And I, for my crimes, must tell you 10 honest things about myself. Here goes:
1) I'm six feet tall in my socks, and that means I have a built-in excuse for never, ever wearing high heels. Mwuhahaha!
2) I'm much more eloquent on paper than I am in person.
3) During graduate school, I worked in an awesome laboratory, at a great university, with wonderful and brilliant people, doing a cool and interesting project, and my supervisor was arguably the nicest man on the face of the Earth.
And I have never been so miserable in my life.
4) I'm limber enough to wrap my ankles around the back of my neck, but not limber enough to touch my toes. I have no idea why that is.
5) I'm an utter wimp about a wide variety of things, but not public speaking.
6) In fact, I find face-to-face conversations much more anxiety-provoking than talking to a room of people.
7) They say most of us dream in black and white, but this isn't true. We dream in colour; it's just that our brains forget the colours after we wake up.
I remember my dreams as being full of colour--but silent.
8) I can't whistle. I've been trying to learn since childhood, and I. Just. Can't. (I can make a pathetic sort of lisp-y sound, however.)
9) I must take medicine in order to live.
10) I don't understand why anyone sunbathes. Never mind that it's bad for you, how can they stand the boredom?
At this point, I am supposed to tag several others to complete this meme, but let's do the following instead:
You are forbidden--forbidden, I say!--from leaving a comment on this post unless you tell us all one truth about yourself.
That's right; you must pay a truth-toll!
(Mwuhahaha.)
12 comments:
I am surrounded by friends and in contact with family, but feel lonely all the time.
I like your truths. Mine is: I've always wanted to be six feet tall. Always. I used to be 5'8" until I hit middle age and got a bad back and managed to shrink somewhere between an inch and an inch and a half!
Another truth, eh? Well... when I was younger, I wanted to be named Katie or Crystal. I thought they were much better than my real name. I've since changed my mind.
Lucky you, never having to wear heels! I'm 5'2", so I have no such excuse :D
Sarf: Boy, that sounds familiar. Having El Husbando in my life helped with that feeling, but he still didn't make it fully go away.
I think we're just built that way. :-\
Writtenwyrdd: I think we're supposed to naturally shrink about an inch per decade for every decade after 30. You may on schedule!
I should be one inch down by now. I'm worried someday I'll just collapse like a telescope. Schloop! Abruptly 5'0"; oh, woe.
Maybe Genius: But on the up-side, you never feel like a lumbering Godzilla whenever you do need to wear heels.
I never thought about changing my name when I was little, but I did wish for red hair and green eyes. I don't have any particular yen for them now, but that may have been because, as a teenager, I briefly made the transition via contact lenses and hair dye.
By the way, thanks again for the award!
Oh no, if I start shrinking I'll be in big trouble!
Which leads to a truth, I am five foot tall exactly in my socks, providing they are very thick woollen socks.
But I posted about that before so I'll pay the toll with a real truth:
I carry my passport with me everywhere, constantly. There's no reason for this other than that way, when I go to the airport, I don't have to make sure I remembered to take it.
sniff
I'd love to be six feet tall again.
Oh no! I didn't know that shrinking thing was so aggressive! I'm not quite 5'2" as it is.
I just put my own list up here, but here is one especially for you:
I was in a light opera company in college.
Sylvia: The passport thing makes sense to me, because I need to keep things like that in ONE LOCATION ONLY or I have no hope of remembering where I put it when I actually need it.
Whirlochre: Oh? What height have you sprouted up to now?
Kate: Really? Oh, cool! I am so impressed by people who can actually sing. My musical ability is right up there with my athletic ability in terms of painful incompetence.
I'm not very tall (nearly 5'4") but I have lumberjack feet!!
Seriously BIG feet. I think I must have been a snowshoe hare in a previous life! O_o
Maureen: And perhaps, in a future life, you will be able to walk across water! :)
Once I appeared in a sold out show in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
OK, so it only ran for two nights in a miniature theatre, but still...
McKoala:
OK, so it only ran for two nights in a miniature theatre, but still...
Don't worry; I still adulate you! ;-D
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