50 random things part II

[lauralh]

1. I'm not afraid of spiders, ants, or cockroaches, but weird evil looking potato bugs and the like freak me out.
   
2. I have about five scars on my body. Three from being bit by a dog (age ten), one from my mother accidentally catching her fingernail on my face (seven or so), and one from using a knife instead of scissors last summer. The first was the only time I ever had to go to the hospital.
   
3. As a child I used to get chronic headaches like crazy. I never made the connection between them and the fading vision in my right eye, however.
   
4. My longest "relationship" was 5 years; shortest was two weeks.
   
5. I think cheating is crazy, but only because the standard boyfriend/girlfriend/fiance/spouse definitions are too restricting.
   
6. I find most chocolate ice cream tastes like ass. I used to make my own by mixing hershey's syrup and vanilla ice cream and whipped cream together. Man that was good shit.
   
7. Most food tastes remarkably bland to me.
   
8. I had the same roommate in college for four years. We were basically best friends. My best friend now is my houstemate Steve.
   
9. I went to a boarding school 11th and 12th grades, had a different roommate each year, and neither of them liked me very much at all. Funny how things change.
   
10. The other person I've shared a space with is the aforementioned 5-year guy. Also, freshman year of college, there was a third roommate. She was evil.
    
11. In the beginning of eleventh grade I wanted to major in English; by the time I started twelfth I knew I was going to be Computer Science. During my freshman year I wavered on this again many times, but stuck it out in the end.
    
12. The first time I touched a computer was in second grade, we borrowed an old one from some friends of my parents.
    
13. The first story I wrote and published was for the young writer's competition in fourth grade. I stole most of the plot from a Defenders comic.
    
14. I made copies of all of my older brother's tapes and records till I was in high school. The first bit of music I bought for myself was the Cure's Mixed Up.
    
15. I've been downloading MP3s since 1997. First one I was a party to downloading was Human League's "Don't You Want Me Baby". (Although actually the oldest timestamp I have is Feb. 1997, Pink Floyd, "Wish You Were Here."
    
16. Oddly enough this was also the first song I ever sang a karaoke duet to.
    
17. I played clarinet in fifth grade. I cannot read music at all. In church choir I just would listen for the melody.
    
18. I haven't been to church since 1996. I only regret that it took me that long.
    
19. I used to confuse Blondie and Concrete Blonde.
    
20. I've been to DC five times. This is the most I've ever been somewhere I didn't live relatively close to, aside from New Orleans, where my father's family lives.
    
21. I never went outside in the sun as a child and consequently a) never tanned and b) never sunburnt. I think I was 13 when I got my first sunburn.
    
22. My brothers and I used to make up our own episodes of Transformers, Thundercats, Gummi Bears and GI Joe, then act them out, with or without action figures.
    
23. The first fanfiction I ever wrote was a teleplay for Ducktales.
    
24. I had never been west of Houston until I came to Seattle for the first time (summer of 1998).
    
25. I had never been north of DC before a 9-hour layover in New York (august 2000).
    

Comments

[q.livejournal.com]

> I had never been north of DC before a 9-hour layover in New York (august 2000)

Funny, I had never been to New York until I was stuck there overnight (http://www.livejournal.com/users/q/7591.html) in August 2000!

[drisrael.livejournal.com]

uhm. that's not funny.

[q.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was decidedly unfunny.

[andrewx.livejournal.com]

my general opinion of fanfiction just went up now that i know that someone has done ducktales.