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Sixteen Things
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Write an entry with 16 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you:
1. I started my current University degree because I was looking for something to keep my brain occupied, and the local schools & colleges didn't offer anything that interested me. But now I'm determined it will be my first step towards becoming an astronaut.
2. As a teenager in the mid-1980s I was barred from watching Saturday Live on Channel 4 by my parents, because they thought it was too rude. Consequently I missed out on lots of early Fry & Laurie, and although I've seen some of these sketches since, I still feel like I missed out because I didn't see them at the time.
3. I can still remember STS-1, the first Space Shuttle mission. I remember at my junior school, the TV was on during the countdown, but we pupils weren't allowed to look - it was for teachers only.
4. I am rapidly running out of bookshelf space once again.
5. I love the concept, history, and heritage of the London Underground, but (like most people) I hate how it makes you sneeze horrid black stuff.
6. I'm constantly entertained by the wonderful and merry names of some of the USA's more obscure universities.
7. Whenever I watch women in an historical drama, these days I often think how lovely and elegant their clothes were, how nice it would have been back then wearing those clothes... but then imagine at that time of the month, no Super Tampax or Bodyform Invisible, you had to wear something the size of a pillow between your legs. Eeew.
8. I wear a pink tourmaline and diamonds ring, which I bought because it represents my NetName. More individual than wearing jewellery with my birthstone, I thought.
9. I really dislike how clothes for young girls these days come in two varieties: (a) school uniform; and (b) pink. But it makes me glad that all my friends' children are boys.
10. One reason why I love the Olympics so much is that my earliest memory of TV is the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
11. I'd love to find more people who have read The Compleet Molesworth.
12. Sometimes I wish it was 20 years ago.
13. I don't have much of a singing voice, more a voice that makes unnecessary noise. I'd love to learn to sing without the singing producing laughter or wailing in pain from others.
14. I'm far too old now but I would like to learn ballet. And tap. And Irish dancing. I wanted to go to dancing lessons when I was 7 or 8 years old, like my friends or my cousin who went to ballet & tap dancing lessons, but my parents sent us to the (probably much cheaper) classes held in the local church hall - to learn old-time ballroom dancing and sub-Travoltan disco dancing. In my city, if you wait until your baby's born before signing him/her up on the waiting list for Irish dancing, you've left it too late.
15. I know lots of people read Moab Is My Washpot and wonder what became of Matteo. I'd love to know what happened to Bunce.
16. I really dislike camping. It doesn't suit me anyway with my hayfever, but I wish I could bear it because I can see why others find it attractive.
bmax67Write an entry with 16 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you:
1. I started my current University degree because I was looking for something to keep my brain occupied, and the local schools & colleges didn't offer anything that interested me. But now I'm determined it will be my first step towards becoming an astronaut.
2. As a teenager in the mid-1980s I was barred from watching Saturday Live on Channel 4 by my parents, because they thought it was too rude. Consequently I missed out on lots of early Fry & Laurie, and although I've seen some of these sketches since, I still feel like I missed out because I didn't see them at the time.
3. I can still remember STS-1, the first Space Shuttle mission. I remember at my junior school, the TV was on during the countdown, but we pupils weren't allowed to look - it was for teachers only.
4. I am rapidly running out of bookshelf space once again.
5. I love the concept, history, and heritage of the London Underground, but (like most people) I hate how it makes you sneeze horrid black stuff.
6. I'm constantly entertained by the wonderful and merry names of some of the USA's more obscure universities.
7. Whenever I watch women in an historical drama, these days I often think how lovely and elegant their clothes were, how nice it would have been back then wearing those clothes... but then imagine at that time of the month, no Super Tampax or Bodyform Invisible, you had to wear something the size of a pillow between your legs. Eeew.
8. I wear a pink tourmaline and diamonds ring, which I bought because it represents my NetName. More individual than wearing jewellery with my birthstone, I thought.
9. I really dislike how clothes for young girls these days come in two varieties: (a) school uniform; and (b) pink. But it makes me glad that all my friends' children are boys.
10. One reason why I love the Olympics so much is that my earliest memory of TV is the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
11. I'd love to find more people who have read The Compleet Molesworth.
12. Sometimes I wish it was 20 years ago.
13. I don't have much of a singing voice, more a voice that makes unnecessary noise. I'd love to learn to sing without the singing producing laughter or wailing in pain from others.
14. I'm far too old now but I would like to learn ballet. And tap. And Irish dancing. I wanted to go to dancing lessons when I was 7 or 8 years old, like my friends or my cousin who went to ballet & tap dancing lessons, but my parents sent us to the (probably much cheaper) classes held in the local church hall - to learn old-time ballroom dancing and sub-Travoltan disco dancing. In my city, if you wait until your baby's born before signing him/her up on the waiting list for Irish dancing, you've left it too late.
15. I know lots of people read Moab Is My Washpot and wonder what became of Matteo. I'd love to know what happened to Bunce.
16. I really dislike camping. It doesn't suit me anyway with my hayfever, but I wish I could bear it because I can see why others find it attractive.
