Krystyn, whom I find mesmerising and very slightly intimidating, tagged me for this. It’s a meme. I didn’t kill it, but I did change some of the spelling and grammar. I know how to party.
1. Does someone love you?
Too many to list.
2. What colour is your couch?
Terracotta.
(Cue my parents muttering to each other in the sitting room about how I’ve just claimed their sofa as my own)
3. Has anyone ever mistaken you for someone famous?
Heh. A random little kid once thought I was an oompa loompa. I wasn’t (too) offended, but I much preferred the comparison that the musician drew about six months later: “Has anyone ever told you that Reese Witherspoon looks like you?”. Like she copied me.
4. Are you named after a grandparent?
My middle name Elizabeth is my paternal grandmother’s first name and my mum’s sister’s middle name. I was born on my aunt’s 30th birthday.
5. Say you were given a drug test right now. Would you pass or fail?
I’d pass. I still have my septum and intend to keep it for at least as long as I have the rest of my face.
6. Are you taller than 5′6″?
Yes. Assuming your tape measure starts at 20.
7. When was the last time you were disappointed?
When I lost my concentration and harvested a sweetcorn cob that wasn’t ready. It may have come to nothing even if I’d left it on the plant, but it bugged me that I’d got it wrong. Christ on a bike, is that really all I have to complain about?
8. Ever seen a dead body?
Only on the TV. But it kept falling off, so my parents moved it.
9. Who was the last person to send you a text message?
Suzy. She called me sexy and offered to buy me dinner. I accepted.
10. What did you do yesterday?
Emailed Lauren mostly. Made a bunch of invoices, tidied a few things, set up BlogHer ads ($1.72 so far, I thank you), scratched my head a lot, failed to get to sleep until after 2am this morning.
11. What’s the first thing you would do with five million dollars?
Pay off my brother’s mortgage. Then I’d own his house and could sell it if he was ever mean to me.
12. What nationalit(ies) are you?
Entirely British.
13. Any upcoming concerts you want to attend?
Next year, next year. It’s funny how I used to think that going to live concerts was something incredible that only Other People did … and now I have a tendency to fly to another country a couple of times a year just to see a show.
14. Who’s the last person that you felt was stalking you?
If I have a stalker then I haven’t noticed them at all. I don’t know if that means that they’re really good at stalking, or really bad.
15. What’s your zodiac sign?
Scorpio. That’s all I know.
16. Where do you spend most of your money?
My savings account. I’m very, very mean.
17. On what do you spend most of your energy?
An awful lot of energy goes into angsting and overanalysing things (right, L?), but at the same time, an awful lot of energy goes into just getting on with things and being sensible. I’m a treat. A mildly psychotic treat.
18. Is there a secret you’ve never told any of your friends?
Yes.
19. What are you doing in 2008?
I’m envisioning an enormous amount of translating, research and a bit more travelling to concerts. I also hope to have made the decisions on what to grow in my vegetable patch before the time comes to do the sowing and planting.
20. What’s your favourite Disney movie?
I’ve no idea which are Disney films and which are not. I do remember that The Little Mermaid scared the crap out of me at the cinema.
21. Have you cried today?
No, but feeling a little hormonal combined with some emotional storylines on The Archers has meant my eyes have been stinging a few times this week.
23. What is your ringtone?
A frog ribbiting. It is Cool.
24. What is the wallpaper on your mobile phone?
Just a bubbly pattern that was on the phone.
25. Name twenty five bloggers you read that you’d like to learn twenty five things about.
You’re all invited to answer one of the above questions in the comments.