A meme that’s going round…actually it was going round during #blogjune in 2011 and I wrote most of it then. My postings in June were suddenly curtailed due to a rather climactic event, and it was interesting to re-read that post in light of my recent job change, less than 12 months later. I still have some further thinking to do on that. Anyway, I had a few posts in draft from then that I thought I’d return to including the 7 things meme:

Seven Things that Scare Me

• death by drowning
• snakes
• making phonecalls
• going blind
• debt
• confrontation
• ignorance

Seven Things I Like

• chocolate
• books/reading
• wine
• travelling
• watching movies
• a good hamburger
• science fiction

Seven Random Facts About Me

• I built a virtual library for a private uni that met the approval of the NSW Govt
• I was a professional student – spent 12 or so years at uni
• I used to be adept at using a pallet jack
• I used to have a mohawk (I used to have hair too)
• I own several waistcoats including one that was made for in Portobello Rd
• I collect snails (ornaments not live ones)
• I have over 70 Biggles’ books…but not the whole set alas

Seven Things I want to Do Before I Die

• visit Antarctica
• walk the Pennine Way
• learn how to make pavlova the way my mother made it
• See the Northern Lights
• drink more wine :-)
• read more books
• live in Wellington, NZ

Seven Things I Can Do Well

• enjoy life
• take the piss
• push myself
• travel
• chill out
• make a fool of myself :-)
• smile

Seven Things I Can’t Do But Wish I could

• be assertive
• lead
• manage lots of things at the same time
• spend a year or three backpacking around the world
• lose weight :-)
• master calendars
• housework :)

Seven Phrases I’m Known To Use

• bugger
• ciao
• eep!
• oopsydaisy
• howdy
• “with that said…”
• albeit