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50 things about me

1.My first ever crush was on Ringo Starr when I was about 5. I used to insist that my mum put a Beatles record on when I got in from school

2.The first film I remember crying at was Yellow Submarine. I must have been about 6 and got really upset when the Beatles left Jeremy behind in tears.

3. I've only ever met another person called Eleanor once. Most of the girls in my school were called Debbie, Sarah, Claire and Emma.

4. My dad had long hair for years, he cut it about 10 years ago when it started getting thin (he would have been in his 40's)

5. I don't watch zombie movies. Zombies freak me out. Whenever I watch a film with zombies in I have freaky zombie dreams. In the last freaky zombie dream I had my mum turned into a zombie and attacked me and my sister and I had to cut her head off with a bread knife. Unpleasant really.

6. My favourite teacher in junior school was Mrs Martino. She had bingo wings and I can really clearly remember watching the fat on her arms wobbly as she wrote on the blackboard.

7. My least favourite teacher was Mrs Evisson. She spent a good 20 minutes once comparing my handwriting to Emma Burniston's banging on about how wonderful Emma's was and how poor mine was in comparison, then was incredibly dismissive when I got upset. It was 20 years ago but I still hate her.

8. I hated senior school. With a venom.

9. My teenage crush was Joe McIntyre from New Kids on the Block. I have a box full of New Kids memorabilia underneath my bed that I'm not sure what to do with.

10. The first fan fic I'd ever written was Joe McIntyre/Mary Sue (if I'm being honest) het. *is ashamed* I was on a yahoo mailing list (remember them?) for fan fiction – you wouldn't believe how shockingly bad some of the stuff that was posted there was.

11. I'd never read or written slash until last year. I didn't understand it; I didn't get what straight women were doing writing about gay men. But I followed a link from someone's journal to a story called Rough early last year and suddenly gained a whole new perspective. However I still don't think I could explain the appeal to anyone, I don't know why it works for me, it just does.

12. I have a teddy bear called Bob that I was given by my best friend Emma when I was 9. Bob is an international traveller having accompanied me to America with me when I lived there for a year as an Au Pair. He still sits on my bed.

13. My big fear is of drowning. I can't watch the Radiohead video with Thom York in the diving helmet filling up with water, it makes me hysterical.


14. I once stood in a line outside Forbidden Planet in London for two and a half hours to meet and have a picture signed by David Boreanez, he was very nice. I also once somehow – I'm still not sure how I blagged it, met and had a picture signed by Jordan Knight, he was a twat.

15. I've worked for the society I'm with for almost 6 years. I didn't think I was going to get the job when I first applied and when I came to the interview I had been out the night before and was hung over and the lady I was supposed to be meeting wasn't available as she had to accompany a colleague who had just had a heart attack to hospital. The person doing the interview didn't know anything about the position. I don't know how I got the job!

16. Dom has the same birthday as my dad; I find the Freudian implications of this quite disturbing.

17. I have no sense of direction and I'm crap at telling left from right. For years I used get my B's and D's mixed up when I wrote – my brother is dyslexic and I sometimes wonder if I am slightly too.

18. I hate martyrs; it's a characteristic I cannot bear. I have a quote somewhere that goes "Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil". If it makes you unhappy – don't do it. And if you're choosing to do it (whatever it is) then please recognise that you've made that choice because you enjoy the smug feeling of selflessness it gives you – you're doing it because you get of on it so shut the fuck up whining.

This rant was brought to you by 6 years of working with volunteers.

19.I like peanuts but I hate peanut butter, I hate Marmite too.

20 I've never been in with the in crowd and I never will be. Whatever gene is needed to be a clique person is missing from my DNA. Most of the time I don’t really mind but I do wonder what quality it is you need to have to be a popular person, in RL or LJ. I'm not sure if it's the way you speak or the things you talk about or how funny or clever you are. It's interesting to watch popular people to try and see how they do it.

21. My belly button is pierced. I had it done about 4 years ago. It was a strange experience – laying on a table thing with a man with spiky purple hair staring at my belly trying to decide the best place for the hole. The funniest thing was I'd been out for a meal the night before and had drunk quite a lot of wine so the piercing bled more than it normally would (alcohol thinning the blood and all), I went to my friend Ashley's flat afterwards and ended up sitting on the floor with a bowl of salty water and some cotton wool mopping up the reservoir of blood that had formed in my belly button. We were watching Casualty appropriately enough.

22 I don't really like coffee but I love Frapachinno's from Starbucks – they remind me of Chicago (the place, not the show). I was introduced to them when I was living in the States and an Au Pair, my friends and I had a routine whereby whenever we went into downtown Chicago we'd leave the train station and find the nearest Starbucks and buy ourselves a mocha frapachinno. That first sip when the taste of coffee and chocolate hits my tongue always reminds me of feeling excited and adventurous and a little overwhelmed, drinking them always makes me smile.



23 Eleanor is my middle name – sort of. My parents wanted my name to be Eleanor and my middle name to be Arwen, but Eleanor Arwen doesn't work properly apparently, so they decided to put Arwen first. It can be frustrating because I've had to explain a thousand times that while Arwen comes first, my name is actually Eleanor. And for about 25 years no one had ever heard of the name and would give me a 'buzzah' look when I told them my middle name was Arwen, now of course I'm a cool Elven princess.

24 I love wildlife documentaries, particularly ones about wolves, elephants or big cats. For the past two years I've been completely addicted to the Big Cat Diaries the BBC has shown.

25 I love Mills and Boon books. They're the literary version of TV movies. I love how over the top and cheesy they are. I'd love to write one. I have this dream where I'm a romance writer, I can see myself living by the sea in a little cottage and going out into the garden with my dog and my laptop to write my latest ridiculous story. That would do, I could live that way.

26 Right now, I really really need my colleagues to shut the fuck up.

27 I also really really need a cup of tea, but I can't be arsed to make one.

28 Shopping Centres make me nuts. There's something about all those people pressed into a big, echoy, cheerfully lit building that makes me bat shit crazy after only a short amount of time. Something I've found that helps when I want to go nuts and start bludgeoning the identically dressed teenage girls that gather in packs is to go into the Disney store and play with the Eeyores.

30 Eeyore is my favourite Winnie the Pooh character. I like him because he's complicated, he has layers – he's not just grumpy. My favourite Winnie the Pooh story is Eeyore's birthday, where he is given a useful pot from Pooh and a balloon from Piglet and sits putting the balloon in the pot, then taking it out, then putting it back in again…so adorable!

31 Paul has made tea! Huzzah!

32 One of my favourite memories is from when I was in nursery; I would have been about 4. I loved going on the rocking horse but it was everyone's favourite toy and it was impossible to get a turn, so what I would do is wait until the end of the day when everyone else was tidying up and go on it then. It was brilliant – because all the other children were busy I used to stay on for ages making up songs as I rocked.

33 I can't stand peas. It's their texture more than the taste of them that I find so revolting. I hate the way they squish when you bite into them *shudder* They put the 'pulse' in 'repulsive'.

34 Coming up with 50 things is hard!

35 When I watched Dumb and Dumber I didn't laugh once.

36 When I was little I thought the line in the song I Can't Help Falling In Love With You that goes "take my hand, take my whole life too" went "take my hand, take my whole right arm". I prefer my version to the original

37 I always spell the word original wrong; I have some sort of mental block with it. I also have problems with words that end in 'ly', 'ley' and 'ely' I can never remember which one to use for different words.

39 I like jam but I don't like marmalade

40 I believe in angels and spirit guides. I think my spirit guide is a dog.

41 I have a scar on my left ankle from where I fell of a round-a-bout when I was 9

42 I was born on a Wednesday

43. My favourite song by The Cure is Friday I'm in Love, followed by Love Cats.

44 I can sometimes be incredibly lazy, and am unapologetic about it.

45 I once ate 4 jam donuts in a row – it had been a bad day.

46 I'm no good at doing fancy things with hair and make up. Foundation and a bit of mascara on special occasions is about all I can manage, and I'm far too lazy to bugger around the mouse and curling tongs and all that jazz. I comb my hair on a morning and that's about all I'm capable of.

47 I was 19 when I first flew on a plane. There was a problem with the seats and I got to sit in the cockpit with the pilot. It was fucking fantastic!

48 I can swear like a trooper if the situation calls for, but I don't use the 'c' word. I am, however, very fond of the word fuck.

49 I hate missing the trailers when I go to the cinema to see a film. And I hate people who sit in the back and snog – why spend £5 on a ticket if you're not going to watch the film? Stay at home and do that and save your self some money and stop pissing everyone off.

50 My mug at work is blue with a picture of a smiling cow on it saying moo.

Comments

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I agree with #49, trailers are part of the cinema experience. And don't snog in public, it's nasty!

You make me laugh. I too am that obsessed by tea too.