Ms L has tagged me with the 8 random things about me meme. Here goes:
1) I was an avid dungeons and dragons player during my high school days. So much so that not only did I play dungeons and dragons, but also Magic; the gathering, which is a fantasy battle card game, and also Blood bowl, which is a fantasy Girdion game. It was all hella fun too, especially blood bowl, which was the most board game like of the three, and had the advantage of having a beginning and an end to each game. I actually still have the miniatures of my team, which were painted by my best friend in high school, Eric, because I was a terrible painter.
2) I wish I was more arty than I am. I am filled with envy of people who can see pictures in thier heads, and can reproduce them externally, whether by painting or sculture or drawing or whatever.
3) The first award for writing I ever won was for a poem I wrote about a turtle. I was in Year 1 at school, and I still have the certificate, although sadly all copies of the poem have been lost.
4) I never gave back my ex-boyfriend’s plush Dilbert doll when we broke up.
5) At an organic food fair, I gushed like a love-sick teenager when I met Kylie Kwong and asked her to sign my calico bag, even though I’ve never been to her restaurant, or bought any of her cook books, or cooked any of her recipes, and generally haven’t even liked the food she was cooking the few times I’ve seen her on TV.
6) The first CD I ever bought was It’s Alright by East 17. This was when I was 15 years old and several months prior to me owning or having access to a CD player, but I figured at the time CDs were the way of the future and even if I didn’t have a CD player at the time of purchasing my first CD, I eventually would have one.
7) I have had 7 piercings in total, of which I still have three. First was my eyebrow, which grew out after a year. Then I got my eyebrow done again, after which I got my labret piercing. Then the second eyebrow piercing grew out after 2 years, and I went for about 3 years with just the labret. Then I had both nipples done in the same session, right first then left, just before my 27th birthday. The right one lasted about 6 months, and the left one about a year, but I took them both out for the same reason, which was that they kept catching on my shirts, which would prolong the healing process. Then most recently I got a PA in my peep, and an ear cartilage piercing, which are now almost two weeks old. I still have the labret, which is the one I’ve had the longest.
8) At the moment my favourite colour is yellow. Normally it’s blue, or green, or purple or red, but it’s never been yellow before. I’ve bought a bunch of stationary for my new law degree that I’ve started, and it’s all yellow. Go figure.