Never one to resist a meme...
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radegund1) What's on your bedside table?
You'll be sorry you asked. I decided, as an exercise in self-discipline, to answer this one honestly. So here goes (working from back to front, bottom to top - and for the record, the area is about three square feet):
Pile 1:
- Jeff Howell, Guide to Looking After your Property (home maintenance book)
- Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events. 1: The Bad Beginning
- Notebook
- Hanan al-Shaykh, Only in London
- Blánaid McKinney, The Ledge
- Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents
- Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events. 5: The Austere Academy
- Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events. 4: The Miserable Mill
- Francis Spufford, The Child that Books Built
- Doris Lessing, Shikasta
- Small paper bag of postcards from Autun Cathedral
- Marge Piercy, He, She and It
- Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
- Harry Harrison, One King's Way
Pile 2:
- The RHS Guide to Organic Gardening
- Tony Farmar, Ordinary Lives
- John Gray, False Dawn [![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
glitzfrau's copy]
- Mary Gentle, Ash: A Secret History
- Manicure set
- Badger Sleep Balm
- Badger Lip Balm (Cinnamon Bay)
- Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money can Buy [current bedtime reading]
- Reading lamp (who'd have thought?): slim, plain black metal base with green silk shade
Miscellaneous:
- Tissues
- Small pile of receipts bent into the shape of my closed wallet
- Lipfinity lipstick and top coat
- Pencil
- Rubber
- Thuja 30c pillules
- Vicks Vaporub
- Coaster (currently unoccupied)
- Another lip balm
Right. If you're still with me, let's go on, shall we?
2) What's the geekiest part of your music collection?
Hmmm. Toss-up between (a) Roger Waters's three solo albums, Radio Kaos, The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (which may just be my favourite album ever) and Amused to Death, and (b) Billy Bragg, The Internationale.
I'm not particularly music-geeky.
3) What do you eat when you raid the fridge at night?
What the fridge does at night is its own business. I have neither reason nor desire to raid it.
4) What is your secret "guaranteed weeping" film?
Casablanca, specifically the Marseillaise scene.
5) If you could have plastic surgery, what would you have done?
Whatever was necessary to make me look relatively normal after the disfiguring accident.
(Um, I mean to imply that I would not have elective plastic surgery.)
6) Do you have a completely irrational fear? if so, of what?
I actually don't think I do. Anyone know different, please say so!
7) What is the little physical habit that gives away your insecure moments?
I rub my fingertips gently with my thumb, round and round. (My therapist pointed this out years ago.)
8) Do you ever have to beg?
Never. If I did, I suspect that pride would not allow it and I would instead choose to go without.
9) Do you have too many love interests?
No - just the right number!
10) Do you know anyone famous?
Depends what you mean by famous. In Ireland, yes, many. On a world scale, no.
But here's a nice (if tangential) "degrees-of-separation" story: Garret FitzGerald (former Taoiseach - i.e. Irish Prime Minister, but that's by the way) remembers that when he was four or five he was introduced to an old, old lady, presumably in her nineties. When she had been maybe seventeen she had been married off, as was not uncommon in those times, to an elderly man. This man, as a young boy, had been a page at the court of Louis XVI.
Can't swear it's true, but it's a good story!
11) Describe your bed.
King-size, pine bedstead with chunky turned spindles and knobs and curvy end bits. Covers alternate between tasteful curlicues in shades of red and orange, on the one hand, and big blue dolphins, on the other.
12) Spontaneous or plan?
Spontaneous every third Tuesday, if the moon is waxing, between the hours of 21:50 and 21:53.
13) Who should play you in a movie about your life?
Me! I'd love to be in a film!
(I am attempting to cover up the fact that I don't know actor names.)
14) Do you know how to play poker?
Yes, in much the same way that I know how to play chess: I know the rules and procedures (although I always have to be reminded of the value hierarchy). However, I do not, unfortunately, know when to hold 'em, nor I am familiar with the circumstances under which I should fold 'em. My judgement with regard to the appropriate time to walk away is unlikely to be reliable, and I am similarly incapable of assessing the best time at which to run.
15) Do you like to colour?
Yes. No. I used to. Ah, whatever.
16) How do you drive?
Well, I'm told.
17) What do you miss most about being little?
Time.
18) Are you happy with your given name?
Yes. It's an awkward cuss of a name, but I love it, and I couldn't imagine being called anything different. (Plus, it means I'll never get a job in telesales.)
19) What was the last song you were listening to?
The Smiths, "Some Girls are Bigger than Others".
20) Have you ever been in a school play?
Once, in fifth year at school: Hamlet. I played the title role.
21) If you were a stone, what kind of stone would you be?
Blue obsidian.
22) Do you like yourself and believe in yourself?
Mostly. Mostly.
23) Have you ever done any illegal drugs?
I've smoked and eaten hash. It had very little effect (god, I sound like my parents).
24) Do you think you're cute?
Sometimes.
25) Do you consider yourself to be a nice person?
Yes.
You'll be sorry you asked. I decided, as an exercise in self-discipline, to answer this one honestly. So here goes (working from back to front, bottom to top - and for the record, the area is about three square feet):
Pile 1:
- Jeff Howell, Guide to Looking After your Property (home maintenance book)
- Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events. 1: The Bad Beginning
- Notebook
- Hanan al-Shaykh, Only in London
- Blánaid McKinney, The Ledge
- Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents
- Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events. 5: The Austere Academy
- Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events. 4: The Miserable Mill
- Francis Spufford, The Child that Books Built
- Doris Lessing, Shikasta
- Small paper bag of postcards from Autun Cathedral
- Marge Piercy, He, She and It
- Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
- Harry Harrison, One King's Way
Pile 2:
- The RHS Guide to Organic Gardening
- Tony Farmar, Ordinary Lives
- John Gray, False Dawn [
glitzfrau's copy]- Mary Gentle, Ash: A Secret History
- Manicure set
- Badger Sleep Balm
- Badger Lip Balm (Cinnamon Bay)
- Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money can Buy [current bedtime reading]
- Reading lamp (who'd have thought?): slim, plain black metal base with green silk shade
Miscellaneous:
- Tissues
- Small pile of receipts bent into the shape of my closed wallet
- Lipfinity lipstick and top coat
- Pencil
- Rubber
- Thuja 30c pillules
- Vicks Vaporub
- Coaster (currently unoccupied)
- Another lip balm
Right. If you're still with me, let's go on, shall we?
2) What's the geekiest part of your music collection?
Hmmm. Toss-up between (a) Roger Waters's three solo albums, Radio Kaos, The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (which may just be my favourite album ever) and Amused to Death, and (b) Billy Bragg, The Internationale.
I'm not particularly music-geeky.
3) What do you eat when you raid the fridge at night?
What the fridge does at night is its own business. I have neither reason nor desire to raid it.
4) What is your secret "guaranteed weeping" film?
Casablanca, specifically the Marseillaise scene.
5) If you could have plastic surgery, what would you have done?
Whatever was necessary to make me look relatively normal after the disfiguring accident.
(Um, I mean to imply that I would not have elective plastic surgery.)
6) Do you have a completely irrational fear? if so, of what?
I actually don't think I do. Anyone know different, please say so!
7) What is the little physical habit that gives away your insecure moments?
I rub my fingertips gently with my thumb, round and round. (My therapist pointed this out years ago.)
8) Do you ever have to beg?
Never. If I did, I suspect that pride would not allow it and I would instead choose to go without.
9) Do you have too many love interests?
No - just the right number!
10) Do you know anyone famous?
Depends what you mean by famous. In Ireland, yes, many. On a world scale, no.
But here's a nice (if tangential) "degrees-of-separation" story: Garret FitzGerald (former Taoiseach - i.e. Irish Prime Minister, but that's by the way) remembers that when he was four or five he was introduced to an old, old lady, presumably in her nineties. When she had been maybe seventeen she had been married off, as was not uncommon in those times, to an elderly man. This man, as a young boy, had been a page at the court of Louis XVI.
Can't swear it's true, but it's a good story!
11) Describe your bed.
King-size, pine bedstead with chunky turned spindles and knobs and curvy end bits. Covers alternate between tasteful curlicues in shades of red and orange, on the one hand, and big blue dolphins, on the other.
12) Spontaneous or plan?
Spontaneous every third Tuesday, if the moon is waxing, between the hours of 21:50 and 21:53.
13) Who should play you in a movie about your life?
Me! I'd love to be in a film!
(I am attempting to cover up the fact that I don't know actor names.)
14) Do you know how to play poker?
Yes, in much the same way that I know how to play chess: I know the rules and procedures (although I always have to be reminded of the value hierarchy). However, I do not, unfortunately, know when to hold 'em, nor I am familiar with the circumstances under which I should fold 'em. My judgement with regard to the appropriate time to walk away is unlikely to be reliable, and I am similarly incapable of assessing the best time at which to run.
15) Do you like to colour?
Yes. No. I used to. Ah, whatever.
16) How do you drive?
Well, I'm told.
17) What do you miss most about being little?
Time.
18) Are you happy with your given name?
Yes. It's an awkward cuss of a name, but I love it, and I couldn't imagine being called anything different. (Plus, it means I'll never get a job in telesales.)
19) What was the last song you were listening to?
The Smiths, "Some Girls are Bigger than Others".
20) Have you ever been in a school play?
Once, in fifth year at school: Hamlet. I played the title role.
21) If you were a stone, what kind of stone would you be?
Blue obsidian.
22) Do you like yourself and believe in yourself?
Mostly. Mostly.
23) Have you ever done any illegal drugs?
I've smoked and eaten hash. It had very little effect (god, I sound like my parents).
24) Do you think you're cute?
Sometimes.
25) Do you consider yourself to be a nice person?
Yes.
