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CommentAuthorRachæl Tyrell
- CommentTimeFeb 1st 2009 edited
Well, it's been flittering around Facebook (the "write out 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you" thing), but most of the people I know on Facebook are either people from highschool I hardly (or care to) recognise, or people I already know in real life fairly well.
So why not here?
My 25 Things About Me:
1. I remember making a friend in Pumpkin Shell nursery school while we were supposed to be napping on uncomfortable green mats. A boy. He claimed his birthday was Halloween.
2. My birthday is Christmas Eve, which is why the above was striking and relevant to me at the time.
3. From age 3 until my early/mid 20's I was an amazingly voracious and advanced reader. Because my vision is sort of fading out, and reading large chunks of text is difficult to navigate, I've started trying to listen to audiobooks, but I'm too visual and antsy a person by nature to get lost in them like I used to with actual reading.
4. I took 4 years of Russian in school, and retained nothing.
5. I am trying to teach myself how to draw (without crying, which keeps happening these days). I feel like I'm doing it from scratch, like I haven't been drawing all my life. i feel like such a novice. I feel like time is flowing backwards.
6. I was rather versed in (and rather excellent at) the ways of polluting oneself through extreme and various means of inebriation for a number of years. Now, I refrain from all such activities.
7. The first three tapes I bought myself as a near-teenager: Slaughter- Fly to the Angels, Skid Row- Slave to the Grind, Laurie Anderson- The Day the Devil.
8. As a grade schooler, my fantasy wedding was to wear the evil black dress from Legend, only in DEEP ROYAL PURPLE... with my groom, also in deep purple... the rest of the wedding party in black.... and Sebastian Bach crooning "I Remember You".
9. The only classes I'd ever recieved an F for were highschool's Gym, English, and Art. Bastard teachers!
10. My entrance exam to college was preceded by a sleepless night in my friend's dormroom; his crazy girlfriend banging and fighting until the wee hours. I fell asleep repeatedly during the test... and somehow ended up in advanced math... but was an English major stuck in remedial English.
11. I never wanted to grow up. Nor did i want to graduate HighSchool (I tried to stay back my senior year for absences, but they pushed me through anyway). I had a certain sense that the real world would crash upon me.
12. I'm obsessed with eyebrows. -
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CommentAuthorRachæl Tyrell
- CommentTimeFeb 1st 2009
13. My first/remembered records were Chipmunks Sing the Beatles, Snow White, and Queen's soundtrack to Flash Gordon. I never understood that Queen was a band, and thought that the evil lady with the head covering was the queen in the film, and thus, wrote the music. I had great visions in my head of her conducting.
14. I really loved Annie Lennox and Pat Benetar as a small child, and deeply envied the look of Annie and Cyndi Lauper, which reflected itself in my later fashion sense.
15. If not for the best friend that visits me every week or two, I'd go months and months without actual human interaction (aside from grocery register workers or doctor's office people.)
16. I often end up in a state of mental discomfort due to my dependence on items for hair removal and medication for hormones - because I fantasize about what would happen to me, what I would turn into if I were ever stranded on a desert island, or a similar situation, and it worries me.
17. I cry often when I look at pictures of my childhood. Because I'm not that anymore. Not really.
18. When I was 14, I really wanted to get stoned. I knew that my friend's older brother and his friends would smoke "bowls" of weed in the attic... and I'd heard you could get high from smoking banana peels... and I had this odd sort of Native-Americans-in-smoke-filled-teepees sort of notion in my head of the whole process. So. I ate a banana, put the peel aside, filled a cereal bowl with a bed of wooden matches, layed the banana peel ontop, and sat in my room trying to light the bed of matches beneath like a campfire... waving my hands above to waft the smoke in my direction while inhaling deeply. The attempt was an epic failure.
19. The drinking nutmeg attempt, however, succeeded. In making me want to vomit.
20. I find it a strange sort of cosmic punishment that I have OCD tendencies, trichotillomania (hair-pulling, related to the Tourette's gene mutuation), but have problems with hirsutism, vision, and fumbling hands with failing tine-tune motor skills that cramp shut when used too much. This results in hours upon hours of time spent in well lit bathrooms, staring in the mirror with amazing frustration and ineptitude. Also cosmic punishment? That I've started going bald now that I'm trying to grow my hair long.
21. I haven't driven since I was 21 (aside from once in my mid 20's; a terrifying ride from the city to Sussex County due to the excessivve drunkenness of another, and a few practice drives when pointlessly trying to get my license a few months ago).
22. I was, for a time, rather convinced that I'd been abducted by aliens. I had a terrible phobia of the big eyed "greys" and would have quite a reaction to the sight of them. I'm much better now, though I do still posess a certain remnant of the creepy crawlies.
23. I find I often have to remind myself that there's no means to go back and fix the past - there's no actual way that events will be avoided or wrongs redeemed. I know this logically, but there's a large part of my brain that seems to think down these avenues of thought, as though it were possible.
24. According to the drawing and speech I made at my Kindergarten graduation, I wanted to be a police woman when I grew up, because I wanted to direct traffic. A short while later, during a video interview of myself and my friends at age 6 or so, when asked what I wanted to be when I grew up I responded: "a goose". They tried to trump me, and asked "well, how will you make a living as a goose?" to which my immediate reply was "I'll be a goose that lays golden eggs!"
25. When I was wee, my Gramma went to the bank to get a savings bond in my name. She asked the teller for a bond, with the name "Rachael Noel Fox". The teller repeated her:
ray-chul no-el fahks?
Yes.
When my Gramma arrived home, she discovered that the woman had put my name as: Rachae Fox. [Rachael (no 'L') Fox] -
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1. Someone left an abandoned baby in a brown shopping bag in the men's room of the mcdonald's I was working at when I was 16 (Walpole, Ma!).
2. I wanted to be the next Martin Luther King, Jr. when I was in elementary school.
3. I have never received a speeding ticket.
4. I just don't find SEINFELD funny.
5. I used to be able to recite the entire movie, "Monty Python & the Holy Grail", from memory. I don't know if I can still do that though.
6. I worked in a porn store for about a year.
7. I was never fond of art classes, but I love to draw.
8. I suck at math, because I was already drawing instead of paying attention.
9. I have a few dozen books on writing, because I just really like to read about writing.
10. My wife and I got married at the renaissance fair in Larkspur, Colorado.
11. I have a giant, inflatable red dragon head on the wall over my drafting table.
12. I was never all that interested in politics until the 2008 election.
13. I have been an atheist for as long as I can remember.
14. My cat wakes me up every morning by licking my face... and won't stop!
15. I tried ecstasy once and it did nothing for me.
16. I'd never been out of New England until I moved to Colorado.
17. My first date with my wife was the rehearsal dinner for my sister's wedding.
18. I do not want kids of my own, but I do like kids.
19. I have been watching pro wrestling since I was a kid, and yes I know it's fake but it's still fun, so back the hell off!
20. I haven't had an alcoholic drink in well over a year, possibly longer.
21. I used to be really good at shooting pool, but only if I'm wearing my contacts.
22. I try to donate some money to the Colorado Humane society every year.
23. I love movies from the 30's & 40's like The Thin Man, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, and Marx Brothers flicks.
24. I like to go to the Japanese grocery store in downtown Denver and buy Japanese candy like Pocky and Melty Kiss.
25. I have a pretty big comic book collection that I try to cull every few years so it doesn't get out of control. -
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CommentAuthorPaul Sizer
- CommentTimeFeb 1st 2009
Here's mine, pretty tame:
1. I am the oldest of four kids in the Sizer family, although I used to lie to my siblings and tell them that there was an older brother named Darren Michael Sizer who was a children's book illustrator.
2. My first real kiss lasted 21 minutes. I know this because I looked at my watch before and after.
3. I worked at Glacier National Park for the summer between high school and college, washing dishes and playing baritone sax for the hotel production of "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying".
4. I am an Eagle Scout, and also received my bronze, silver and gold palms past Eagle Scout. I achieved the rank as quickly as was technically possible, and my certificate is signed by President Jimmy Carter.
5. I've met Moby three times; once after a concert in Grand Rapids, once after a show in Chicago, and once in a back room of Rebel Rebel Records in New York City. He was cool each time.
6. I've read comics all my life, starting with comic strips in the newspaper, then comic books. I was a "Marvel Comics Only" reader until my art hero George Perez started doing comic work for DC.
7. I've been to all 48 continental United States, England, France and Italy.
8. If you type in "Singing Pig" to Google Image Search, my illustration of a singing pig comes up as #1 image in the world.
9. I've lived in Kalamazoo all my life, rented two apartments and owned two houses.
10. I was born 6 days after Kennedy was shot, every 7 years my birthday falls on Thanksgiving, and I always request pumpkin pie instead of cake.
11. I have at various times in my life played music in the following ways and with the following instruments: clarinet, baritone sax, contra-alto clarinet, alto sax, computer-sequenced keyboards, DJ CD mixers and DJ turntables.
12. I've owned 4 cars in my life: '65 Chevy BelAire, '88 Honda CRX, '91 Subaru, and my current car, '94 Volkswagen Jetta GL (still running great!).
13. I currently am a shaved head man, but I wish I has just gone ahead and done this well before I did back in 1992; pictures of me with the thinning top kill me when I see them. I did not use the hair I had very well; that's why God took it away.
14. I am left-handed for all creative functions, and right-handed for anything physical related.
15. For all the years I've done caricaturing at grad bashes, parties, special events and social functions, I still think I have about a 30% success rate of getting them to really look like the person I'm drawing. Doing a rough calculation, I have done over 9,000 caricatures.
16. While I have gotten over my dislike of many foods I hated as a kid, asparagus is still on the "No Way" list.
17. I read a lot: magazines, comics, graphic novels, online stuff. But I don't enjoy reading long form prose and novels usually.
18. The first electronic music I really got hooked on as a kid was Walter Carlos' "Switched on Bach", and the electronic version of the Star Wars theme by Meco. When I was a teenager, I would lay on the porch of our family's cottage near Lake Michigan and listen with my headphones at night to Chicago radio stations with people like Frankie Knuckles and Marshall Jefferson doing all night house music mixes, well before they became famous remixers and producers.
19. I have always tested well in math, but sucked in the practical application of it.
20. I have never smoked a cigarette, smoked pot, taken LSD, Ecstacy, or any illegal drug. I would classify myself as an "infrequent drinker".
21. I have never cheated on any woman I've dated, but I have let some of the relationships end in ways I would change slightly if I could go back in time.
22. My cat Brody was named after graphic designer Neville Brody. My other cat was named after Polish pop/jazz singer Basia. Our dog Zoe is named after the character from Joss Whedon's "Firefly" series.
23. When our Boy Scout troop used to do weekend paper drives, we would all hope to get to the house where someone was throwing out old Playboy or Penthouse magazines. Because we couldn't risk hiding them where others could find them, we would find ways to hide them on our persons, rolling them up in our socks, hiding in our jackets and pockets. If we were really lucky and got too many to carry, we would find places to stash them in the church where we held our meetings until we could get them later.
24. According to my wife Jane, it took me three years for me to figure out she liked me, and two months to call her after she spent a weekend at my house before we started actually dating.
25. I have never had a job out of college that was anything like what I though I would be doing as a graphic designer. -
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@PaulSizer
I was a "Marvel Comics Only" reader until my art hero George Perez started doing comic work for DC.
George Perez is my art hero! But I'm willing to share him. -
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CommentAuthororwellseyes
- CommentTimeFeb 1st 2009
I'll bite
1: I have 2 tattoos
2: I speak 2 additional languages (Spanish and Arabic)
3: I was once fired from a job for starting a fire (small one, the fire not the job)
4: Played Charlie Brown in "You're a good man Charlie Brown" twice (in college and high school)
5: I was shot with a .22 by a cousin while hunting.
6: The wound was in my ass
7: I cannot stand dogs, stemming from a rather vicious attack I suffered from a German Shepherd at 8.
8: I still have a couple scars from that attack
9: I've broken my collar bone, foot and ankle.
10: I've been threatened with a gun twice.
11: I've been arrested twice (not related to 10)
12: I've shaken hands with Bill Clinton, George Bush Sr. and Barack Obama.
13: I love carnival rides but large roller coasters make me freeze up.
14: There are exactly 2 pictures of me taken in the past 10 years.
15: I've been a producer of a porn film, a children's tv pilot and a nature documentary.
16: My boss is a huge Obama supporter and assumes I am too. Didn't vote for the man.
17: Bought original art from Eddie Campbell himself at a convention. Really nice guy.
18: Smoked weed once, didn't care for it. Never taken any other drugs, never smoked, drink pretty rarely.
19: Really cannot stand driving more than a half hour or so.
20: View Orson Welles as something of a personal god.
21: Visited Eric Blair's grave. Drank Vodka there at sunset with ex-girlfriend.
22: I have a "bug out bag" in the event of emergency, have had it for years.
23: Nothing irritates me more than debates about the existence/non-existence of God. Especially on the web.
24: I do not have a facebook, twitter or myspace.
25: Oddly proud of the fact I did not know the super bowl was today until someone outside my window walked by yelling about it. -
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25 is an awful lot and I'm lazy, so I'm only gonna do 5.
1.) When studying alone at home, I use my cleavage as a pen/highlighter holder. It's so handy like that.
2.) My first job was at the world's largest yo-yo museum. I was there the day that Walter Cronkite stopped in. I've also worked as a costume shop seamstress and welder for our drama department in college.
3.) For an internship during highschool, I ended up collecting samples of serial killers' handwriting - Dahmer, Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Son of Sam...Dahmer's handwriting was the creepiest.
4.) Body weirdness: My bellbutton is an innie-outie, and I can make guinea pig squeaks or pig grunts with my throat.
5.) When I'm alone in the elevator, I get the urge to start dancing wildly. Usually I burst out with Charleston until the doors reopen, when I act like I've been standing still the whole time. -
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CommentAuthorVertigoJones
- CommentTimeFeb 1st 2009
1. I had blonde hair until I was six, now my hair is dark brown.
2. My mother would not cut my hair until I went to primary school , consequently, people used to think I was a girl.
3. At the age of 4 I accidentally shot someone with a .22 rifle, he wound up in hospital, primarily due to the broken arm he suffered falling down the stairs.
4. I am scared of Celery
5. I would save a cat before I would save a person.
6. I would save a person.
7. My beard used to be so light I could shave when under time constraints using a lighter.
8. I stopped shaving with a lighter when I torched one of my sideburns.
9. As a child, I was constantly aggrieved by my parent’s decision not to buy me Micronauts.
10. My favourite animal are Goats.
11. My favourite living things are Bumblebees.
12. The first band I saw live was Motorhead.
13. My first crush was Grace Jones.
14. I severed three fingers off my right hand at age 8, trying to prevent the rotation of a cement mixer drum, they are currently back where they belong.
15. I have never been to a festival of any description.
16. I have a trapped nerve in one of my ribs, due to a kicking.
17. I have knocked someone out in the opening moments of a fight, using my head.
18. I suffer from false awakenings, and consequently, am extremely afraid of the dark.
19. The aforementioned condition went from mild, to overbearing, thanks to my seeing the remake of the Grudge.
20. I wear suits, but only for leisure activities.
21. At work I dress like a slob.
22. I am not afraid to say “That is an impressive penis”.
23. I have no children, because I don’t think I could do the job properly, and its not something I’d accept doing wrong.
24. I have been arrested due to drug induced behaviour.
25. I know where THE best bar in the world is, without a doubt. -
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CommentAuthorthewaltonsare
- CommentTimeFeb 1st 2009
1. I’m afraid of the dark, have been since I was a kid.
2. Ever since I saw “Candy Man” I don’t like to be in bathrooms with the lights off.
3. I still sleep with a teddy bear.
4. I wish that I had stuck with my piano playing more and become a better piano player.
5. Even though I was a history major, I don’t like early US history very much.
6. My favorite dessert is cheesecake, although I feel really guilty when I eat it.
7. I get excited when I learn something new.
8. The older I get, the more skeptical I become of organized religion. I think religion should be a more personal, and not such a public thing.
9. I tend to be empathetic; it means that I get my feelings hurt, a lot.
10. I tend to be insecure about how I look, although I’m getting better.
11. I starved myself and occasionally made myself throw up to lose weight in high school because someone dropped me during a dance routine during musical rehearsal and told me I was fat. Now, I regret it.
12. I like to read “People” magazine, even though I know it’s vapid crap.
13. I’m actually looking forward to getting grey hair.
14. I used to hate having my picture taken, now I kind of like it.
15. I’m a control freak.
16. I have a nasty temper, sometimes.
17. I hate artificial banana flavoring.
18. I like to sing along to music in my car, loudly.
19. I dance when I’m alone and I know no one can see me.
20. I say, “Excuse me” if I burp and there’s no one around.
21. I get stage fright.
22. I seem incapable of ever letting myself feel completely happy. I tend to feel guilty about being happy if I know other people are sad.
23. I’m scared of heights if I’m in control of if I fall or not. If I have no control over it, it doesn’t bother me.
24. I tend to be very observant; I just keep my mouth shut about a lot of the stuff that I notice.
25. I sometimes regret that my job keeps me from being able to be completely open about who I am and what I think.
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What are false awakenings? -
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CommentAuthorVertigoJones
- CommentTimeFeb 1st 2009
I dream I've woken up when I haven't. this ranges from mildly confusing : ie dreaming that I've got up and ready to go to work. to horrifying, ie being assaulted in my bed. that latter being the more frequent -
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- CommentAuthoricelandbob
- CommentTimeFeb 1st 2009
gave this about 5 mins thought then wrote the 1st things that came to my head....
1: I was dropped on my head twice when I was a baby. And these are the only ones that my mother will admit to.
2: At 32 I still have never driven in my life
3: When I was young I only had 1 phobia (Woodlice) now I have added exposed heights.
4: I was a fully committed Christian until I reached 14. Then one day I woke up and simply realised that it was all bollocks.
5 : while a Christian, I won best Salvation Army soprano of Scotland at age 11.
5: I can make my wife laugh on average 12 times a day.
6: I lost my virginity at 15 to a woman of 39.
7: I am the only person I know who finds the film Beerfest Funny.
8: I once performed as the Major General in a performance of the “Pirates of Penzance” aged 12. I can still recite the song “A modern major general”.
9: I have a third nipple.
10: I met my wife at an O’Neills bar in Soho on New Years Eve. It makes anniversaries easy to remember.
11: The most amount of alcohol I was deemed to have drunk was 28 pints on a rugby away game in 1996.
12: My favourite animal is a cat. My least favourite, a woodlouse (see number 3).
13: I know how to knit.
14: I have killed 5 types of animal (sheep, goat, chicken, duck, horse) for food.
15: I left my high paying job in banking in London, to work as a street outreach worker for 3 years in Camden, then North West London.
16: I have seen a drug user inject themselves in the groin in an open street. I’ve also seen a street drinker urinate and defecate himself in front of school kids.
17: I have saved a mans' life by talking them from throwing themselves off a bridge.
18: I once stole Hollywood Actor Rob Schneider’s Bagels and beer while on a Glacier Expedition in Iceland.
19: My guilty pleasure? The band Aha
20: My Worst job was 3 miserable months as a Magazine sales worker for publishing company. I got sacked by getting drunk at an awards do in Park Lane, stealing 2 bottles of champagne and telling by Boss that she was a “fucking Cunt”. Then falling over and taking out a table while Jonathan Ross was presenting editor of the year award.
21: My favourite food? All things Sushi related. My least favourite: boiled cabbage.
22: I have slept with a pre-operative transsexual. And rather liked it....
23: I have only truly lost my temper 3 times. The last time had me punching a cast iron cigarette bin off the wall and threatening to smash my ex boss’ face in. I don’t like losing my temper.
24: I am a very cynical about the human race and believe that we are all probably going to destroy ourselves sometime in the next 50 years.
25: I have a recurring dream of my wife and trying to survive a post apocalyptic world ravaged by blood thirty zombies. They often don’t end well. Thanks George Romero and Danny Boyle. -
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CommentAuthorodaelisabeth
- CommentTimeFeb 1st 2009
Since I've already done this for someone, I will just paste it... And wait for the thread to get closed. ;)
1. You often have to take me with a grain of salt. ("That ain’t a grain of salt. That’s one of those blocks they give cows to lick.")
2. In January of 2008 I travelled to London and stayed for 24 hours for the sole purpose of seeing the Spice Girls live at the O2. And it was wonderful!
3. When I sleep I have two duvets. I keep one over me, and curl up upon/around the other one and hold it all through the night. I also often wake up clutching the pillow as if it were a lifeline.
4. I had goals, I felt I had unlimited potential, but for a few years now it's been hard to imagine actually reaching them.
5. My favourite band of all times is Pink Floyd.
6. I smell good!
7. Politically I've given up. I sympatize with some libertarian views, but not all, and I'm aware that like all ideologies it looks good on paper - but we wouldn't be able to make it that good in real life. I'm both left and right I guess.
8. I love animals. Generally I like animals more than people, though there are of course exceptions.
9. At times I make gross cracking sounds with my joints. Craaaack. Including the neck.
10. One day I want to live off my writing. My creativity has gone dry for the last couple of years, but I'm hoping it will return.
11. I started reading as a three-year-old.
12. At Roskilde Festival 2006 I attended a nude race/run, with ten thousand people in the audience. When my parents saw me undressed in Norway's biggest newspaper they just laughed. I don't regret it.
13. ...Actually I rarely regret things at all. I learn from them and might not do them again, I may be sad over the things caused by my errors, but I don't regret. It's wasted time, regretting things that have already happened. You can't change them.
14. I have an extreme weakness for guys with dark brown hair, brown eyes, a bit of a beard and a nice smile.
15. Once I knitted myself some knickers! Never wore them though.
16. I love rain. Especially summer rain. When it rains in summer I forget whatever I am doing, run out and dance and jump and laugh until I'm wet as a drowned rat! Then I grin like a madman for the rest of the day. And get a cold.
17. Because of my problems and because I'm the child of a junkie I prefer to stay away from drugs.
18. I find it very hard to have any faith in humanity. We're idiots and we're way too many and we're fucking ourselves up. If I think of it too much I'll only get depressed though, so I prefer not to.
19. I used to have a lot of prejudices, but lately it seems I'm not as bad anymore. Things indicate that I'm actually growing up, and that scares me a bit. Becoming a better person when I've actually learned living with the bad one. Confused.
20. Some people make me a better person. It's as if they pierce through my defences at once without even trying. And I'm lots nicer to them than I am normally. I seek understanding of how they can do this to me. /controlfreak
21. You need a bullshit filter when talking to me. I talk a lot and might seem self centred, but it's just that for filling silence, ME ME ME is a safe subject.
22. Reading is my favourite hobby. I've probably spent half of my awake life with a book.
23. I knit a lot.
24. People and situations in books are more real to me than things happening in real life.
25. If I was offered free plastic surgery I would say yes. -
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1. I enjoy Warren's website more than his comics.
2. I have a long-ish hair.
3. I am beginning to bald.
4. Every time I shower, I am tempted to shave my head.
5. At age 14 (just shy of ten years ago), I was committed to a mental institution.
6. I have since moved more than twenty times.
7. In that timeframe, I have held more than twenty different jobs.
8. I have only every been fired from a job once.
9. I have held my current job for more than two and a half years.
10. I have held my current apartment for almost two years.
11. Despite this, when it warm out I like to travel to a different city and play "street kid" (I look a lot younger than I am).
12. For seven years, I trained in martial arts.
13. Every six months, I attempt to write an essay on eugenics.
14. I have a weakness for shojo (Japanese romance comics, aimed at 14-year-old girls).
15. On average, I sleep ten hours a day.
16. I am single...
17. ...but had a vasectomy recently.
18. The doctor who performed the vasectomy is convinced I'm going to sue him when I "find some nice girl and wind up regretting it."
19. My last five relationships ended badly enough that I felt the need to leave town.
20. I sometimes fantasize about becoming a shut-in.
21. My book collection outweighs the rest of my furniture.
22. As a teenager, I wanted to become a Population Control Officer.
23. Until I realized that Western governments are willfully ignorant of the dangers of human overpopulation.
24. I am now in university to become an accountant.
25. With the release of 4E, I have become a huge Dungeons & Dragons nerd.
@thewaltonsare: that whole "not being honest about who I am at work" thing is probably what scares me most about acquiring a "career". -
@icelandbob
I lost my virginity at 15 to a woman of 39
Nice Job!I am the only person I know who finds the film Beerfest Funny
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CommentAuthordispophoto
- CommentTimeFeb 1st 2009
1. i lost my hearing from a bout of meningitis, when i was 3 & my family was in the middle of moving from outside the city to my father's small fishing/logging hometown
2. i have several scars on my hands from mishandling knives & axes
3. i got my first scar at two from nearly severing my left pinkie at the base by climbing on the doghouse & hitting my hand on the peak when i slipped.
4. i usually go at least a year between relationships, primarily due to a lack of trying.
5. my previous marriage was so bad, after the divorce, both my managers ordered me to counseling, where i found out i was suffering from the aftereffects of severe emotional abuse.
6. i've never been at a job for more than a few months, and am at my current job for over 6 years now.
7. large social events make me nervous
8. i grew up as the only deaf anglophone in a hearing french community.
9. i'm looking to buy a houseboat & live in it year-round in toronto harbour somewhere.
10. my first time was when i was 21 & she was 35
11. i get along better with older women than with younger ones.
12. my closest friends are women and gay men.
13. i don't believe in god
14. i resent not being able to hear music as well as i would like.
15. i constantly feel stuck between the deaf & hearing worlds. as a result i spend a lot of time alone & doing my own projects.
16. i'm well-regarded for my technical expertise in the deaf community, but rarely, if ever get invited to social events.
17. i daydream of building a solar earthship on my land near my parents' out on the east coast.
18. i still wear combat boots & usually have a few military surplus clothes, they were popular around home for being cheap & long-lasting when working in the woods & around the house.
19. i have the inability to pick up on social cues & quite often do or say things which annoy or piss off people. that used to bother me, but now i'm like "fuck 'em"
20. i have no desire to get a tattoo, but i can't stop thinking about scarification. just found a local who specializes in it, and am still finalizing the design.
21. i have no feelings of loyalty to any institution or organization.
22. i rarely if ever ask for help, but i never hesitate to offer when asked.
23. i used to be a member of a small independent art gallery in hamilton, which lasted for a year.
24. i'm a jack-of-all-trades, i love working with my hands & making things, but my career is that of a video technician.
25. i have no desire to try drugs, and pot doesn't work that much for me. i have a weakness for red wine. -
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- CommentAuthoricelandbob
- CommentTimeFeb 1st 2009
@ Lazarus99
Well i try my best. And thank god that there is someone else out there. I know the film is dumb as hell, but it seems to speak to me about my life! -
- CommentAuthoricelandbob
- CommentTimeFeb 1st 2009
@odaelisabeth9. At times I make gross cracking sounds with my joints. Craaaack. Including the neck.
God I do that with my neck too. Grosses people out when it makes a hollow CRACK sound. -
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CommentAuthorthewaltonsare
- CommentTimeFeb 1st 2009
I crack my knuckles in class when I'm frustrated with my students, it freaks them out. -
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@icelandbob
Well, it is Broken Lizard - they're not exactly known for intelligent comedy, which is why I like it when I'm kicking back on a Sunday, recovering from Saturday night. Anything I don't have to think about too hard is good. I also like Super Troopers, but not Club Dread...
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