OK, so, who am I to resist a good (read: any) excuse to talk a lot about
myself?
| 001 |
I have to lie flat on my back (in a dark room) to get
to sleep. |
| 002 |
I frequently dream in words instead of pictures. |
| 003 |
I occasionally dream cartoons. |
| 004 |
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I once wrote a brilliant essay on Hamlet in my
head while flat out with a fever - unfortunately, by the time
I was in a state to write it down I had forgotten the salient
points. |
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| 005 |
I like having my prejudices challenged. |
| 006 |
I have become embarrassingly sentimental over the last decade. |
| 007 |
I cry at "happy" things rather than "sad" things,
death frequently leaves me unmoved, but a soppy story of an orphan
finding a family, for example, has me in tears in seconds. |
| 008 |
I have just realised getting to 100 may be more difficult than I
originally anticipated... |
| 009 |
| I love chocolate, but I am quite picky when in
comes to the type of chocolate I will eat (except when desperate,
though even desperation couldn't make me eat a Hershey bar). |
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| 010 |
I have become pretty immune to violence and human suffering on the
screen, but a picture of a burning book makes me feel physically ill. |
| 011 |
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I hate crowds. |
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| 012 |
I believe in Mr. Right, despite all evidence to the contrary. |
| 013 |
| I love rollercoasters, but I can no longer go
on rides that go round and round. |
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| 014 |
I used to be able to read while riding in a car. It is the one thing
about my childhood self that I regret losing (before you ask: a lot
of the rest is not yet lost, and so cannot be regretted). |
| 015 |
I have met some of my best friends through the internet. |
| 016 |
I like my own company and have a high tolerance for solitude. |
| 017 |
I talk to my parents on the phone several times a week, voluntarily. |
| 018 |
I talk to my brother on the phone about once a week - voluntarily on both
sides. |
| 019 |
I can barely stand going to visit my grandparents, which gives me
such a bad conscience that I go more often than I would have had it
been a "neutral" experience. |
| 020 |
I am an intellectual snob, I am frighteningly intolerant of stupidity
(my definition, of course). |
| 021 |
I will actually ask people to call back later if they interrupt
me in the middle of a particularly enganging part of a book or in
a tv-show I really want to watch. |
| 022 |
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I tend to start yawning the moment I start talking
on the phone. |
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| 023 |
| I love walking on the beach, preferably in "bad"
weather. |
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| 024 |
I don't eat enough vegetables. |
| 025 |
I could never be a vegetarian, because I could never give up bacon. |
| 026 |
| I firmly believe Sting is right: there's no such
thing as a winnable war. |
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| 027 |
I don't think I've ever really been in love. |
| 028 |
I have, however, been in love with the notion that I was in love a fair
few times. |
| 029 |
I don't read newspapers. |
| 030 |
I love quizes, online or otherwise. |
| 031 |
I once sat a Mensa IQ test that gave my IQ as >155 (I had 40
out of 40 questions correct). |
| 032 |
I will probably never sit an official IQ test again voluntarily,
I wouldn't trust my luck twice. |
| 033 |
I love the Eurovision Song Contest. I wish it came around more than once
a year. |
| 034 |
I am the Queen of Procrastination. |
| 035 |
I do not, as a rule, forgive and forget. I try, though. |
| 036 |
I didn't cry over my maternal grandmother's death until about a
year after it actually occurred, and then only after I'd dreamt of
having a quarrel with her. |
| 037 |
I once dreamt I'd given birth, and woke up with the most soul-shattering
sense of loss I have ever felt. |
| 038 |
I concluded from 37 that I would be lying to myself if I claimed
I don't want children. |
| 039 |
I read Linda Lovelace's biography (of Deep Throat fame) when I was
13. Not advisable, but the only lasting effect I can discern is a
distaste for James Brown. |
| 040 |
I read American Psycho a year ago. I do not want to read it again. |
| 041 |
I firmly believe that children not reading will hurt them more than
anything they can find in any book. |
| 042 |
I wish I had paid more attention in French class at school. |
| 043 |
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I would like to learn to ride a motorcycle. |
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| 044 |
I like buying people gifts. When I fantasise about winning the lottery,
the ability to surprise people with ridiculously expensive gifts figures
prominently. |
| 045 |
I would like to be able to play an instrument, the saxophone, for
example, but I doubt if I have the aptitude, and I know I don't have
the stamina to stick at it long enough to find out. |
| 046 |
I do not travel light. |
| 047 |
I drink my coffee black, no sugar. I don't dislike things like cappuchino
and latte, but given a choice I would rather just have black coffee
(or espresso). The only exception to this rule is Irish Coffee. I'll
have that anytime. |
| 048 |
I also don't like having anything with my coffee. I'll have cake
and eat that first, then drink the coffee, or drink the coffee first,
then eat the cake. |
| 049 |
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I have eaten haggis and liked it. |
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| 050 |
I go to the movies or theatre by myself. |
| 051 |
I am quite good at giving the impresssion of knowing more than I
actually do. This is not always a good thing. |
| 052 |
I still have no idea of what I'm going to be when I grow up. |
| 053 |
I consider it as proof that I'm not really a grown-up that I still
(at 28) somehow expect people to find me precocious. |
| 054 |
I am better at spend money than at saving them. |
| 055 |
I resent having to spend money on stuff like having my hair cut.
If it wasn't so impractical I'd just let it grow and never set foot
in a hairdresser's again. |
| 056 |
I like rain better than sun. |
| 057 |
I have lost the ability to sleep in. If I sleep past about ten chances
are I'll wake up with a splintering headache, regardless of when I
went to bed. |
| 058 |
I never get up the first time the alarm goes off unless I have an
early flight or an important exam. |
| 059 |
I do not eat fresh tomatoes. |
| 060 |
I like practically every alchoholic substance except beer. I prefer
English cider, Scotch single-malt whisky and real Champagne, though. |
| 061 |
| I wish I could afford to get into the habit of
having Champagne every day. |
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| 062 |
I don't enjoy going out unless it is possible to sit down and talk
without shouting (which rules out nightclubs and most bars). |
| 063 |
I am good at keeping secrets, I can actually remember the times
I have (unintentionally) revealed someone else's secret, and in both
instances I was not actually aware that it <b>was</b>
a secret. |
| 064 |
I tend to assume the most innocent explanation for anything to be
the truth. Hence I am not a good source for gossip. |
| 065 |
I would have liked to go to sea. It is impractical for several reasons,
though: A. I live in the wrong century, B. I am the wrong sex and
C. Where would I keep my books? |
| 066 |
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I am a cat-person, but I like dogs. |
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| 067 |
I see beauty of some sort in practically everything in nature, one
notable exception is cockroaches. |
| 068 |
I read, therefore I am. |
| 069 |
I like long coffee breaks. |
| 070 |
I have an almost-slipped disk in my lower back. |
| 071 |
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I once watched The Sound of Music nine times
in one week (I was 13). |
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| 072 |
I don't like telephones. Unless I know the person I'm phoning, and
also whoever is likely to pick up the phone, very well, I can put
off phoning people for days, months or years, depending on the actual
urgency of the call. |
| 073 |
I have been to a reception at the Icelandic presidential residence,
Bessastadir, and spoken to the President at the time, Vigdis Finnbogadottir
(I was 12). |
| 074 |
I have walked in the crater of a volcano that had errupted two years
prior to my visit. |
| 075 |
I won a prize in a drawing competition when I was around ten. The
theme was "what I want to be when I grow up", and I drew
myself as a librarian. The moral might be that I actually had more
self-awareness when I was ten than I did at the stage where I actually
had to start chosing what to study. |
| 076 |
I am usually early for everything, and I hate waiting for people
(not a good combination). |
| 077 |
| I absolutely adore the concept of drag-queens.
I can't quite picture actually dating one, but then I suppose
the majority of them wouldn't want to date me anyway. |
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| 078 |
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I have fallen completely for the Harry Potter trading card
game from Wizards of the Coast. I don't actually play it, I
just collect the cards. |
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| 079 |
I love swings. |
| 080 |
I sometimes wish I were Harriet Vane. |
| 081 |
I think I am becoming addicted to my online diary. |
| 082 |
I know I'm addicted to e-mail. |
| 083 |
| I sometimes read trashy romance novels to relax.
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| 084 |
I have considered trying my hand at writing trashy romance novels,
figuring it might be a pleasant way to make money. |
| 085 |
I have been online since 1993. |
| 086 |
I search for the correct word in vain more often in Norwegian (my
native language) than in English. |
| 087 |
I like riding in cars because it makes me relax completely. For
the same reason, it's probably a good thing that I don't have a driver's
licence. |
| 088 |
I have seen less than 50% of the Star Wars movies currently out
(August 2002). |
| 089 |
I am the eggman, I am the walrus (sorry, couldn't resist). |
| 090 |
I am a gadget-freak, limited only by a budget that can really only
deal with one obsession (books). |
| 091 |
I only ever use Ibuprophen-based painkillers, as no other painkiller
I've tried has any effect on me whatsoever. |
| 092 |
I find one 400mg Ibuprophen tablet helps me more than two 200mg
tablets. I think the reason for this must be purely psychosomatic.
However, it presents a problem, as only 200mg tablets are sold without
a prescription in Norway. |
| 093 |
I prefer UNIX to Windows (so why haven't I started using Linux?). |
| 094 |
I like baking cakes more than eating them. |
| 095 |
I couldn't stand the taste of potatoes up to the age of 25. Now I seem to
be eating them all the time, as if to make up for all the lovely potato-
dishes I've missed (mmm, baked potato, mmm, fat english chips, mmm, potato
gratin). |
| 096 |
I like making lists. |
| 097 |
| I use a packpack for a handbag. |
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| 098 |
I am more amused than annoyed by spam. |
| 099 |
I do not like marmite. |
| 100 |
I don't think I would like to live to a hundred. |
