10 things about me: a meme

[altariel]

kerravonsen tagged me on the 10 weird things meme.

Rules: Each player of this game starts off with 10 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 10 weird habits/things/little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you need to choose 10 people to be tagged and list their names.

I’ll tag, but don’t feel obliged to do it if you don’t want.

1. This year I have been mostly reading – in fact, only reading – books written by women. Not intentionally, it’s just turned out that way. (Before anyone asks: Doris Lessing, a pile of Phryne Fishers, another pile of Ruby Ferguson’s Jill books, and a reread of Katherine Paterson’s beloved Bridge to Terebithia.)

2. This week I have been mostly listening to Blur’s 13. And jolly good it is too, except I have to skip past the third track (Coffee and TV) because the video upset me so much when it first came out. (It’s the one about the sad adventures of a little animated milk carton in the big bad world.)

3. I’m not fussy about foodstuffs per se, but scrambled eggs and cooked tomatoes SHOULD NOT TOUCH. They need a neutral zone of bacon between them. I haven’t worked out what sacred-and-profane thing is going on here: perhaps I have some trace memory of a terrible millennia-long intergalactic war between the Ancient and Most Noble Scrambled Egg People and the wicked, jackbooted, goose-stepping High Order of the Cooked Tomato. Or I could just be a bit funny. Still, you never know. (Of course the Bacon Collective would be agents of peace.)

4. I do not own nor do I drive a car. (But surely you know this already? This is turning out to be really hard! I must try to be more discreet – or perhaps talk less – about myself.)

5. I am my own favourite topic of conversation. Hence this meme. Again, you may already know this.

6. I have just watched the whole of season 1 of The Wire with the subtitles switched on (as in fact I do with many programmes). Firstly, because I found I couldn’t follow some of the dialogue. Secondly, because I was using my exercise bike through many episodes and couldn’t hear over it. Thirdly, I think I may be going slightly deaf. Fourthly, I got used to having them there. Fifthly, I have a strong cognitive bias towards the written word, and like to process dialogue that way. (By ‘using my exercise bike’ I do in fact mean ‘for exercising’ and not for, say, constructing a massive neutral zone between any stray cooked tomatoes or scrambled eggs that might happen to fall into my living room. That wouldn’t work very well.)

7. I am not smarter than the average bear, because bears can swim and I can’t.

8. I can’t fish either, nor have I tried. In my own defence, I think I might be able to work out how both to swim and fish; if in imminent danger of drowning, say, or starving. So perhaps in all fairness to me we ought to call the bear thing ‘not proven’. I am ‘not proven’ to be smarter than the average bear.

9. And I don’t hold with marmalade, thereby further differentiating me from the bears.

10. Nor do I hold with ironmongery, whether it wears well or no. Oh hang on, that’s Gaffer Gamgee... Er, I particularly like the film with the bears that they often show on Sunrise Earth. I mention this in case anyone is starting to think I have some kind of thing against the bears. Which I don’t; in fact, I have an exceptionally loved bear called ‘Barnaby’. Which I think now gives you 11 little known facts about me.

I hereby tag: dkpalaska; greyonblue;heyiya;jhall1;qatsi;rakshathedemon;redstarrobot;steepholm;thanatos_kalos;wiseheart.

Comments

[windswept1.livejournal.com]

I am not smarter than the average bear

Slightly long but have you read Gonna Be a Bear? pasted below... Don't know who wrote it, but clearly, none of us are smarter than bears:))

In this life I’m a woman. In my next life, I’d like to come back as a bear.

When you’re a bear, you get to hibernate. You do nothing but sleep for Six months. I could deal with that.

Before you hibernate, you’re supposed to eat yourself stupid. I could deal with that too.

When you’re a girl bear, you birth your children (who are the size of walnuts) while you’re sleeping and wake to partially grown, cute cuddly cubs. I could definitely deal with that.

If you’re a mama bear, everyone knows you mean business. You swat anyone who bothers your cubs. If your cubs get out of line, you swat them too. I could deal with that.

If your a bear, your mate EXPECTS you to wake up growling. He EXPECTS that you will have hairy legs and excess body fat.

Yup… i’m gonna be a bear.

hee hee:)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I hadn't read that! Awesome! (And persuasive!) I knew you'd use that icon!

[windswept1.livejournal.com]

I knew you'd use that icon!

Heh he:))