Meme Thing
You know how sometimes people on your friends list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating HIM/HER? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.
Please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration. One-Word-Answers seldom help anyone out.
1. FIRST NAME: I can't keep track of the number of names I go by, but you can't usually go wrong with "Kate"
2. AGE: None ya damn business. I was born in the early 70s, that's all you need to know.
3. LOCATION: Currently, London, UK (pissed up in SW16) But I lived on 3 continents by the time I was 10, so don't be surprised if I go talking about a childhood in Africa or teenage drinking on the streets of NY or anything.
4. OCCUPATION: I earn a living as a Data Analyst. It's kind of like half statistical mathematician, half computer programmer (mostly SQL, Crystal and the like). What I AM is myriad. I'm a writer, a former journalist, an artist, illustrator, painter, musician, songwriter, producer.
5. PARTNER? Been there, done that, got the t-shirt, lost it at the laundrette. I know enough not to say "never again" but seriously, I doubt it will ever happen again.
6. KIDS? Left it a bit late for that. Which is kinda awful as I had a miscarriage at age 31 that made me realise how much I *did* actually want one.
7. SIBLINGS: I have one biological brother, 2 years older than me. If you hear me talk about my "sisX0r" or my twin, that's my childhood best friend, Dara, who was born on the same day as me, and we've claimed to be twins ever since.
8. PET: I'm not really home enough to have pets. I tend to name laptops, guitars, synths, etc. instead of having pets.
9. 3-5 BIG THINGS HAPPENING IN YOUR LIFE:
1) working on turning a kind of NaNoWriMo spin-off gone wrong into a proper novel. Maybe I've written about 11 or 12 novels in my life, and never done anything with them, so why should this be any different?
2) The Great Lost Shimura Curves Album. Yeah, it will come out, eventually, if my record company have to pry the masters from my cold, dead, hands
3) I'm going to Istanbul for Xmas. Yeah, I've been kind of obsessed with Turkey and the Ottoman empire for a while now, so I thought I'd go.
10. PARENTS: divorced. well, not quite divorced, but separated for, like, nearly 20 years or something. My dad's an atheist computer geek, my mum's a priest. They would never have got together in the first place if they hadn't just both been born to the only two anglo families in the same small village in South Africa. I'm honestly surprised they lasted long enough to raise us. Mum has a parish in rural Vermont, Dad has just retired from Silicon Valley to somewhere in the wilds of Northern California.
11. CLOSEST FRIENDS: There are only a handful of people I've known long enough (20+ years) to consider "close". They know who they are.
Please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration. One-Word-Answers seldom help anyone out.
1. FIRST NAME: I can't keep track of the number of names I go by, but you can't usually go wrong with "Kate"
2. AGE: None ya damn business. I was born in the early 70s, that's all you need to know.
3. LOCATION: Currently, London, UK (pissed up in SW16) But I lived on 3 continents by the time I was 10, so don't be surprised if I go talking about a childhood in Africa or teenage drinking on the streets of NY or anything.
4. OCCUPATION: I earn a living as a Data Analyst. It's kind of like half statistical mathematician, half computer programmer (mostly SQL, Crystal and the like). What I AM is myriad. I'm a writer, a former journalist, an artist, illustrator, painter, musician, songwriter, producer.
5. PARTNER? Been there, done that, got the t-shirt, lost it at the laundrette. I know enough not to say "never again" but seriously, I doubt it will ever happen again.
6. KIDS? Left it a bit late for that. Which is kinda awful as I had a miscarriage at age 31 that made me realise how much I *did* actually want one.
7. SIBLINGS: I have one biological brother, 2 years older than me. If you hear me talk about my "sisX0r" or my twin, that's my childhood best friend, Dara, who was born on the same day as me, and we've claimed to be twins ever since.
8. PET: I'm not really home enough to have pets. I tend to name laptops, guitars, synths, etc. instead of having pets.
9. 3-5 BIG THINGS HAPPENING IN YOUR LIFE:
1) working on turning a kind of NaNoWriMo spin-off gone wrong into a proper novel. Maybe I've written about 11 or 12 novels in my life, and never done anything with them, so why should this be any different?
2) The Great Lost Shimura Curves Album. Yeah, it will come out, eventually, if my record company have to pry the masters from my cold, dead, hands
3) I'm going to Istanbul for Xmas. Yeah, I've been kind of obsessed with Turkey and the Ottoman empire for a while now, so I thought I'd go.
10. PARENTS: divorced. well, not quite divorced, but separated for, like, nearly 20 years or something. My dad's an atheist computer geek, my mum's a priest. They would never have got together in the first place if they hadn't just both been born to the only two anglo families in the same small village in South Africa. I'm honestly surprised they lasted long enough to raise us. Mum has a parish in rural Vermont, Dad has just retired from Silicon Valley to somewhere in the wilds of Northern California.
11. CLOSEST FRIENDS: There are only a handful of people I've known long enough (20+ years) to consider "close". They know who they are.