To reveal 8 things about ourselves….
THE RULES
1. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
2. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
Ok…Here goes…
1. I was married for 3 years.
2. I am humanist, pluralist, relativist, atheist.
3. At school…I was totally into Mathematics and Science…my first degree was in Pharmacy…and underneath my artsy exterior…is a science geek.
4. My search is for an interesting life.
5. I eat like a heroin addict. ( Though I’m not one.) That is, I forget to eat…until I start to feel weak… and then am perfectly happy to eat the easiest thing…to keep me going…If I ate cheese and tomato rolls every day for the rest of my life…I’m not sure I’d notice…Though I might drop dead of malnutrition. So I suppose I’d notice that. It’s a good thing I take a multi-vitamin tablet every day.
6. I fall in love with ideas much more readily than I do with people. Though I do fall in love with the idea of a person. It’s falling in love with an actual person… that’s not so easy.
7. “Drawn Together” is currently my favourite show on TV.
8. I don’t have a mobile phone. On purpose. I love the fact…my time is my own. To make stuff. Or think about stuff. Or laugh at my own jokes. Or laugh at myself, with myself.
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Now I’m meant to give 8 blogs…to continue this meme.
Usually I avoid doing things like that. The Chain letter vibe…
But I will name 8 people…and if they read this blog…they can add it in the comments…of this post… if they don’t have their own blog…or do this in their own blog….
Daniel Metz, Gary Slezak, Madeleine Maguire, Walter MacIntosh, Paul Baram, Bookrten, Tristan, Sioned Fay.
Thanks for sharing. I am now on a mission to make you eat better: healthy balanced meals to stimulate the mind!
The original tag, by the way, is here: http://lastnightwithriviera.blogspot.com/2007/07/meme-7-ou-8-choses-que-je-sais-de-lui.html
1. i love genuine art like jack feldsteins’, marcel proust’s, john jacob kerouac, ernest hemingway, elliott smith, ricky gervais, sofia coppola, richard d. james, elvis
2. i am a bit of an artist myself, shy and arrogant! check out my newest creation here: http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=11992782
as well as the rest of my videos, music and writing on myspace.com/goldandsilk
3. i plan on joinig the navy within a year, just as soon as i get healthy and ready (ever had a peptic ulcer? ever tried quitting smoking, drinking, caffeine on a sharp whim?)
4. I really admire people who follow their dreams and go above and beyond what is expected of them, from everybody.
5. radiohead
6. coen brothers + p.t. Anderson (both have new films coming out this year)
7. eternity
8. “‘Submit to being called a neurotic. You belong to that splendid and pitiable family which is the salt of the earth. All the greatest things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they and they only who have founded religions and created great works of art. Never will the world be conscious of how much it owes to them, nor above all of what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it. We enjoy fine music, beautiful pictures, a thousand exquisite things, but we do not know what they cost those who wrought them in sleeplessness, tears, spasmodic laughter, rashes, asthma, epilepsy, a terror of death which is worse than any of these.’” – proust
would he understand us internet-neurotics?
Hey thanks Nick ( Bookrten) for this. And your nature tips…are much appreciated…
You had a peptic ulcer? So you’re prone to them?
That’s my favourite trait in a person.
:^)
Wow, Jack. Evidently I haven’t been spying on you very diligently. You mentioned me in your blog three entire days ago and I only just saw it. And now here I am. Who’d have ever guessed it would come to this?
I love ‘Drawn Together’ too. My favourite episode is the one where Spanky Ham and Princess Clara don’t remember ordering their pizza…with SAUSAGE!!!
But I must disagree with the heroin addict model of your eating habits, because it neglects to describe your bizarre behaviour and total lack of impulse control when it comes to nuts. I recall you once told me a story about how you were summoned to the manager’s office and sternly reprimanded after eating nuts in a supermarket. Now everybody eats nuts in the supermarket, yet you are the only person I have ever heard of who had to speak to the manager about it. So how many damn nuts did you eat? The whole display? Furthermore, I have personally witnessed you scavenging potentially contaminated pistachios from a bowl on a deserted table outside a bar. Anything could have happened to those nuts. They might have been spiked. I’m forced to conclude that you don’t eat nuts like a heroin addict at all. More like a homeless person. Or a bulimerizer.
1. I have a positive family history for the following (mostly) hereditary diseases, in no particular order:
– malignant melanoma;
– colorectal adenocarcinoma (first degree relative, diagnosed age 41);
– lateral medullary syndrome (also occurring in a relative aged 41);
– diffuse Lewy body disease;
– Alzheimer’s disease;
– hypertension;
– hypercholesterolaemia;
– bipolar I;
– generalised anxiety disorder;
– major depressive disorder, severe with psychotic features;
– anorexia nervosa;
– schizotypal personality disorder;
– mitral valve prolapse;
– mitral valve incompetence;
– atrial fibrillation;
– spontaneous pneumothorax;
– obstructive sleep apnoea;
– osteoarthritis;
– osteoporosis;
– gastro-oesophageal reflux disease;
– hiatus hernia;
– severe periodontal disease;
– palmoplantar hyperhidrosis;
– female androgenetic alopecia.
So far I’ve inherited two of them.
2. I lived as a Mormon for three years.
3. My first obsessional unrequited crush was on David Bowie after I saw him in ‘Labyrinth’ when I was five years old.
4. At school my favourite subjects were English, Philosophy and Visual Art. Hence underneath my clinical, geeky exterior is a stunted, frustrated, starving, repressed artist whom I occasionally feed cigarettes.
5. When I was in pre-school I decided I was a bear. I stayed in character for two full months, and when spoken to would answer only with ‘Grrr, I am Sheba, the Great Brown Bear’. My teachers understandably suspected I was developmentally delayed, and sent me to be assessed by a child psychiatrist, who concurred. My mother was beside herself.
6. As a second-year medical student I boycotted all my neuroanatomy pracs because I became seized by the irrational fear that I would contract Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (the human form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy) from prions in the cadaver brains. The incidence of sporadic CJD is one in a million.
7. I’m left-handed.
8. I’m hopeless at trivia. This could be because none of my knowledge is trivial.
9. My relatively well-groomed appearance belies the fact that I am an utter grot. My bag is full of cab receipts, MRSA-infested hospital tourniquets, other people’s lip balm and decomposing vegetable matter. The floor of my room is so thickly strewn with clothes, shoes, books and unopened mail that I have to trample and dive over things to get to my bed, which itself is piled high with more of the same. I get pins and needles in my legs while I’m sleeping due to the sheer weight of crap on top of my doona. My idea of doing the laundry is spraying Impulse in the armpits of my clothes and then hanging them up in the bathroom while I shower. Who am I kidding. I don’t even do that. But I do wash my hands before and after every patient.
10. When I see the colour orange, my brain doesn’t turn orange; I just get this idea in my mind…of orange. It’s an orange idea. Now I don’t love having orange ideas, but I do love magenta ones, because magenta is my favourite colour. What I mean to say is that I think there is no semantic difference between loving the idea of a person and loving that person. But that’s only my opinion.
Wait. I was supposed to stop at eight. Oops. Don’t think I’m going to tag anyone either, seeing as I have no online friends. Hey I broke all the rules. Watcha gonna do? Punish me?
You may well be the funniest woman in the world.
But in my eyes, you will always be “Sheba, the Great Brown Bear.”
As for the nuts incident…I’m still traumatised by that.
Because the Asian manager said to me..with narrowed Triad eyes,.
” You have unusual face. I will never forget your face. You must never enter this Coles Supermarket again.”
The incident has made me consider an extreme plastic surgery facial makeover.
Shopping at that Coles Supermarket was very handy.
now we have a cohesive food-health-mental illness theme going, ill say that
1. yes ive got an ulcer, my new diet is like this:
-v8 juice (i dont know too many people who enjoy this thing, but i am getting used to the idea of drinking a ton of nutrition in one swampy, thick, radiant cup of orange)
- no coffee (a little tougher to get used to, so i’ve bougth some fancy shmanzy decaff apple cinnamon green tea. i have been drinking it like crazy!!)
-Wheaties (cereal), wheat bagels, grapefruit, Subway, antacids, Antibiotics, antihistamines
- no spicey foods, no alcohol
the toughest part of course is not drinking coffee or caffeine, i feel like a fatigued zombie every day for certain parts. if you’re a coffee drinker, then it’s like a regular day, except the times when you feel energetic and good (first thing in the morning, mid day), you feel exhausted and sleepy!
so that is the peptic ulcer exercize! repeat for 6-8 weeks and enjoy
now, granted, i am being melodramatic about the whole thing, but we ARE on the topic..!!!
Jack/Daniel,
I’ve been a little voyeurisitic until now….sitting here checking out your interchange…..now I must enter the fray…..oh well, here goes!
Some facts……I have a bit part in Jack’s animation A Wondrous Film About Emma Brooks (my daughter Liora has the starring role).
I have been involved in the world of creativity. Jack and I wrote stuff years ago…I am currently involved in the world of casual brutality as a lawyer…..I will return to the other world in due course.
I of course love my wife and two children.
I also love the eccentric world (I try to mask this in my work as a lawyer….however, the perceptive ones see through this – just ask Gary Slezak).
Thank G_d my cholesreol is under control.
http://schleppingupstream.blogspot.com/2007/07/metempsychoses-vestibular-neuronitis.html