100 Things About Me

  1. my eyes are green
  2. my favourite colour is also green
  3. I lived in Bideford, Devon for most of a year.
  4. I have never been to New York City
  5. I don't like my teeth
  6. I am fascinated by bugs and like to photograph them
  7. I hate mice, and other rodents.
  8. I have a fear of animals whose eyes are larger than mine
  9. I regret having too few conversations with my grandparents before their deaths
  10. my post-secondary education includes both a BA in History and Literature and also a Certificate in Entry-level Plumbing (pre-apprenticeship)
  11. I know how to knit but haven't learned to crochet
  12. I can sew, but hate to follow patterns
  13. I love shopping, even window shopping
  14. I am very good at breaking down tasks and writing procedures
  15. I like to garden but have a laissez-faire attitude to weeding
  16. I like words, etymology, and the study of language
  17. I often feel that my vocabulary is limited and frequently look up words in the dictionary if I can't discern their meanings contextually
  18. I like to laugh at other people's screw-ups
  19. I am not fond of slapstick as a rule, but I do appreciate well-executed physical humour
  20. I love onomatopoetic words, particularly: swish, burble, murmur, thud and clunk
  21. I love to build things, but I cut too many corners to make really nice things.
  22. I have a weakness for 80s synth-pop
  23. I never learned to play a musical instrument
  24. I always wanted to play the tuba
  25. I can out-cuss a trucker and I like it that way
  26. I openly condemn censorship in all of its forms
  27. I dated many men and several women before meeting and marrying my soulmate
  28. my favourite form of literature is the short story
  29. I have had my writing published, a few pieces even paid for, but I still cannot label myself a writer
  30. I love San Francisco and would happily live there given the chance
  31. I'm a sucker for romance and yet cynical of it at the same time
  32. I feel that giving children deliberately misspelled names is both annoying and cruel
  33. I rarely miss an opportunity to share my opinion(s)
  34. I am easily distracted by and addicted to new things, though I have been accused of having an eight-day attention span
  35. I can count in binary on my hands
  36. food texture is critical to my enjoyment or dislike of a meal
  37. my favourite season is autumn
  38. I have moved 16 times since leaving home
  39. I hate moving
  40. people singing off-key really bug me.
  41. I sing along with the stereo in the car; I suspect I often sing off key.
  42. I taught myself HTML in 1996 and prefer hand coding to WYSIWYG editors
  43. I love to dance but seldom do
  44. I am a pack-rat
  45. I like reading kid lit and even picture books
  46. I was the best man at a friend's wedding; I planned the bachelor party, went to the strip clubs, and wore a tuxedo on the big day.
  47. I prefer carnations or mixed bouquets to roses
  48. I prefer silver to gold
  49. I am sentimental though I scorn sentimentality
  50. I have alopecia areata -- an autoimmune skin disease which results in localized hair loss
  51. I would like to learn a new language (or two); Spanish, Cantonese, Hindi or Urdu and Esperanto are all interesting to me
  52. I am usually an angry driver
  53. my favourite ice cream is butterscotch ripple
  54. I have never smoked a cigarette or taken any illegal drugs
  55. while I like pina coladas, I am not fond of getting caught in the rain
  56. I get motion sick, especially in busses and cars
  57. I enjoy public speaking
  58. I am happy to savour the details of complete strangers' blogs, journals and websites
  59. I attended the regional science fair 4 times between grades 6 and 12
  60. I think most people are sexier when suggestively dressed than when they are naked
  61. I like being naked
  62. I don't like surprises
  63. I hate being splashed or sprayed with water
  64. I am afraid of heights and of falling from heights
  65. I used to be able to control my dreams but seem to have lost the skill
  66. my favourite movie is the Princess Bride, but my favourite film genre is black comedy
  67. the first vehicle I owned was a Toyota Hi-Lux pickup which I inherited from my Grandpa
  68. I have never voted for the winning candidate in a federal or provincial election
  69. the sheer lack of common sense on the planet irks me beyond words
  70. I like to say things that shock people
  71. I once held a handgun at an auction viewing and was alarmed at how comfortable it was to hold and how nice it felt in my hands
  72. I like archery and used to be good enough to teach others
  73. at age 18 I was told I was allergic to grapes and grape juice; years later, I discovered that I was not, but I still don't drink wine
  74. I believe in fate/destiny but I try not to think about it
  75. my astrological signs are cancer and rooster
  76. I was born in the summer of 69; I do not own a six-string
  77. I like erotic photography
  78. I wanted to be a neuropsychologist for two years, until I realized how many biology courses I would need to take.
  79. I write movie reviews for Apollo Guide
  80. I think my middle name is boring
  81. I frequently misspell words with double letters, omitting or adding letters in error
  82. I usually prefer shopping for second hand goods than new
  83. I love to dress in costume and am probably a closet Goth; naturally Halloween is one of my favourite days of the year
  84. I used to attend the Rocky Horror Picture Show as Magenta before it was released on home video and subsequently lost all its mystique
  85. I do not have any piercings or tattoos
  86. the first movie I saw in the theatre was Dumbo
  87. I taught Sunday school for a year, but the kids seemed to know more than I did
  88. I went through a Christian (Baptist) phase, but I no longer consider myself religious and tend to keep my spiritual beliefs to myself
  89. I was once a youth member of the BC Social Credit Party which contrary to its name was very right wing; I outgrew it within a year
  90. I like coffee and I am not terribly picky about my brew, though I prefer a decent dark roast
  91. I love to bake cookies
  92. I am not allowed to give blood in Canada because I lived in England during the late 1980's and may have consumed "Mad Cow" tainted beef
  93. I have only ever fractured two bones: my coccyx (tailbone) -- after a fall while roller skating in gym class -- and a distal phalanges (tip of my toe) when (long story short) I connected with someone's steel-toed boot
  94. I generally don't enjoy and tend to steer clear of parades, fireworks, circuses and amusement parks
  95. I have traveled to parts of Canada (in BC, Alberta, Quebec and Ontario), the US (in Washington, Oregon, and California), Europe (in England, France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands) and Puerto Rico (as part of a short cruise)
  96. I hated Disneyland
  97. I routinely judge books by their covers
  98. I usually have five or six books in mid-read at any given time (more if you count non-fiction)
  99. I am somebody's mother
  100. I do not wash my hair every day and when I do, I only lather and rinse; I do not repeat