, and now many vegetables as well. I'm now scared of eating a lot of fresh food.
8. I didn't have a middle name until about 2.5 years ago.
9. I've never met anyone that came close to matching my reading speed.
10. My sister is my other half.

Posted by Mr. Laser Beam, December 29 2010 08:46 PM

Even more:
1. I have a large head. It's hard to find baseball caps to fit - I need a size 8 3/4.
2. I am a Lutheran. I go to a contemporary-style Lutheran church. here
3. I am mostly Republican, but I hate the damn Tea Party.
4. I have never been in a fight.
5. I have been bald since 2005.
6. My favorite baseball players who are not on my favorite teams are Dave Dravecky (Padres/Giants), Kevin Millar (Marlins/Red Sox/Orioles/Blue Jays), and Mark Fidrych (Tigers). Dave Dravecky, in particular, is a major inspiration in my life.
7. I have only been out of the USA once - for my brother's wedding, at a resort in Mexico, in 2007.
8. I am a hypochondriac.
9. The only football team I like is the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
10. I am an absurdly light sleeper; I usually need earplugs.

Posted by Smellincoffee, December 29 2010 09:48 PM

1. I became interested in Star Trek after being hospitalized for three weeks with nothing to occupy me by the television. (I dislocated my elbow and acquired a slight fracture after a tramopoline accident.)
2. I practice Greek philosophy, and am particularly interested in Stoicism and the work of Epicures.
3. My favorite author is Isaac Asimov, and I have several shelves full of his books. I'm most proud of my Black Widowers collection.
4. Though raised in the deep south, I do not have an accent: it vanished at some point between late high school and early general college. I never realized this until I started talking to my online friends on the phone and they told me I had no discernable accent. I asked my friends and family in real life to verify this, and they said I sound like 'a Yankee'. I think perhaps my preference for speaking standard, grammatically correct English, contributed to the decline of my 'southern drawl', but whenever I watch an episode of Firefly that reserve vanishes completly.
5. I enjoy playing with accents. It is not unusual for me to answer the phone with an accent to throw off the person on the other end. I have been known to carry on for entire conversations in 'Received Pronunication'. Currently I'm interested in being able to effect a "working-class Irish" sound.
6. I've become quite interested in anarchism this year.
7. There are few kinds of music I won't listen to, but I'm most fond of big band, folk, and fifties-sixties pop and rock.
8. I have a degree in history, but enjoy science, sociology, philosophy, poetry, and most other human endeavors.
9. I enjoy playing PC games, particularly: The Sims (1 & 2), SimCity 3000, Mafia: City of Lost Heaven, GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas, and Civilization 3.
10. I have been told on several occasions that I would make a good monk, and sometimes feel as though I'd like to be a minister and help people even though I am not religious. (I consider myself a Humanist.)
11. I changed my location to "Vulcan" on several forums after watching Star Trek XI and leaving the theatre stunned that they'd blown up Vulcan and not brought it back.

Posted by RAMA, December 29 2010 09:48 PM

Hmmm what 10 more random things can I think of....
1. I'm a science and tech junkie, and have been since I was a kid.
2. I'm a New York Yankee fan, but didn't got to a game till 2008 in the old Yankee Stadium. I've been to the new stadium numerous times.
3. I've been an atheist since I was about 13 years old though I was agnostic before that. My mother is devoutly Catholic and I was raised to go to church, though I refused to have my confirmation.
4. I've been to the Arnold Sports Festival twice. Its the largest sporting event in the world, and thousands more athletes compete in it than the summer Olympics.
5. I've been married since spring 2004.
6. My wife's unoffical joke name for me is "manwhore" because of how many women I used to date before I met her..in fact right up till the day I met her.
7. My artwork has won awards and toured States. I've also done some freelance ad design work though I haven't done any work in 4 years now.
8. I'm a certified personal trainer.
9. I was the strongest kid in my high school. I've since found out that if I had applied myself, I probably could have broken the state squat record for a teen, since I was only about 75 pounds off the 2005 record. I weighed as much as 260 lbs.
10. Almost every single day a woman or male tells me I smell good. Today it happened twice!

Posted by macloudt, December 30 2010 03:24 AM

I'm really enjoying reading all your posts! Let me think of some more trivial garbage about myself...
1. My first university degree was a double major in sociology and cultural anthropology. I call it my Cute But Useless degree because, at a Bachelor level, you can't do much with a degree in these subjects. However I really enjoyed my studies and have no regrets earning this degree.
2. I was studying towards a Bachelor in Child and Youth Studies but have recently switched to Law. I loved working in the Early Years field but the pay is crap and, with the coalition government, there's a possibility that my job was going to disappear altogether. And, to be honest, it was reaching the point where I wanted to smack a lot of parents upside the head, which isn't exactly professional.
3. I grew up in a very strict Roman Catholic household. As a teenager I wasn't allowed to go out at night with friends, never mind on a date (not that I was ever asked, but anyway...). It's a good thing I'm a natural homebody or I could have seriously gone off the rails. I'm much more lax with my own kids.
4. Due to an upper jawbone deformality, for which I had surgery when I was 12, I had a bad lisp for most of my childhood. It disappeared on its own when I was about 17. I had no self-confidence as a younger teenager and the lisp did not help whatsoever.
5. I've been a comfort eater all my life and though I'm healthy and quite fit I could do with losing about 60 lbs.
6. As much as I love knitting, cross-stitching and the like, I'd give up all my needlecraft skills to be able to draw or paint.
7. My sock yarn stash is embarrassingly large, especially as it takes me ages to finish knitting a pair. I'm a complete sucker for homespun, hand-dyed yarn.
8. If I see an old hand-stitched tablecloth or runner at a jumble sale or charity shop I feel compelled to buy it. I can't stand the thought of all that effort someone put into a piece of work being thrown out.
9. I'm left-handed, and am always on the lookout for other left-handers.
10. My maiden name, which is incorporated in my username, has 6 letters and one syllable, and, thanks to a silent letter, is never pronounced or spelled correctly. The main reason I took my husband's name upon marriage is that it's common and easy to spell. However my maiden name comes in handy in terms of usernames as it's never already taken.

Posted by captcalhoun, December 30 2010 04:59 AM

1. i'm a freak. i was amidextrous as a kid, but when i was asked whether i was left or right handed by a school teacher and i replied 'both' she told me i couldn't be, so i chose to be left handed.
2. despite this i only write left handed. i eat, play cricket, softball, hockey, tennis and other racquet sports right handed. i also use my right hand to hold mugs and glasses.
3. besides Trek BBS, i visit 4 other forums on a daily basis.
4. one of those is a Canadian based GI Joe fansite.
5. another is for a ten year old mod for Quake 2.
6. i own 14 classic Doctor Who serials on DVD. none are from the First, Fifth or Sixth Doctor eras.
7. most are from the Third's.
8. i only have three complete TV shows on DVD. none are Star Trek.
9. one of them is the complete Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends.
10. i struggled to come up with some of these.

Posted by Satyrquaze, December 30 2010 06:52 AM

1. I have one older sister.
2. I am left handed.
3. I shave my head twice a week (if I remember).
4. I enjoy sketching.
5. I love Star Trek, but hate Voyager.
6. I love Doctor Who.
7. I play some form of RPG at least once a week.
8. I’m dating a girl who is smarter than I am.
9. I grew up in Minneapolis and currently live about a block from my elementary school.
10. I'm currently in my 30s and I still read comics.

Posted by KingDaniel, December 30 2010 05:14 PM

(deep breath...)
1. I hate talking about myself, even under the relative anonymity of the internet.
2. (generic bragging about something or other)
3. I've never had any fashion sense whatsoever.
4. I've never met my father, and couldn't care less.
5. I don't drink. It's not due to some high-minded ideal, but because I puke the instant I taste anything alcoholic - like sticking fingers down my throat. I'm sure you can imagine how much that sucks.
6. I'm terrible at math.
7. They tried to teach me German and French at school. They failed.
8. Despite the above, there are some things I am actually good at.
9. Did I mention that I hate talking about myself?
10. Enjoy this post while you can, there's a good chance I'll have second thoughts and delete it in the next few hours.

Posted by mr.peany, December 31 2010 02:52 PM

1. I am a Ambulance Paramedic.
2. I was born with only one kidney.
3. I have a degree in Visual Communication & Design.
4. Madonna's "Vogue" is my favourite song of all time.
5. I have over 200 DVD/Blu-ray box sets.
6. I have broken both arms during a rock climbing fall.
7. I rock climb.
8. I scuba dive.
9. I have never consumed coffee. In any form.
10. I have an unhealthy crush on "Uncharted"'s Nathan Drake.

Posted by Decker, January 1 2011 02:26 AM

1. I am fluent in English, Japanese and German. I do translation work in all three.
2. First Star Trek I saw was TMP in 1995 (I was nine then). It's still my favorite.
3. My favorite novel is "Les Misérables"
4. My collection of Blue Note records includes more than 320 albums. It's CDs though.
5. One of my former classmates is in the Japanese national soccer team.
6. I used to study (and teach to some extent) Quenya.
7. I only write with pencils.
8. My favorite games are "Riven", "Final Fantasy VIII", "Max Payne" and "Super Mario Bros. 3"
9. I read "National Geographic Magazine" (religiously), "Foreign Affairs" and "Esquire".
10. I think facebook is way overrated and the root of all evil. Friends aren't something you "add".

Posted by goldbug January 2 2011 04:51 PM

1. Worked with nuclear weapons and delivery systems in my 20s (USAF)
2. Working with Electronic/Mechanical Gyroscopes for aviation
3. Am an original fan of TOS (1st run NBC)
4. Married with 3 sons and 1 step-daughter
5. Will NEVER live in Texas again
6. Have traveled at 725MPH (fastest I've ever been)
7. Dad worked for NASA as a subcontractor
8. Watched EVERY manned Saturn V launch from the beach..
9. Met many of the American Astronauts as a child
10. My wife is a lovely lady from Brazil

To be concluded ...

 

[Gryffindorian]

And now, the conclusion ... Sorry I had to break the posts into different segments because I'm allowed only a certain number of characters per post.

Posted by Goji, January 3 2011 06:23 AM


1. I was named after a Robert Redford movie. That I have yet to watch all the way through, even though I have had several opportunities.
2. I have been involved in two long distance relationships, both involving me being on the wrong side of the Pacific Ocean. But it was a different side each time.
3. Choosing the major in college that I did (as well as the college itself) was a direct result of watching too many Godzilla movies as a child.
4. I have a strong aversion to being touched, particularly by people I do not know well. This makes my current job as an elementary school teacher a challenge at times.
5. I like muffins.
6. I am capable of being both deeply cynical and oddly hopeful, sometimes even at the same time. This never feels like a contradiction to me.
7. I am the founder of a moderately successful cult, which I got bored of and abandoned several years ago.
8. According to my parents, the first song I ever listened to outside the hospital was Paul Simon's "The Boy in the Bubble". Which I still enjoy.
9. I am quite hideous.
10. I enjoy being contrary, but only if it is completely unnecessary.

Posted by Jadzia, January 5 2011 05:23 AM

So here are my 10 facts...

1. Evening is my favourite time of the day, and it never seems to last long enough.
2. I prefer to make than buy things, although it's not always practical due to insufficient time/energy/skill/resources.
3. I love Italo Disco. Proper music.
4. Winter is my favourite season, although the weather we had in december approaching -20'C some nights and -10'C during the day, was admittedly a bit scary.
5. I've never liked lunch hours, when people stop work. Supposedly free time, except it's not.
6. I have never travelled out of Great Britain, nor have I ever been to London.
7. I have an opinion about most things, and how things could be/should be. Much of the time, the world seems to drift in the opposite direction.
8. I never seem to have enough space to put my things. Buying an extra cupboard paradoxically seems only to have consumed more of my space.
9. Over the past few years I've become interested in how computer games work, and have managed to make some of my own. It's complex and challenging.
10. Despite being all grown up, I still enjoy a bag of sweets from time to time.

Posted by LitmusDragon, January 5 2011 11:39 AM

1. I'm uncomfortable with my own heterosexuality. Even a simple thing like taking pleasure in looking at a beautiful woman makes me feel like a perv. This is due to a number of negative life experiences that I've had. I am trying to get over this.
2. Loud noises or people cheering very loudly makes me uncomfortable
3. I am slowly coming to the realization that I am quite a bit smarter than most people
4. I enjoy coffee and find it practically essential to my digestion
5. I try to eat well but pepperoni pizza is the one junk food I can never get rid of
6. I used to be a 6 beer a day drinker but now only drink on the weekends. Even then, I sometimes wonder why I bother. It mostly makes me sleepy.
7. I am an athiest liberal democrat
8. I have a growing feeling of confidence in myself and it's good
9. I would like to become more politically active as there are certain things I believe strongly in
10. I love cartoons

Posted by TheBrew, January 5 2011 12:23 PM

1. I've had brain surgery.
2. I've lived on three continents.
3. I have studied 6 languages.
4. I barely remember any of them.
5. I am a fairly easy going guy who doesn't take a lot of BS. I roll with the punches and I am fairly accommodating of other people, but I have no problems telling them to bugger off if their shit starts to get ridiculous.
6. I am deathly scared of tarantulas. I can't even be in the same room as a caged one. One time I thought one was in my room and I didn't go into there for a week. I couldn't stop shaking for an hour. It turned out to be a rat.
7. I am a fairly decent musician as I am a classically trained Double Bassist (having played in my university orchestra), I played in a swing band in High School, have played drums in a rock band before and am currently playing guitar/bass in a band.
8. I am not religious nor am I atheist. The question of God just seems fairly unimportant to me. I do however enjoy the religious traditions I was raised with and still go to High Holy Days services.
9. I am pretty much into anything. I am just as comfortable doing raiding in WoW for 4 hours straight as I am dancing in a club for four hours straight. I mesh well with most groups since I share a passing interest in most groups.
10. Even though my last name means "Dark Foreigner", I am fairly light skinned.

Posted by Tom Hendricks, January 6 2011 11:43 AM

Here are ten more about me...
1. The worst mistake I ever made in life was leaving the US Air Force. I have never been as successful or happy since I left. I had a real purpose and meaning when I was in the Air Force.
2. I don't like hot food, I don't mean spicy I mean temperature hot. Well, thats not true, I don't like spicy food either. I prefer my food warm, not hot.
3. I still carry a torch for my ex-fiancee. We were together for seven years and I broke up with her. Were both married now to other people, but I think about her often. You even have that feeling you were suppose to be with that one person, she is that for me.
4. I get manicures and pedicures. I go every two weeks and I love it. I only started going because of my wife, but now I really enjoy going.
5. I have to use a CPap machine to sleep. I have pretty bad sleep adptnea and sleeping is hell without it.
6. Off all my friends who enlisted in the military, many went into the Army or Marines. I'm the only one to actually be involved in combat.
7. My car was stolen from me when I was inside a Taco Bell getting lunch. I also lost my cell phone, which was in the car at the time.
8. I went to 15 professional baseball games last year and no home team won. That was 8 Mets, 5 Yankees, 1 Nationals, and 1 Cubs games.
9. I belong to the Disney Vacation Club, we go to Disney World usually twice a year.
10. I have a sister who is 20 years younger then me, almost exactly. Her birthday is Feb. 10th 1988 and mine is Feb. 17th 1968.

Posted by Lt_Rowy, January 12 2011 03:02 AM

10 facts about me:
1. I have two university degrees, one a bachelor of arts the other a graduate diploma in education
2. I have been diagnosed with a hearing impairment and need hearing aids
3. I converted to Islam in 2007 and have not regretted it.
4. I have seen the movie Volcano over 100 times
5. My boyfriend got me into Star Trek. I am ashamed to admit that I used to slam people who watched it...I apologise sincerely cos its great!
6. I am a speed reader...it took me 2 days to read two Enterprise novels!
7. I have 5 tattoos....a dragon, two chinese symbols that mean determination and eternity, a spider and a unicorn
8. I have a gigantic crush on Connor Trinneer!
9. I got busted by the cops for drinking on the street and kicked out of a nightclub in the space of 30 minutes last year in Perth!
10. I think pineapple flavoured chocolate is weird but nice at the same time!

Posted by 6079SmithW, January 27 2011 03:53 PM

1. I'm a 24 year old virgin who has never been kissed.
2. I'm a sexually repressed Catholic who suffers from severe Catholic's guilt (see #1).
3. I find it very hard to pronounce the "th" sound and think it should be purged from the english language.
4. I'm majoring in geology and minoring in biology.
5. My paternal grandparents are Germans who grew up in Nazi Germany. They lived in, witnessed, and experienced some very bad stuff, to say the least.
6. I'm a Baltimoron and have a Baltimore accent.
7. I like duck pin bowling and lacrosse.
8. I do not understand the male obsession with blonds and generally find blonds the least attractive. I like brunettes, specifically black hair and brown eyes.
9. In high school I seriously considered becoming a Franciscan Friar for some time.
10. I used to be a devout religious believer but then become an atheist and to be honest I am starting to regret it as everything seems to have gone downhill since then.

That's all, folks. Also, thanks for all the new posts.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ I'd like to post a self-correction to one of the earlier quoted items from me. I have since determined that my head is size 8 1/2, not 8 3/4. Thank you. I also apologize for unwittingly repeating items in subsequent top ten lists.

(Still damned hard to find caps that fit though. )

 

[Goji]

And now, the conclusion ... Sorry I had to break the posts into different segments because I'm allowed only a certain number of characters per post.

Posted by Goji, January 3 2011 06:23 AM

10. I enjoy being contrary, but only if it is completely unnecessary.

No I don't. Who is this jackass?

 

[Gryffindorian]

I can't tell if you're being facetious or you seriously don't remember posting the 10th item on your list, or any of it, for that matter.

Anyway, you're cute.

 

[scotpens]

5) I enjoy geocaching

Never heard of it till now. Sounds like fun.

 

[Kestra]

I can't tell if you're being facetious or you seriously don't remember posting the 10th item on your list, or any of it, for that matter.

Anyway, you're cute.

He's joking.

 

[Goji]

I can't tell if you're being facetious or you seriously don't remember posting the 10th item on your list, or any of it, for that matter.

Anyway, you're cute.

Ahem.

Posted by Goji, January 3 2011 06:23 AM
9. I am quite hideous.

*sigh* I know myself so well. And so does Kestra, apparently. Spooky.

But in all seriousness I do remember my list and it is fun to revisit it. My circumstances have definitely changed in the last year, but very little else about me has. As it should be.

 

[Gryffindorian]

I can't tell if you're being facetious or you seriously don't remember posting the 10th item on your list, or any of it, for that matter.

Anyway, you're cute.

He's joking.

Thanks. I can't always tell, even with my finely honed Betazoid abilities.

Posted by Goji, January 3 2011 06:23 AM
9. I am quite hideous.

Says you, but perception is not always reality.

 

[JiNX-01]

1. I attended Catholic schools for 12 years and am a college graduate.

2. I worked in newspapers for 28 years and took early retirement in July 2009.

3. I am a cancer survivor.

4. I have three brothers, all younger than I am.

5. I own a cat. Her name is Jinx.

6. I love traveling (especially road trips).

7. Favorite sci-fi TV series: Firefly and Enterprise.

8. Favorite mainstream TV series: NCIS and White Collar.

9. Favorite TV actors: Mark Harmon and Connor Trinneer.

10. Favorite pastime: Writing.

 

[Warp Coil]

Hmm... I guess I'll play along since I missed out last year.

1. I am left handed
2. I was born and raised in Maryland but I'm convinced it was a mistake. I don't eat crabs. I hate the mid-Atlantic climate.
3. I have pet chinchillas
4. I am a virgo on the cusp of libra. I would say my personality reflects this.
5. I skipped the 3rd grade
6. Favorite TV show(s) of all time: a tie between "Lost" and BSG
7. I love rock climbing
8. My favorite song for the past several months has been Foster The People's "Pumped Up Kicks" (I just can't get tired of it)
9. I love to travel. Two nice vacations in 2011 and I have 3 penciled in for 2012
10. I work in TV network post production and I hate my job.

 

[lfvoy]

1. My surname (which is my birth name) is British but the vast majority of my ethnic background is German.

2. I haven't owned a television since 2006.

3. I've never held a regular passport, but I have held a diplomatic passport.

4. I'm the older sister of a younger brother. He and I hated each other growing up but we're close friends now...despite having absolutely nothing in common except family.

5. My first job was working in a tobacco field. I quit because I got nicotine poisoning.

6. I was fluent in Spanish 20 years ago. I'm not now, and I regret letting it slip every day.

7. My alcohol intake can be measured in drinks per year.

8. My family had dogs growing up, but as an adult I've only had cats.

9. I wear contact lenses.

10. I play with computers for fun but have no interest at all in doing it professionally. Instead, I work in employee benefits/health insurance.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I guess I never posted in the original thread. Let's see if I can come up with ten facts....


1. I was born in Boston and as a child lived a stone's throw from the Battle of Dorchester Heights.

2. Possibly as a result of this, I am fascinated by the Colonial and Revolutionary Era.

3. I consider myself very lucky to have been a kid in the 60s, even though I feel like I was born a thousand years too soon.

4. My life revolves around the Arts & Sciences.

5. I have worked in health care in one form or another for 26 years, including 14 years as manager of a Midwifery service.

6. I've been known to make ethical decisions that cost me money.

7. I write fiction and poetry, and also dabble in art and photography.

8. I have self published four books that have sold copies in at least six countries.

9. I am an atheist and a rationalist, and disapprove of religion and ideology.

10. I collect Roaring 20s artistic nudes.

 

[Thor Damar]

Okay lets try for an actual serious list...

1) I'm from a place called London, and I've lived there my entire life so my north London mumble is 100% authentic.

2) I'm an assistant Librarian in a busy central public library so its not as quiet and relaxing as one might think.

3) I have an mildly irritating form of dyslexia which effects my spelling in a minor and yet bloody annoying fashion. To wit, I leave out a letter or two or for some reason place an r in a word that doesn't need one.

4) I literally cannot tell any units of measurement apart nor can I use them to make said measurement. Thus telling lengths, heights and weights is nay impossible for me (for the record, I added an 'a' to both impossible' and record for those keeping track..)

5) I'm utterly useless at maths. Which is helpful, yes?
(BTW, I'm always fascinated as to why we British place an 's' after maths and Americans don't. I have to confess to finding 'math' such an odd word to say.)

6) I can be a bit of a pompous arse sometimes. (sometimes?!)

7) I'd love to be a writer but I never finish anything that I start. (plus I don't think that I have the nature talent for it)

8) (I use parentheses almost every time that I write)
(yes, really) ellipsis also...

9) I'm now developing a pathological hatred of arrogance and smugness in nearly all forms, which results in me often yelling sarcastically at both the TV and the computer. ( I can restrain myself with people and in public, I am a librarian after all...)

10) I'm a quite socially awkward shy fellow but I guess that I might have a certain charm.
(maybe)

 

[Niorah]

Posted by Niorah, December 22 2010 04:59 PM

Ok, let's see:
1. I love fresh cherries but hate with a passion anything that is cherry flavoured.
2. I stopped smoking one year and four months ago.
3. I own three portraits of me, made by different painters.
4. I have three tattoos.
5. My favourite numbers are 2, 4, 7 and 8, which in my mind correspond respectively to the colours white, red, black and blue.
6. I cannot eat fresh tomatoes to save my life, I gag before being able to put them in my mouth.
7. I adore HM Queen Elizabeth II.
8. I miss my grandmother madly, she passed away more than five years ago.
9. I think David Bowie is a musical genius.
10. I am a very laid-back person.

Time to add a few things!

1. I am completely and madly in love with my Kindle.
2. I hate pigeons.
3. I am, at best, a four-finger typist.
4. I really like mobile phones and am constantly looking for my next one.
5. I think otters are among the coolest animals ever.
6. I regularly exchange emails with my 82 year old great-aunt.
7. I hate cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, nutmeg, ginger.
8. I love playing on my Xbox.
9. I cannot wait for the next George R. R. Martin book in the A Song of Ice and Fire saga.
10. I love crossword puzzles.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I think otters are among the coolest animals ever.

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[mimic]

1. I come from a long line of pyromaniacs.
2. I realized my drivers license wasn't in my wallet a few months ago and haven't bothered to replace it, because I'm confident that I will never be pulled over.
3. I accidentally stole a laptop once.
4. I listen nearly exclusively to Tom Milsom. I frequently sing along with a British accent, and I taught myself to play several of his songs on the piano.
5. I can now recite episode 1.20 of Community word for word
6. When I buy a house, there will be a piano room.
7. I know someone named Tausif
8. I have a bad habit of pushing Doctor Who on people, and then judging them if they don't like it.
9. I hate public speaking and for a long time thought this meant I couldn't be a teacher.
10. I got a text today that says "I doubt it. You're not that conniving or manipulative."

 

[Mysterion]

1. I'm left-handed.
2. I was born in Alaska.
3. I've never smoked.
4. I've very rarely drank alcohol.
5. I'm twice divorced.
6. I have phobias of deep water and heights.
7. I'm 5'9" tall.
8. I think my right leg is slightly shorter than my left.
9. My eyes are blue.
10. My self-perceived gender does not match my body.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

10. I collect Roaring 20s artistic nudes.

Yeah. "Artistic." Sure.

 

[Gepard]

8. I have a bad habit of pushing Doctor Who on people, and then judging them if they don't like it

Well that's just good sense, really. If they aren't won over by David Tennant, disown them immediately.

Mine:

1. I grew a beard about six years ago and have never shaved it off since.

2. I was born in Bozeman, Montana, the same as Brannon Braga. Since there's only one hospital there, it was probably in the same facility, too.

3. Despite living in Los Angeles, I don't own a car.

4. I don't like dogs.

5. I have a sunken breastbone, but fortunately not as badly as the guy illustrating the Wikipedia article.

6. I'm allergic to peanuts.

7. My first-ever roommate was, by his own admission, a high-functioning sociopath. Nevertheless, I had the most fun with him of anybody I've lived with.

8. I've never visited Alaska, but I'd really like to.

9. I've been watching Star Trek since I was four years old.

10. I was passionate about CGI in my adolescence and through college, but now that I'm actually working in the industry, my interest has mostly dried up.