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==100 Short Things About Me==
01 The first book I remember being read to me as a kid was ''[[The Midnight Folk]]'' by [[John Masefield]].

02 My favourite [[time]] of [[day]] is the [[night]].

03 I bite my [[nails]].

04 I've been [[drinking]] a lot of [[water]] lately. My [[concentration]] seems to have increased [[10 (number)|ten]] fold. I haven't yawned in [[hours]].

05 I'm disappointed if I haven't done at least one new thing each day.

06 I have [[hazel]] coloured [[eyes]] ...

07 ... and light [[brown]] [[hair]] ...

08 ... and my [[birthday]] is 31st [[October]] which makes me a ...

09 ... [[Scorpio]]. And everything you're heard is true.

10 I don't wear [[jewelry]]. It just looks wrong.

11 My [[Dad]] is a [[horologist]] and can always tell the time off the top of his head. I can as well, but I always seem to be five minutes out...

12 My five favourite films are ''[[Star Wars]]'', ''[[When Harry Met Sally...]]'', ''[[Clerks.]]'', ''[[It's a Wonderful Life]]'', ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off]]''. Some of those always change.

13 I'm [[happy]] if you're [[happy]].

14 I don't [[smoke]].

15 I almost never have [[pictures]] of myself on my [[weblog]]. I think people would rather be looking at text.

16 I can't say 'Honey'.

17 My [[keyring]] still has a [[key]] to every [[house]] I've ever lived in on it (except for the ones I've had to give back).

18 My [[ICQ]] is still 134358633.

19 I once married [[Laura Fraser]] in a dream.

20 My mobile phone ringer is ''Enola Gay'' by [[OMD]].

21 I cried at the end of the film ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]'' when I saw it for the first time.

22 The first [[poem]] I ever wrote was about a MouseSnail. I still don't know what one of those is. But in my young head it could swing through trees.

23 I haven't seen the [[girl]] I had my first [[kiss]] with since two minutes after it happened.

24 Four things I'd eat on the last day of your life: [[Fish and chips]]; [[Spaghetti Bolognaise]]; Christmas [[Steak]]; [[Caesar Salad]]

25 [[Religiously]], I'm a [[Non-denominational Spiritualist]]. That way I can't piss too many people off.

26 I studied [[Information Studies]] at [[Leeds Metropolitan University]] which makes me a qualified [[librarian]], although I couldn't find anyone in [[Liverpool]] who would let me be a practicing one.

27 Some personal philosophies, beginning with: 'Wherever you go, there you are.'

28 'This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do.'

29 'Be yourself. No matter where you go.'

30 'Funny how the girls you fall in love with never fancy you. Funny how the girls you don't do.'

31 'I can't hurt to help.'

32 'But sometimes it can hurt to help.'

33 I didn't hear [[Led Zeppelin]]'s ''[[Stairway to Heaven]]'' until the age of 28.

34 The best present I never ended up giving was a [[mug]] designed to be used as a [[blackboard]] with free [[chalk]]. It looks good, but it makes your [[tea]] taste funny.

35 The oldest [[poster]] I have on my wall is of a [[sunflower]] [[farm]]. One day it would be nice to have one of those.

36 My writing is always better when I'm working from someone elses ideas. I'm not really that imaginative.

37 I can recited the whole of the first episode of ''[[Friends]]''. Still can't get [[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]]'s "[[It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)]]" Yet.

38 [[Budweiser]] if I'm really drinking.

39 The first film to make me puke was ''[[Annie]]'' (I was in a theatre in the bottom of an [[Isle of Man]] [[ferry]] in particularly choppy waters). The second was ''[[Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan]]''

40 I spent a [[year]] commuting to a [[call centre]] job in [[Manchester]]. I miss the [[Reading (activity)|reading]] [[time]] on the [[train]].

41 My [[computer desk]] is an old [[oak]] collapsible [[dining table]].

42 someone with a [[personality]]. not a [[sheep]], someone who speaks her [[mind]]. unpredictable but rational. willing to go out on a [[limb]], be spontaneous, but responsible. someone interested in the world, who like me wants to discover the possibilites and how everything works. someone funny without being purile, spritual without banging on about religion all the time. who doesn't mind making an idiot of themselves if the outcome is pure.

43 I have the same name as the big bad demon in the ''Hell's Bells'' episode of ''[[Buffy: The Vampire Slayer]]''

44 My birthday is on [[Halloween]]. Coincidence?

45 If there was one person from my past I would like to meet again it would be [[Rosie Holt]]. We were in halls together in [[Leeds]] and I always worry about what happened to her. Sometimes you don't hold on tight to the people who you later wanted to be life long friends. That's Rosie Holt. Rosie Holt. Rosie Holt. I'm hoping she'll find this if she ever does an ego search on [[Google]], so I'll repeat her name again, Rosie Holt. Just email and tell me you're OK will you?

46 I'm the only person I know who watches [[BBC Four]]. More fool everyone else.

47 I once owned a [[rabbit]] called Dunk after the character from the [[Wheetabix]] commercials.

48 My first job was at T[[he Henry Moore Institute]] in [[Leeds]].

49 One of the best jobs I've ever had was volunteering in the [[Media]] Centre at the 2002 [[Manchester]] [[Commonwealth Games]]. For some reason I cared more for it than for jobs I've actually been paid for.

50 [http://feelinglistless.users.btopenworld.com/Maryhada.rm This is the sound of my voice.]

51 No 42 nearly said "I never can get the hang of [[Thursdays]]", until I thought of something else.

52 My favourite superhero was [[Spider-Man]].

53 I always wear odd [[sock]]s. If it's job interview this differences can be very subtle. I once wrote a manifesto for odd socks wearers on a [[post-it note]]. I don't have this any longer.

54 My favourite [[jacket]] is a [[denim]] [[jacket]] I bought a few years ago which I'm afraid to wash because I life the colour and I don't want to it fade. Consequently I don't wear it all that often because I don't want it to get dirty.

55 The first [[holiday]] I remember is a wet week in [[Polperro]].

56 The one thing I always remember about my Eighteenth Birthday is faux-[[Russian]] dancing with a [[girl]] I'd had a crush on for years to the dance version of the ''[[Tetris]]'' music by [[Dr. Spin]]. At that same party someone tried to request [[The Smiths]] song ''Girlfriend in a Coma''.

57 If I could live anywhere in the world it would be [[New York]].

58 Anywhere in the [[United Kingdom|UK]], it would be [[Edinburgh]].

59 Anywhere in [[England]] it would be [[Leeds]].

60 Anywhere in [[Liverpool]] it would be the city centre.

61 I didn't drink [[alcohol]] until the age of 20. My first drink was a bottle of Carlsberg at a [[Jazz]] [[Festival]] in [[Leeds]]. I still have the bottle.

62 I'm never what people expect.

63 Sometimes when I write in my [[weblog]] I wonder if anyone is reading. Are you?

64 My favourite play by [[William Shakespeare]] is '[[Measure for Measure]]''. Unlike most of everything else, the ending isn't certain and takes an unexpected turn, a bit like life.

65 I only ever need six hours sleep. If I get any more, I feel sleepy for the rest of the day.

66 My [[typing]] is better and more coherent after a few beers.

67 I'm in all the [[crowd]] scenes at the end of the film ''[[There's Only One Jimmy Grimble]]''.

68 The world needs to think more. Thinking is a good thing.

69 I've never taken [[drugs]].

70 At various times I've owned or borrowed an [[Acorn Electron]], [[Commodore 64]], [[Sinclair Spectrum+]], [[Acorn A3000]], [[Camputer Lynx]], [[Nintendo 64|N64]], [[Game Boy|Nintendo Game Boy]], 286, 386, 486 [[Pentium]] etc.

71 My current computer sits on a giant oak dining table in my room. The theory being that when I move out I'll at least have a table to sit at. I quite like the idea of not having chairs when I do get my own place. The [[floor]] is an underrated placed to sit.

72 The first [[weblog]] I ever read was ''Rebbeca's Pocket''. It took me a while to notice other people were doing the same thing.

73 ''[[Doctor Who]]''. There I said it.

74 On my bedside table, there is an electronic alarm clock with a real bell inside which I got for my Eighteenth birthday.

75 I hate computers. It's pity they can be so damn useful.

76 My last [[holiday]] was to [[Paris]] for three days.

77 I don't take holidays quite as much as I should.

78 When I was kid, I wanted to grow up to be [[Zoologist]]. Then I saw a [[documentary film|documentary]] in which an [[animal]] was put down and I cried for days and gave up that ambition.

79 I've never been very good at science.

80 I've never been very good at learning languages.

81 My handwriting is atrocious due to years of typing everything.

82 I don't eat fish.

83 My watch is on a chain which dangles around my neck. I'm the only person I know who has one.

84 I had a nursery teacher called Mrs Kilgallen. She used to call me the banana boy because I used to eat [[banana]] butties for lunch every day.

85 I've never stolen anything from a shop.

86 I was once at The [[Albert Dock]] in [[Liverpool]] with a friend and momentarily distracted [[Alan Bennett]] by doing [[Beavis and Butt-head]] impressions.

87 The first time my name appeared in print was as a prize winner in ''[[Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars]]''. I won a [[book]].

88 The only time I visited a magazine office was [[Zzap! 64]] [[magazine]] in [[Ludlow]]. It was very small and similar to a telesales place I worked at for a week on very low wages.

89 I always include my middle name because I'm the only [[Stuart Ian Burns]] around.

90 There are very few famous people I'd want to meet. If I see them in the street I tend to walk past because they really aren't that much more important than you are.

91 But if I could choose, [[Claire Danes]], [[Woody Allen]], [[Joss Whedon]], [[Alanis Morissette]] and [[Laura Fraser]].

92 I once called up a radio station in the middle of the night to make the important point that [[Harry Enfied]] isn't that [[funny]]. I wasn't drunk.

93 I once walked through a [[Macdonalds]] drive-in to get a [[hamburger]] with the [[car]]s. I wasn't drunk.

94 I don't need to get drunk to do weird things.

95 When I was training for a job once, I had to say three things only one of which was the truth. I said I'd had am album out, I'd had a book published and that I was in a film. They all thought it was the book, which is quite flattering.

96 I'm not as well read as some people think I am. I've just seen a lot of [[film adaptations]]. It's amazing how people never know the difference. I don't tell them I've read the [[book]]s, they just assume.

97 I've left some really embarrassing [[stuff]] out of this list.

98 I don't have a [[wardrobe]] in my [[room]].

99 I used to keep my [[clothes]] in a [[filing cabinet]].

100 I need to move out of my parents house

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