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awallens has tagged me for a meme, which involves writing six weird things about myself, and then tagging six people I'd like to see do said meme. Here goes!
1. I had my hair dyed pink, orange and purple all at once for a few days when I was twenty. Someone was running a dye-your-hair stall at the local markets using those Fudge dyes that wash out, so I got to try something radical without any longer-term 'Oh my God, I hate it!' consequences. As it happened, I really liked the results; it looked like someone had dropped a sunset in my hair. What makes this little anecdote even weirder (to the people who don't know my Mum, at least) is that my mother was egging me on to do it. There's a reason why I've always identified with Saffy from Absolutely Fabulous!
And no, there are no pictures. But yes, there may one day be a repeat performance. Possibly to celebrate my first permanent job.
2. Speaking of my parents, they're both much older than the parents of most people my age. I'm 26, my Mum is 66 and my Dad is 90. It's really coloured my perceptions of age - I don't think of seventy as old, because that's the age my Dad was when I was five or six and he was still perfectly fit and healthy then. Because Dad had a family before he met Mum, I also have half siblings in their late forties or early fifities out there somewhere, though I've never met them.
3. I have tinnitus, which in itself isn't all that weird. It showed up after I lost my hearing, sometime in the first few weeks I was deaf. That makes sense if you believe the theory that everybody has tinnitus to some degree, it's just that in most people it's masked effectively by other noises. Anyway, my tinnitus has evolved over time and it can now incorporate whatever song is my current earworm. I get a song in my head and gradually the 'voice' will start to sound like many, slightly mechanical voices, or the buzzing of my tinnitus will become a little rhythmic so that it fits with the song. Totally wrecks the song, assuming it was something I liked in the first place and not my subconscious being horrible. Oh, and that's the other thing - the 'sound' of the song in my head has relocated with the tinnitus. Used to be that I 'heard' songs in the centre of my head; now they come from near my left ear where the tinnitus sounds come from.
4. Okay. This one is going to make me sound like a complete nutcase, but I've had some very real experiences of deja vu. It only happens once every couple of years tops, but it freaks the hell out of me every time. Usually it stems from something I've thought of in that semi-conscious state before sleep where you have fragments of randomness floating in your head. I don't remember the things I think about in that state at all, unless they repeat themselves exactly weeks or months down the track. Weird, no? I don't have any sort of explanation for it and frankly I think I'm happier without one.
5. I can be disturbingly expressive using nothing but the sound 'eep!'. I can eep lovingly, or in distress. I've eeped in anger, relief and amusement. Luckily for you, Dear Reader, it's only something I ever do with partners. On the upside, it's kind of consoling to know that if I ever lose the power of articulated speech I will probably still have the power to eep.
6. When I'm disgusted or freaked out by something, it literally makes my toes curl up. The sound of someone handling styrofoam does it to me every time.
It's Passing on the Meme Time! I'd like to seek29, purpletigress, ghoath, riverstar, samari76 and rickybuchanan do this, but only if they want to. I Am Not A Meme Nazi. I will not steal your partners or pets if you do not do this meme. All bets are off if you own any nice scarves, though.
awallens has tagged me for a meme, which involves writing six weird things about myself, and then tagging six people I'd like to see do said meme. Here goes!1. I had my hair dyed pink, orange and purple all at once for a few days when I was twenty. Someone was running a dye-your-hair stall at the local markets using those Fudge dyes that wash out, so I got to try something radical without any longer-term 'Oh my God, I hate it!' consequences. As it happened, I really liked the results; it looked like someone had dropped a sunset in my hair. What makes this little anecdote even weirder (to the people who don't know my Mum, at least) is that my mother was egging me on to do it. There's a reason why I've always identified with Saffy from Absolutely Fabulous!
And no, there are no pictures. But yes, there may one day be a repeat performance. Possibly to celebrate my first permanent job.
2. Speaking of my parents, they're both much older than the parents of most people my age. I'm 26, my Mum is 66 and my Dad is 90. It's really coloured my perceptions of age - I don't think of seventy as old, because that's the age my Dad was when I was five or six and he was still perfectly fit and healthy then. Because Dad had a family before he met Mum, I also have half siblings in their late forties or early fifities out there somewhere, though I've never met them.
3. I have tinnitus, which in itself isn't all that weird. It showed up after I lost my hearing, sometime in the first few weeks I was deaf. That makes sense if you believe the theory that everybody has tinnitus to some degree, it's just that in most people it's masked effectively by other noises. Anyway, my tinnitus has evolved over time and it can now incorporate whatever song is my current earworm. I get a song in my head and gradually the 'voice' will start to sound like many, slightly mechanical voices, or the buzzing of my tinnitus will become a little rhythmic so that it fits with the song. Totally wrecks the song, assuming it was something I liked in the first place and not my subconscious being horrible. Oh, and that's the other thing - the 'sound' of the song in my head has relocated with the tinnitus. Used to be that I 'heard' songs in the centre of my head; now they come from near my left ear where the tinnitus sounds come from.
4. Okay. This one is going to make me sound like a complete nutcase, but I've had some very real experiences of deja vu. It only happens once every couple of years tops, but it freaks the hell out of me every time. Usually it stems from something I've thought of in that semi-conscious state before sleep where you have fragments of randomness floating in your head. I don't remember the things I think about in that state at all, unless they repeat themselves exactly weeks or months down the track. Weird, no? I don't have any sort of explanation for it and frankly I think I'm happier without one.
5. I can be disturbingly expressive using nothing but the sound 'eep!'. I can eep lovingly, or in distress. I've eeped in anger, relief and amusement. Luckily for you, Dear Reader, it's only something I ever do with partners. On the upside, it's kind of consoling to know that if I ever lose the power of articulated speech I will probably still have the power to eep.
6. When I'm disgusted or freaked out by something, it literally makes my toes curl up. The sound of someone handling styrofoam does it to me every time.
It's Passing on the Meme Time! I'd like to see
k29, purpletigress, ghoath, riverstar, samari76 and rickybuchanan do this, but only if they want to. I Am Not A Meme Nazi. I will not steal your partners or pets if you do not do this meme. All bets are off if you own any nice scarves, though.