One of the people on my f-list wanted to know more about everybody on their f-list. My profile is pretty explicit in the normal ‘who am I?’ way, so here I will make a list of 50 things about myself that aren’t mentioned in my profile. This technically isn’t a meme.
- The only places I really feel at home is when I am walking around in the downtown core of larger cities like Toronto and Ottawa. I feel part of these cities. In smaller cities/towns I feel exposed and unwelcome.
- Because of this one of my all time favourite songs is Under Bridge by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I can’t get tired of that song.
- I really hate the taste the following plants: of zucchini, olives, avocado, artichoke, squash (unless prepared as part of a dish as in butternut squash soup, casserole or pie), raw red peppers, kohlrabi, eggplant, turnip, beet, rutabagas, okra (I really hate Okra). I’ll eat everything else with great happiness. I love salads.
- I’m allergic to shellfish. Don’t give me shrimp, lobster, clams or any of their chitinous relatives! My once breathing food must have owned a spine!
- I have nasty scars on my stomach from a childhood operation.
- I have a large scar across my right cheek from a laboratory accident involving exploding pressurized glass that just came out of an autoclave. At least it was sterile when it sliced me open right?
- I empathize with hurt, starved or abused animals more than I do hurt, starved or abused humans. Its not that I don’t empathize with humans at all, just not to the same degree. I feel guilty about this but in truth, animals have never hurt me, but humans have done so on more than one occasion.
- My middle name is Aileen, which means that each of my names (First, middle, last) have six letters each.
- My favourite colours in order of preference are aquamarine blue, baby pink and deep red. Yellow pisses me off.
- When I was a child, I wanted to be a comedian. That dream was shot down by my parents who expect that I ‘make something of myself’.
- My resent my parents so very much.
- Rap music makes me cringe. Not old school rap (I secretly enjoy listening to Kriss Kross in my spare time). The new crap. Half of these people cannot even rhyme, and let us not talk about grammar.
- I want to slap the people who are responsible, and those who encourage the making of movies like ‘The Anchorman’. They’re torture. Pure torture. Why do you want to torture me with that crap?
- I giggle like a child every time I see a groundhog.
- I never crave salty things. If they made potato chips illegal it wouldn’ t bother me at all.
- If they made chocolate or coffee illegal I’d volunteer to suicide bomb the assholes in the government who passed that horrible, horrible blasphemous law.
- I’m an atheist who was raised Catholic. If it wasn’t for the Catholic School system, I’d probably still be a Catholic. The Catholic school system opened my eyes. I don’t think they intended on doing that, but its true, they did.
- I hate my hair. Its not curly, its not wavy, its just someplace in between. It won’t stay put so no matter how hard I try I always look like I didn’t brush my hair and that I just don’t give a damn about the way I look. Yeah, I look like a bum.
- People who complain at restaurants for little things such as ’there is too much ice in my water’ or ‘my meat lovers pizza has too much meat on it’ piss me off SO MUCH. If they’ve brought you shrimp pasta when you asked for chicken then complain. That is a valid complaint. But shut the hell up if your free glass of water is full of too much free frozen water or something that is supposed to be meaty has the nerve to actually be meaty. You sicken me!
- I feel sorry for children who don’t have a pet.
- I feel sorry for children growing up in small towns. Probably because I would be miserable in a small town, and I assume everyone else would be as well.
- I feel sorry for children with bad names. Do your kid a favour and don’t give him/her a name that ends in “i” or sounds like a baby’s name. One day they will be 40 and your precious little “Chip” will be 200 lbs overweight and not-so-cute anymore.
- Also, I think people are insane if they name their children after produce/food or comic book characters. Name if you want to name your dog/cat/goldfish apple, kumquat, Kal-el etc. go ahead, but not your child. What is wrong with you?
- My feet are so wide that most wide-width shoes still don’t fit. Because of this, my baby toe is actually squished to the point that it is underneath my forth toe. Yes, I walk on-top of my baby toe. And still my shoes are tight.
- I wear a size 8 in case you have some wide width shoes you want to donate
- I will actually avoid talking to people who eat with their mouth open.
- I judge people on LJ by their userpics.
- I don’t like to wear a watch. It gets caught in my latex/nitrile gloves at work and irritates the hell out of me!
- I love to walk through the woods/forest
- I would love to live someplace where it was summer all year round. I envy people who have never seen snow.
- I always vote Green
- A vacation lying on a beach all day is fricking boring. Let me go someplace with history or sites to see. A beach will only amuse me for a few hours then I’m all ‘What the hell do I do with the rest of my week?’
- I cannot hear very well at all if there is background noise (talking, music, shuffling, wind etc). If I seem to be ignoring you when you talk I’m not ignoring you. I just can’t hear you! If I misunderstand something you’ve said its because I can’t hear you. If you see me tilting my head to my good ear and leaning close I’m having trouble hearing you. Speak up! No, I do not have a hearing aide, and even if I was prescribed one I couldn’t afford to buy one at the present moment in time.
- I sun burn easily. If it wasn’t for my freckles I could stand naked in front of a white wall and appear invisible.
- I get lost very easily. Very, very easily. I need a GPS installed in my head that tells me where to go. I hope they invent this soon. I volunteer for the first operation.
- Mushy stories in books and on tv make me ill and ruin a good plot.
- I still can’t find eye makeup that doesn’t make me have a horrible allergic reaction. Really, after a few hours I look like somebody punched me in both eyes.
- I’m really craving tacos. Right. Now.
- I hate gum, it hurts my teeth.
- I write (and pipette) with my right hand, but do everything else like a lefty. Including drive, eat and throw
- I always put the toilet seat cover down before I flush
- My blood type is O+
- I have a very strange fear of phones. If I have to call somebody it takes me quite sometime to get the nerve to pick up the receiver. Give me e-mail or give me chocolate! (see I win both ways there).
- I have all of my wisdom teeth. This is why I’m smarter than everyone else! (Ha ha, okay, just kidding obviously).
- I’m a very light sleeper. If I don’t wear ear plugs, I can’t sleep
- I hate cold drinks. Give me a warm glass of water and I’m happy. Give me cold water and I’ll leave it on the table until it warms up.
- I won’t drink while I’m eating. I’ll sip my drink before a meal, and then after a meal, never while I am still eating my meal.
- Once I had an old woman ask me what nationality I was (after mistaking me for Portuguese) I said: “I’m an English-Irish-French-Polish-Canadian”. She replied “You poor girl!”. That pissed me off more than you could imagine. Its genetically healthier to mix it up a little, so there! You nasty piece of work!
- Yappy dogs annoy me, but I still want one. A little Yorkie. They’re so cute, and you can litter train them. Bonus.
- I don’t own a hippopotamus, but I do want one for Christmas.
touchofgr3y said,
December 19, 2007 at 12:48 pm
In smaller cities/towns I feel exposed and unwelcome.
I know what you mean. I love bigger cities, where I can feel kind of invisible…I can walk around and be me and it’s fine and people won’t ask a million questions and…well, bother me.
I empathize with hurt, starved or abused animals more than I do hurt, starved or abused humans. Its not that I don’t empathize with humans at all, just not to the same degree. I feel guilty about this but in truth, animals have never hurt me, but humans have done so on more than one occasion.
Seconded.
I sun burn easily. If it wasn’t for my freckles I could stand naked in front of a white wall and appear invisible.
Haha same here. Nothing makes the pale go away and I’m constantly sunburned during the summer.
I get lost very easily. Very, very easily. I need a GPS installed in my head that tells me where to go. I hope they invent this soon. I volunteer for the first operation.
It’s a running joke. I constantly get lost and those close to me get panicky phone calls: I don’t know where I am but here are some street names. Can you find out where I am and how to get home?
Mushy stories in books and on tv make me ill and ruin a good plot.
Agreed.
I have a very strange fear of phones. If I have to call somebody it takes me quite sometime to get the nerve to pick up the receiver. Give me e-mail or give me chocolate! (see I win both ways there).
In college the fight was always over who would call for take out. It often turned into “Ok, fine, I’ll pay if you just call.”
I’m a very light sleeper. If I don’t wear ear plugs, I can’t sleep
I have only over the past year or two discovered the wonder of SLEEP thanks to ear plugs. Otherwise every little sound wakes me up.
faefall said,
December 19, 2007 at 4:19 pm
So…what do my user pics tell you about me?
ywingempress said,
December 19, 2007 at 4:43 pm
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Don’t feel guilty. Both types need people willing to protect them.
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Haha, I am the COMPLETE opposite of you here! I could not live with chips and popcorn and yummy salty things, but I hate coffee and could totally go without chocolate if I had to.
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Completely agree.
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I am the same way.
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Hehe, I have all mine too, and I also tell people that I’m smarter than everyone else.
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That’s interesting. The only thing I can drink at room temperature is water. Most everything else is really gross for me… I love really cold drinks.
This was fun to read!
sassinate said,
December 19, 2007 at 5:01 pm
your user pics tell me that you’re a person who doesn’t follow the contemporary masses and enjoys their individuality. You have a great sense of quirky humour. You love doctor who, which is very important. Your love of doctor who shows that you are intelligent and superior to all other people who dislike doctor who.
inspiretheliar said,
December 19, 2007 at 7:25 pm
I really quite liked this entry, so there are a-many replies from the creepy cat lady who reads your journal.
1. The only places I really feel at home is when I am walking around in the downtown core of larger cities like Toronto and Ottawa. I feel part of these cities. In smaller cities/towns I feel exposed and unwelcome.
Me too! Which is also why I sympathise with…
21. I feel sorry for children growing up in small towns. Probably because I would be miserable in a small town, and I assume everyone else would be as well.
…because I live in a small town and you are right, it is an absolute hell. In all honesty, there are people who still pick on me for things that happened to me in kindergarten or fourth grade. Just grow up and get over it, gosh! I cannot wait to get out of here, my town of 1,400 people is smaller than many high schools.
6. I have a large scar across my right cheek from a laboratory accident involving exploding pressurized glass that just came out of an autoclave. At least it was sterile when it sliced me open right?
Awesome. No other word. AWESOME. There is hardly a cooler way to have a scar than from a laboratory setting. That just boosted you up a few brownie points, good for you!
7. I empathize with hurt, starved or abused animals more than I do hurt, starved or abused humans. Its not that I don’t empathize with humans at all, just not to the same degree. I feel guilty about this but in truth, animals have never hurt me, but humans have done so on more than one occasion.
The same is true for me. I care a lot for the human race, but seeing images of sick or starving children does not make me nearly as sad as those horrible, horrible Internet macros of the lady squishing the head of the kitten or stories on the news of a few hundred animals starving in a barn all winter. I can sort of understand why it happens to people, because some frankly have the torture coming to them, but why a harmless animal who has done nothing but show love, loyalty, and respect? Nobody deserves unkindness, least of all animals.
12. Rap music makes me cringe…and let us not talk about grammar.
THANK YOU.
16. If they made chocolate or coffee illegal I’d volunteer to suicide bomb the assholes in the government who passed that horrible, horrible blasphemous law.
I will come with you! I practically live off of coffee during finals week, and to outlaw chocolate would cause even more social disregard than the Prohibition!
23. Also, I think people are insane if they name their children after produce/food or comic book characters. Name if you want to name your dog/cat/goldfish apple, kumquat, Kal-el etc. go ahead, but not your child. What is wrong with you?
Oh, I don’t know. “Apple” is ridiculous, but some of those Lord of the Rings-ish names are pretty cool. I would like to have a name like Eowyn.
31. I always vote Green
Good for you! It may not have much influence in the United States, but Green is an exceptional party nonetheless.
43. I have a very strange fear of phones. If I have to call somebody it takes me quite sometime to get the nerve to pick up the receiver. Give me e-mail or give me chocolate! (see I win both ways there).
Definitely! I can understand why people would prefer the phone, as it is more personal, but for introverts like me whom generally dislike speaking and are bad at doing so, the phone is little more than a nuisance.
48. Once I had an old woman ask me what nationality I was (after mistaking me for Portuguese) I said: “I’m an English-Irish-French-Polish-Canadian”. She replied “You poor girl!”. That pissed me off more than you could imagine. Its genetically healthier to mix it up a little, so there! You nasty piece of work!
That was possibly one of the best responses that I have EVER heard. Kudos.
Obnoxiously long comment, I apologise. =X
sassinate said,
December 19, 2007 at 7:59 pm
I am the Queen of long comments! So don’t worry about long comments! Comment away!
I’d just like to point out that Eowyn is a literary name, not a comic book name. And its structured on old Celtic names by a scholar in that particular field. She is/was a beautiful and heroic elf princess. Kal-el, however, is superman’s name on Krypton. The only reason suprman is heroic is because he has super powers. You don’t think he’d try to stop a bullet to save somebody else’s life if it wouldn’t bounce right off do you?
I know many people would still argue with me, but I honestly feel there is a separation between a name in a classical piece of literature and a comic book.
Although I don’t know if I’d name my son ‘Gandalf’ Lol.
inspiretheliar said,
December 19, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Human princess, actually. You were close. ;]
Good point, though! There is quite the distinction; I used the example because I presumed that book characters would fall in quite the same category, especially since there actually are a few kids named “Harry Potter” out there. Just imagine naming a kid Dumbledore. Poor thing.
zuridea said,
December 20, 2007 at 2:38 am
AWESOME. This was both informative and entertaining.
Instead of copying and pasting, I’ll just use the numbers and be annoying and make you look up at your post to see what I am referring to. Sorry in advance
I feel the same way about 12, 19, 20, 22, 23, 28, 29, 32, 42 and 44. Now you know a bit about me
zuridea said,
December 20, 2007 at 2:39 am
Agreed about the literature vs comic book thing.
cat_gone_astray said,
December 20, 2007 at 12:36 pm
In college the fight was always over who would call for take out. It often turned into “Ok, fine, I’ll pay if you just call.”
Hehe – my roommate and I used to do that all the time. I thought we were the only ones… Bonus – we both worked in a call centre.
touchofgr3y said,
December 20, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Bonus – we both worked in a call centre.
LOL! I guess that you win :cp
faefall said,
December 20, 2007 at 3:56 pm
::chuckle::
Yeah! I’ve a quirky humour. (If you do not do so already and if you get the opportunity to I reccomend you read the comic strip “Non Sequitur” it is a kick.)
The Dr. is my hero.
http://pics.livejournal.com/faefall/pic/0007eg34/
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