I’ve been tagged to post 10 random facts about myself by ladybugspicnic and I chose to take it as a challenge to post 10 or so long-winded anecdotes, and I ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE

1. I really like vidya games of many genres, but I’m pretty bad at all of them, and this goes back a long time in history. Example: my first game ever was Pokemon Yellow, and it took nearly 20 minutes to learn that the A button was how to select, so I was walking around Oak’s lab getting increasingly frustrated all that time, unable to pick up the Pikachu. It took even longer to learn how to save, so that for a day and a half as we drove around France (and I saw no French countryside at all because I was playing this game) I had to restart the file every time I reloaded it! I was a very bright kid indeed.
2. Hunger and the desire to eat are often two separate sensations for me, so that I can be very hungry but simultaneously have no desire to eat whatsoever. Needing to consume food is mostly an inconvenience and an irritating expense in my life. Unfortunately it turns out you need to eat to live or something? Ugh, whatever! Like they know my life!
3. I try to like insects. I really do. I’ve even managed to develop a genuine, albeit highly abstract, appreciation of spiders. But, with a few common or garden exceptions, I simply do not like ‘em. Mostly it’s just a matter of not wanting to meet them personally, but it is sometimes a matter of wanting to jump out of a window if one ever crawled across my foot.
4. The first someone asked me out, it was somebody I’d harboured a crush on for a long time. They were encouraged into asking me out as a joke by someone who knew this. But he didn’t know I actually liked him (or so he later said), and I didn’t know I was being asked out as a joke. So, obviously, I said yes! And the person who’d encouraged him burst into manic peals of laughter and I crawled away and died. Haha not really, we talked it over like adults later and parted on amiable terms, but on that day I swore against the sex forever, and that is why I am the fine upstanding ace you know today. Haha not really, but it did suck!
5. I’ve met Tom Baker and Paul McGann, and have attended performances by David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Arthur Darvill, Karen Gillan (if Proms count), and Matt Smith (likewise)! Also I have laid eyes upon Stephen Fry and Nelson Mandela, albeit from a distance, bumped into Boris Johnson outside the Globe but regrettably did not have the poise to push his bike over and shout at him, have heard the remainders of Queen performing ‘We Will Rock You’, and in the same evening witnessed a live performance of ‘Fresh Prince of Bel Air’ from Will Smith himself. I… just thought I’d put that out there again……  (◡‿◡✿)
6. In a similar vein, my university took us on a free trip to the Globe and our groups got to “perform” inverted commas some Romeo & Juliet on the stage (while the paying tourists weren’t allowed up HA HA HA HA HA) so, y’know, technically I’m a Thespian. But it’s OK, Thespians are just like normal people really!
7. I sincerely regret every instance where I wept unduly throughout my childhood and adolescence because I was busy being scared of things that weren’t scary. Probably I’m the only one that remembers, but it’s still SO EMBARRASSING. What a crybaby!!! At least now I’ve learned to conceal my fear!!!
8. I only understood the phrase “Waste not, want not” a year or so ago. Prior to that I thought it was trying to say “if you don’t want it, don’t waste it!” and that I was having to humour the entire world by putting the two parts of the phrase the wrong way around.
9. I usually wake up a few times during the early morning and then doze, so that I’m partly awake whenever my alarm goes off. But if I’m woken up and am not even a TINY AMOUNT already awake, I am incredibly surly and really stupid! I also tend to throw things around. When woken by an early-morning fire alarm one time, I threw my bedding up in the air so that it landed on my face and briefly tried to go back to sleep. And when I had to get up really early once to do something specific, I came back to my bedroom 20 minutes later to find that I’d actually hurled a few of my pillows on the floor and forgotten about it. The moral of the story is, I’m never going to keep knives or hammers in my room, and GOOD LUCK WAKING ME UP IN AN EMERGENCY!!
10. Once, when I was some age under 10 years old, I was in a pedal boat with my dad in a large pond, and I hallucinated thousands of spiders crawling all over the back of the boat. I FREAKED THE HELL OUT and he had to get the boat back to the side of the pond again before I would even risk turning around to get a second look. In the long run he was probably more concerned by that series of events than I was.