Seeing as nobody’s asked, here are >10 random things you may not know about me:
- I was once minorly involved in breast volume research (and less aesthetically pleasingly, leg ulcer research
- I think my friends are very cool, I frequently envy them from my side of the fence, and I love them very much (and how often do I tell them that? Way too infrequently! Really, that’s what the ‘Have fun’ at the end of the e-mail means)
- I’ve eaten mangoes naked in the sea
- If I was given a choice of career path, I’d like to be a photo-journalist, artist, musician or oenologist. Or just cook for people (but not as a chef
- I’d love to be a pilot (or an astronaut), but I frequently get motion sick in light planes, and am not really devoted enough to overcome this.
- Despite the motion sickness I’m a sucker for delta-v. Mmm… tight cornering and afterburners.
- I am obsessed with the manner or immediacy of my demise. Death that is, and how to postpone it for as long as possible. I fear being forgotten.
- I believe the universe is a wonderful place, and that science allows us to fully appreciate the beauty of how it all fits together from a quantum through to an inter-galactic level. We don’t spend enough time appreciating the blades of grass, the flowers, the sounds, the breeze, the stars. People are basically good, and the darkest of times are balanced by the most amazing acts of generosity, selflessness and compassion.
- I’m a Stephen King fan (just finished books V and VI of The Dark Tower) not because of schlock horror, but because of how he writes about life and people.
- Like the electric monk, I think we need to be able to believe two or more contradictory things at once. Rigorous logic may not always get you where you need to go.
- To paraphrase Terry Pratchett somewhat, as far as wine, women and song go, I need to sing more
- I’m a great believer in karma. Buddhism has a great deal of appeal to me, I’d love to know how to be able to let go of things (mainly from the piles of stuff in the study
- Saya berbicara sedikit Bahasa Indonesia et un petite peu de Francaise. But only to year 10 level or so.
- Puggle and his mum are the most important things in the world to me.
- I need to do more creative writing.
- I’m holding out on other things people may not know about me to use in future posts
See, there’s a reason it’s called Cheap Therapy.
