I've picked this meme up from Of Books and Bicycles, and I've seen it on a few other people's pages and thought I'd give it a go. Mainly, I must admit, because I am feeling a bit uninspired about what to write at the moment. I have had a cold for the past week and a half which has knocked my hearing funny so I'm spending most of my time when I'm not at work resting on the sofa in front of Columbo - very nice, but not conducive to reading things to write about here.
So - seven random or weird things about me:
1 - The thing that makes this list a bit of a problem: I have very little shame and generally will tell most people just about anything about myself as I don't particularly care about appearances. For instance, although you'd think a thirty-five year old woman might keep it quiet at work that she plays World of Warcraft to preserve her professionalism, most of my colleagues know about my other life and pity me accordingly. So it is difficult to think of things that aren't too personal for this meme that I won't have already shared here over the past few months.
2- I fell in love with Dirk Bogarde when I was fifteen and still feel the same twenty years later. He was perfection.
3 - I would rather miss a train than run for it. I do sometimes run for the train, but always regret it afterwards, whether I catch it or not.
4 - Two of my WoW avatars are named after characters from Sheridan Le Fanu stories: Maud (from Uncle Silas) and Carmilla from the story of the same name.
5 - I have admitted before that I love Girls of the Playboy Mansion (US: Girls Next Door) - see what I mean about having no shame? But I haven't admitted that I have a favourite one of Heff's girlfriends. It's Holly - although Bridget and Kendra are great too.
6 - I can't tell left from right - I have to stick my hands out in front of me and look at which hand my wedding ring is on to know which is which (before I got married I used my watch).
7 - I once fell asleep through a production of Hamlet - I went to sleep in the scene in Gertrude's bedroom, when I woke up everyone was dead. I was a first year student studying Theatre and was very tired. The best bit was that I was sat a row in front of five of my tutors, including the Head of Department! I've also fallen asleep during Les Miserables but that was because I was bored.
On to anyone else!
Saturday, 8 December 2007
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I'm not sure that I'm interesting enough to have seven things to tell about myself! Which are your favourite Columbo episodes? I particularly like one called 'The bye-bye sky high IQ murder case' and another about trained attack dogs, which stars someone whose name I've suddenly forgotten.
Your story about falling asleep in the theatre is a good one, but not as good as my terrible tale of falling asleep during a lecture given by my boss! I snored very loudly, and when I woke up he looked over at me and asked if I was working too hard.
That's a great story. I think my favourite Columbo is Etude in Black.
It's a great episode. It's sort of shocking to think that the actress playing John Cassavetes young wife, Blythe Danner, was pregnant with her daughter Gwyneth Paltrow during the filming! Also strange to think that the actress playing his mother-in-law is Myrna Loy, who played Nora Charles in the THIN MAN movies from the 1930's. Hard to believe that the Columbos were made that long ago.
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