Car tagged me on fb for one of those write-25-random-things-about-yourself memes. Coincidence cos I just updated my version of 25 things. I’m supposed to tag the person who tagged me, plus 24 other people. I won’t do that cos I have 26 friends on fb and aside from the question of who to leave out I don’t want to meme-spam. That, and I’m not sure i can tag people on an imported note.

1. i’m close to my family but i don’t see them very often
2. we’re a small family, and certainly not the touchy feely type of family
3. i’ve lived on 3 continents and travelled to 6, gotta get that pesky Antarctica checked off my list soon
4. i’m moving to chicago…i’m excited and utterly petrified
5. the cynic in me believes that the concepts of true love, happy ever after and soulmates are scams to give us hope…and yet i’ve been building my collection of romance books
6. i’m officially in a relationship, but to all intents and purposes i’m single
7. i live alone in a 2-bedroom apartment that i own outright
8. it’s full of stuff; although, everything is well organised
9. i don’t need 95% of that stuff, cos i spend most of my awake and home time at my desk with my mbp
10. i have a website, 4 or 5 domain names, 3 flickr accounts, 2 twitter accounts, 1 each of youtube and vimeo accounts, 2 tumblogs, 5 yahoo accounts, 4 gmail addresses, 3 myspace accounts and 2 facebook accounts, all of which i keep active to varying degrees
11. i own 149 swatches, 20+ pairs of sneakers and a whole stack of hard rock café polo shirts
12. i can be described as a late early adopter
13. i wish fewer people would switch to macs cos i don’t feel special anymore
14. i’d like to learn photography and definitely need to use my EOS more — having the point-and-shoot permanently in my backpack has been bad for my photo skillz
15. the last song added to my itunes is “Human” by the Killers — I’ll do a post on it shortly
16. i sang in a choir in college and i played the piano as a kid but actually…i can barely hold a tune
17. i find it hard to understand temperatures in fahrenheit, it takes me a second or two to convert, so forgive the delayed response
18. prefer km, but miles is okay
19. my aim is to run 10km in under 50mins (last 10km on new year’s day came in at 1.05)
20. eventually work up to half marathon
21. i have 8 full length stories in various stages of wip
22. i know i could have been a) way more senior and b) way way way better paid long time ago, but i’m too lazy to be aggressive and ambitious at work
23. all i want is to retire and stay home
24. i don’t like people
25. and yes, i have a big complex about telling people my real name