Random Facts!
11 RANDOM facts you may or may not know about me
Once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with 11 random facts or habits about yourself. At the end, choose 11 people to be tagged.
1. I have a friend in Sweden. We've never met in person, but we used to play games online, and have talked ever since. It has been approximately.... wow.... 7 years or something?? How's that for online friendship? AND we still talk regularly! This brings me to my next random fact:
2. I used to play a MUD regularly. That's right, I was a bit of a dork! But i LOVED that game! It was called Strife and Magic, and I had this awesome vampiress character named Vlandra. That's where I met my friend from Sweden. I also became a designer for another MUD that was being built for a while, and created this fantastic section based on a book that I loved.... Sad, the game was never finished or released into public gaming areas.
3. I used to listen to country music. From about the 4th to the 7th or 8th grade, I listened to country music. I actually stopped because I used to listen to the radio before bed, and all the country songs made me cry. Crying yourself to sleep when you don't have anything to be sad about is not ok.
4. I went through a bit of a goth phase in high school. Yes, it's true, little goody-two-shoes wanted to be a vampyre or something.... It comes out again every halloween (and you wondered where I learned how to do my black makeup like that, hehe)
5. As an infant, I nearly died. It's true, I contracted this nasty lung disease RSV and had a very slim chance of survival. This is why I now have asthma. They now have a vaccine for this disease...they didn't "back when we were kids"
6. I used to be obsessed with horses. I had horse posters and pictures all over my walls. My floor was covered with toy horses...I was only ever interested in Barbie for the toy horses that the company produced. My grandmother used to take me to toy stores and specialty stores all over the state of Maine to find toy horses and model horses and pictures and all kinds of things. At one point in my childhood I -knew- that I would one day be a horse trainer. haha
7. I am desperately afraid of not being a student anymore. I feel so lost and scared being "out in the real world." I think this may be why I am so determined to go to grad school, even though I can't pinpoint exactly what I want to do with my life...or maybe because of that. But at the same time, I'm afraid I'm never going to get to live the life I want to live.... I'm afraid I'm just going to waste it. I'm very jealous of many of my friends and their great adventures.... Part of me really wishes I could just settle down near home in Maine, get a random job that pays enough to live on, and settle down into a life. Go camping and exploring with my dad. Marry my boy. And start a family. But I feel like people would be disappointed in me if I did that. And I'm afraid that eventually I would regret it.
8. It almost makes me angry when people (such as my grandmother) tell me I'm brilliant or that I'm going to be famous. I don't feel brilliant, I feel unnaturally lucky...and I think eventually my luck is going to run out.... Like, I'm going to bomb out of grad school...or maybe not even get accepted....
9. I do not like to be touched. This is odd, because of course I am very affectionate with my boyfriend and some of my closest friends. But I do not like it when random people touch me, or people I'm not close to want to put their hand on my shoulder or hug me or something. I have to fight flinching or backing away. My mother says that the only people I was affectionate with as an infant were my dad and grandfather...and that most of the time I wouldn't let her kiss me, I'd push her face away. haha, I was rotten, eh?
10. My mother has multiple sclerosis. In Jr. High, there were two years that she was in bed. If she tried to walk around the house, she often fell. I spent a lot of that time taking care of my sister, especially when mom fell down the stairs and had to go to the hospital...sending my poor little sister into hysterical fits.
11. I am actually really jealous of my sister. She has such an incredible fun and outgoing personality...and she has so many friends all the time, wherever she goes...and I wish I had that. I don't think I've ever told anyone that....
So, now we're tagging people! I don't think I have 11 LJ friends.... thestoryiswrong , tiredtracks , kethrim , bloodbaycharger , zenmasterbryan , anythingtwice , postscrypt ,trishlaweryson , xpxnkxrawkx , olagmar jjblues25
YAY, 11 friends!
Once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with 11 random facts or habits about yourself. At the end, choose 11 people to be tagged.
1. I have a friend in Sweden. We've never met in person, but we used to play games online, and have talked ever since. It has been approximately.... wow.... 7 years or something?? How's that for online friendship? AND we still talk regularly! This brings me to my next random fact:
2. I used to play a MUD regularly. That's right, I was a bit of a dork! But i LOVED that game! It was called Strife and Magic, and I had this awesome vampiress character named Vlandra. That's where I met my friend from Sweden. I also became a designer for another MUD that was being built for a while, and created this fantastic section based on a book that I loved.... Sad, the game was never finished or released into public gaming areas.
3. I used to listen to country music. From about the 4th to the 7th or 8th grade, I listened to country music. I actually stopped because I used to listen to the radio before bed, and all the country songs made me cry. Crying yourself to sleep when you don't have anything to be sad about is not ok.
4. I went through a bit of a goth phase in high school. Yes, it's true, little goody-two-shoes wanted to be a vampyre or something.... It comes out again every halloween (and you wondered where I learned how to do my black makeup like that, hehe)
5. As an infant, I nearly died. It's true, I contracted this nasty lung disease RSV and had a very slim chance of survival. This is why I now have asthma. They now have a vaccine for this disease...they didn't "back when we were kids"
6. I used to be obsessed with horses. I had horse posters and pictures all over my walls. My floor was covered with toy horses...I was only ever interested in Barbie for the toy horses that the company produced. My grandmother used to take me to toy stores and specialty stores all over the state of Maine to find toy horses and model horses and pictures and all kinds of things. At one point in my childhood I -knew- that I would one day be a horse trainer. haha
7. I am desperately afraid of not being a student anymore. I feel so lost and scared being "out in the real world." I think this may be why I am so determined to go to grad school, even though I can't pinpoint exactly what I want to do with my life...or maybe because of that. But at the same time, I'm afraid I'm never going to get to live the life I want to live.... I'm afraid I'm just going to waste it. I'm very jealous of many of my friends and their great adventures.... Part of me really wishes I could just settle down near home in Maine, get a random job that pays enough to live on, and settle down into a life. Go camping and exploring with my dad. Marry my boy. And start a family. But I feel like people would be disappointed in me if I did that. And I'm afraid that eventually I would regret it.
8. It almost makes me angry when people (such as my grandmother) tell me I'm brilliant or that I'm going to be famous. I don't feel brilliant, I feel unnaturally lucky...and I think eventually my luck is going to run out.... Like, I'm going to bomb out of grad school...or maybe not even get accepted....
9. I do not like to be touched. This is odd, because of course I am very affectionate with my boyfriend and some of my closest friends. But I do not like it when random people touch me, or people I'm not close to want to put their hand on my shoulder or hug me or something. I have to fight flinching or backing away. My mother says that the only people I was affectionate with as an infant were my dad and grandfather...and that most of the time I wouldn't let her kiss me, I'd push her face away. haha, I was rotten, eh?
10. My mother has multiple sclerosis. In Jr. High, there were two years that she was in bed. If she tried to walk around the house, she often fell. I spent a lot of that time taking care of my sister, especially when mom fell down the stairs and had to go to the hospital...sending my poor little sister into hysterical fits.
11. I am actually really jealous of my sister. She has such an incredible fun and outgoing personality...and she has so many friends all the time, wherever she goes...and I wish I had that. I don't think I've ever told anyone that....
So, now we're tagging people! I don't think I have 11 LJ friends.... thestoryiswrong , tiredtracks , kethrim , bloodbaycharger , zenmasterbryan , anythingtwice , postscrypt ,trishlaweryson , xpxnkxrawkx , olagmar jjblues25
YAY, 11 friends!