Jan. 7th, 2006

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Here is my response to the ABC that has been doing the rounds…

A - Accent: kind of middle class grammar school indeterminate
B - Breakfast Item: unsweetened muesli without dates
C - Chore you hate: ironing - jeez!
D - Dad's Name: Jeremy (never Jerry)
E - Essential everyday item: I cannot live without my glasses, but they are so much part of my being that I shall say my walkman minidisk/radio (and it is the radio it is usually used for: Radio 3 on the way to work, FiveLive on the way home)
F - Flavour ice cream: mint choc chip
G - Gold or Silver: silver – gold seems so ostentatious
H - Hometown: north London
I - Insomnia: sometimes, often: I wake at four and can’t get back to sleep, and I lie in bed, listening to the radio; it is easier in the summer, when it is light – it just feels better
J - Job Title: Learning Consultant; but I am still learning!
K - Kids: none that I know of
L - Living arrangements: in a flat with my wife, two cats, my hifi and lots of books and CDs
M – Mum's birthplace: no idea – no really: possibly France, possibly Alexandria (Egypt, not Virginia), possibly Oxford; I shall have to ask her
N - Number of significant others you’ve ever had: five
O - Overnight hospital stays: none
P - Phobia: I don’t like spiders much, I can live with them (including tarantulas running across a dining table whilst I was eating dinner (it was after the crumbs); I am not too great at exposed heights, which isn’t so good since one of my obsessions is hillwalking and another used to doing theatre lighting (although I started doing lighting in a basement theatre space, so ladders were not too much of a problem)
Q - Queer?: Straight
R - Religious Affiliation: atheist and distinctly rationalist
S - Siblings: one older brother, who lives in Oxford, works in Sri Lanka, whilst his partner lives in Washington DC and works in the Sudan… kind of confused, huh?
T - Time you wake up: usually about six or six thirty, but the alarm is set for 6.40
U - Unnatural hair colours you've worn: none
V - Vegetable you refuse to eat: I don’t think there are any; I like vegetables. I sure something will come to me later.
W - Worst habit: belief that I am right. Thing is, I usually am.
X - X-rays you’ve had: skull; teeth; lungs; abdomen (kidneys); right lower leg; left ankle
Y - Yummy: loads of things - steak and chips with nice wine; pasta with garlic sauteéd in virgin olive oil with good parmesan and a glass of A Mano primitivo
Z - Zodiac sign: Aries
rhythmaning: (Default)
Here is my response to the ABC that has been doing the rounds…

A - Accent: kind of middle class grammar school indeterminate
B - Breakfast Item: unsweetened muesli without dates
C - Chore you hate: ironing - jeez!
D - Dad's Name: Jeremy (never Jerry)
E - Essential everyday item: I cannot live without my glasses, but they are so much part of my being that I shall say my walkman minidisk/radio (and it is the radio it is usually used for: Radio 3 on the way to work, FiveLive on the way home)
F - Flavour ice cream: mint choc chip
G - Gold or Silver: silver – gold seems so ostentatious
H - Hometown: north London
I - Insomnia: sometimes, often: I wake at four and can’t get back to sleep, and I lie in bed, listening to the radio; it is easier in the summer, when it is light – it just feels better
J - Job Title: Learning Consultant; but I am still learning!
K - Kids: none that I know of
L - Living arrangements: in a flat with my wife, two cats, my hifi and lots of books and CDs
M – Mum's birthplace: no idea – no really: possibly France, possibly Alexandria (Egypt, not Virginia), possibly Oxford; I shall have to ask her
N - Number of significant others you’ve ever had: five
O - Overnight hospital stays: none
P - Phobia: I don’t like spiders much, I can live with them (including tarantulas running across a dining table whilst I was eating dinner (it was after the crumbs); I am not too great at exposed heights, which isn’t so good since one of my obsessions is hillwalking and another used to doing theatre lighting (although I started doing lighting in a basement theatre space, so ladders were not too much of a problem)
Q - Queer?: Straight
R - Religious Affiliation: atheist and distinctly rationalist
S - Siblings: one older brother, who lives in Oxford, works in Sri Lanka, whilst his partner lives in Washington DC and works in the Sudan… kind of confused, huh?
T - Time you wake up: usually about six or six thirty, but the alarm is set for 6.40
U - Unnatural hair colours you've worn: none
V - Vegetable you refuse to eat: I don’t think there are any; I like vegetables. I sure something will come to me later.
W - Worst habit: belief that I am right. Thing is, I usually am.
X - X-rays you’ve had: skull; teeth; lungs; abdomen (kidneys); right lower leg; left ankle
Y - Yummy: loads of things - steak and chips with nice wine; pasta with garlic sauteéd in virgin olive oil with good parmesan and a glass of A Mano primitivo
Z - Zodiac sign: Aries
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Whilst I was thinking of my response to the standard ABC that has been going around – I took it from [livejournal.com profile] f3f4 - I kept thinking of other associations that particular letters had for me; so here is my freeform alphabet…

”A…B…C…” )
rhythmaning: (Default)
Whilst I was thinking of my response to the standard ABC that has been going around – I took it from [livejournal.com profile] f3f4 - I kept thinking of other associations that particular letters had for me; so here is my freeform alphabet…

”A…B…C…” )
rhythmaning: (relaxed)
There has been a meme about the hundred greatest books since 1923 as rated by Time magazine – I picked it up from [livejournal.com profile] munchkinstein.

Thing is, I have read nearly half of them – forty six; and if you count A Dance to the Music of Time as twelve (which you should, since it was published over thirty years in twelve different novels) – well, then I have read more than half of them.

From what I have seen (and I haven’t trawled desperately through LJ comparing scores like some nerdy bibliophile who has nothing better to do with his time), I have read more than most LJ users. This may be because I have had a bit longer to read them than the average user… [livejournal.com profile] frankie_ecap, the gauntlet is thrown down…

I don’t actually agree with all their choices – there are definitely excellent, essential books missing.

If you really want to see which ones I have read…
”More_books…” )
rhythmaning: (relaxed)
There has been a meme about the hundred greatest books since 1923 as rated by Time magazine – I picked it up from [livejournal.com profile] munchkinstein.

Thing is, I have read nearly half of them – forty six; and if you count A Dance to the Music of Time as twelve (which you should, since it was published over thirty years in twelve different novels) – well, then I have read more than half of them.

From what I have seen (and I haven’t trawled desperately through LJ comparing scores like some nerdy bibliophile who has nothing better to do with his time), I have read more than most LJ users. This may be because I have had a bit longer to read them than the average user… [livejournal.com profile] frankie_ecap, the gauntlet is thrown down…

I don’t actually agree with all their choices – there are definitely excellent, essential books missing.

If you really want to see which ones I have read…
”More_books…” )

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