78 Facts

» January 7, 2010 »

  1. I sing frequently.
  2. I have a good brain for lyrics.
  3. I love to write. Mostly about the boyfriends I wish I could have.
  4. Maths is my best subject. I’m taking A-level this year, and then Further next year.
  5. I prefer Heat to New Scientist.
  6. I’m a celebrity junkie. Anything and everything, I will read.
  7. I truly care about Jordan and Peter.
  8. I want to go to Cambridge University, but I have no idea what I want to study there.
  9. Music makes me smile.
  10. Everything from Jamie T to Dizzee Rascal to Girls Aloud, I adore.
  11. I don’t hate Miley Cyrus.
  12. I’m a hopeless romantic at heart, coated in a layer of cynicism.
  13. I can’t quite get my head around Sam Taylor-Wood and Aaron Johnson.
  14. I want to get married, and have lots of lovely kids.
  15. Preferably not with someone more than half my age. Ahem.
  16. I don’t generally have a problem with big age gaps, but there are twenty-three years between them, and he is still a teenager. He’s going to be a teenage father! Hello teen pregnancy rates???
  17. I find Chris Pine in Star Trek stupidly attractive.
  18. Ditto Joseph Gordon-Levitt in (500) Days of Summer.
  19. Which is one of my favourite movies, by the way.
  20. Along with 10 Things I Hate About You, Legally Blonde, She’s The Man, and John Tucker Must Die.
  21. Yeah, I mostly like cheesy teen stuff.
  22. As a rule, I pretty much hate end-of-the-world disaster movies.
  23. QI is my favourite TV show.
  24. Closely followed by Never Mind the Buzzcocks and ER.
  25. I can’t be bothered with Gossip Girl now that Chuck and Blair are together.
  26. Also, Chace Crawford is a bit nice.
  27. I don’t truly admire many people.
  28. But Joanna Lumley is definitely one.
  29. I can’t quite decide on the others. Although I quite wish Stephen Fry was my uncle.
  30. I do well in exams.
  31. Except English. I mean, I have a fairly decent vocabularly, and I’m hardly illiterate, but those exams just kill me.
  32. I like boys with piercings. I don’t know when I discovered this, because I’m pretty sure it only happened recently.
  33. Like, when I saw that guy in my tutor group, recently.
  34. He’s also a bit nice.
  35. I don’t drink much. Usually because I’m too concerned that one of my more inebriated friends is going to fall over and crack their head open or something.
  36. Also because I don’t like the feeling of not knowing what I’m doing.
  37. I’m very competitive about things that matter to me.
  38. I don’t like people beating me in exams that I’ve tried hard in.
  39. I know that’s probably quite a bad thing.
  40. If I really want something, I’ll work as hard as I need to to get it, but no more.
  41. I’m essentially fairly lazy.
  42. I would spend my life in my pyjamas if I could.
  43. I hate it when people get ‘you’re’ and ‘your’ confused.
  44. But I’m not too fussed about ‘they’re’, ‘there’ and ‘their’.
  45. I’m probably too tolerant of people.
  46. I have never lost a friend because we didn’t agree about something.
  47. I tend not to take sides.
  48. I don’t think it’s bad to bitch about someone behind their back, and then be nice to them to their face.
  49. Mostly because when I bitch about people, I’m just saying what I think they’ve done wrong. And because it’s not really my place to tell them that, I’ve let it slide by the next time I see them.
  50. I can’t be purposely mean to someone.
  51. I either talk too much, or too little.
  52. I don’t hate anyone. There are people I get irritated with, but I’m fairly sure that everyone’s got some niceness in there somewhere.
  53. I try not to judge on appearances. But sometimes it’s just too funny to mock the greebs that gather in the town centre.
  54. Or the girls who have orange faces and foundation lines.
  55. Because that’s pretty unexcusable, really. Sort yourself out girls.
  56. I can’t stand caked on mascara.
  57. I lie about a lot.
  58. But only about little stuff, that just makes life that little bit easier.
  59. I started learning HTML when I was eleven.
  60. That’s not a lie, either. Neopets FTW, right?
  61. Some kid once decided to try and impress me by saying that he was a brown belt in karate.
  62. I’m a black belt.
  63. I accidentally punched myself in the face once.
  64. I have never broken a bone.
  65. I’ve been to France, New Zealand, Spain and Florida.
  66. I want to visit the rest of America, Europe, Asia and Peru.
  67. This summer, I fully intent to take a road trip round Britain. Although I am completely reliant on my friends for the driving and car part of this fabulous plan.
  68. I can drive in October.
  69. But by the time I’ve saved for lessons and actually passed the test, I’ll probably only have a few months in a car before I leave for uni.
  70. I was moved up a year, so I don’t turn seventeen until Year 13.
  71. So technically, I’m still in compulsory education.
  72. Which sucks.
  73. I love every single season. Spring and autumn I like especially though, because they’re when everything changes.
  74. When the leaves change colour is my favourite part of the year.
  75. Almost tied with when the blossom appears.
  76. Sunrises make me think of travelling the world.
  77. Sunsets make me think of love.
  78. I once mistook a cat for an elf.

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