Woooo, I've seen a bunch of sites doing this, and I thought I'd add one for myself. I have a feeling I won't actually reach 100 in one go, so I'm going to steal another idea, and do, say, 10 a day for 10 days. I'll post a linkie-poo in a day's blog if and when I update this list.
(And yes, it's in the extended bit. Press that arrow wotsit just down to the right, there!)
100 Things About Me (yeah, like you care anyway!):
1. I only own and wear black clothes, although some are a little grey now.
2. Well, actually, I have a blue jumper, but it was a present. I do wear that.
3. I'm an omnivore. I will not, however, eat rabbit, duck, venison, ostrich, horse meat (can't remember the proper name!), veal, pork or several other meats.
4. My rule for meat-eating is based upon what I would kill to eat if society broke down tomorrow and I had to hunt my own food.
5. I own a hand-crafted longbow (not made by me).
6. I think cats are the best animals in the world. Better than humans.
7. I live within a stone's throw of the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris.
8. I once climbed the gate to that cemetery at night, to bury one of my pet rats. Shhhh.
9. I have never broken a bone, but have had two sets of stitches.
10. I once spent 10 days lying on my back because I slipped four discs and trapped 6 muscles. That was one huge ouchie.
11. I collect things, sometimes obsessively.
12. I play a lot of computer games - probably too many.
13. There is always more chocolate than real food in my fridge.
14. I hope aliens exist, and would understand if they thought we were foul creations of nature.
15. I have talked to trees in the past.
16. I have blue eyes.
17. I have four sofas in my apartment. Only one of them is mine.
18. I am trilingual: English mother tongue, French almost fluently and Bullsh*t very fluently.
19. I lie too often, but never about anything important.
20. I am a feminist and an egalitarian, but not politically correct about either.
21. I am severely phobic of spiders, but not of bugs, snakes or anything else (yet).
22. I understand Freudian Castration, but not Lacan's 'Petit objet a'.
23. As blogged, I have a love of east asian women.
24. I would rather spend an evening with a good film and the cat on my lap than out on a date.
25. No, Ross, that wasn't a metaphor.
26. My favourite film is The Seven Samurai, but The Wicker Man and Sonatine come a close second and third.
27. I have had three girlfriends in my life. All of them cheated on me, except the first, and were dumped for it.
28. I have never cheated on a girlfriend, and never will.
29. I still don't know why the first girlfriend and I broke up.
30. One of my best friends died of cancer at age 24. He never saw his son, who was born a month later. If I could have taken his place, I would have.
31. I have a tattoo, that I designed myself.
32. No, it's not there. It's on my arm.
33. I'd like to think I'm a geek, but my technical knowledge isn't that impressive. I suppose that makes me a nerd.
34. And I don't care.
35. I always try to accept everyone for who they are, and never judge them.
35. I've never been accepted for who I am, but that's OK.
36. I wear glasses. I don't want to wear contact lenses.
37. I don't particularly like blondes (in a romantic sense).
38. I actually love going clothes shopping with women.
39. I hate going clothes shopping for me.
40. I have been invited to go shopping with several beautiful women, and will do, one day.
41. Preferably in summer, for beach wear. :)
42. I'm skinny. Very skinny. Around 140lbs (65kg) at 6 feet tall.
43. I have a degree in computer science, but never did the third-year project.
44. Cancer and madness run in my family.
45. Why 'Lobster'? That's a private joke between me and one of my ex-girlfriends.
46. Favourite actors: Jean Reno, Jackie Chan, Mel Gibson, Rutger Hauer, Danny DeVito.
47. Favourite actresses: Winona Ryder, Sigourney Weaver, Susan Sarandon, Jennifer Connelly, Carrie Fisher (so I have a thing for Princess Leia... so sue me!)
48. Favourite authors: Roger Zelazny, Carrie Fisher, Starhawk, Kazuo Ishiguro.
49. I would most like to have been able to meet Albert Einstein. He sounded like someone who was a lot of fun, as well as a genius.
50. If I suddenly had a million euros/dollars tomorrow, I wouldn't know what to do with it.
51. To me, happiness is more important than money, which is more important than sex, which is less important than most other things.
52. I love my job.
53. I consider myself extremely lucky to work for a very, very cool company where my colleagues are also my friends.
54. I hate office politics, and thankfully don't have to deal with them at all in my current job.
55. I never want to be in a management position.
56. I much prefer to work with machines (computers) than with people.
57. I understand relationships very well, except if I'm in them.
58. I am a nice, honest guy. I hate that. But not always.
59. I can live on very little money, and have a habit of lending the rest to friends. One day they'll pay me back.
60. I am a pagan. More specifically, a Wiccan.
61. I refuse to give advice - I only give opinions.
62. I speak much more politely in French than I do in English.
63. That doesn't mean I can't string together a heck of a bunch of insults and curses in both languages.
64. I dream in French or English, sometimes both, in colour and with a soundtrack.
65. My dreams are like films - once, I even had a dream with full, rolling credits at the end!
66. My favourite materialistic things: PC, coffee machine, car, plastic alien, statuette of Bast.
67. My favourite non-materialistic things: cats, waking up three minutes before the alarm on a sunny morning, walking barefoot.
68. I smoke Winfields. I recently cut down from about 15 a day to 5 a day, just because I felt like it.
69. And no, I am NOT suffering from withdrawal, dammit, ALRIGHT?!
70. Seriously, I'm not. I get addicted to things easily, but also give them up easily.
71. If I had to date someone, I'd rather be with a smart girl than a pretty one. Honestly.
72. I have four brothers and no sisters.
73. I often feel that, as I get older, I am becoming more boring.
74. I don't want to get married or have children.
75. I hate what humans have done to this poor planet, but couldn't be happy without a PC.
76. I have long hair, which I haven't had cut in five years.
77. Two things no girlfriend could ever change about me: my choice of clothes, my choice of haircut.
78. I have the annoying habit of smiling and/or laughing when it's not appropriate (like when I'm being fired or dumped).
79. I have a reputation at work and where I live for always smiling, no matter how bad life gets.
80. I was the only member of my family who did not cry in church at my father's funeral: this is because I didn't want to, not because of him. He was an amazing dad.
81. I am extremely lucky to have had wonderful parents and grandparents. My mum is still alive and is still wonderful.
82. One of my grandmothers lived to be 102. She saw the entirety of the 20th Century (born 1899, died 2001), and was mentally aware of life right up until she died. That is just too cool.
83. I failed my history and English literature exams, but got an A for French, even though I didn't study (hated it!) for 5 years, and only started learning 5 months before the exam.
84. I don't leave the toilet seat up.
85. I have a habit of speaking my mind, especially to upper management. This has not resulted in me being fired. Yet.
86. I can't tell if a woman is interested in me or not. I always assume they're not.
87. I don't believe in revenge.
88. If reincarnation works, I'd like to come back as a cat with an owner like me.
89. I'm too lenient with my cat, but he understands and doesn't push his luck too often.
90. I have hands that never stay greasy: a wash with tap-water or a quick licking (for food) and they're fine. The only grease that sticks is chicken fat.
91. I hate getting animal urine on my hands when I'm changing their litter trays or cages. The smell sticks to me like nothing else.
92. I dislike roll-neck or polo-neck jumpers, because I hate having things constricting my throat.
93. I don't like dogs, but they like me. They all think I'm a bone and bite me.
94. I have only met two dogs that have not bitten me, in the last 30+ years.
95. There are many things I wish I could go back in time to change, but I have learned to live with them. Experience makes us who we are.
96. I use the word "woooo" too often.
97. I'm generally easy-going, but I can be really picky and pedantic, especially when it comes to grammar, punctuation and spelling.
98. I used to teach (computer courses), but don't have the patience any more.
99. I hate travelling, particularly internationally.
100. I love to drive.
There you go. 100 really incredibly useful things you really wanted to know. And in deference to number 96... woooooo!
Posted by Spike on April 22, 2003 05:55 PM|