Five Things…

I was convinced I had escaped this meme, until I got tagged yesterday, by APL… The idea is to tell you five things you don’t already know about me… Of course, I’ve no idea any more who’s reading this (as evidenced by some feedback Stephen got, about my “Clusterfsck” post) – so all guarantees and warranties are hereby explicitly disclaimed, to the extent permitted by applicable law

1) When I was young, I really wanted to be left-handed. I thought left-handed people were really far cooler than their right-handed brethern, and several times tried to teach myself, with varying degrees of success, to write left-handed.

2) Although (and because) my first trip to Vienna was one of the most amazing weeks of my life, I’m terrified of returning to the city.

3) For three weeks one summer, while at summer camp, I wore a plush beanie dog on my head all day (not while sleeping), every day. Meals, sports, studying, socialising, discos – all were done with a little beanie-baby dog on my cropped-short dyed-green (fading to yellow) hair.

4) Before writing this post, I spent a few minutes explaining what is possibly the world’s cutest fork bomb, to some first years. This was explained to me when I was in first year, and I installed linux on my laptop just so I had a machine to try it out on. (It’s a shell command, and goes something like

){ : |:&};:

although the second space can be removed – it’s just in the above to prevent WordPress adding smilies.)

5) Almost three years ago, on 29th February 2004, I asked Stephen for the first time to marry me. He said no – but persistence paid off in the end

My victims? In no particular order…
diamond
bigbro
tyrion
braz
froodie