25 Things About Me (From Facebook)

1. When I was about 10 years old I appeared as an extra on ITV's Popular Police drama, The Bill.

2. When I was about 10 and two months old I was extremely disappointed to find that my television debut amounted to a half second shot of a burnt photograph of me. ( I only knew it was me because I recognised my denim jacket.)

3. I have broken four bones in my lifetime. All in the same day. All in my right foot. I was around 12 years old.

4. My parents only recently found out that I broke my foot by jumping off a mates shed. They believed me when I told them I fell off the patio.

5. Once on the way to college I decided to check my appearance in the wing mirror of a car. After a fair old while I realised there was music coming from inside the car. I turned around to see an elderly man staring at me from the drivers seat. He did not look amused.

6. The first album I ever bought was Pulp "his n hers" in 1994/5.

7. The first music festival I ever went to was V 96. I went with my Mum.

8. I have a few scars, most are not prominent. The most noticeable is on my neck. Its about 4 inches long and is the result of having a cyst removed.

9.I had three staples put in my head to close a wound I made on my 17th birthday. I got too drunk and fell over in the sunrooms car park. In A&E I was told off for making faces at my brother and was promptly thrown out of the X-ray department for trespassing.

10. I have fallen asleep standing up in my parents garden shed.

11. My favourite poem at the moment is "Genius of the Crowd" by Charles Bukowski.

12. My Favourite book at the moment is "The Fall" by Albert Camus.

13. When I was little my favourite toy was a cabbage patch kid who I named "Silly-up Bert". He was later destroyed when, going through a Goth phase, my mate and me decided he would look cool hanging from my ceiling covered in fake blood and pins. I never really wanted to hang Silly-up Bert from the ceiling but was "too cool" to say anything and took him down as soon as my mate left.

14. The story in No.13 still makes me a little bit sad.

15. The fact that Nora wrote most of her list in the third person made me a little bit annoyed when reading it.

16. After watching an episode of 999 lifesavers when I was young I became obsessed with the notion that our house was going to burn down as I slept. This thought would keep me awake many nights.

17. If people ask me what my favourite film is I generally say Rebel Without a Cause.

18. I played the roles of "Hawaiian Girl" and "Stranger No.3" in my playschool and Infant School nativity plays. On reflection I think they probably made these roles up.

19. My first gig was at The Grand Hotel. I was so nervous I didn't let any of my friends come to it and sat pretty much with my back to the audience while playing.

20. I wanted to be a dog when I grew up.

21. When I was in secondary school I lost somebodies German exchange partner.

22. Me and My brother used to set Home Alone style traps for my dad. They always worked.

23. I would put hairnets, people singing along to songs when they don't know the words, anyone who would describe themselves as "mad" or "crazy", the sound of things scraping against the ice when you get them out of the freezer and the word "guesstimate" into Room 101. Though the second one is excusable when drunk.

24. If I live to be a pensioner I am going to steal from shops. I also intend to offer mints to stangers on buses and then give them raw mince meat if they accept.

25. I am rather good at rock, paper, scissors.

This is the End

After being pointed in this direction by Siobhan I have decided to start a Blog. So what has happened so far this morning? I arose at 7.45am not bad for an unemployed! I have had two cups of tea, a cigarette and two scotch pancakes and am feeling rather chipper. I feel today will be a huge contrast to yesterday's breakdowns (Causes: 1. My incompetence at navigating the libraries reference system 2. An article I read about a Prosopagnosia sufferer who could only recognise his wife in Tesco if she wore a red jumper 3. Almost crying because of a scene in Gilmore Girls 4. Almost crying because I was Watching Gilmore Girls.) (Un)Fortunately I have a group interview later for a job selling life insurance, I have been informed by the agency that it will consist mainly of team-building excersises and trying to sell mystery products to the group. I hate group interviews and have had many, the worst one was probably being forced to do a dance in the basement of the Lush shop in Southend. God, I HATE group interviews. If they ask me to describe myself in three words I shall be forced to say "Sticky Back Plastic." Oh well, I suppose it is only an hour of my life and I might aswell pretend to be a soulless-yet-very-bubbly selling machine, God knows I need the money. So yes, I shall be zainey, wackey, mad and crazy with good eye-contact and the ability to lead a conversation and make it up to my soul later. If that doesn't work I will jump up and down with my bum in the air, I've heard that's the kind of thing they're after. Oh well onwards and upwards, I shall fill you in on the key embarrassments later.