Ramblings of a Disorientated Mind

The ramblings, and occasional sanities, of a 20-something geekess from the UK

yet more backlog friday fives

1. When did you “lose your innocence”?
At 16.

2. Would you say you have an accent?
Yes, but only because everyone around me seems to have an Essex accent so my mish-mosh is more noticable.

3. Do you hope to be married (married again if divorced)?
Yes, it should be happening this year :)

4. If you could take one technology to a desert island (the obvious satellite phone excluded), what would it be?
Some form of water filtration system, so I like, wouldn’t die.

5. What is the last activity you bought a ticket for?
Going swimming.

1. What is your fave thing about Christmas?
sounds cliché, but being with friends and family.

2. Did you believe in Santa Clause? If so, what was the best gift from him?
Sorta. I belived in Mrs. Clause and she brings me really useful gifts like toiletries and pants. So the best gift would have to be three lipsalves that last me through the year.

3. Do you have a Christmas Tree? Ribbon, Angel, Star or ______ on Top?
Yes, but it’s top went all funny and so even if I did have anything to put on top, I couldn’t or it would have fallen off.

4. Best stocking stuffer you got?
I didn’t really get any little presents like that…

5. Wishing for a White Christmas?
always, but never happens.

1. Pick one label that you think does describe you (race, religion, hobby, etc.).
Geek.

2. Pick one label that is often put on you, that you really think is inaccurate.
Normal.

3. Pick one label you wish could be put on you.
Attractive

4. What is one kind of label that you think is universally wrong to use (race, gender, height)?
None.

5. Labels, used intelligently, can be a convenient rhetorical shorthand for identifying how a given person will fit into (or react to) a given situation. Labels, used incorrectly, can be an excuse for dismissing the differences still inherent in the people to whom the label is applied. Discuss.
I refuse, on the principal that this question has already stated my own feelings on the matter: that when used intelligently and correctlty Lables are a good thing, but in the hands of those who have no tolerance or what to cuase pain, and sitr hate they can be a dangerious weapon.

1.Have you ever stayed in a hostel? If so, where? Did you like it? If you haven’t stayed in a hostel, would you?
I stayed in one as part of a school trip, in the sense that the trip took over the main rooms of the hostel, so it was only people I knew. It was alright, the bed where a little uncomfortable, but it was clean, so yes.

2. What is your favo(u)rite airport that you’ve been to? Why?
I guess Gatwick, because I don’t remember the airports at Malta or in Dubrovnick, and we didn’t have enough time to look around the one at Orlando.

3. What is the best museum you have visited on vacation?
I can’t really remember… I go to a lot…

4. Have you ever made friends while traveling whom you keep in touch with on a regular basis?
No, I’m not really that sort of person.

5. Have you ever had a conversation with a seatmate on a plane?
My only seat mates have been my parents, so yes.

1. What’s the most strange thing anyone has ever pointed out to you?
Not sure…

2. What’s the most obvious thing anyone has ever pointed out to you?
‘Tree!’

3. What’s the most miserable thing anyone has ever pointed out to you?
That money is a lie.

5. What’s the greatest thing that anyone has ever pointed out to you?
At this moment in time, that I have a house!

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Bored now

As you can see I’ve answered a shit load of Friday Fives that I missed, but other than that I haven’t really done anything I can point to and say ‘I did this today’.

I’ve spent:
- most of my time messing around on the interwebs, browsing Dark’s links on Del.icio.us,
- a little while trying to plot out a story and not getting very much furthur than writing down some thoughts I’ve had for a while,
- a little more time removing the spam from Open Contribution, and thinking how nice it would be to get that back up and running properly. The main issue is just that the core developer [ie Andy] doesn’t have any time to work on it and, since no one else is helping, can’t be arsed to either. I’d be nice if I had some sort of control on the site, so I could delete all the spam accounts, but only one guy has any access to that sort of level of control, and he doesn’t seem to be very interested in the project any more. Though I did a whois on the domain name, and noticed he renewed his purchase of it last year. we’ll just have to wait and see if he does it again this year…
- a very small amount of time doing chores

Anyway, I’m bored now. I don’t know what to do. There are a couple of projects I could be getting on with, but I just don’t know either where to take them next or how to go about them or w/e. I feel almost like I’m being deluged with air: I have all these random stray thoughts that I’m not sure how to organize in order to accomplish any of them. I’m feeling very blocked right now. Anyone have a mental laxative?

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1. Do you ever wonder if the way you see things visually aren’t how other people see them?
I use to when I was smaller, but since reading a book on philosophy I don’t any more. After all if I look at an object and someone else looks at an object and we both describe it as being brown and rectagular with 4 legs, then obviously we’re both looking and seeing a table the same.

2. What kind of sounds are the most annoying?
High pitches squealing is the one I hate most.

3. When walking through a store, do you shop with your hands by touching/feeling the texture of things?
No.

4. If you could only smell three scents for the rest of your life, what would they be?
Roses, Andy and Tea [like when you go into the hot drinks aisle at a shop]

5. What sorts of things do you savor when eating them?
Chocolate things, things I can’t get very often because they’re foreign or expensive.

Name five…
1. … things you can’t live without.
Andy, computer, books, tea, Microwave

2. … of the best moments in your life.
Winning NaNoWriMo 2007;

3. … celebrities you can’t stand.
Any of the ones that give there money to crappy ‘religions’ instead of to needy charities [think tom cruise/ john travolta with Scientology]

4. … books you enjoy(ed) reading.
The Broken God by David Zindell, The Ill-Made Mute by Celia Dart-Thornton, Julie and Julia by Julie Powell, Callahan’s Key by Spider Robinson and The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

5. … items on your desk.
Mug containing tea; Old World of Warcraft CD made into a coaster; Red Hat lanyard with attached multitool; Pink plastic pint glass containing pens; the sand-filled turtle that has been my monitor buddy since I get my own computer.

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