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Friday, January 27, 2006

ENOUGH ABOUT YOU, LET'S TALK ABOUT ME 

Ye gods and little fishes. It seems that I have been tagged again. The last time I did this sort of thing I managed to spin it out for over a week because I don't like talking about myself. I am a deeply uninteresting person, as I will prove now. This time I'm approaching it like a Brazilian wax: it is best to get it over and done with in the shortest amount of time.

FOUR JOBS I'VE HAD

* Receptionist at a leisure centre, with an indoor bowls class led by a one eyed man (Wednesdays) and an over 65's dance class (Thursday afternoons) (a psychedelic explosion of lavender/strawberry pink/lilac/blue rinses). I certainly smashed through the glass ceiling in the get-ahead '80's, didn't I?
* Something I had to sign the Official Secrets Act for.
* Shorthand typist/receptionist/general dogsbody for a light roofing company. After I left, someone who was owed money by the boss turned up brandishing a gun.
* Telephonist for a Crown And County Court. One of the cases going through when I was there was the split between Stan Collymore (later known as the Dogging Footballer) and his girlfriend.

Perhaps you can see from the above why my sociology lecturer of about 10 years back suggested I should "expand my horizons" in looking for work. I didn't take his advice.

FOUR MOVIES I CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER

* The Sound Of Music (except for the Lonely Goatherd bit, which I fast forward through).
* Vertigo.
* The 400 Blows (oooh, get her!).
* Most of the Powell and Pressburger ones.

FOUR PLACES I'VE LIVED


Pathetically, I've only lived in two places:

* Hednesford, Staffordshire, England, UK.
* Bexleyheath, Kent, Arse End Of England, UK.

FOUR TV SHOWS I LOVE


* Coronation Street.
* Curb Your Enthusiasm.
* Celebrity Big Brother this time, unfortunately. It is like a Tennessee Williams play on crack.
* The Thick Of It.

FOUR PLACES I'VE BEEN TO ON HOLIDAY


* Colwyn Bay (from the ages of three to eight inclusive).
* Berlin.
* Prague.
* Tenerife (where I nearly died).

FOUR OF MY "FAVORITE" DISHES


* Alastair Campbell.
* James Coburn (deceased).
* David Essex (well, when I was 13) (and James Hunt) (and dreamy Eric Stewart of 10cc).
* Thierry Henry.
* Rhys Ifans is lovely but seems to have made a career out of being in lousy films. I like a good Welshman.
* Sasha Distel (deceased). I think all women reach an age when they start to like Frenchmen. Possibly.
* Peter Cook.
Is that four yet?

FOUR SITES I VISIT DAILY


Er, there are too many ... I don't want to be accused of "favoritism".

FOUR PLACES I'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW


* 1979. I wouldn't have a bad back, or bingo wings, and I would have made more of an effort to get good grades in my O-levels so that I could face a future with a glittering career which didn't involve working as a recepionist at a leisure centre. Hmm.
* 1988. I'm not saying why.
* Lanzarote. It's very cold at the moment, obviously.
* Under the influence of cough mixture and painkillers. I'm not ill.

FOUR BLOGGERS I'M TAGGING


* Leninology
* K-Punk
* Vicus Scurra
* Ian Penman

(I am, of course, joking about the last bit. Anyone who wants to be tagged can but I don't want to be accused of "favoritism" or "sadistic tendencies").

UPDATE: The Cheesemeister has volunteered to be tagged ...

Comments:
I think I said this last time you were tagged...I love reading them, the "Ohh, they like that film too!" and the "Bloody hell, do they really like downhill skiing, I thought they were normal".

I've never done and don't intend to so I'm a great big hypocrite.
 
i demand to know how you nearly died in tenerife. unless it's like, really traumatic or something...
 
I don't even know what tagging is. I feel sort of... left out.
 
Caroline, I'm not sure that many people like reading them because they're such long posts, unless they are very witty and entertaining. People who are sat at the computer dosed up on caffeine and ampthetamines like me get too restless if they see anything with more than 3 sentences in. They start grinding their teeth and shouting expletives at the screen.

Surly Girl - I was exaggerating a bit, possibly to make myself seem interesting. I did, however, nearly fall off a mountain at one point.
 
Mark - it is the bit where you pass the baton on to some other bloggers and try to get them to answer the same questions, leaving a link so that some of your readers might go over to their blog. I suppose it is promoting community spirit in the blogging world unlike, say, people leaving sarky comments on a blog post but doing so anonymously.

Anyone who wants to be tagged for the meme I've just done, drop a comment here and I'll put a link to you in the post!!

Nope. Didn't think there would be any takers ...
 
I tagged myself because I have a masochistic need to take these stupid surveys!
Peace,
the Cheesy 1
 
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