Mat Bowles

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Well, there’s a surprise…

silly quiz from
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What Vampire Clan Are You?
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And that annoying long meme that’s going around…
1. What does your LJ nickname mean?
It’s almost how I’ve always signed my name, except that MatB was taken by someone who’s never used it! Gah…

2. Elaborate on your icon photo.
Belgian anarchist in a blimp over a gold mine in California during the gold rush. You need to know more?

3. Did you lie about your age anywhere on the net?
Nope. I’m 30, to the amazement of most who meet me; do I really look as young as people think I am?

4. How many LJ friends do you have?
37 on the list, of whom I’ve met more than half, and at least one person on the list has met everyone else; split between Exeter and London people.

5. What is your current status?
Physical: Slightly overweight, awful diet.
Mental: Pissed off and incredibly apathetic, why bother when no one else can be arsed and you just get blamed anyway?
Emotional: Cold
Relationship: Single and not bothered. Spent Fri night with one ex, Sat afternoon with another. Meh.

6. What are you wearing right now?
Um, a t-shirt and underwear, it’s Sunday and I’m in my flat…

7. What is life to you?
A challenge, I’m looking to change my priorities.

8. What is love to you?
Something for other people; I don’t do emotions much.

9. What kind of people do you hate most?
The wilfully ignorant and the contradictory. Also freeloaders who are happy to take partial credit as long aas they do no work.

10. What type of people do you like most?
Those capable of holding rational conversations, preferably on any subject regardless.

11. What makes you happy?
When a plan comes together.

12. Are you musically-inclined?
I used to be. I played piano when a kid, and always meant to learn the sax, but never got around to it.

13. What would you do if you woke up one morning and found out that the person you love most didn’t exist, or was killed?
Love? Coverd that already. Assuming murder, if anyone I knew was killed I’d asist the investigation as best I can and ensure justice; not into revenge or retaliation, gets you nowhere.

14. If you could go back in time and change ONE thing, what would you do?
Personal life? Choice of school for my a-levels, I should’ve insisted on the change
History? Death of Gustav Vasa, battle of Luetzen 1632. So many historical ramifications…

15. If you MUST be an animal for ONE day, what will you be?
A cat, no one objects when they sleep or look smug.

16. Ever had a near-death experience?
Not that I recall

17. Name ONE obvious personality quality you have.
Arrogance?

18. What’s the name of the song that’s stuck in your head right now?
Unusually, there isn’t one. Although it’s been GnR’s Civil War a lot recently, gods know why.

19. Are you happy today?
Not bad, playing with the new phone cheered me up, lunch with Lou was cool, although I still can’t read her enough to see if I should ask that question…

20. Who will cut and paste this next?
I think mostly everyone has done it already…

April 10th, 2005 Posted by MatGB | Uncategorized | no comments

Enough already, I didn’t care when you first told me…

The problem with being a news junkie is that sometimes the news is the same story repeated. Ad nauseum.

Charles and the horse have gone to Balmoral. I care because? This displaces every other news story in the country and the world because? It even took over the whole of Radio 4 FM this afternoon, they ’split’ the service, the regular schedule was long wave only.

I don’t have a long wave radio; why not let the minority interest wedding be on the hard to receive frequency so I can listn to what I want to in peace?

it’s 0012. It’s still the only story the Beeb has covered int he midnight news. y’know,t he main news brodcast of the day.

I don’t care! Leave me alone!

In other news, service in the local Orange store is tops; my new Motorola is charging as I type. New contract too; free texts might mean I try to keep in touch with people…

p.s. as 0012 finishes, it goes on to the news about Longbridge; I don’t care, but at least it’e real news.

April 10th, 2005 Posted by MatGB | Uncategorized | one comment