25 random things about me
it feels like it's been a while since i've been tagged with something like this (uh, a month, it seems), but tagged i have been: 25 random things, habits, facts or goals about me.
1. i can't stand telephones. in my book the only good uses for telephones are the internet and emergencies. if you have a non-critical message, email, sms, twitter, fax are all infinitely preferable. it's not that i don't want to talk to you, it's just that i hate talking to people when i can't see their faces.
2. my favourite sweet in the whole world is mebos, a sort of south african jube made of dried fruit and sugar. it comes in all sorts of flavours (peach, fig, raspberry, etc.) and is really amazingly fruity and sweet. small portions only!
3. for a short period when i was a child (in sydney) i was convinced i lived in england. the whole australia thing was just a conspiracy.
4. my music has been performed in sydney, brisbane, and montpellier in france.
5. i had a piece released on a cd back in about 2002 and am planning on putting together a one-girl disc of my piano music over the next year or 18 months.
6. i have edited two books.
7. my special birthday meal is almost always coq au vin. followed by some sort of chocolate cake (but not chocolate mud cake, for preference).
8. i am a very messy person, yet i love organising stuff and implementing systems, and i like things to be clean. unfortunately these things tend to conflict with one another :-(
9. i speak (in descending order of competence) english, french, italian and german.
10. i am the only child of two only children. i don't have any first cousins, aunts or uncles. (djelibeybi on the other hand is the youngest of nine and has more cousins than there are stars in the sky)
11. i have 2 degrees: a bachelor of music with honours in composition from the university of sydney, and a graduate diploma in design (with merit) from the university of technology, sydney.
12. one day i plan to get my doctorate.
13. i have been hand-coding html for nearly 13 years.
14. my favourite colour is red. my favourite colour combination is red and pale blue. runner-up colours are green, orange and purple. blue (especially dark blue) on its own makes me feel depressed.
15. i have a long-standing obsession with the music of erik satie. i wrote my honours-year thesis on it, was invited to participate in a panel discussion on erik satie and john cage in brisbane in 2002, i maintain (sort of) a website on it and am in the process of writing a new article on satie and the dada movement.
16. i prefer children's literature to adults'. favourite-ever books are: narnia series, susan cooper's the dark is rising series, and the compleet molesworth
17. i can't stand so-called "relaxation" music. it makes me want to break things. i usually take a thomas tallis cd along when i go for a massage.
18. i dream one day of finding an SLR camera which weights less than 500g (but realistically don't hold out much hope of it!).
19. i don't plan to ever have children.
20. i am allergic to the spice cumin.
21. cheese is possibly the greatest invention ever. or maybe bread. it's a toss-up.
22. this year i sold my very first score that was 100% my own work.
23. the b.mus. course i did never takes more than 18 people per year and has the second highest drop-out rate of any course in australia (actuarial at macquarie uni is the highest)
24. my hair is so thick it needs to be thinned every time it's cut and if i let it grow much past shoulder-length it gives me terrible headaches.
25. i was once hired as an expert witness for a court case - i had to prepare a musicological report to demonstrate whether the new theme to a tv show was or was not an arrangement of the previous theme (i came to the conclusion that it was).
and in true lackadaisical vox tradition, if you read this far, consider yourself tagged, please :-)
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