I assume you have heard of this “25 random things” Facebook meme. It madeit to BoingBoing, so it must be everywhere. I may or may not have been tagged with it, but I am propagating it nonetheless. My answers:
1. I am the only person to ever use the tag “food trauma” on the WordPress blogging platform. The related post remains the most popular of my blog.
2. I don’t really like waffles.
3. When I was nine, my secret dream was to appear as Christine in “The Phantom of the Opera”.
4. Now that I could actually do that if I wanted to, I’d rather sing Burt Bacharach songs on a cruise ship crossing repeatedly through the Bermuda Triangle.
5. I’m not religious or spiritual.
6. I get really, really addicted to really nerdy things, like Poirot audiobooks, listen to/watch them obsessively for a while, then move on.
7. I own both a slow cooker and an espresso machine.
8. Pet peeve: people who don’t pronounce intervocalic t’s, like in the word “butter”.
9. I used to think I was psychic.
10. I enjoy doing laundry.
11. I really hate Oprah.
12. I once fell out of a tree and landed on a broken branch, getting a three-inch deep puncture wound on my left side. I had to spend the night in the hospital and pack it with sterile gauze for three weeks afterwards. This was on my twelfth birthday, by the way.
13. I also once broke the middle toe on my left foot – a piano rolled over it when I was trying to move it during a choir rehearsal.
14. As you may have noticed, I’m kind of accident prone.
15. In my head, I am a brilliant stand-up comedian.
16. In real life, my stories and anecdotes are repetitive and unclear. Also I tend to laugh at my own jokes, which is bad.
17. I spend too much time on the Internet.
18. I think the TTC plans its streetcar track reconstruction schedule around where I’m living. Let me demonstrate:
2000 – I lived on King St. E. They redid the streetcar tracks on King St. E that summer.
2000-2003 – I lived on Bloor St., so I assume they did no streetcar construction, but randomly shut down the subway more often than usual
2003 – I moved to Parkdale, King St. W. Streetcar track construction all summer long!
Fall of 2003 – I moved to College St. Guess what? Streetcar construction on Dundas, very close by!
Spring of 2004 – I moved back to Parkdale. Guess what they were doing on Queen st?
Nov. 2005 – Moved back to College St. What do you think they were doing with the streetcars? That’s right, digging up the tracks!
Summer 2006 – Moved to St. Clair W. They’ve been redoing the streetcar tracks/building the right of way ever since. Planned finish date: 2011.
19. I own not one but two dog-themed desktop calendars.
20. I tried to get my high school boyfriend to break up with me by making him a really, really ugly shirt. It didn’t work – he loved it.
21. I don’t think I drink enough water.
22. I once smoked a cigar. I was sorry.
23. I made my own wedding dress.
24. With my teeth. (Not really. With a sewing machine.)
25. I like talking about myself a little too much.
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