100 things

In answer to my pet's list of 100 things about herself, here is mine.

1.I am pretty hairy, in head, body and facial terms.
2.I've had a beard of varying descriptions for the last four years. I kept clean shaven for a few months while I was dating someone who didn't like beards, but apart from that I grew a goatee when I graduated from highschool and it's stayed with me, just expanded.
3.I don't like tea or coffee.
4.But I love soup and like hot chocolate. Go figure.
5.I generally prefer savoury things to sweet things.
6.I used to play rugby union.
7.I was born in England, but moved to Australia when I was 4.
8.My earliest memory is eating an icicle on my 4th birthday.
9.I don't generally wear any kind of scent, cologne or deoderant. No aftershave, because I don't really shave.
10.My first job was selling electricity and gas contracts door-to-door. It was hideous, but I was quite good at it.
11.I very much enjoy science-fiction.
12.My favourite video game of all time is Baldur's Gate 2, but I don't care overmuch for Throne of Bhaal.
13.I'm not especially close to my family, but we do get along.
14.My best non-Rose friend and I have known each other since we were 5.
15.My favourite beer is a two-way tie between Old Speckled Hen and Prickly Moses Otway Stout.
16.I never used to like spicy foods, but now I do.
17.I have, at various times, played Warhammer, Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering- the full nerd trinity.
18.I am not in any way ashamed of 17.
19.I'm training to be a librarian, and am really looking forward to becoming one.
20.Despite this, my personal book collection is very disorganised and haphazard.
21.I have a perverse love for cold, wet weather.
22.I deny the existence of all pokemon with numbers higher than 151.
23.I am an agnostic, but a pagan sympathiser.
24.My preferred referencing system is the Oxford system.
25.I have a degree in Classics and Archaeology.
26.I originally went to uni to study psychology, but I'm just not sciency enough. I am intensely proud of Rose for her ability to stick out the sciencey bits.
27.My curiosities about BDSM were first aroused by an on-line girlfriend I had when I was 16.
28.It took me until I was 18 to really get into it.
29.I didn't have my first real life kink experience until I was 19, though.
30.If you haven't guessed by now, I'm a genuine, high-functioning geek.
31.I've been to England, Australia, America, New Zealand, Malaysia, Italy and Singapore.
32.Some people say I have an irrational dislike for all things French.
33.I say it's entirely rational.
34.There's a distinct possibility that I'm an illegitimate descendant of Karl Marx- it's not proven, but there is evidence to suggest it.
35.I honestly can't think of an absolute favourite book, movie, tv show or album because I like too many things.
36.My list of fetishes is vast.
37.But my favourite toys are my canes- I love the elegance of a good rattan, and the effect it has.
38.My sex partners have varied in age from 17 to 54, but I did once do a scene with a 62 y.o. Sub. He was very sweet, but it really didn't turn me on at all.
39.I love ageplay now as a Daddy, but my first experience of it was as a little.
40.Actually, most of my initial BDSM experience was as a bottom.
41.My favourite webcomic is Questionable Content, but I also enjoy Penny Arcade, Two Lumps, XKCD, Comics for Sad Children, Dinosaur Comics, The Adventures of Chifley and Wasted Talent.
42.In order of my preference for them, my favourite ancient civilisations are the Greeks, the Akkadians, the Romans, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Israelites, the Macedonians and the Egyptians.
43.My handwriting is terrible, but I'm a very good speller.
44.My favourite philosopher is Soren Kierkegaarde, followed very closely by Hegel and Nietzsche.
45.My least favourite philosopher is Michel Foucault, followed by Kant and Pseudo-Apollodrus.
46. I love poetry.
47.But not a glass of scotch. I have taste aversion from too much of the cheap stuff as a younger man. It's a shame.
48.I do love bourbon, though.
49.I prefer my sandwiches toasted.
50.I'm only half way through this list, and already I'm running out of ideas.
51.I'm very sentimental.
52.I read the Lord of the Rings trilogy when I was 12- long before they were cool again.
53.Some of my favourite writers include (in no particular order): Phillip K. Dick, Tamora Pierce, Alison Bechdel, Dan Abnett, George Orwell, Alan Ginsberg, Shakespeare, Catullus, Aeschylus (the Oresteia only), Seutonius, Sappho, Phillip Marlowe, JRR Tolkein, Ryu Murakami, Patrick Califia, Petronius, Ian Fleming, Poppy Z. Brite, Tennessee Williams, Berthold Brecht, Eugene Ionesco, Keats, H.P. Lovecraft, Elaine Cunningham, Hunter S. Thompson and Robert Frost.
54.Some popular writers who I dislike include: Steig Larsson, Tom Clancy, Stephanie Meyer, Jack Kerouack, James Joyce, Isabel Allende and Jean-Paul Sartre.
55.I can't walk down stairs without watching my feet.
56.I like shouting at the tv, newspaper, radio and computer.
57.It's very rare that I can stop thinking entirely.
58.Before I go to sleep, I make up stories in my head. These never really go anywhere, it's just a habit that helps me fall asleep.
59.I used to feel self-conscious about this when I was sharing a bed with someone, as though they could hear my thoughts.
60.I'm really bad at talking on the phone, I never can think of things to say.
61.My memory for names and faces is awful.
62.I have an oddly ambivalent relationship to the Harry Potter series. Whilst I will admit to enjoying the books, I also happily admit to the fact that they aren't really that good, and that I am vaguely ashamed of liking them as much as I do.
63.I was really terrified of getting old before I met Rose. Now as long as it happens with her there at my side, it doesn't bother me.
64.I can quote the Simpsons with far too much ease to be healthy. I very much enjoy my quote battles with Rose.
65.I find it very difficult to get into comics or graphic novels, for some reason.
66.The exception to this seems to be anything by Alison Bechdel. Not sure what that says about me.
67.I have a deviantart. Oh, yes. And I've had it since I was an angsty 15y.o. pseudo-goth poet. I also once had a deadjournal, which my school found and gave a copy to one of the counsellors, with whom I had compulsory sessions for the next year. I was messed up.
68.If fart jokes, poo jokes, dick jokes and childish name calling were good enough for Aristophanes, they're good enough for me.
69.I like grapes.
70.But not wine, mostly.
71.I enjoy country music more than I'm usually willing to admit to.
72.I'm not usually a wimp when it comes to pain- except when this pain is being inflicted by a goddamn dentist. I hate the dentist.
73.Checking word counts when typing for extended periods has become such an ingrained response in me that I've done it about ten times while writing this. Stupid academia.
74.My favourite R.E.M song is Orange Crush.
75.Rose is the first person ever to make me cum from oral sex.
76.I'm proud to say the reverse is also true.
77.My hair is naturally curly, and thus makes me goofy-looking. I spent about 10 years shaving it.
78.I don't take very much care over my appearance, so I'm very lucky to have a girl who thinks I look wonderful even when in reality, I'm a slob.
79.If I'm in a shop alone, I will talk to myself. Even if there are other people in the shop, if I'm not actually with someone I know, I will discuss the shopping experience aloud at great length. I only really became conscious of this a couple of years ago, so I sometimes wonder how long I did it for before then.
80.I actually know how many roads a man must walk down, but I'm not going to tell you.
81.Whilst modern rap and hip-hop displease me greatly, I have an odd fondness for early 90's west coast rap. I blame this on having played too much GTA: San Andreas as a teenager.
82.My eyesight is truly appalling.
83.My left shoulder often aches and cramps up due to an old rugby injury.
84.I also once nearly drowned in mud during a rugby match. That was not fun.
85.For these reasons Rose would offer serious objections to me ever taking it up again.
86.I'm excited to be getting close to the end. It's getting harder and harder to come up with interesting facts without resorting to meta crap like this one.
87.I once had pretty serious anger issues. People who didn't know me then, but do now often find this surprising.
88.My favourite Weird Al Yankovic song is 'Your Horoscope for Today'. It always makes me laugh.
89.Ich spreche Deutsche sehr gut. Ich habe es im schule gelernt.
90.At various points, I've also studied Italian, French, Ancient Greek and Latin. I've also managed to pick up a reasonable amount of Spanish and smaller amounts of Japanese and Portugese.
91.I've been to Tasmania. I'd do it again, too.
92.Though if I didn't have family there, I'd be happy never to go back to New South Wales. A whole state of you're doing it wrong.
93.I've been known to scream and hyperventilate while reading the opinion pages in the newspaper.
94.I also screamed at customers while answering the phones for a local telecommunications company. Customer service is not really my ideal job, at least not while the customer continues to be the most dim-witted form of life on the planet.
95.I also once screamed at one of my managers. He was very nice about it, afterwards. It made me feel very sheepish. I hated that job with a passion.
96.I am proud that I stuck it out for as long as I did, though.
97.Some of my favourite words to say include: haberdasher, solipsism, elision, callapygian, deleterious, grandiloquent, somnolent, syzygy, mercurial, saprophyte, circumflex and verily.
98.I enjoy a good crossword. Quite the cruciverbalist am I.
99.Palindromes usually make me smile. Rats live on no evil star. Glenelg. Madam, I'm adam. Dr. Awkward. Etc.
100.I am glad to be done with this list. But it was fun while it lasted. Thank you for reading.