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kleenexwoman) wrote2009-02-08 01:07 am
kleenexwoman) wrote2009-02-08 01:07 am
25 Things
1. It took me two weeks to write this. I'm not sure the content justifies the time taken.
2. I like the tastes of espresso, Dr Pepper, mushrooms, sharp cheddar, cigarette smoke, dark beer, bacon, and dark chocolate, because they all have a similar underlying taste that I can't quite describe. Sort of deep and earthy. It's hard for me to eat oranges because they're so sharp and sweet--exactly the opposite.
3. I considered getting a degree in psychology, and would rather like to go into some sort of neuroscience course at some point. I'm fascinated by all the ways the brain can futz up and how that affects the way people behave or think.
4. I was not attached to any stuffed animals as a child, and only started taking ownership of stuffed animals seriously after I entered adolescence. My favorites are a retarded dragon I've had since middle school, a psychotic bear (I don't remember who gave him to me), and a sad little tiger that Seth bought for me when I was sick.
5. I've never seen a ghost or had any kind of religious, spiritual, or occult experience that I'm sure I didn't imagine, and I doubt I ever will. But I still kind of believe in the effects of Mercury in retrograde, and in fairies (I attribute this one to Ari Berk's influence).
6. I am not good with children. The last time I babysat, the kids wouldn't go to bed, so I told them that a monster would eat them if they didn't listen to me. Then they threw some heavy things at me, including flashlight batteries, and I ended up crying in a corner.
7. I now purchase shooter bottles based on how pretty they are. I just bought a tiny bottle of vodka and a tiny bottle of gin that I think would look really nice on the windowsill.
8. I love breakfast food. I would eat pancakes, bacon, sausage, cereal, eggs, and toast at every meal if it were nutritionally viable to do so.
9. I have an incredibly hard time falling asleep because I can't shut off my brain. This seriously weirded out my mom when I was younger.
10. I have not been particularly fond of horses ever since I fell off of one during a horse-riding lesson in the third grade. I make an exception for mini-horses, the kind that are the size of a large dog, because they are nonthreatening.
11. I want lots of pets. I would particularly like a cat, something small and furry like a sugar glider or a ferret, and some sort of big bug thing like a centipede or perhaps a hissing cockroach.
12. The older I've gotten, the more social I've gotten. However, I still don't like parties where I don't know everyone.
13. I generally like clothes that are very uncomplicated, like T-shirts, jeans, turtlenecks, and loose hippie skirts. Sometimes I feel like I should dress more interestingly on a regular basis and make it a point to wear jewelry regularly, but I never follow through on this.
14. I dislike makeup. I will occasionally wear eyeshadow to amuse myself, but that's really it. I don't like the way I look with anything else on.
15. I used to worry that everyone else was secretly a robot or that reality was just one big illusion. I stopped worrying about things like that so much once I read some Philip K. Dick and realized that other people thought about those things too.
16. I fear trains, very deep water, television transmissions being interrupted with unsettling images, and loud noises such as popping balloons. The idea of a nuclear bomb falling on Detroit doesn't unsettle me so much for the widespread destruction and radiation so much as it does for the earth-shattering kaboom it would make.
17. My first complete sentence was, "I do not like Daddy Owl or crow either." This was in reference to watching some birds at the Traverse City Zoo. This sentence has passed into infamy with my family.
18. I listen to my father's music and drink my mother's brand of tea.
19. I'm a nerd, but I'm a really bad one. I don't watch most sci-fi shows that aren't either overtly comical or similar in format to "Twilight Zone," I seldom if ever read comic books (although now I plan to read "Watchmen" sometime before it comes out, prompted by my awesome Uncle Gary), and most video games that aren't simple puzzle games or Pokemon bore me. I stick to old movies and SF novels.
20. If I ever get a tattoo I want to get one of a little robot. An original design, though--maybe see if one of my artistic friends can draw one for me.
21. I take ridiculous quantities of vitamins when I remember. I take a B-complex pill every day just so I have enough energy.
22. In the seventh grade, I did a karaoke version of "Paradise City" at a school assembly. It was the coolest I have ever felt. I've done karaoke since then, but I've never felt as cool as I did for those six minutes.
23. I don't use shampoo anymore. I use baking soda and two types of vinegar to wash my hair. It's cheaper and I think it works better.
24. I miss LARPing, but I don't miss having to keep obsessive track of experience points and character sheets, and...well, a lot of other things about it. I really just want to hang out with my friends and play pretend.
25. I wrote the majority of these items in the bathroom, and am considering investing in a little fold-up table for further such occurences.
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I take forever to fall asleep too, but I don't mind - that's when I get all my interesting ideas. Usually I take an hour or two. Never knew that it was weird. :\ My brother can fall asleep within a couple of minutes, and I thought that was weird.
15: YES. Which reminds me of this story idea that my father kept going on about asking me to write, where you get increasingly convinced that everyone else is a robot because of small signs that you see, and then one day there's some gigantic EMP or something let lose over the whole planet and everyone deactivates and collapses around you. So you think that you're the only true human around... but then you discover a secret manual describing you as the first EMP-resistant robot ever manufactured. THE END.