I’m way behind the times on this meme, but here goes:<\/p>\n
1. I was born a month early after just a couple hours of labour.<\/p>\n
2. I own a necklace with a Tuareg cross on it.<\/p>\n
3. I dislike spiders, although this manifests itself as agression more than fear. I smooshed a huge fat one this morning that left a large brown stain on the wall.<\/p>\n
4. I once threw a machete up in the air which landed on my head.<\/p>\n
5. Lois Bujold is possibly my favourite author.<\/p>\n
6. I dislike talking on the phone.<\/p>\n
7. I played volleyball in high school. I wasn’t very good, but I lettered anyway. Then in university I got much better just playing recreationally, until I hurt my back one day landing wrong from a block.<\/p>\n
8. I don’t really care about cars. If money was no object, I’d probably get a hybrid, just for the geek factor.<\/p>\n
9. Life dreams: successfully landing a large airliner after both pilots have heart attacks. Conquering West Africa by force of arms and establishing the Gordonian Empire. Building spaceships.<\/p>\n
10. I didn’t dislike Matrix Reloaded as much as some, but it’s nowhere near as good as the first one.<\/p>\n
11. I used to collect spent 5.56mm shell cases from the firefights in our neighborhood.<\/p>\n
12. Not a Bush-hater.<\/p>\n
13. A & W onion rings are a guilty pleasure.<\/p>\n
14. I have a degree in math and computer science, and another in linguistics and exegesis. Unfocused? Nah…<\/p>\n
15. I’m a founding shareholder of the company I work for.<\/p>\n
16. I swear in Arabic.<\/p>\n
17. Did I mention I have a bad back? I could say this is because I don’t exercise or stretch enough, but I think I’ll just blame it on France.<\/p>\n
18. I am not allowed to be a citizen of the country I was born in.<\/p>\n
19. I hate it when people forward me email that has itself been forwarded twenty times, that contains a stupid joke, or worse, a flash or shockwave animation.<\/p>\n
20. “I do not have a sweet tooth . . .”<\/p>\n
21. I like the King James Version, but only for aesthetic reasons.<\/p>\n
22. I used to only listen to classical music.<\/p>\n
23. Some favourite movies: The Thomas Crowne Affair<\/i>, Three Seasons<\/i>, The Spanish Prisoner<\/i>.<\/p>\n
24. Every once in a while, growing up, I used to build 747s out of Legos.<\/p>\n
25. I need at least 7 hours of sleep.<\/p>\n
26. I have lived at least a month in: Zwedru, Liberia; Vancouver, BC, Canada; Scarborough, ON, Canada; Congo Town, Monrovia, Liberia; Vancouver again; Springfield, Missouri, USA; Paynesville, Monrovia, Liberia; Peterborough, ON, Canada; Paynesville again; Lom\u00c3\u00a9, Togo; Langley, BC, Canada; Bouak\u00c3\u00a9, C\u00c3\u00b4te d’Ivoire; Langley again; Victoria, BC, Canada; Surrey, BC, Canada, Vancouver again.<\/p>\n
27. In speech class I wrote and delivered a speech in Klingon. I also demonstrated an invisible gravity mine.<\/p>\n
28. I have had red hair; it’s more blondish-brown now. Once I dyed it red again, and no one noticed. Once I bleached it.<\/p>\n
29. In university I sang in a chamber choir that did many projects with the top orchestras in Vancouver. Now I sing in my church choir and worship band.<\/p>\n
30. My sister is a doctor. My brother is a classical tenor.<\/p>\n
31. I rarely remember my dreams, which is mostly a blessing.<\/p>\n
32. I have been engaged, but never married.<\/p>\n
33. I have landed an airplane. I have gallopped a horse. I have scuba-dived below 60 feet.<\/p>\n
34. My mission in life: to get people to think accurately and rigourously about things.<\/p>\n
35. I love the sound of ocean waves.<\/p>\n
36. I’ve never done much dancing, but occasionally I’ve been seen doing East Coast swing or the Lindy Hop.<\/p>\n
37. I like Shiraz, not Chardonnay.<\/p>\n
38. I’d like to have a daughter someday.<\/p>\n
39. I’m pretty deaf to poetry.<\/p>\n
40. I read Robin McKinley’s Beauty<\/i> when I’m stressed.<\/p>\n
41. A friend of mine in high school and I were going to start a sci-fi magazine. Luckily there was a war before we could really get started.<\/p>\n
42. I’m a melancholy sort of guy, but it’s overrated.<\/p>\n
43. I have travelled to: France, Kenya, Holland, Nigeria, Germany, Switzerland, England, Japan and Korea.<\/p>\n
44. I have never done any illegal drugs.<\/p>\n
45. I know all the words to my national anthem, in English and French.<\/p>\n
46. I don’t like the taste of coffee. I do like Darjeeling tea.<\/p>\n
47. I have often walked around reading a book.<\/p>\n
48. I wear black, not from any consciousness of fashion or unfashion, but because I’m too lazy to figure out any other combinations. But Erik thinks I just want to be African.<\/p>\n
49. I own (and don’t hesitate to wear) a kilt.<\/p>\n
50. I like the sound of bagpipes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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