Elly Williams’ Weblog

2 posts in as many days…. It must be deadline season

Anyway, Meri has tagged me with this meme, and it’d be rude not to. Given that both my wife and my brother read my blog finding things might be tricky.

Five things you might not know about me:

1. I used to play the oboe. I started when I was 11 and gave up when I went to university and stopped finding the time. I haven’t played in about 5 years now, so probably wouldn’t get a note out of one any more.
2. I’m a registered Brownie Guider. I’m not currently attached to pack tho.
3. I didn’t need glasses until I was 16.
4. I’ve been dying my hair for so many years I don’t know what colour it is naturally any more.
5. My favourite dessert is Summer Pudding

I’m meant to tag 5 people, but I can’t be bothered – if you want to do this meme, consider yourself tagged.

Well, Meri tagged me with this particular meme a fortnight ago, so I figured I should probably get around to completing it.

1 Year Ago?

1 year ago I was still living in Bath although Meri & I were planning to move to Newcastle by then. I’d graduated 6months previously and was working in an Architecture practice in Bristol – which meant I had a 1hour+ commute each way involving 2 buses, a train and, invariably, Greggs bakery.

I’d probably applied to the University of Newcastle to do my Masters degree, but hadn’t been given an interview date yet.

5 Years Ago?

I’d just started my 3rd term of my 1st year at the Univeristy of Bath. Following a nasty breakup shortly after Christmas I had dyed my hair blonde and was involved in a number of theatre productions (acting, producing, and painting sets) and had pretty much given up on doing any Uni work or sleeping to make time for them. I think I got 1% over the pass mark for that term after having a minor breakdown in one of my tutor’s offices. I gained a lot of worried friends tho.

10 Years Ago?

I was 14. I was in Year 9 at Chesterton Community College. I’d probably just been made prefect – which meant I got to spend half an hour a day sat outside senior staff offices, instead of getting bullied in afternoon registration. Bonus.

I was still playing oboe (probably at Grade 4 standard at this point) and had started playing in the junior county orchestra on a Wednesday evening, where I made a whole bunch of new friends.

So Who Am I Tagging?

• Ben
• Drew
• Fatty
• Jeremy
• Steve

Well, I guess this is a rather crap way to get back on the blogging horse (6 MONTHS WITHOUT INTERNET!!!)but seeing as my darling brother passed this meme thingy this way and then phoned me to tell me he had done so, I should probably do it.

Four jobs I?ve had in my life

Architectural plan folder and stamper

Being shut in a 6ft square cupboard and alphabetizing books

Receptionist and MSOffice scivvy

Architectural Assistant

Four films I can watch over and over

The Shawshank Redemption

Empire Records

Schindler’s List

The Usual Suspects

Four TV shows I love to watch

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

House

Stargate SG1

Top Gear

Four places I have lived

Bar Hill (around 5 miles Northwest of Cambridge, UK) til I was 2½.

North Cambridge, UK, til I was 18.

Bath, UK, til 6 months ago

Heaton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, since 6 months ago

Four places I have been on holiday

Cape Town, South Africa

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Dublin, Ireland

Texas, USA

Four of my favourite dishes

Fish Pie

Lyonnaise Salad

Lasagne

Sausage & Mash with Onion Gravy

Four websites I visit daily

Google Mail

Flickr

El Goonish Shive

BBCi

Four places I would rather be right now

On the sofa

In bed

Anywhere under a blanket

Anywhere with Hot Chocolate

Four bloggers I?m tagging

Do I have to? Er… no idea who’s been tagged or not, so if you’re reading this and you haven’t been tagged – you’re it!

Meri passed me a musical baton… I was reading a whole load of these yesterday and wondering if I’d get it.. and now I have!!!

Total volume of music files on my computer:

On this computer 10.1Gig and rising (I’m digitising my music collection)- I have more stashed elsewhere…

The last CD I bought was:

Strange Little Girls by Tori Amos

Song playing right now:

Bob Dylan – “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”

Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me:

I”m going for the meaning rather than the listen to a lot… some of them I do listen to a lot, but at least one means sufficient that I can’t listen to it any more…

• ?Imagine? ? John Lennon
• ?All Star? ? Smash Mouth
• ?Kryptonite? ? 3 Doors Down
• ?Lady in Red? ? Chris de Burgh
• ?The Sweetest Thing? ? U2

Five people to whom I?m passing the baton:

1. Fatty
2. Ben
3. Elmyra
4. Jo
5. Jane

Ok, so it’s a little contrived with lots of trick questions, but I’m still rather pleased with my score….

Found via nslm.

You scored as Visual/Spatial. You probably feel at home with the visual arts, maps, charts, and diagrams. You tend to think in images and pictures. You learn best by looking at pictures and slides, watching videos or movies, and visualizing. People like you include sculptors, painters, surgeons and engineers.

The Rogers Indicator of Multiple Intelligencescreated with QuizFarm.com

I decided to make one of these map thingies after seeing the one Meri had put up on her blog. Apart from the fact that most of my travelling is confined to Europe (something I hope to rectify) it also struck me that the way some countries were represented was a little (for want of a better word) unrepresentative.

For example, There are many countries in the world which you can fit most of Europe into. If I had managed to visit the US at anytime (eveny just one city) then the whole of the US would be highlighted including Alaska. This would have more than doubled the amount of red on the map, without me doing twice the amount of travelling I had done within Europe.

At first I considered that doing it on the basis of “States Vistied” (or territories or provinces or whatever for different countries) might be better, although it occured to me that this is not necessarily representative either (compare the size of New York State to Texas?) so maybe by timezone would be a better idea.

Anyway, it’s not like I’m going to do anything about it, it’s just another of those pipe dreams I keep having.

…..*shrugs* Could be worse
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