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51. My nickname started life as a dirty joke.
52. I like wearing long, dangly earrings.
53. I didn’t really expect to enjoy Little Miss Sunshine, but just finished watching it and fell in love with the film.
54. My watch is fairly useless. It eventually speeds up so that it’s around 15 minutes fast, at which point I wind it back to the correct time… not that I can read that anyway, thanks to the fact that it has a tiny face with no numbers. It’s clasp also comes undone really easily, yet I continue to wear it.
55. I have a can of Duff beer on my mantlepiece.
56. I love Tofutti Cuties.
57. I also love Pocky.
58. I’ve wanted to get a particular tattoo on my back for several years, but have never had the money or the guts at the same time. It’s my own drawing of a paisley-esque phoenix.
59. I developed an obsession with Ancient Egypt when I did a project on it in grade 5, so much so that my mum bought me an Egyptian print duvet cover in my teen years.
60. I developed an obsession with elephants when I did a project in grade 2, but never had any elephant bedlinen.
61. My name means lion, and that makes me happy.
62. I did cross country running from a very early age until I was about 13. I started again at about 15 because I had a crush on a boy in the running club.
63. The only running I do now is every day to the tram stop.
64. I just started sewing together a quilt that I started cutting the pieces for over two years ago. The impetus for this was that I needed a Q photo for the Alphabet competition. I really want to finish it now.
65. My favourite tea is T2’s Liquorice Legs, but I also love chai, peppermint, chamomile and various fruity teas.
66. I have a green teapot for home, and an orange teapot for school.
68. I hated gin when I was younger, but love it now.
69. I have a stuffed toy gingerbread man who watches over our fruit bowl.
70. I thought I had a burn on the base of my hand, but I actually think it’s a callus that’s developing because I don’t like using the cuffs on the lithography roller. I like to feel the wooden handles against my palms, and the cuffs just get in the road.
71. That last sentence originally sounded very, very dirty.
72. Back when I worked as a copywriter, I would consistently type the word shirts as shits, which the art directors found very funny.
73. I used to work as a copywriter in a big advertising agency. I hated working in advertising, and never, ever want to do it again.
74. I have a BA in Advertising from the same uni that I am studying at now. I still have the same student number.
75. I worked at the same store I work at now last time I studying, except back then I worked in the foodhall.
76. Last night at work, I was bored, and started plaiting the fringe on the baby alpaca throw rug at the same time that my boss made his first appearance for the night. It was slightly embarrassing.
77. My mother caught me talking to myself the other day. I don’t actually talk out loud, but apparently I move my lips. That was even more embarrassing.
78. I love playing chess, but don’t play very often, and am not very good at it as a result.
79. I was born in 1979.
80. I’m right-handed, but taught myself to write with my left hand when I was a kid, just for fun.
81. In year 7, one of the “popular” girls had an enormous crush on Simon Day from Ratcat. My gut reaction to this was to hate Ratcat and the song That Ain’t Bad with every fibre of my being, and profess it loudly. Except secretly I really liked it, and was so happy when I found the single in Mr C’s collection.
82. I taught myself to knit from the book Stitch’n'Bitch by Debbie Stoller. I had to sit on the porch all day once, stalking our neighbour who’d backed into our car that morning and drove off without leaving a note, so I thought that was as good a time as any to learn.
83. The very first night we moved into this house, we parked that car on the street and it was completely trashed by vandals. The insurance company declared it a write-off. It was heartbreaking, and I still get angry thinking about it, but ultimately it worked out for the best. We haven’t parked our car on the street since.
84. A few months later, some lame-arse sprayed BONG ON, complete with a crappy picture of a bong onto our back gate. We decided to ignore it, and to our delight, discovered that sometimes ignoring something until it goes away really does work. It’s one of the joys of living in a suburb where the kids can only afford the crappy spraypaint.
85. About a week and a half ago, a couple of white trash junkies threatened to kill our dogs because the dogs bark at them every time they walk past (there’s a grassy laneway that runs beside our house). This really shook me up, and was a major player in the crappiness of last week.
86. I pretty much hate this suburb. It has it’s good aspects, but overall it’s just shit.
87. I don’t seem to have a sock black hole like everyone else — I have a metal ruler and tape measure black hole.
89. I live on the edge of existential crisis.
90. I rarely wear make up, and own two blow dryers that have never been used on my hair. They’re for the paintings.
91. We tried to dry the dogs with the blow dryer once, and neither of them would have it — they found it absolutely terrifying.
92. My favourite fruit is mango.
93. My other favourite fruit is lemon. They’re so versatile.
94. I wear my Jayne Cobb had proudly.
95. My favourite episode of Firefly is ‘Out of Gas’.
96. I have an ever-growing collection of cardboard tubes. I still haven’t figured out what to do them, but I’m convinced they’ll come in handy for something one day. I’ve never really admitted this to anyone.
97. My pincushion is a mushroom that I made in year 7 with felt, stuffing and a… cardboard tube.
98. My mouth is so large that I have all four wisdom teeth and room for gaps between half of my teeth. I always need to watch how I phrase that when it comes up in conversation, because it inevitably leads to dirty jokes and extreme blushing on my part.
99. I’m addicted to Vegemite.
100. I really enjoy making lists.