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Clarrie - Hundreds of things that you probably didn't know before


1. I have been mentioned in the acknowledgements of a published novel.

2. Reckless engineering' ISBN 0563 48603 1.

3. My fiance freely admits that were it not for a misunderstanding which resulted in him thinking me over twice my age ('email addresses swapped at party, followed by correspondence' type situation) we'd not be together, as all his previous partners were between twelve and sixteen years his senior.

4. This earnt him the nickname 'Granny fucker'

5. By me.

6. In 2002 I lost over five stone (70lb).

7. Which would be great, except that I was 23 stone (322lb) at the time

8. But, in fairness, it actually was my glands. Sort of. But with an eating disorder on top.

9. Now it's just my glands. Which suck.

10. Sometimes my scorn for Goths and gothery is all that gets me up in the morning.

11. I regularly listen to 'Veg Talk' the UK's only vegetable based 'phone in radio show.

12. Upon meeting me for the first time, Kenickie exclaimed 'Oh, I thought you'd be wearing all this Victorian stuff.'

13. I collect Evil Scarecrows.

14. I'm really, really hungry at the time of writing this.

15. I am saving up to buy a corset.

16. My parents still believe that my fiance is my first serious sexual partner.

17. I actually spent most of my teenage years having an amount of sex which astonishes me, as I looked like Brian Blessed.

18. Possibly because I was the only bi/lesbian teenager in Kent who hated the Manic Street Preachers, occasionally wore coloured clothing, and wrote no poetry.

19. Also, thinking back, choosy? Not so much....

20. I have owned eight goldfish, Freddie, Roberts, Catsmeat, Julian, Sandy, Albin, Yates and Benton.

21. I spent most of January and February 2003 partially convinced that my flat was haunted.

22. I kill plants, dead.

23. According to my fiance's parents, I'm the 'nice normal girl' they've been waiting for.

24. This scares me too.

25. Especially given the fact that the description he gave them before we met screamed 'crack whore' at the top of it's voice ('hi, mum? Dad? There's this girl half my age, she's really creative and artistic, just dropped out of Uni, has no job, and as I neglected to inform you of her existence until we'd been seeing each other for six months, it'll look like she moved in within about two months of meeting, byeee!')

26. I am almost certainly unable to have children.

27. This is a comfort to friends and relatives alike, who regularly point out that should I conceive, I may as well buy the Motel and rocking chair during the pregnancy, and save time later.

28. While at home on my own, I have occasionally called the cat 'Pesterling' and 'Schmegel'.

29. I am ashamed of this.

30. Not as ashamed as I am of the song I once sung, to the tune of 'Goldfinger'. To the cat.

31. Grey Mouser! She's the cat! The cat who has got some cheeeeeeese! Which makes her pleeeeeesed!

32. I've written fanfiction.

33. Crossover fanfiction.

34. Buffy, SherlockHolmes, Dracula crossover fanfiction.

35. I regularly shout at the radio.

36. When I get drunk, I rant about people who suck.

37. Um, also when sober.

38. I have, in the past, dressed as:

39. Lady highwayman

40. Bavarian serving wench

41. Schoolgirl.

42. Not in a 'wacky misunderstanding' way either.

43. Yup. Tacky, tacky sex...

44. This Wednesday I spent the day in Cheddar Gorge

45. Where we spent £25 ($40-ish) on cheese.

46. I have an obsession with one day possessing gas central heating.

47. I also have 'signature recipes'

48. Punch: 4-6 shots vodka, one-two glasses elderflower wine, litre (2pints) 'sour cherry nectar', as much crushed ice as your brain can handle.

49. Mouslagna: Make lasagne, use many more mushrooms than usual. Substitute thinly sliced potatoes for lasagne sheets.

50. I do realise quite how tragic this is.

51. I once said this down the pub, laughed, and said 'I'm turning into Doris Day.'

52. A friend replied 'I wish.'

53. Which was so much more information than I cared to know about him.

54. I bought my fiance Victorian porn for his birthday.

55. Which scared him.

56. For five years before we owned a home VHS, my mother owned a copy of 'The wrath of Kahn' which she had won in a competition.

57. I collect Joyce Grenfel memorabilia.

58. Not in an ironic way, either.

59. I bought an iron for the first time six weeks ago. That I may know the joy of clothing with deliberate creases.

60. Nope. Still haven't used it.

61. I'm currently trying to work out how to exercise sufficient guilt upon a friend of mine who's moving home, that they'll rent to us affordably, but not enough to destroy the friendship.

62. It's hard work, and I may give up soon.

63. I miss university.

64. Since moving to Bristol, my longest span of employment has been 8 weeks (part-time).

65. Though I am improving. The last job ended due to misunderstanding on both sides, and I'm on good terms with my ex-employer.

66. Rather than the curse shouting bridge burning I did elsewhere.

67. I have two phobias.

68. Craneflies (and, by extension, those spiders that look like wingless craneflies)

69. And Whitley Strieber aliens.

70. I can trace the latter to an incident, when I was five, and he appeared on UK chat show Wogan.

71. I am not scared of dentists.

72. Nevertheless, my first extraction (last Monday) was the most scared I've been in my life.

73. Recently, we worked out that my partner has slept with approximately a fifth of high profile female UK Dr Who fandom.

74. Which would be impressive, if there was more than eleven of us.

75. At the moment of writing it is eight days until my birthday.

76. My hardrive died last week, taking almost my entire record collection with it.

77. 1-2 GB of irreplaceable stuff too.

78. Arse.

79. There are two people in the world that I hate so much I wish I had some kind of method to go back in time and erase their existence.

80. Which I don't.

81. Arse again.

82. I can't drive.

83. I'm a bully.

84. I realise this and try to fight it.

85. The fact that I actually say 'When you try and humour me I only end up disgusted at your weakness, fight back, tell me to stop being a bitch and I'll shut up.' Seems to at least distract people.

86. I live in hope that it will one day cause understanding, rather than fear, annoyance, accusations of posturing or occasional worrying enthusiasm.

87. My keyboard is fucked.

88. I never wear t-shirts.

89. Because on fat women they're common.

90. I just booked an appointment for suggestion therapy with a reputable hypnotherapist.

91. Nope, nothing to do with sixty-eight or sixty-nine.

92. Internet explorer/windows explorer has been buggered on my computer for two years now, and I've still not bothered to fix it.

93. Despite my (never finished) BA being in Englit/Computer science.

94. I really, really, really hate tattoos.

95. I have successfully introduced the phrase 'Everquest hair' into the English language.

96. Everquest Hair: descriptive noun: Male hair which is long and shaggy, but denotes, rather than 'rock', a tendency to spend one's spare time running around a field pretending to be a Viking, singing songs about angst ridden vampire-cats at conventions, or spelling fairy with too many vowels.

97. The word is fucking FAE illiterates. And don't talk to me about Spencer. You've not read it. Also vampire has an I in it.

98. I once bought really cheap vodka, gin and whiskey for a party, and decanted it into Smirnoff, Bells, and Gordons bottles.

99. Yesterday, my partner and I drunk 8 tins of red bull between us, in three hours.

100. This list was way late.

Adri

*Amaranth

Amish Boy

Cate!

*Catriona

CB's Boy

CB Bro

Chrissy

Claris

Clarrie

Closet B

Cosmic Bob

*Dru

eiddy

Godeater

Jipsy Girl

KitCat

*Leather Jacket

Little Sister

loki

*MedusA

*moppety

Narrator

*Newfan

*Ogre

OzLady

PDR

paksenarrion

RTBS

Sarah

SarahNicole

Seska

Shehawken

'stina

Suzanne

Terwilliger

*Mr. Whyt

Willa

William Shatner

Xanderella

Zoey