8 random thing-a-mie-jobs…

I’ve been hooked into taking part in this by Andy and I can’t let him down now can I? Some of my friends will know some of these and some won’t so I’ll try get a mixture in.

Are you ready? Got yer pipe and slippers? Okay, here goes:

The Rules

• You have to post these rules before giving you the facts.

• Players state eight random facts/habits about themselves.

• At the end of the blog post, you tag eight people and list their names. (Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.)

• People who are tagged need to write about their eight things on their own blog and also post these rules.

The Facts

1. I’ve never been sick as a result of drinking.

2. The first ever web mag I bought (Practical Web Design), I entered a competition and won The Adobe CS Premium Suite worth £1600.

3. I’m distantly related to the guy who invented ‘Cat’s Eye’s‘, the little reflectors in the roads. He was my Great-grandfather’s cousin or something.

4. My Art teacher at school “borrowed” some of my GCSE coursework (after it’d been marked) to take with her to an interview for another job, to show how good a teacher she was. I haven’t heard from her since so I presume she got the job then threw my work away.

5. When I was growing up, my dream was to work as an animator for Aardman Animations. When I got a bit older, my dream was to write my own comic books series for Slave Labor Graphics, now my dream is gravitated toward a career in some sort of design field (although I still need to train myself up, I need to prepare as this web thing won’t last in it’s current state till retirement age) but I’d stil love to have a comic series (all I need is an idea…).

6. I’ve played guitar since I was 6 years old. I own a custom made guitar built by a guy who apparently has also built guitars for some famous peeps, Mark Knopfler is one of them. The guitar is also numbered as on the first 100 he built which is pretty cool.

7. Despite the fact that I moan about how shit the weather is all the time, I actually prefer winter to summer. I prefer the darker evenings. I prefer having to wrap up to just walk to the shop for milk. The air is fresher. It hits you like a tonne of bricks as soon as you step out the door. Plus it’s the time of year where I can wake up at a reasonable hour and still catch the sun rising over the hills.

8. Nearly three years ago to the day (October 2nd), I almost died as a result of both my lungs collapsing at the same time. I was sat in bed in agony, only able to take short breaths and thought it’d be a good idea to have a lie down. Not so. I stopped breathing and nearly passed out. I managed to sit up again and had a panic attack. I somehow managed to sort myself out and call an ambulance (my brother was asleep next door but I didn’t want to disturb him as it was 1 am and he had work the next day – dumbass = me), so the ambulance took me to the local hospital where the doctors proceeded to drug me up in preparation for the next phase…

   Getting two big needles and thrust then into my chest, a lung a piece, which strangely enough, didn’t hurt at all. Also, as soon as the needles went in, I took what felt like the biggest breaths I’ve ever taken in my life! Tubes were fixed to me to drain fluid out of my chest but they didn’t work too well. So I had to have surgery which has left me with a cool scar that runs from the joining of my collar bones down the middle of my chest and a few more where I had bigger tubes fixed to me. To cut a long story short, I came home, then had to go back, had another operation, went home, then had to go back again. Been okay since so fingers crossed. If you want to hear more grusome details, email me.

Sorry if you didn’t find any of this interesting but it was funny pretending to be intersting for an hour.

I’m going to follow in Katemonkey’s footsteps and break the rules by not nominating anyone because I don’t really know anyone else who would do it. So to finish I’m going to quote Katemonkey

I’m not officially tagging anyone to do this. But if you want to do it, go right ahead.

Catch y’all later! S x

~ by nocturnalmonkey on September 24, 2007.