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I have no idea what to post about on LJ at the moment (everything seems to involve too much background and context), and am having a slow Friday (day-off plans foiled by ill couchsurfer, though I may go out shortly to read a book in a cafe or similar), so I am going to do this meme. I always assume that everyone knows everything about me, but maybe you don't.

The problem with LJ: We all think we are so close, but really we know nothing about one another. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

Have at it!

Hm, I will even make this post public, so that you can ASK ANONYMOUSLY if you want. Don't be evil though.

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I'm sure I could find something to ask anonymously, but "this user has disabled anonymous posting." :-(

PAH! I know everything about you. Well, unless you've got a "stuff I don't tell chillor" filter. ;)

How's the couchsurfing going for you?

Oops, I forgot I'd done that! (To combat the Japanese spammer.) WIll edit now in case anyone has some BURNING questions they don't want to put their name to.

OF COURSE I DON'T.

*looks shifty*

UH! Omg you're so busted. But now I know this about you so I once again know EVERYTHING! Muahaha etc.

what i want to know about you:

why the hell did you sleep with a tory? :)

(using booze as an excuse isn't allowed)

...and I can't figure out how to enable anon comments. BAH.

Oh come on, even I can answer that one on my own behalf: Tories are WRONGE. This makes them the best lovers. FACT.

Can I plead ignorance? I dunno, it probably speaks volumes of my own prejudices that I tend to assume that anyone working in humanitarian work (which he was at the time) is a big old lefty. I knew he was more right-wing than I am, but that is not very difficult.

Also, I was in the middle of nowhere in South Sudan. Pickings were slim!

I STRONGLY DISPUTE THIS.

seriously that just can't be right.....

yeah me too

I had that maggie thatcher once, and she was shite ;)

Mostly good! I have hosted four people now - this guy, who is cycling from Nordkapp to Cape Town; an Austrian guy who turned up with an English friend he'd made en route, and right now a half-Austrian half-Norwegian violinist who has WALKED from Austria to here en route to Ethiopia. (It's a kind of pilgrimage - he's a fairly recent convert to Christianity.) Current guy is more of a friend of a friend rather than an official couchsurfer, and I admit that I am getting kind of angsty that he MIGHT NEVER LEAVE. He showed up last Saturday, initially to stay two nights, then on Sunday he asked if he could stay until tomorrow, as he had to get his camera fixed and sort his Ethiopian visa, and as of today he still doesn't have his visa and his camera is not fixed and now he is ill and I am thinking ARGH HOW LONG ARE YOU STAYING? He is perfectly nice and of course being ill is not his fault and I am evil, but my job is stressful and I work long hours and really a week plus is too long and I NEED MY SPACE. If he were well I'd probably be saying "um, dude, can you maybe move on soon?" but obviously under the circumstances that is impossible.

Ha, sorry for small rant. Mostly it is good! I am going to change my CS profile so that it says four nights maximum, though that wouldn't make a difference in this case because he's not on CS. Aside from that, my main worry is that my neighbours keep seeing these sweaty bearded blokes going in and out of my apartment (seriously, three out of the four of them have been practically interchangeable in appearance) and I wonder if they think I have some weird fetish.

my main worry is that my neighbours keep seeing these sweaty bearded blokes going in and out of my apartment (seriously, three out of the four of them have been practically interchangeable in appearance) and I wonder if they think I have some weird fetish.

After I come to visit they'll be disabused of this notion. Um.

ok I've had a think and now I've got a real question:

you know your ex, the one who have the house with? I've seen pictures, and you've put his wax in my hair and I might even have met him although it's in my mind as a drunked haze so I might have been imagining stuff....

anyway, in all that, there never has seemed to be anything about him which is worthy of mertit or or even mention, where as you (obviously) are really quite ace and have since proven you can do *SO* much better

so did he have some redeaming feature you've never told us about, or had he become less good over time, or is there another reason?

you've put his wax in my hair

.......is that a euphemism?

Ahahahaa! At least you have a different hair colour (all three have been blonde/reddish, with the exception of the English bloke, who was dark haired and beardless), so I'll be incorporating a bit of variety into my diet.

Malfoy's Dad is a conservative.

AW YEAH.

Precisely my point.

But you felt so dirrrrty, afterwards.

What is your FAVOURITE COLOUR?

Have you ever accidentally told a secret?

Oh Dan, Dan...he is actually on LJ and on my f'list (not that that would make a difference since this post is public anyway). Still, I'm fairly positive he doesn't read my journal any more, so I will do my best to answer!

So, OK, we got together when I was 20 and he was 21, and at the time I was very much in love (and I think he was too, at least for the first six months or so) - it seemed like we had loads and loads in common, though in hindsight those were mostly superficial things (similar educational and family background, similar political views - I think, anyway). I thought he was great - very intelligent and interesting and enthused about the world, and I still think that he is these things - the main problem (which I noticed fairly early on, but tried to ignore) was that he was never particularly interested in me on anything beyond a physical level, and I had the sense through much of the relationship that in many ways I could have been anyone. I do feel like he changed during the relationship and I didn't - he might be more inclined to say that he grew up and I didn't (and he could well be right!), or maybe I've changed more than I think, and since our break-up it's become blindingly clear to me that what we want out of life is very, very different as our lifestyles now are extremely incompatible. I still think he's a decent person and have a lot of respect for him, though I suspect that we'd both be happier if we didn't have to be in contact because of house things.

Obviously I am loads, loads happier in my current relationship, and I'm sure he is too - in the long-term I was just as wrong for him as he was for me - but I still have a lot of positive memories from the early years of our relationship, and I'd still say that it was right and good at the time (though it probably went on at least a couple of years too long, and in hindsight I'm glad that he made the decision to end it, because I was DETERMINED that I would MAKE IT WORK and am now so glad that I'm in a relationship where I don't have to.

Plus, if you think HE'S bad (I don't), you should see the bloke I was with before him! ;)

*projectile vomits onto monitor*

IT IS GREEN. OR MAYBE RED.

Yeah, I'm sure I have, loads of times. I am quite good at keeping stuff in confidence if it's someone else's secret, but if it involves me I am always like I HAVE TO TELL SOMEONE (OR MULTIPLE SOMEONES) OR I WILL BURST. Which is not always sensible.

I do have some very visceral memories of blurting things out when I REALLY didn't mean to, but I can't think what they could have been. Hopefully nothing too damaging.

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