Mat Bowles

Help a poor traveller…

is bored, and stuck in a cold bit of Canada with no IM (she’s on a tour of bone collections, alright for some), so if you’re online, go here and cheer her up. She’s also using a cool Willow icon with one of my favourite Buffy quotes, gotta love it…

And I promise no more updates for a bit.

October 30th, 2005 Posted by MatGB | Uncategorized | 3 comments

99(ish) questions.

I was going to do ’s 99 questions meme, but doing those things annoys me. Then I remembered that I’d done a meme ages back that allowed you to create your own lists of questions. On the grounds I messed the form up while creating it, I went through the source code, ingenious, it doesn’t store the quiz on its server at all, when you click the link, the form submit tells the server what questions to ask. Me like.

Anyway, I went through Fred’s Qs, removed the horrible Americanisms (especially the teen angsts I’m still at high school ones), added a few, some from ’s interview meme (which I did ages ago, can’t be arsed to kick start it again) and tried to fix the horrible grammar and punctuation. Doubt I got all of it though.

General
Country you’re in	Great Britain
What time is it	19.55
Name	Mat
Nickname(s)	MatB, Hippy, Flash
Zodiac	Virgo
Shoe size	8.5 & 9.5 (depends on the foot)
Glasses, contacts or neither?	Neither
Piercing/tattoo	None
Birthplace	Paignton
Current residence	Torquay
Best thing about living where you do?	It’s close to work
What song do you most closely associate with the following events?
‘O’ levels/GCSEs	Carter USM’s Sheriff Fatman
First girlfriend (and/or ‘time’)	Jane’s Addiction’s ‘Been Caught Stealin’ and Sisters of Mercy ‘This Corrosion’
Christmas time	The Pogues ‘Fairy Tale in New York’
Have you ever
Gone skinny dipping	Among other things, see nicknames, above
Skipped school	No
Bungee jumped	No
Kissed someone of the same sex not related to you	No
Kiss more than two people in one day	Yes
Won something	Yes, on TV
Asked someone out	Yes
Been rejected	Yes
Been in love	Yes (not often though)
Been to a funeral	Yes (both grandfathers)
Used a lighter	Yes (but have never smoked-anything)
Been on stage	Yes (I’m not very good)
Favourite
Food	Omelette
Ice cream flavour	Ben and Jerrys Fish Food (I think)
Breakfast cereal	Frosties
Number(s)	42
Book(s)	Hitchhiker’s Guide, Perdido St Station, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Movie(s)	Aliens, Citizen Kane, Dr Strangelove
Chocolate	Green and Black’s Maya Gold
Soft drink (soda)	Coke
Colour(s)	Black, purple
Holiday (vacation) location	Sienna, Italy and Muenster, Germany
Sport to watch on tv	None
Sports to play	None
Fast food restaurant	None, really. Oh, Pita in Reading (and elsewhere? anyone seen one?)
Cartoon Character	I don’t know, Dilbert?
Name for a boy	No preference; something long that can be shortened easily
Name for a girl	See above
TV series	Dr Who (new),Angel or Firefly. Yes, I know, but still
Radio Show	I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue
Do you prefer
Chocolate or vanilla	Chocolate
Boys or girls	Girls
Long relationships or one night stands	Both, but relationships better
Dogs or cats	Cats (silly question)
Scary movies or comedies	Comedies (actually, neither, but, well…)
Croutons or bacon bits or both	Vege bacon bits
Word Association
Doctor	Useless
Hedgehog	sleep
School	books
Grass	pot
Cow	milk
Canada	Coffee
Mouse	mat
Hand	job (sorry, but, well, honestly the first thing that came into my head)
In the past 48 hours, have you?
Watched a movie	Yes (well, DVD)
Cried	No
Thrown up	No
Drank a glass of water	Yes (many)
Gone to the bathroom	In the last 48 hours? What kinda stupid question?
Read a book or magazine	Yes
Watched tv	No, unless DVDs count, in which case, yes
Looked in the mirror	Yes (I’ve shaved)
Taken a shower	Yes
Brought yourself off	Yes
Listened to music	Yes
Hugged or kissed someone	No
Do you believe in?
Heaven	No
Aliens	In the whole universe? Yes. Visiting Earth? No
Love	Yes, but my opinion on what it is remains unchanged
Magic	Clark’s 3rd Law, so yes
God(s)	No
Random stuff
Last movie you saw in the Cinema	Serenity
Are you listening to music right now	No, Radio 4 (again)
What color shirt are you wearing	Blue (yup, it isn’t black, it is known)
Do you like your middle(s) name	Not really, but the initial is useful
What’s the best thing since sliced bread	Toaster
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October 30th, 2005 Posted by MatGB | Uncategorized | no comments