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16 things you didn't know etc etc etc...
Gacked from most people, at this point.
So, a challenge. I mean, I talk about myself SO MUCH ALL THE TIME, that really the only secrets I have left are the deep, embarrassing kind that would lead to everyone seeing what a shit person I really am, and I'm damn sure as mustard not sharing those! So I will endeavour to make do.
ETA: Actually, reading through this, there are probably very few of these things that people didn't know already. Tant pis.
1. I actually didn't used to be this self-centred and attention-seeking. It's a relatively new development. Quiet and reserved, that was me.
2. My memories of childhood are hazy, but I think I've been an atheist since I discovered that "God made the world" wasn't quite the immutable truth that "Daddy goes to work" and "Mummy makes dinner" were. I think I've called myself an atheist since I first knew what the word meant.
3. Primary school was not a good time for me. I went to four different schools, made practically no friends, had trouble with interpersonal relationships, didn't stand out academically (that I can tell, anyway), and in fact did pretty much no work (there was an unfortunate episode with a project about Eqypt; let's never speak of it). My little brother was supposed to be the brainy one, which I resented (I'd actually forgotten that until I re-read my old diary; we sort of switched places not far into senior school).
4. I DISTRUST MICROWAVES. THEY WILL MAKE FOOD EXPLODE.
5. I think the foundation of the state of Israel, whilst understandable in the context of contemporary politics, was one of the less genius plans ever created.
6. It really does grieve me that I cannot sing. One day, I will do something about trying some lessons of some sort to see whether this tragedy is irreversible.
7. I don't believe in anything spiritual or supernatural.
8. Although I have previously documented my totally shit memory with regards to my past, and truly do remember very little of my childhood, oddly - though not, perhaps, entirely unexpectedly - I do remember quite a lot of the television I watched, even from quite a young age. Endless Blue Peter. Children of the Sun, and Eighty Days Around the World. The Snow Spider and Children of Green Knowe. Simon the Witch and Rent-A-Ghost. Henry the Cat and Morph. Doogie Howser and Press Gang. Absolutely shedloads of the stuff.
9. When I was about ten, I cut off my hair. My mother may have slapped me, I can't quite remember now.
10. I passed my 11+ exam, but didn't go to a grammar school. So, to be honest, I'm not entirely sure why my parents made me take it.
11. I hated my brother like unto death when we were growing up. Seriously hated. Wanted to hurt him SO BADLY. He's the only person who has ever provoked in me that visceral urge to cause someone pain. Love him like a b. now.
12. I have so many regrets about decisions I've made in my life. Sometimes I fantasise about somehow going back to being 18, or 16, or 11 or whatever, and living my life over again to try and not balls it up so much. But in these fantasies I always have to come up with plans to end up with the same friends and living in the same place, so I guess I don't regret that much after all.
13. I sometimes wish I was famous. Bet I'd made an awesome celebrity.
14. I used to read books on my lap when I was supposed to be doing other stuff at school. Shades of Anne and Ben Hur... *g*
15. I wish my mother didn't mind so much about me being fat.
16. I want to write a novel, but I don't think I've got anything to say.
So, a challenge. I mean, I talk about myself SO MUCH ALL THE TIME, that really the only secrets I have left are the deep, embarrassing kind that would lead to everyone seeing what a shit person I really am, and I'm damn sure as mustard not sharing those! So I will endeavour to make do.
ETA: Actually, reading through this, there are probably very few of these things that people didn't know already. Tant pis.
1. I actually didn't used to be this self-centred and attention-seeking. It's a relatively new development. Quiet and reserved, that was me.
2. My memories of childhood are hazy, but I think I've been an atheist since I discovered that "God made the world" wasn't quite the immutable truth that "Daddy goes to work" and "Mummy makes dinner" were. I think I've called myself an atheist since I first knew what the word meant.
3. Primary school was not a good time for me. I went to four different schools, made practically no friends, had trouble with interpersonal relationships, didn't stand out academically (that I can tell, anyway), and in fact did pretty much no work (there was an unfortunate episode with a project about Eqypt; let's never speak of it). My little brother was supposed to be the brainy one, which I resented (I'd actually forgotten that until I re-read my old diary; we sort of switched places not far into senior school).
4. I DISTRUST MICROWAVES. THEY WILL MAKE FOOD EXPLODE.
5. I think the foundation of the state of Israel, whilst understandable in the context of contemporary politics, was one of the less genius plans ever created.
6. It really does grieve me that I cannot sing. One day, I will do something about trying some lessons of some sort to see whether this tragedy is irreversible.
7. I don't believe in anything spiritual or supernatural.
8. Although I have previously documented my totally shit memory with regards to my past, and truly do remember very little of my childhood, oddly - though not, perhaps, entirely unexpectedly - I do remember quite a lot of the television I watched, even from quite a young age. Endless Blue Peter. Children of the Sun, and Eighty Days Around the World. The Snow Spider and Children of Green Knowe. Simon the Witch and Rent-A-Ghost. Henry the Cat and Morph. Doogie Howser and Press Gang. Absolutely shedloads of the stuff.
9. When I was about ten, I cut off my hair. My mother may have slapped me, I can't quite remember now.
10. I passed my 11+ exam, but didn't go to a grammar school. So, to be honest, I'm not entirely sure why my parents made me take it.
11. I hated my brother like unto death when we were growing up. Seriously hated. Wanted to hurt him SO BADLY. He's the only person who has ever provoked in me that visceral urge to cause someone pain. Love him like a b. now.
12. I have so many regrets about decisions I've made in my life. Sometimes I fantasise about somehow going back to being 18, or 16, or 11 or whatever, and living my life over again to try and not balls it up so much. But in these fantasies I always have to come up with plans to end up with the same friends and living in the same place, so I guess I don't regret that much after all.
13. I sometimes wish I was famous. Bet I'd made an awesome celebrity.
14. I used to read books on my lap when I was supposed to be doing other stuff at school. Shades of Anne and Ben Hur... *g*
15. I wish my mother didn't mind so much about me being fat.
16. I want to write a novel, but I don't think I've got anything to say.