Ten Random Things Meme
* Each blogger starts with ten random facts/habits about him/herself.
* Bloggers whom are tagged need to write on their own blog about their ten things and post these rules.
* At the end of your blog, you need to choose ten people to get tagged and list their names. I hate when people tag me. Only do this if you want.
1. My favourite colour is dark green, but everyone presumes that it is Hallowe'en orange. I really like Hallowe'en orange, though.
2. Having woolly hair once saved my life. I was doing a bronze pour in the foundry at my college (yes, it was a fancy college), and a droplet of molten bronze hit the lip of the mould and splashed up into the air. I watched as it glittered up through the air, and it landed on my head, where I had forgotten to include the asbestos yarmulke portion of my protective gear. I kept pouring the bronze, expecting at any minute to feel a droplet of liquid metal searing its way down into my brain. It didn't happen, so I kept pouring; after the pour, I stripped off my gear and found three of my hairs bronzed together. I ran in the other room to show trouble4hire , who promptly freaked out.
3. I have an unusually acute sense of smell. Apparently, ladybugs don't smell like anything to anyone else.
4. I don't seem to scar permanently. The worst wounds will heal to a pale, flat scar that is replaced by normal skin in a few years.
5. Having to write with blue pens sends me into fits of wrath. To avoid this, I carry a black pen in my right pocket at all times.
6. I have one, lone chest hair. I find it irksome. I pluck it.
7. I can't relax when my surroundings are messy. The more anxious I get, the more I clean. If I'm upset, my house is immaculate.
8. Although I'm one of the original spelling-and-grammar fascists, I will accept certain misspellings that appeal to me. I do not mean the deliberate misspellings of LOLspeak. However, I will accept "chease" and "cheez" for "cheese," and "weasil," "weazel" and "weasle" for "weasel."
8a. Once I get started saying "weasel," it's very difficult to get me to stop again. Weeeeeeasel.
9. I freeze all of my veggie ends and peelings and boil them for soup stock. I even do this for vegetables I'm cutting up to put in soup. As such, the veggie chunks in today's soup beget the broth of tomorrow's. It is a Circle Of Soup, not unlike the Circle of Life, only Elton John never sung about it.
10. Genetic variation: I have free earlobes, can curl my tongue into an O shape, taste phenylalanine as sweet, taste cilantro as soapy, have green eyes, and, unlike anyone else in my family for as far back as anyone knows, have curly hair. Since curly hair is a dominant trait (and I look exactly like my father in other regards, thank you very much) this seems to be a bona fide mutation.