Twenty-Three

Musical leanings occasionally produce sufficient pressure for one to sit up, look around surreptitiously, and do a memetic exercise (or should that be psychomimetic, haha!) based on '23 things about yourself'. Random stuff follows; beware!

1. I'm a midnight child. The dark has never held fear for me, and if you examine the 'font colour' tags you will see my favourite colour a lot on this blog.


2. I teach biblical studies. My youngest student ever was aged 4 and my oldest, about 55.


3. The cello is my favourite musical instrument; it seldom gets out of hand, and it takes a bow easily and without a fuss. It is mellow, sometimes yellow, and quite a fellow. Lovely voice, beautifully melancholic.


4. I belong to several professional organisations, all with the acronym ACS. Some are linked here. I mention this because those are my mother's initials as well.


5. I have never dated someone of the argent, bezants vert persuasion before.


6. My favourite prophet is Jeremiah, he who was imprisoned in a cistern for his pains.


7. I have a great fondness for rough-cut potato chips, or crisps even, with bits of skin on.


8. I have been to Uzbekistan; Tashkent, to be specific.


9. I found out I could read Catalan when I visited Andorra.


10. One of my favourite words is 'baryon'; it sounds somehow Germanic, Hebraic and Hellenic all at once.


11. Over the years, I have specialised in teaching communication engineering and computer science.


12. My blood type is O, which means I am not as biologically specialised as some people I know.


13. I love animals who can be independent while living within pack or clan structures. Cats, wolves, for example.


14. I have two nieces. It is tempting to call them 'niece' and 'niecer'. Except that I once worked in an organisation called NIECER.


15. Science has always been one of my favourite subjects. I was just never any good at it in school. Used to get 20s and 30s when the maximum score was 100.


16. I'm a carnivore by nature. I can eat huge amounts of lamb, mutton, beef, venison, and pork, and other meats as well.


17. My favourite poet has a surname that is ten letters long.


18. If I hadn't been a teacher, I would have been a lawyer. Some say a rabbi. Ha.


19. I have a catalogue of all my books. It informs me that I have 6803 books on the shelves at the moment.


20. My first science fiction novel was Arthur C Clarke's Islands in the Sky.


21. I once consumed a Big Mac™, a large fries and a Coke™ in forty-seven seconds. Burp.


22. I was born in a former swamp, my flat is in a former swamp, and I am often swamped.


23. The first poem I ever memorised was William Blake's Tyger.

Why 23 things? I don't know. But here is a link which might be of interest. Enjoy!