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August 29, 2005
Let's play internet tag!
Yay! Excuses to talk about myself are always welcome, thank you Caoimhe!
Seven Things I Plan To Do Before I Die
Finish something I’m proud of. Anything! I’m forever starting stuff. Actually…
Start something! I’m forever planning to start stuff.
Solve this career thing if it kills me.
Live in a house that has a library in it.
Write a novel (though that’s more of an ambition than a plan).
Do something completely different to what I’ve done before. Start a political party, maybe. But less silly. Does anyone have a handy list of stunts to pull?
Get more sleep.
Seven things I can do
Procrastinate to the point of self-deprivation.
Listen well. I like to think this is one thing I can do.
Program in whatever language you’d care to mention (to varying degrees).
Be nice to people I don’t especially like.
Do one thousand jumps on a pogo stick (I’ve only done this once, years ago, but once was enough).
Tie a cherry stalk into a knot with my tongue.
Seven things I can not do
Talk about myself to other people. Regular readers of my blog might raise an eyebrow at this, since it sometimes feels like that’s all I ever do here, but it’s true. There are very few people I will talk about myself in person with.
Fly a helicopter. I once said I’d learn how to do this by the time I was thirty (though I think I was just trying to be interesting). Not much time left…
Be brief. I mean, I should just leave this point at those two words, but I can’t, it could just stand to be embellished a bit, see? … okay, you get it.
Do yoga on my own. I really should. But I don’t.
Let go of the past easily, though I don’t know who can.
Be objective about those I care about. Because they’re the best, see, and if you think otherwise smacks and loud annoying shouting will be administered.
Telepathy, which I know nobody can do, but I still want to. Plus, it would explain the voices.
Seven things that I find really attractive about the opposite sex
Brains. Delicious brains!
A sense of humour. Which is a very bland thing to say, but of course what I mean is that rare person with a sense of humour that has what it takes to make me grin, and whom I can make grin in return. Not everybody finds delicious brain jokes funny.
Self-confidence.
Self-expression. It’s kind of hard to explain what I mean here, but I mean how a person describes and talks about herself.
Gorgeous lips. Oh yes.
The patience to put up with my tendency to make stuff up.
A willingness to to tell me where to stick my made-up stuff when it gets dull (which is all the time).
I basically started describing my sweetheart very early on here.
Seven things I say the most
“Really?” I say this so often that one of my friends has started saying “And truly!” after me each time I say it. And I still keep saying it.
“Good work!” said in response to somebody accomplishing just about anything.
“I dunno.” said in a manner that doesn’t involve actually opening my mouth, and not readily presentable as text. Something like “Mmm-mmm-mmm.” Copied from a Mr. Homer Simpson.
“Cock monkey!” The phrases I say in frustration tend to vary, but monkeys and cocks often feature.
“Ow!” I tend to say this whenever I think of an embarrassing memory, of which there are many.
“Yay!” said in a slightly surprised tone, usually.
It’s not a saying, but I have this really annoying habit of interrupting people to finish their sentences for them (and usually getting their point completely wrong).
Seven books I love
Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami. Anything by Murakami is great.
Picture This, by Joseph Heller. I actually enjoyed this more than Catch-22; I had to read it in small doses though.
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.
Mean Time, by Carol Anne Duffy. My favourite poetry collection, but very hard to find, at least on the internet (that’s a link to an ebay auction, it’ll be over in six days). I don’t even own this, I gave it away as a present and haven’t been able to find another copy! Maybe I’ll place a bid or two…
Eva Luna, by Isabella Allende. None of her other books really match this one.
Visual Explanations, by Edward Tufte. The guy can come across as priggish, but the book is undeniably beautiful.
Labyrinths, by Jorge Luis Borges. The best short stories I’ve ever read.
Seven people I would like to see take this quiz
Most everybody I’d like to see answer has already answered. But I’ll nominate Siobhan, in the hope she’ll start posting again, and Audrey, and leave it at that. Especially as I seem to have written more than is ordinarily done for these things…
Posted by Oliver at August 29, 2005 03:08 PM
Comments
You know perfectly well how I respond to this kind of pressure!!!
Posted by: Siobh at August 29, 2005 04:58 PM
Really really well?
Posted by: Oliver at August 29, 2005 05:01 PM
The cherry stalk thing is by far the most impressive claim to fame that I’ve read yet on these things…
She’s a lucky lady lol ;o)
Posted by: Caoimhe at August 29, 2005 09:01 PM
/beams proudly
Posted by: Oliver at August 30, 2005 10:32 AM
Ok…it’s done…happy now?
Posted by: Audrey at August 31, 2005 02:48 PM
One down!
/eyes Siobhan
/increases pressure
Posted by: Oliver at August 31, 2005 04:28 PM
You know, when I was growing up and my mam would tell me to clean my room, I specifically couldn’t do it at that moment. I’d get all angry and think, well, I can’t do it now because then it’s as if I’m not capable of doing it of my own volition and I’d only be doing it because I’m being told to, as if the idea never occurred to me. So I wouldn’t do it even if I’d been planning independently in my head to do it.
Same thing with homework and studying, and as we know I’m a disgraceful dropout. So in conclusion, this isn’t helping.
Posted by: Siobh at September 2, 2005 11:56 PM
JUST FINISH IT ALREADY.
And tidy your room!
Posted by: Oliver at September 4, 2005 12:29 PM
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