Seven Things . . .

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Andy asked me to try this meme, so here it is:

(Hmm, just discovered that formatting gets cancelled when you put it behind a cut so sorry but it's going to have to show up in full. Do feel free to skip past though.)

Seven Things I Plan To Do Before I Die

Have a Holiday in Iceland

Travel into the Arctic circle

Hold an exhibition of my photographs

Swim with sharks

Have a story published

Learn to ride a horse well

Change my job

7 Things I can do

Take good photographs

Count to 10 in 5 different languages (English, French, German, Welsh and Albanian)

Procrastinate far too much

Shoot both a longbow and a pistol (although not at the same time)

Far more overtime than is good for me

Watch Firefly episodes till my eye’s go square (It just is that good)

Cook pretty well

7 Things I can not do

Gardening (well, I can, I just do it really badly)

Argue

Be a morning person

Exercise (see #1)

Fire a pistol (since it’s illegal to own them in the UK)

Remember names and faces

Blog on a regular basis

7 things I find really attractive about the opposite sex/significant other Anna

1. Her wonderfully long legs
2. Her laugh (which can be heard at the far end of the street if something has really amused her)
3. Her desire to get to know new people and offer hospitality to friends old and new
4. Her ability to be surprised
5. Her silliness
6. Her mind, in all it’s twisted loveliness ;)
7. Her ability to see the good in me

7 things I say the Most.

Bugger

I wish I had my camera with me

‘scuse me

well it’s six and two three’s really

‘Hello, Issues’ – this is how I answer the phone at work and have been known to accidentally answer it at home too if it’s been a long busy day. I definitely need a new job.

I’m just going for a bleem - ‘bleem’ being surfing the internet, really don’t know where I picked the word up from but it seems to have stuck

Nuk idee – I doubt that’s the right spelling though, it’s an Albanian phrase meaning ‘no idea’. A phrase I used a lot while I was there.

7 Books &/or authors I love.

Terry Pratchett

Neil Gaiman

Caitlan.R.Kiernan

Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Jasper Fforde

Robert Harris (I really liked ‘Enigma’ but his other books are pretty good too)

John Allison, the writer/artist of the brilliant web-comic ‘Scary-go-round’

#2 & #3 I like as much for their blog writings as for their regular publishing.

Seven people I would like to see take the quiz

1. Anna (graceunplugged )
2. trixie_chick
3. astarise
4. Danny (just to keep up the pressure ;) )

I don’t really know enough people with blogs online (who haven’t already done this anyway) to list any more. Guess four will have to do.

Well, only another hour and a half and I can go home to my ever loving wife and curl up on the couch. There are some advantages to having really slow days at work (such as blogging, watching complete seasons of Babylon 5, working through the archives of webcomics like ctrl+alt+del and Queen of Wands, etc) but I do have to say it really can be boring!

But then, if I'm not having to send blood out then it means that no-one needs it in any kind of urgent fashion, which is a good thing.

And of course as soon as I type that, the fax goes and it's back to work.

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