25 things

There was a facebook meme going round in January and Feb entitled "25 things about me". I thought it was a bit douchebaggish at the time, but I ended up doing one on my birthday. Anyway, I liked it in the end, and never got around to publishing it here on my blog ... so:

25 things Blah Blah

1. I owe my entire existence to a tin of canned artichokes

2. My first thought about turning 27 was "great, I get to be a cubed age!". Then I thought about writing it as 3^3, got scared and stopped thinking about it.

3. I'm the second most stubborn person that you're ever likely to meet, according to my thumbs. I was the first until last Sunday.

4. ... and I'm still not certain whether being stubborn is a good thing or not: it's both helped and hindered me.

5. My feet and hands get very very cold, quite quickly. I enjoy ambushing people with them. Buhahahaaaa.

6. I've spent most of my life convinced that I'm quite subtle. My mother has spent most of my life suggesting that this might not necessarily be the case.

7. I will stop whatever I'm do to make sure that I fully enjoy a pun that's so bad it's good.

8. If I watch a TV series too quickly, I generally end up becoming very much like one, or a hybrid, of the characters. This is true for Firefly (Mal), Scrubs (Dr Cox), and Black Books (Bernard-Fran-Manny hybrid).

9. I have never never ever realised until recently the variety of stupid noises that I make throughout a normal day.

10. I am entirely incapable of eating strawberries and bananas. I'm not a big fan of fruit in general, but those two specifically: impossible.

11. I worked out a couple of years ago that my choice to study engineering is rooted in my childhood: when I turned 3, someone gave me a Barbie doll, it didn't do anything, I didn't know what to do with it, so I went back to playing with my Lego.

12. Every January for the past ten years, I've had a week where i've had really bad nightmares every night. The type that are so bad that you wake up with your heart racing.

13. One of my New Years Resolutions for this year was to make the most of the present. I have a bad habit of storing things "for the future" (like Easter eggs) that I find next Christmas, which are by then are not-so-nice; I also get scared whenever life throws some luck or good opportunity my way. Which is stupid.

14. I can last for a thirteen hour flight without needing to go to the toilet.

15. People seem to think that I'm not shy: this really isn't the case.

16. I was once a bell-ringer.

17. I went through a period of wondering what I looked like with a moustache, so I'd occassionally draw one on with eyeliner in the privacy of my bathroom. The answer, in case you're wondering, is quite good.

18. I'm a terrible letter writer. I thought that technology would make it easier, and it does: it makes it easier to be a terrible writer. I'm so sorry Anna, Jo, T, and everyone.

19. If my life were to be described by a mathematical equation, it would be H = N+1, where H = number of houses I've lived in, and N = my age.

20. I wish that I had the ability to be more consistent.

21. My aim when I grow up is to be able to own a dog, and provide a nice place for it. I'm having trouble deciding between calling it Dougal or Theory ("Good Theory, Good Theory! ... No, Bad Theory!").

22. When I thought of the joke  in Number 21 the other day, I stopped and applied Number 7. I should have noted there that I enjoy my own bad puns even more than other peoples.

23. I get frustrated more easily than I'd like to.

24. If I could change one thing about what I look like, it would be my feet. They're halfway to a hobbits.

25. It's now my birthday ;)