25 Things - Part 2

Because it's easier to sit here feeding you pieces of junk information than actually get on with the things I'm supposed to be doing.

So, onwards.

1) I have a closetful of clothes, and yet most days I end up wearing a skirt that I have to put desk clips on to hold it up. I really like this skirt. I know I should wear something else, but this one feels...comfy. Despite the stationery accessories.

2) I never understand why women are flattered when a guy compares them to Helen of Troy, or a Siren. Sure, those women were beautiful, but they were also evil. If I were going to be any mythological / historical figure, I'd be Scherezade. But most of the time I'm pretty happy being a nobody from St. Albans.

3) Generally I understand that God / the universe / nature / fate (delete as applicable) has a plan for me, but now and then I get pretty ratty about the fact that His plans seem to take precedence over my own.

4) If I were the type of girl who could eat whatever she wanted and stay thin, I'd eat hamburgers every day.

5) I can remember most of the 400-odd pokemon, and the elements on the periodic table, and the lyrics to So Solid Crew songs, but I can't remember my friends' birthdays or if I ate breakfast this morning or where I left my blue sandals.

6) Today I bought three books from the Oxfam bookshop: a medical book, a Japanese-English dictionary, and a book about ancient languages, none of which I need (except maybe the dictionary - maybe) and all of which I shall enjoy greatly. I do wish I'd brought my mother's shopping trolley though, since three heavy books plus my laptop plus my handbag plus the six-pack of Coke I'm supposed to buy later is going to equal some very sore arms when I get home, and probably I'll end up taking a cab instead of the bus.

7) Yesterday I adopted three teenage boys. They kept knocking on my door and running away, and I wanted to yell at them for disturbing my work (i.e. sleep), but instead I fed them and now they've agreed to come back occasionally on Sundays for cookies. If there are two things I've learned since working at the youth center, they would be 1) that teenage boys constantly want attention and 2) if they can't get attention, food is usually an acceptable substitute.

8) The thing I hate most in the world is people who cause others harm in the name of God.

9) I always eat all the orange creams from the chocolate selection boxes.

10) This week I learned to count from one to nineteen in Japanese, and that's basically all the productive stuff I've done recently. (I've been stuck in bed with a chest infection.)

11) I will always maintain the viewpoint that happiness is a choice you make, rather than a gift that's handed to you.

12) I have a crush on Scratch from Roll Deep. I don't know why.

13) I think Missy Elliott is one of the prettiest women I've ever seen.

14) Generally I prefer beer to wine. But then generally I also prefer water to beer. I'm not a big drinker.

15) I've cheated death a number of times. Or at least I feel like I have. But truth is, it probably wasn't anything to do with me, it just wasn't my time to go. It sounds cooler to say that *I* cheated death than to say that death wasn't ready for me, though.

16) I have a big crush on a guy, and I think he fancies me too. But he's fascinated with me because I remind him of himself, even though he doesn't realise it, and I'm not sure that that's a good reason to go out with someone.

17) Even though I was born on the 3rd of February, and the horoscope changes on the 20th of January, by temperament I'm as much Capricorn as I am Aquarius, or nearly as much. I sit right on the edge of birthstones, too, so I wear both amethysts and garnets. Which results in twice as much jewellery, so it works for me.

18) People have given me some pretty expensive gifts in the past, and I'm scared to use them, so they sit in my drawer, or in my closet. (Or in Cameron's closet.) I tend to go by the rule, don't own anything that you can't afford to lose. Which means mostly I buy my clothes from H&M and New Look and Victoria's Secret, but Trish gave me a pair of Manolos that cost more than the entire rest of my wardrobe combined, and I keep them at Cam's house and only wear them around the living room, because I'm too scared of breaking or losing them to wear them out.

19) I've never cheated on a test, or on a boyfriend, or on anything else that I can think of.

20) The low GI diet that I'm (supposed to be) on is probably good for my body, but it's causing me a lot of emotional anguish. I miss carbs.

21) My favourite T-shirt says "I'm Not Really Bi, I'm Just Too Slutty To Care Who I Fuck." I wear it to bed when I stay at Cam's place, and it always makes me laugh.

22) The best feeling in the world to me is a clean, smooth, just-shaved body on clean fresh sheets.

23) If I couldn't write, I think I'd go insane.

24) I will never EVER learn to like running.

25) Anyone who says chocolate is better than sex is with the wrong person.