7 (fairly) Random Things about Me.
Karlo over @ Swerve Left has tagged me with this meme. Please visit his Blog site for lots of interesting left-leaning discussions surrounding events of the day.
Anyway:
1) I have never owned a car. This is hardly surprising seeing that I have never driven a car (more than a few hundred yards) nor leant how to drive. I quite like cars in a non petrol-head sort of way but I’m far from fascinated with them
2) I love cats but like dogs very much too. When I retire to the country I intend to get a big dog (or two) in the wolfhound – Great Dane size range.
3) I have been single for the majority of my adult life. It used to bother me a great deal but I’ve managed to learn to live with it (mostly). I am more than happy being by myself so don’t miss the company. Actually the thought of living with someone for years on end is close to my idea of hell. I don’t even miss the sex that much (mostly) but I do miss the level of intimacy you can have with a lover.
4) When I think about it enough I come to realise that my scepticism about the world has no real boundaries. This is not simply a philosophical pose to make me seem more windswept and interesting.
5) Italy is probably my favourite place in the entire world. The art, the architecture, the food and the women all take my breath away.
6) After 35 years of doing so I am convinced that I shall never tire of reading Science Fiction.
7) I really like the fact that I have grey hair and look forward to the day when it’s completely white.
About Me
- CyberKitten
- I have a burning need to know stuff and I love asking awkward questions.
9 comments:
A very interesting list.
Like reading a novel, we realize that the world is a really different place for other people. It's valuable to step outside ourselves a little.
wunelle said: Like reading a novel, we realize that the world is a really different place for other people. It's valuable to step outside ourselves a little.
That's one thing I like about Blogging - and why I think it's fairly important. When we have the ability to interact with people from different cultures it shows us two things:
That we have many things in common with people from all over the world. That we're not *that* different after all.
Also:
That there are *ther ways* of thinking about things and other ways of living your life... and that they are *valid* ways of doing them both.
Such insights cannot help but make the world both a better and a safer place for all of us.
...and novels are a good way of doing that too [grin].
Fascinating, Dear Cyberkitten! I LOVE this list....! And I too have lived mostly alone and it is as you say, alright! Indeed, the intamacy factor is something I miss, but not enough to want to be with ANYONE 24/7, except my Cat, Sweetie...!
You gave me a GOOD Laugh today with your comment on my "cleaning" post....LOL! I am amazed that I actually made it sound intetesting....I am finding it a combination of wonderful and terrible....I keep trying to "keep my eye on the prize" so that I do not keep lots of stuff I really do not need anymore--or, have even forgotten I had....! But the sentiment factor...Oh My! This is hard. And emotional too, you know!
But...I will keep putting one foot in front of the other, and keep filling those big garbage bags, KNOWING, I will feel so much lighter, when they are all out of the house and shredded up!
You are doing fabulously with giving away books! Bravo, my dear, Bravo!
Nice list! I dream of the day when I can get rid of the car!
Great insight!
It's funny how little we actually know about our blog friends.
I knew you had grey hair (remember the South Park cartoon we all made of ourselves?)
I knew you read and love Science Fiction
I didn't know any of the other stuff though--thanks for sharing!
~S
Naomi said: You are doing fabulously with giving away books! Bravo, my dear, Bravo!
Normally I would *never* give away books but I really need the space. The ones I'm giving away aren't very good and either will never be read or never be read again. I guess that someone might find them interesting & it might make the charity a bit of money too.
karlo said: Nice list! I dream of the day when I can get rid of the car!
Thanks. I thought about it for 24 hours and they are 7 of the things that popped into my head.
I've never needed a car and probably never will.
Sadie said: I didn't know any of the other stuff though--thanks for sharing!
I tried to make most of them new stuff. Though I still haven't given *that* much away.... [grin]
1) I'm envious. I would love to leave the world of cars far behind.
4) True skepticism has no real boundaries -- yet another reason why I could never be religious. There are too many sacred cows, as it were. If there are areas where you can't ask questions about, you've lost me.
5) I would looooove to go to Italy.
6) Hear, hear.
dbackdad said: I'm envious. I would love to leave the world of cars far behind.
Me too. Unfortunately I'm normally stuck in traffic twice a day....
dbackdad said: True skepticism has no real boundaries..
Though some people think that you can go too far [grin]. For instance I was at a philosophy conference a few weekends ago in a Stately home in Mid-Wales (what an exotic life I sometimes lead, I know) and one of the papers being presented was on the 'Problem of Other minds' - basically that we can't know for certain other people exist. The paper was basically a refutation of the sceptical position. In the Q&A session afterwards I said that there is no way you *can* actually tell if other people really exist. He said that I couldn't possibly believe that and that I was just taking a contrary 'position'. Later in the bar he was very surprised that in fact I wasn't just 'taking a position' at all but could argue very cogently that though we *asume* other people exist we can never actually *know* that they do. While he was still staggering from that one I went onto propose that we can't even be certain that *we* exist either! It was lots of fun and I was inspired to produce a paper for the next conference [grin].
dbackdad said: I would looooove to go to Italy.
I would love to amble around Tuscany. We went though it on the train. It looked beautiful.
dbackdad said: Hear, hear.
SF is great. The best form of literature in my mind. What I love about it is that no mater how much of it you've read there is always the real posibility of a surprise (or a shock) over the next page. Never a dull moment with SF.
Oh crap, I forgot to do my list when Karlo tagged me, better get to it. As for your list, a lot of it I knew, but I was happily surprised to hear your hoping to go white. I've recently stopped coloring my hair when I discovered between colorings that I was going white at the temples. To be sure, I've got grey and silver mixed in as well, but I've been living my whole life hoping I would go snowy white like my parents and so far it seems to be happening. I don't fear aging too much. It's all a part of the journey.
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