100 Things About Me
- I am legally blind.
- I prefer identify first language over person first, because person first makes it sound as if I can take my disability off as if it's an attachment.
- I don't like abled people telling me how to refer to myself or my disability.
- I like to drink room temperature water in the winter.
- I have three main hobbies: buying art supplies, organising art supplies, and using art supplies.
- I love binge-watching old TV shows as background and comfort noise, particularly Cadfael, the first four seasons of Babylon 5, and Veronica Mars.
- I have seen Gary Numan live six times.
- I love singing jazz.
- Cooking is a monumental bore.
- I am childfree by choice.
- I have had surgery to render myself incapable of pregnancy.
- I have zero regrets about either of the above two things.
- The only car I've ever driven was an F2000 racecar.
- Aside from various locations in Canada, I've been to the US, England, France, Hungary, Germany, and Cuba.
- I don't know how to swim.
- The older I get the more politically and socially angry I get, and the "leftier" I get.
- I like systems that benefit people collectively.
- I cannot abide the smell of mutton cooking.
- My favourite colours are warm greens - like grasses, leaves, and olives.
- Celebrity and influencer culture bore the shit out of me.
- I have no real desire to own a home. I'm content ro rent.
- I love abstract art.
- I am an atheist and antitheist.
- I haven't watched a sitcom in so long I don't even remember the last one I watched.
- I have five tattoos.
- I haven't watched any mainstream Canadian broadcast news since the second week of October 2023.
- When I have tea, I only like milk in it.
- My favourite songs to listen to loud are Gary Numan's Hope Bleeds version of Are Friends Electric?, Led Zeppelin Nobody's Fault But Mine, Fugazi Waiting Room, and Gang of Four To Hell With Poverty.
- My love for loud music has not blunted as I get older.
- I didn't know my blood type until about five years ago.
- Songs that mention luxury brand names annoy the shit out of me.
- Things that other people seem to like which I don't: the movie Titanic, Taylor Swift, wine.
- Things that I like which other people seem not to like so much, include: pigeons, spinach, communists. Only the middle one for eating. I don't want to eat communists. Although I've had pigeon once, and it was delicious.
- i prefer micro-fine black ink pens over any other kind.
- My first name apparently roughly translates to "ready for battle". Anyone who knows me is going to find that funny.
- Crunchy peanut butter is superior to smooth.
- I like collecting postcards.
- Some things I like include tea, navel oranges, speculative fiction, loud guitar, corn bread, black pepper, leaf scuffing, ruby grapefruit, exploring abandoned buildings, surprise bags, milk chocolate, puns, warm spring days, a seriously good mindfuck, comfort films, the Oxford comma, constrained writing, ice cream, and costume drama.
- My favourite mindfuck film is probably still Altered States.
- I'm starting to come around to the term apocalist as opposed to bucket list.
- I prefer pre-Moonratker Bond films.
- I like to sing, preferably jazz standards or things of that like.
- I think the reason most people who say they don't like jazz think they don't like jazz, is specifically because of scat and bebop.
- I am grossed out by potato eyes.
- I don't like people watching me do housework.
- I truly believe that Frampton Comes Alive! does have restorative powers.
- I like the sounds of wind in the trees and rain on the streets.
- My household theme song is Tim Curry's I Do the Rock.
- My favourite Beatles' song is Dig a Pony.
- I don't like having my picture taken. No paparazzi!
- I believe that you should work to live not live to work.
- I believe that if life hands you lemons, you should make pie. Everything is better with pie.
- I once cut myself with bubble wrap.
- For years I've been keeping a notebook in which I write a list of things to be happy about.
- I like attention. I don't like being the centre of attention.
- I never learned how to put on any makeup other than lipstick.
- I think best days ever include: Gary Day (any day on which I get to see Gary Numan live), New Toothbrush Day / Dentist Cleaned My Teeth Day, New Art Supplies Arrive in the Mail Day, The Day I Learned About Server-Side Includes, and Friday.
- I like when there's enough of something.
- For a long time when I was a child I wouldn't walk right up to my bed if the lights were out. I'd get about a foot away then jump onto it. I blame this on the movie Blackbeard's Ghost and that scene where he's looking into the mirror and the ghost appears behind him.
- Sometimes I eat oranges because I like the sharp sweet smell more than I'm desirous of actually eating it.
- One of my favourite things in the world is the tenor solo in the Ode to Joy, and the way it creeps up on you every time, like how Brain Damage/Eclipse creeps up on you and surprises you every time at the end of Dark Side of the Moon. I never get tired of that.
- I like the film Lawrence of Arabia.
- I believe in the right to choose.
- I like to eat sweet things, but I don't like the smell of it on my hands afterwards.
- I once volunteered to participate in a psych study just to get one of the perks of doing the study: copies of MRI scans of your brain.
- For years I wouldn't get in an elevator first or get out last, because when I was five I got stuck in an elevator during a hydro company-oriented power outage. They decided that a school day's lunch time was the perfect time to do some testing. Boy did they get an earful from a number of people.
- I get an enormous charge out of location-spotting the city where I live in films and TV shows.
- My hair used to be a lovely golden red when I was young. It got blonder as I got older. That bums me out. I want the red back.
- My current favourite vulgarity is halve poes.
- I don't enjoy magic shows, sitcoms, Star Wars, or superhero movies.
- I prefer 1% milk. Homogenised is too fatty and skim is like water.
- I like making lists.
- I own a green bass guitar.
- I have never chugged maple syrup.
- I don't like drinking carbonated drinks on hot days.
- I like anise in candy but not with meat.
- One time my mother ordered me groceries as a gift, but she accidentally doubled everything so I ended up with 20lbs of potatoes.
- I hate wearing pink. I don't own anything pink.
- Shrimp are too creepy to eat, as are snails.
- I have no interest in jewellery and don't like white diamonds.
- The skins that sometimes form on top of hot chocolate drinks are gross.
- When I was five I had an imaginary friend named Charlie Brokentoaster.
- I rarely drink alone. I come from a long line of alcoholics, so I just didn't want to get into the habit of drinking by myself. I want to enjoy alcohol, so I keep alcohol as a social thing.
- Coloured pencils are one of my favourite things.
- I just realised I've been playing Candy Crush for over a decade. That's just weird.
- I never figured out Double Dutch when I was a kid.
- Sometimes I miss ringing telephones.
- I bought the kid version of a Waterpik because it was green and came with stickers.
- My first Doctor was Jon Pertwee, but my favourite Doctor was Tom Baker.
- Places I still want to visit include Uluru, Death Valley, and Kilimanjaro. None of these things is likely to come to pass.
- I don't mind long bus rides. Good reading time.
- I believe everyone has a creative capacity.
- My favourite scents include the sharpness of lemon, orange, and grapefruit rinds, pine, and cooking soup.
- Boomer thinkers annoy the shit out of me.
- I like found object art and found poetry.
- I wish cereal wasn't so carby. Sometimes a body gets a craving.
- I can't eat bananas unless they're still a little green, because they're way too sweet when they're all the way yellow.
- I still don't understand how I can not touch the lenses of my glasses and they still get marks on them. What the hell's up with that?
- My cousins and I used to sneak fresh rhubarb out of their grandfather's garden when we were little.
- Racism and bigotry are deal-breakers for me.