The 100 Things About Me Meme: Part 1

[ailbhe]

1. Sometimes I think that what I want to be is more important than what I am.
2. I sometimes get very confused over how I can feel so very Irish and yet feel so foreign when I go home.
3. I have a lower tolerance for what I perceive as vulgarity and what other people perceive as slightly bawdy humour than is acceptable to the people with whom I work.
4. My name is very very old and I'm very very proud of it.
5. I want to relearn to paint.
6. I want to learn calligraphy.
7. I want to sculpt again. I haven't done much of it but some of what I did was good.
8. I want to learn to sew properly.
9. I want a sewing machine.
10. I am very afraid that my RSI will prevent me from learning any of these to any great degree.
11. I enjoy dancing, which I do with my legs. My legs have never had RSI.
12. I want my children to know that they are part English, part Irish and part Swedish. I want them to speak all three languages, at least a little.
13. I want to speak all three languages myself
14. In some respects I am very shy. This is one reason I have not learned Swedish yet.
15. I am getting married this year.
16. I have been engaged since 10 October 2000, officially. I think we actually got engaged the Sunday before that.
17. The most important conversation I have ever had in my life happened in a Wimpy burger place in Watney Market.
18. There is one email only of which I keep copies. I have two paper copies and some electronic copies on three different computers and on a Visor. I show it to special people sometimes.
19. Last time I tried to speak to my father, it was to tell him that I was engaged to be married. He said "I'm not interested," and stood up and walked away with his back to me.
20. People are constantly amazed that he's not invited to my wedding, and I am constantly amazed by this.
21. I have developed a veritable passion for warm winter skirts and have obtained two which are absolutely wonderful in every way. And, by the way, they make me look great.
22. When I have nightmares, I have someone to wake me up and make me drink something before going back to sleep.
23. I am a prude in that I intensely dislike being wholly or partially undressed in public. It makes me feel profoundly unsafe.
24. Abandoned beaches, forests and prairies don't feel public.
25. I have no religious affiliations of which I am aware. I suspect I have more Christianity in me than I know of.
26. I enjoy religious music, especially choral music. I like it best if it is not in English.
27. Handel's Messiah is the only exception I can think of.
28. Twice I sang Faure's Requiem in a choir, all the way through. Once was a rehearsal, once was a performance.
29. Someday I intend to join a choir again. I have a sinking feeling that it will be a poor one.
30. I didn't know I liked cats until I owned a part-share in one. I knew I liked kittens.
31. Once I was woken by a ten-week-old kitten dive-bombing my ear.
32. I apologised to her for screaming, which had startled her.
33. I don't understand my cats.