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25 things

Published on 2009/02/21 in Trivia. 4 Comments

Because Ellie Lovell told me to…

  1. I can juggle (4 balls, 3 clubs, fire, knives).
  2. Ably assisted by a fantastic team, I organise an annual camp for around 500 Scouts.
  3. Around 30% of people who know me call me Nigel. That percentage used to be much higher.
  4. I know how to spell ceilidh without a spellchecker.
  5. I might be a workaholic, but I actually just really enjoy my job (most of the time!)
  6. I’m the Director of a company, which employs me and currently does very little else – a hangover from my freelancing days.
  7. I haven’t drunk Coke (or any other brands of cola) since November 2002 except one sip at Alton Towers, and I spat that out.
  8. I used to have a mild coke habit – I’ve replaced that with drinking coffee.
  9. I hate climbing up mountains but I keep getting tricked into doing it.
  10. I’ve never been interested in computer games.
  11. Being put in bottom set English in year 9 was a kick up the arse and now I get annoyed by incorrect grammar.
  12. I often wonder who would come to my funeral if I died in a car crash. I hope not to find out.
  13. I’m a bit of a maps geek – if I could afford it I would get a complete set of OS maps just because.
  14. My life is overly dependent on Google. I should probably fix that but the SMS reminders from Google Calendar make it look like I have friends.
  15. I have started eating most foods I used to avoid (e.g. mushrooms) because it seemed like too much effort to pick them out of meals.
  16. I still won’t eat courgettes – they’re sinister.
  17. I’m a life member of the YHA and feel slightly guilty for not using them more.
  18. I think I swear quite a lot but most people don’t seem to notice.
  19. I remember virtually nothing from my early childhood, and those memories I do have were probably seeded by other people.
  20. I have almost all of my (non-work) emails going back to 1997. I cringe when I read what I was like 10 years ago.
  21. If I had $1,000,000 I’d buy you a monkey (but if more than one person is actually reading this you’ll have to share).
  22. I work in Higher Education, so clearly I don’t have $1,000,000.
  23. I often book cheap flights to places on a whim and leave the details like what to do and where to stay when I get there to the day before.
  24. There’s a few people who I owe more to than they’ll ever know.
  25. For a group project at university I wrote a program to play Texas Hold ‘em. I find poker fascinating, but I know better than to play for money.

I don’t wish to pressure people into thinking they have to follow suit (ha!) but if you want to share your deepest insecurities I’m sure plenty of people will be willing to read them.