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Six Random Things About Me

May 4, 2008 at 3:29 pm · Filed under Miscellanea

Eva over at A Striped Armchair tagged me for this meme.

  1. My former roommate, who has 30% hearing loss in one ear and 70% in the other, always seems to hear better than I do (as does pretty much everyone I know.) Poor hearing is one of the main reasons I don’t like chatting on the phone; it’s also one reason I don’t like going out with friends at night, because between background noise and low lighting, I miss about three quarters of any conversation. I keep meaning to take a proper hearing test, but I haven’t got around to it yet.
  2. My favourite food in the world is kelewele, a Ghanaian snack food made from ripe plantain, sliced, mixed with ginger and hot pepper, and deep fried in oil. My father makes the best kelewele in the world, and I’d eat it for every meal if it wasn’t so unhealthy.
  3. I’ve tried several times to read Margaret Atwood’s books, specifically The Handmaid’s Tale, Bodily Harm, and Alias Grace, but I’ve always been terminally bored within the first ten pages. Also, she’s always being interviewed on CBC Radio One, and her voice annoys me. I feel kind of guilty that I haven’t read even one book by one of Canada’s most famous authors, but I just can’t like her.
  4. When I was three or four years old, my favourite ice cream was the bright blue bubblegum-flavoured kind, with the little pieces of chewing gum in it. My mum hated it, because while I’d chew some of the gum, the ice cream would melt all over everything.
  5. I never drink alcohol, because I don’t like the taste. When I tell people that, they invariably say, “Oh, you should try a —, you can’t even taste the alcohol in it!” So far, that sentence has always proved to be utterly wrong.
  6. I don’t watch TV unless I’m with someone who’s watching it, and even then I rarely watch an entire episode of anything, because I kind of hate mainstream television, and commercials aggravate me beyond reason, and sometimes throw me into momentary despair over the future of the human race. I do like sci-fi/fantasy shows and old British sitcoms, though.

If you feel like doing this, consider yourself tagged, and don’t forget to leave a link to your response in a comment!

7 Comments »

Andilit wrote, on May 4th, 2008 at 4:29 pm:

Wow, your random things kicked my random things booty.  I definitely want to try kelewele.  Sounds delicious!
 

Eva wrote, on May 4th, 2008 at 5:41 pm:

These were fun!  Kelewele sounds really good. :D  And when I watch TV, I either fast forward through the commericals (my parents have digital TV) or mute them, because they upset me too!  At college, I didn’t have watch TV until my senior year (when I lived in an apartment with other people and they hooked up a TV)-then one of my roommates got me addicted to a couple shows that I really like.

Poodlerat wrote, on May 4th, 2008 at 9:37 pm:

Thanks, Andi and Eva!

Kelewele is good. If you ever get the chance, try it!

CJHill wrote, on May 5th, 2008 at 3:42 am:

I’m glad I’m not the only one who has trouble with Atwood…

Amazing, isn’t it, that people can’t understand that it’s the alcohol itself you don’t like, not the flavoring they add to it. Ain’t nothing gonna change the alcohol. I don’t drink much because I’ve got a borderline allergy to one of the things in alcohol and I wake up with a nose that weighs 15 pounds after a couple of drinks.
cjh

Poodlerat wrote, on May 5th, 2008 at 2:19 pm:

The thing I find strangest is that people really wrack their brains to think of drinks I might like, as though my life is somehow poorer because I don’t drink!

heather (errantdreams) wrote, on May 20th, 2008 at 10:29 am:

Heh, I can relate to some of this! My hearing has issues too, although I think some of that is not so much my hearing itself as how my brain translates what I hear, thanks to having ADD.
 
There are only a few alcoholic drinks that I like, and I’ve never understood why people seem to think it’s so important that people be able to drink and enjoy something alcoholic. My husband is like you—he just plain doesn’t like the taste of alcohol, and really has no interest in drinking it—and I’ve never understood why people push him to find something he’d like drinking. What’s wrong with enjoying iced tea or soda or water instead?
 
 
Kelewele sounds like something I’d LOVE. And we don’t watch much TV either these days… mostly just Galactica (new, not original), Wire in the Blood (BBC version, not American), and Heroes. And we record those so we can forward through the commercials.

Poodlerat wrote, on May 21st, 2008 at 7:59 pm:

I’ve heard good things about the new Galactica and Heroes; maybe I’ll rent the DVDs!

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