On Tag

As the first person to use my tagboard in two months (other than myself) Arcadia has started a viral post. Having already tagged Leon and Karen, and since Mike's removed his tagboard, my only target is Anni.
Here are my 20 random facts:

I hate getting wet but I have often stood in the rain.

My Grandfather was Cypriot.

I met Percy after my parents were divorced.

The only items of clothing that I buy for the brand are shoes.

I have no cavities or fillings in my teeth.

When I was 8, I plagiarised The Hobbit for a personal short story.

I wanted to become a Paleontologist (digs up dinosaur bones) when I was in primary school.

I think that struggling builds character.

I don't need to be alone to be lonely.

My nursery school was Afrikaans and my high school was bilingual.

I camped-out at a three day music festival alone.

I used to name bright stars after girls I had a crush on.

I learnt to drive when I was 12.

Despite being a big-time gamer, I refuse to play an X-Box because it's made by Microsoft.

I think that Saturday Night Live sucks.

I never studied art at high school.

I can't sing but I do anyway.

I hate the Vodacom Meercat.

I can't remember the happiest day of my life so far (there have been a few).

I love looking at things that people keep in their rooms.

On the Arcadian Festival

I'm convinced that my small audience already reads Passing the Open Windows. Anyone who doesn't should check out the week of lists currently happening there.

...I'm so impressed that you hear my inventions, and that it matters more than what you saw with your eyes...

This burnout has been threatening to char me for a while now. The end of a relationship introduced me to the bottom of many bottles and then to a nightclub floor. The floor came out on top and left me with more than a hangover. I haven't applied myself to my work like I'd like to have.

This hit me hard when our end-of-year exhibition opened this week and I only had two pieces on display - one of which was a group project. I'm disappointed even though I have had a terrible year. I let things interfere when I knew that they shouldn't and now regret that they did and even more so that I let them.

All I can do to weather the thunderstorm in my stomach is to steel myself in preparation for next year. A close friend and classmate of mine and I have made a pact to support and push each other in the new year. I am sitting on too much of my ambition and it's making my ass numb.

More as an echo of Soffy's last comment than as an outright reply: on my way home tonight I was thinking what it would be like to personally know the people that visit Divination - if we lived in the same city and met up. I'm in two minds as to whether I'd really get along with anyone or whether we'd have an interesting conversation and then have trouble trying to strike up another one at another time - which seems to fuel my self-fulfilling prophecy of being misuderstood (AKA: the human condition).

Current Soundtrack: Kissing the Lipless by The Shins