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100 Things About Me
Topics: psychology, livejournal, personality, trivia, 38
2005-12-25
Xmas day boredom and Solnitchka inspired this.
- *2.** I have a child that I have never met.
- *3.** I like wearing non-matching socks.
- *4.** I worked in the porn business.
- *5.** I don't like porn at all.
- *6.** Genmaicha tea is my favourite drink.
- *7.** Very strong English (especially American) accents annoy me.
- *8.** I was baptised twice.
- *10.** Capitalism disgusts me.
- *11.** The only things I like to do on a beach are smoke, drink wine and be introspective.
- *12.** I try to never order the same thing twice in a row at a restaurant.
- *13.** In general, I like cooking better than I like socializing.
- *14.** Hashish floats my boat.
- *15.** My birthday is the day after the birthday of a girl I was obsessed with.
- *16.** I don't become obsessed with girls any longer (though I often used to). In fact, I am much less romantic and much more jaded and cynical than in my "younger" years.
- *17.** The only things I am materialistic about are my journals, some books, and objects concerned with music. Everything else is disposable/replaceable.
- *18.** I worked at Microsoft.
- *19.** I attempt to avoid Microsoft products.
- *20.** My favourite programming language is Lisp.
- *21.** 75% of the projects I begin are never completed.
- *22.** Changes (even small, seemingly superficial ones) in my lifestyle invigorate me.
- *23.** I like black metal.
- *24.** I once thought I had genital herpes, but I was mistaken.
- *25.** I bite my fingernails.
- *26.** One of my favourite books is The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro.
- *27.** One of my favourite films is Los Lunes al Sol by Fernando León de Aranoa.
- *28.** The only thing I am truly afraid of is mortality (see #38).
- *29.** I dismiss native English speakers who regularly confuse their, they're and there as a waste of sentience. I realise that this is a bad thing.
- *30.** I had my first real girlfriend when I was 22. She was 14.
- *31.** I can touch-type using both the qwerty and Dvořák keyboard layouts.
- *32.** Unless I am drunk, I am extremely reserved in a crowd of people I do not know well.
- *33.** I prefer the timbre of woodwinds to brass.
- *34.** When I was a child, I collected packs of gum with one stick left in them.
- *35.** My preference is to send an sms as opposed to calling.
- *36.** I do my best work after 8pm.
- *37.** I am not a technophile.
- *38.** I am not quite claustrophobic, but close.
- *39.** I have mild tinnitus.
- *40.** I believe that trying to change someone's behaviour or attitudes in the context of a friendship or relationship is ultimately futile and destructive.
- *41.** Autumn is my favourite season.
- *42.** I tend to flush the toilet before I am completely finished urinating.
- *44.** I have always wanted to own a boat and live on it.
- *45.** I do not drink coffee.
- *46.** Once I felt that lyrics were very vital to my enjoyment of music. Now, except for a few exceptions, I don't bother myself with them much.
- *47.** I am obsessive about showering every day.
- *48.** I am turned off by cultural pigeonholes.
- *49.** Ingrained traditions bother me.
- *50.** I'd rather eat broccoli florets than potato (or corn) chips.
- *51.** I was only a futbol (soccer) fan once -- June 2004 in Portugal. Other than that, I have never followed team sports.
- *52.** Sports I do enjoy include biking, hiking and jogging.
- *53.** People who attempt to push their own ideals, philosophies and/or habits (whether they consider them religious, common sensical, moral or otherwise) onto others annoy me.
- *55.** One of my ex-girlfriends broke my nose.
- *56.** Another one broke my heart.
- *57.** I have often considered joining a monastery.
- *58.** Once, while I was under the influence of an excess of marijuana (and consequently paranoia), I had to tie myself to my bed to keep from jumping from the window.
- *59.** I shagged a prostitute (actually several).
- *60.** In the past, my online journal (primarily one which was sadly lost due to a harddisk crash) angered or alienated several people (women).
- *61.** I was stranded in Alice Springs, Australia for three days with a crazy person.
- *62.** I had my head shaved in Vienna.
- *64.** I prefer command line to point and click.
- *65.** My favourite fruits are avacados and olives.
- *66.** My body reacts badly to intense heat.
- *67.** I do math problems for fun.
- *68.** My favourite card game is Cribbage.
- *69.** I never want to live in the United States again in my life.
- *70.** I rode a bus from Muenchen to Bucuresti. It was completely full. I was the only one on board who was not Romanian. It took 39 hours.
- *71.** I spent the night in a parking garage in Anchorage, Alaska.
- *72.** I've gone five days without eating.
- *73.** I like quite a bit of music which makes most other people leave the room.
- *74.** I am also a fan of Balkan and Russian folk music.
- *75.** I travel long distances often just to see concerts.
- *76.** I do not own a television, a car, or a microwave.
- *77.** I was arrested for disembarking from a plane in Newark, New Jersey drunk out of my mind.
- *78.** I also spent the night in jail in Houston, Texas.
- *79.** I spent two nights inside the Vienna aeroport.
- *80.** I ordered a double vodka during a job interview, drank it and still got the job.
- *81.** I played accordian and wine glasses filled with various amounts of water at an avant-garde performance in Prague.
- *82.** My love of adjectives has declined over the years.
- *83.** My feelings about puns has stayed about the same.
- *84.** I don't answer questions that I perceive as rhetorical.
- *85.** I listen now to almost no music that I did when I was in high school and university.
- *86.** I often have dreams which are set in the town in which I grew up.
- *87.** I tend to write music which is too complicated for me to easily play.
- *88.** Dagmar Krause is my favourite female singer. Robert Wyatt is my favourite male singer. These are subject to change on a daily or even hourly basis.
- *90.** I write beautiful melodies.
- *91.** I've lived in 13 different places in Prague and seven in Munich.
- *92.** When the time comes for me to snuff it, I'd like to know that I am dying.
- *93.** I give money to homeless people.
- *94.** At times I am exceedingly irreverent.
- *95.** I like to not know where I shall sleep tomorrow.
- *96.** I enjoy going to playgrounds and swinging.
- *97.** I don't normally eat sweets.
- *98.** Routine drains my energy.
- *99.** I believe that the struggle against the fleeting nature of existence and the piecing together of moments in hindsight keeps us sane.
- *100.** I am an optimist.
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