25 Random Things

I stole this from my cousin. He didn't tag me, but I tend to read peoples notes, and sometimes I like to steal them.

So here goes:

Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.

(To do this, go to “notes” under tabs (or the + sign) on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)

So if I tagged you, tell me 25 random things about you!

1. I don't sleep well. A lot of the time I don't sleep at all. For some strange reason I feel guilty about this - I don't know why, it's not like I chose insomnia - so when people ask me what I do all the time I say, "Oh, work and research and stuff" when the truth is that I'm more likely to have been playing Spyro the Dragon all night.

2. I support Arsenal. I don't know a damn thing about football, except that you have to kick the ball into one of the nets, and if you get it in the wrong one people throw things at you and call you a stupid girl. I just like having someone to cheer for.

3. I own enough underwear to clothe Afghanistan.

4. I've never asked a guy out. (Yes, still.)

5. I love to read, but I don't read all that many things other than medical books and Mills & Boon. I stick the occasional classic in there, just to feel well-rounded.

6. I consider myself an honest person, but I'll deceive my ass off with no remorse if I think it's for your own good. I rarely tell actual lies; I'm just very good at leading people towards false conclusions.

7. I sleep with the light on. I've had nightmares for years. I tried to downgrade to a nightlight on the first of January, but it only worked for two nights. When I'm asleep, everything scares me. Which strikes me as strange, because when I'm awake, nothing scares me.

8. Except throwing up. It always baffles me how nausea sends me into a panic attack when I can cope with anything else under the sun - but I suppose there are some secrets of the universe that I'm not supposed to learn.

9. I've always dismissed Mensa as mental masturbation, but recently I joined, because I wanted someone to go to when I'm awake at night with inane questions circling through my head. I'm hoping that I'll find a friend who'll be willing to discuss these things, although I haven't found him yet. (I've lost faith in girls, at least when it comes to things like this. Women are far too normal, except when they're drunk.)

10. Anne of Green Gables is my hero.

11. My friend Cam keeps all my un-PC T-shirts at his house, so I don't give into the temptation to wear them outside. Yesterday he had to clear out a second drawer for me, and I don't even see him that often. He bitched about this for quite a while, which strikes me as strange, since most of them came from him.

12. Publicly, I fall on the "unhealthy" side of the size-zero debate, even when I'm slim. In private, I sometimes think it would be nice to be that thin...maybe just for a day or two...*looks guilty*

13. If someone said they loved me enough to die for me I'd probably break several of their bones.

14. I spend quite a bit of my time listening to rap music and watching hood movies. I also spend quite a bit of my time gardening and making lace. Deal with it.

15. There's one thing that I can do better than everyone else, and it's something that feels wrong to do. Go figure.

16. I'm basically heterosexual, although if Keri Hilson made me a proposition I might be persuaded otherwise.

17. My ambition in life is to go everywhere and see everything.

18. I often think that my body has forgot how to produce adrenaline.

19. It pisses me off that guys always seem to think that "I don't really drink" and "I'm not a heavy partier" equate with "I don't put out".

20. I work with teenagers, and every time they ask me a question that begins "How old were you when you first..." I add three years to the real answer.

21. Everything has some element of humor to it.

22. It's my nature to destroy. This isn't always a bad thing, but chances are you won't be able to understand why.

23. When I'm mad with someone, I tend to walk away rather than yelling at them, because I don't like being rude to my friends. So I strongly suggest that you let me leave and then come back in a few days to talk over it when I'm calm, rather than forcing the subject, because you won't like me when I'm angry.

24. At least one of the sections of Dante's Commedia sits by my bedside at all times. I enjoy reading it, but it's also useful for making deals when friends are trying to sweet-talk / bribe / blackmail etc me into doing something I don't really want to do. "Tell you what - you don't try and make me _____, I won't try and make you read Dante." Thumbs up for things that fulfil more than one purpose. :D

25. I believe in cause-and-effect, although I don't think that the effect necessarily has to come after the cause. Although chances are you won't understand that, either.