21. For my 21st birthday I had dinner at the Genghis Khan restaurant. I'd bought this PVC strapless top for the night a few weeks before and then was sick all the week leading up to my birthday. I had no appetite and lost all this weight, plus I was on antibiotics, so couldn't drink! I had to keep adjusting at my birthday, and one of my friends asked why I hadn't bought a top that fitted me. Despite all that I had a pretty good night.
22. I like cake.
23. My life is based around food, it's a trait of my family. For example, I can tell you the best food I had in any place I've been. It's the way we remember things. ("Remember Turangi that time?" "Yeah, we had fresh smoked trout, delicious!")
24. Morally I'm vegetarian, but I'm slack. It's easy and convenient to eat meat. If I had to kill the animals myself, I'd be vegetarian.
25. Pizza is my favourite food, then chocolate. Chocolate pizza is OK, but I prefer them seperate.
26. I like cutesy Gothic stuff. Like Tim Burton, the tshirts I can get from the "switch" section of Farmers, and Neil Gaiman's Death.
27. If I had gone to a mufti high school and not Welly Girls, I would almost certainly have had: a goth phase, a punk phase and an I-can't-be-bothered-dressing-nice phase.
28. When I was 15 I meant to go to Hollywood and become a successful director of Action Thrillers.
29. When I was 7 or so I wanted to be a truck driver because they got to have lunch whenever they liked. No, really.
30. When I was 12 I decided to be a psychologist. This kept up right until I failed STAT 193 for the second time and gave up PSYC at Vic.
31. I picked up women's studies in my third year. It was cool.
32. My BA is in English Literature, my favourite courses were Modern Poetry, Shakespeare, Literary History of the Engligh Language and the How to Write poetry course that Greg O'Brien runs.
33. One of my acquaintances asked me what womens' studies was because she didn't know. I said "feminist theory, mostly" and she went "Ew! Feminism! Yucky!" I just couldn't comprehend how to answer that.
34. I want to see America, Canada, Italy, England and Ireland. I could be convinced to travel other places too.
35. I avoid conflict where I can.
36. I hate to be yelled at.
37. When there's confrontation my heart rate speeds up and my face goes red. I hate that everyone can tell how I'm feeling then.
38. I like board games, esp. Settlers Of Catan and Princes of Florence. I like Oxford too, because I'm good at it.
39. I like to customise Barbie dolls. I have so far made a Death Row Barbie and a Romantic Novel/Erotica heroine Barbie. I have big plans for the future.
40. I have a fantastic memory for movie lines and lyrics of songs. My memory for names and faces is less impressive.
Posted by jenni at September 8, 2003 09:17 PM