{"id":350,"date":"2007-08-07T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/?p=350"},"modified":"2007-08-07T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T17:54:00","slug":"did-we-do-this-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/2007\/08\/07\/did-we-do-this-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Did we do this already?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ravenfamily.org\/sam\/avatars\/complicated.jpg\" alt=\"Well, I am!\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" \/>I&#8217;ve been tagged by <a href=\"http:\/\/planetmike.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/tagged.html\">Planet Mike<\/a>, the bugger. I&#8217;ve known him since&#8230; er&#8230; oh&#8230; um&#8230; for twelve freakin&#8217; years and this is what I get.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently I now have to think up five facts that you probably didn&#8217;t know about me. As he&#8217;s tagged this rather than any other online persona of mine, it&#8217;ll have to tread the delicate line between being informative and being work safe. Good one, Mike.<\/p>\n<p>1. I really, really, really wanted to be a fighter pilot when I was little. I wrote to the RAF and everything. They told me that I couldn&#8217;t join because I was a gurl and I only had the one eye. Chiz chiz.<\/p>\n<p>2. Speaking of eyes, it pisses me off inordinately that I have to use an eye that looks &#8216;normal&#8217; for everyday. It doesn&#8217;t bloody look normal. It stares, it doesn&#8217;t blink, it&#8217;s glassy (well, duh) and has a fixed, empty expression. Just the same, people look at that one rather than my actual functioning eye because right-handed people tend to look at other peoples&#8217; right eyes. You hadn&#8217;t noticed that, had you? The black one may look freakish and bizarre but it&#8217;s not mistaken for anything other than a malfunctioning, weird-ass crazy thing;  it provokes conversation; and it induces people to look me in the eye properly when talking to me instead of wondering why I&#8217;m apparently not paying attention despite looking straight at them. I&#8217;m <i>not<\/i> normal. No one bloody is. Why should I pretend to be just to suit narrow-minded conservatives?<\/p>\n<p>3. I still have invisible friends. I don&#8217;t see why this should be a problem. Some people never grow out of spaghetti hoops: I didn&#8217;t ever grow out of my invisible friends. I don&#8217;t foist them on others or expect a place at table for them (what with them being <i>invisible<\/i> and <i>lacking in physical substance<\/i>), so that should be just fine with everyone.<\/p>\n<p>4. I have 5 bikes. They argue. No, like seriously dude. They fight. It&#8217;s a right pain. Bar tape gets pulled and paint gets scratched. Sometimes I have to swap them round just so I can change which one is in the naughty corner.<\/p>\n<p>5. Also when pretty young I applied to study under the <a href=\"http:\/\/moebius.psy.ed.ac.uk\/\">Koestler Chair<\/a> of Parapsychology at Edinburgh University. The Chair had only just been established that year and they told me they weren&#8217;t taking students. I&#8217;d have to get a degree in psychology first.<\/p>\n<p>So there you go. Hope that satisfies. Do I have to tag someone else now or can I let this die?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been tagged by Planet Mike, the bugger. I&#8217;ve known him since&#8230; er&#8230; oh&#8230; um&#8230; for twelve freakin&#8217; years and this is what I get. Apparently I now have to think up five facts that you probably didn&#8217;t know about me. 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