1. Born on November 10th, 1978, I am currently 24 years old. I figured I'd start with the basics and build on it.

2. I've never met a pint of beer I didn't like.

3. I am at thing number three, and already I'm struggling.

4. When I was 11, I read The Hobbit over 20 times, against my will. It was the class assigned book for a year, and while the book was read aloud in a stultifying monotone by the tormentee of the day, no other book was allowed to be open on your desk.

5. Later on, something similar happened with Macbeth, but I was older, and could spend the time fantasising about the girl who sat 3 desks in front of me, so it wasn't so bad.

6. At the age of 24, I got over my Tolkein issues, and started The Lord of the Rings. I'm quite enjoying it.

7. "PDR" my name on the internet, is taken from my initials, PDR Harries. I'm not entirely without imagination, I just kinda like it.

8. While out driving tonight, in the wee small hours of the morning, a car came round a corner in a completely uncontrolled skid, narrowly missing the front of my car. I didn't even blink, in retrospect, probably because it felt like a dream.

9. When I was small I would help my Dad take out the rubbish. I was too small to put the rubbish in the big garden bin, but Dad would pick me up and use me to tamp it down.

10. I actually care about politics, and democracy and stuff, and separation of church and state, and truth, and a powerful independent 3rd estate. It amazes me that others don't.

11. I never actually tire of the look on people's faces when it sinks in that I really did study Mathematics *and* History at University.

12. I'm always secretly kind of glad when corporate executives word missives to us as employees in a less than sensitive manner, for it affords me the opportunity to refer to them 'smacking us in the face with the giant corporate cock'. It makes me feel like Dilbert. With tourette's.

13. I tell people that if I won the lottery, I'd quit my job, tour the world, buy a Gibson Les Paul Elegant, buy an Aston Martin DB7 Vantage, go back to University, and spend the rest of my days as an academic and a writer.
Realistically, I would do those things, but not before I'd sat around in my pants drinking beer for a couple of months.

14. I live with a gay man, and have not once felt the need to doubt my own heterosexuality. Someone should tell Jerry Falwell.

15. Quite recently, I dyed my hair blonde. I really like it!

16. At the age of 15, I decided I wanted to have as many letters after my names as I have in it. So far I am Philip David Robin Harries MA(Hons). I have some way to go.

17. I didn't cry when I was born, but instead looked around me with wide open eyes and an intense amount of curiousity. This is according to my Dad, who adds that my first emotional response seemed to be a sneer directed at the unpleasant choice of decor.

18. I hate bananas. It's not hyperbole, I hate them.
It's not that I simply don't like the taste, I hate them. I hate bananas. I'm sorry.

19. I'm 5'7" tall, which is exactly the average height in this country.

For a woman.

20. I am the tallest person in my family by a considerable margin.

21. I would like to do a further Masters degree (MPhil), and hopefully a PhD, on the evolution of World War One battlefield medicine from the perspective of a colonial regiment. This has developed in time, and may develop again, but really excites me.

22. I am unashamedly a Mathematician. Throw your vegetables and rocks, for I have Differential Geometry as my shield.

Ow.

23. My family know about Bronzers, but they have no idea what a formative influence The Bronze has been in my life.

24. I didn't want to read the Harry Potter books, I thought they'd be stupid. Now I buy them for my mother as birthday presents.

25. I have been to North America, Europe and Africa. I would love to see Japan.

26. I get too worked up when films distort history but I still think I'm right to care. Especially goddamn Braveheart.

27. I think everyone should read, often and with pleasure. To that end, I don't care what you read, but read.

28. I am not born to be good at DIY, and I don't enjoy it, but I'm pretty useful when I have to be.

29. I love my Dad, not least because if he wasn't so utterly useless at DIY, I would never have had such great practise fixing his mistakes.

30. Possibly one of the funniest things I have ever seen is my Dad trying to cut down a tree with a spade.

31. I always have about 20 books on my 'to read soon' list, and more than 50 on my fallback list. It is a sad truth that many of these may never get read. This, more than anything, is why I play the lottery.

32. I laugh at my own jokes, but this is seen as crass. So quite often, *I'm secretly laughing inside*.

33. I think that the only logically tenable religious position is 'buggered if I know', but I'm kinda jealous of all my friends who do know.

Hell will have all of the fun people, you'll see...

34. I didn't really want to see Pirates of the Carribbean, but when I did, I loved it, and ever since then it's been growing on me even more. I really want to see it again. And I keep thinking I should wear eyeshadow.

35. I have never, knowingly, been cool. Such times, if any exist, as I may be perceived as cool are entirely accidental.

36. I've never felt I was entirely a geek either.

37. I am in bed and it is 4.51am, and I am working on this list. Claris must pay.

38. I went to bed.

39. It is now morning.

40. I like to judge people on the quality of their Messenger names, and approve of constantly changing ones.

41. For a while there, I had two 34s. Whoops.

42. Claris suggested I use some old drinking stories to fill this out, but I can't think of any. Not that they didn't happen, it just turns out I can't remember any of them.

43. If I met my younger self, I'm sure I'd think he was very sweet, but wouldn't let this stop me from smacking him around for about an hour before settling down for a very. long. chat.

44. I won the lottery today. £10. I've thought about it, and I've decided not to retire.

45. Before I was born, my parents decided to have an amnioscentesis test, that among other things, returned that I was a boy. This was misread, and they decided to call me Alison. I'm glad they changed their minds, although this hasn't stopped some people from calling me Alison anyway.

46. I have kissed 8 more girls than I have slept with.

47. The powercuts in the US are affecting my job. For some reason I'm finding this vaguely exciting.

48. I'm also a little worried about Chrissy.

49. Apparently Chrissy is fine, but I can't get through to her, as her phone is engaged. Bah! It turns out I hate the Canadian engaged tone just as much as the British.

50. For some reason, people seem to trust me on relationship advice. I simply cannot imagine why this should be the case.

51. When I was small, my father told me that middle names had to be purchased, and that even though he had none, he had worked hard so that his children could have not one, but two middle names each. I was very grateful. I trusted this as truth for *3 years*, and when I found out, Dad had forgotten ever telling me the story.

Or so he claims.

52. My favourite Terry Pratchett quote is, "Ankh-Morpork was a democracy, one man, one vote. The Patrician was that man. He had that vote."

53. I give good massage.

54. I am addicted to hugging.

55. My favourite website is still, and may ever be, www.strindbergandhelium.com, although http://www.bitterfilms.com/anesthetics.html is a close second.

56. I look at my watch more often to find out what day it is than what time. I changed my watch 2 years ago, and it no longer tells me the date or day of the week.

I still look.

57. Chrissy is absolutely fine and I have spoken to her.

58. I have one sister, three years older than me.

59. I have decided, to spice things up, to include precisely 6 flagrant lies.

60. Actually it was me who defeated Napoleon at the battle of Waterloo.

61. I am proud to know many, many intelligent people, none more so than my Mother.

62. My IQ was once measured at 173, but the only official test said only that it was 150+.

63. I have the strength of ten men.

64. My favourite film is Grosse Pointe Blank.

65. My favourite TV series is The West Wing, but my favourite TV series *of all time* is of course, Buffy.

66. Looking around my room for ideas of what to write, all I see is mess.

67. I played at Woodstock. I was bigger than Hendrix, but they cut me out of the official history because of politics.

68. Apart from underage drinking, I've never taken an illegal drug in my life.

69. I was only a little tempted to make a sexual joke for entry 69.

70. My parents named me after Prince Philip, because they really respect his tolerant beliefs.

71. I live in a giant bucket.

72. I didn't learn to walk until I was 6.

73. I learned to *run* at 2.

74. I have a thing about military cemeteries. Not like, you know a *thing* - but I think they're important to see, and that it's important to visit them and remember. They make me cry.

75. My mother thinks I am fussy about food. This is only because she *only serves food that I don't like*. I'll actually eat almost anything, especially if it's sushi or pizza.

76. My favourite building ever is either The Houses of Parliament or Glasgow University Main Building. I also liked the new Library of Congress building.

77. The best pizza ever is made at Di Maggio's West End, Glasgow. Brie, Ham, Chicken and Mushroom. The chef knows of me ntirely through my ordering this pizza. Carlos the waiter gives me free drinks sometimes too.

78. I haven't played a sport for ages, because of the shifts I work. I miss it. I have played football, squash, badminton and cricket regularly. I miss football most of all. I like any sport with a ball, with the exception of golf, which is a good walk spoiled.

79. I throw quotes into conversation quite often, and am always vaguely disappointed when people don't pick up on them. I particularly like Oscar Wilde quotes for this purpose.

80. I fully accept the fact that I drink too much, and occasionally stop drinking for a month, just to prove to myself that I can.

81. The only possession that I *really* care about, and that I might die for, is the gold signet ring my Mum gave me when I graduated. My grandfather wore it for 42 years, she wore it for 42 years, and I have every intention of wearing it for 42 years or until I die.

82. My taste in music is incredibly diverse and eclectic. The only thing I could point to that draws it together is passion. My favourite music is music with passion.

83. Although I love being creative, my ideal job would be working with people. I just really enjoy helping people out. In work, going the extra mile to help someone is my greatest motivation.

84. My family refer to the TV remote only and always as 'the power'. I don't want to speculate what this means.

85. Today I had to leave a message on a leaving card for one of my colleagues of the last year. I wrote, "Dave, Won't miss you at all. Not entirely certain who you are. Enjoy 'Mexico', if that is her real name.
Vague regards,
Philip"

86. I never felt that my final year Maths project was fully 'finished', so I'm spending some of my spare time programming an image compression program in C++. It uses Iterated Function Systems to create lossy Fractal Approximations, donchaknow.

87. I respect my father tremendously. He was born in a very poor background in a very depressed area, and has built a great life for his family, and throughout maintained a fantastic sense of humour and enjoyed himself on the way.

88. My sister was a perfect baby - never cried, never threw up. I was not - I was always very ill, always crying, always throwing up, never slept - just a nightmare. My Dad maintains that if I had been born first, my sister would not have been.

89. I try to base my life and actions on Leonardo DiCaprio's character in Titanic.

90. I'd really like a good digital camera.

91. I have worked as a air-conditioning unit assembler, a waiter, an envelope filler, a chess teacher, a typist, an office dogsbody, a filer in the town hall of Klagenfurt, Austria, a rep for a dot com failure, a database specialist, a Link Monitor and a Systems Analyst.

92. Last night, for a bet, I punched a wall really hard. I won the bet, but my hand is now really really broken. Yes, I am an idiot.

93. I have very, very, very varied musical tastes. My collection included the Mamas and the Papas and Rob Zombie.

94. My first computer was a BBC B. It *rocked*. I used to play Elite on it for hours on end. I seriously loved that game, and actually made it to Archangel, which apparently very few people ever did on that incarnation of the game.

95. My love for that game was probably kinda unhealthy.

96. Four to go. Six lies down. Did you spot them all?

97. I know, that wasn't really a 'fact about me', and neither is this. Sue me.

98. One year as a child I was in hospital so often that all the nurses knew me by name.

99. I am not very good at thinking of interesting things about me.

100. I am going to Toronto again in November, and I'm looking forward to it more than anything else in the world.

And that, folks, is that.