10 posts tagged “qotd”
How many places have you lived in your life?
Let me see... first of all there was Derby, where I was born and lived until I moved away to college - to Hatfield Polytechnic. Then when I had finished at Hatfield I moved over to St Albans, where I lived for a few years. Then, when Claire got her job at Sussex University, it was down to Brighton, with a brief spell in Hove. And finally, in December last year, I moved to London.
So that's six.
What was the last game you played?
World of Warcraft. Something to which both myself and my love are thoroughly addicted.
What are your plans for the holiday weekend?
What holiday weekend? :)
What's your favorite way to keep in touch? Phone, snail mail, email, text message, Vox, _____ ?
Email, almost certainly - none of the others feel that good.
What books are on your nightstand?
There's always a long queue of books that are by the bed, waiting to be read. At the moment, these:
What movie would you really recommend renting or seeing this weekend?
Pirates of the Carribean. A bit on the long side, and doesn't have a proper ending - but worth it for the MAD fights.
What's the nerdiest thing about you?
The fact that there are currently two computers lying on the bed with me.
What was (or is) your favorite subject in school?
I didn't really go to school all that much. My attendance record started to slip the moment I started secondary school, and gradually got worse - I used to make myself ill in order to avoid school. By the time I reached the third year, my lack of attendance was so bad that I ended up seeing a child psychiatrist, who treated me perfectly.
What did he do? He made it my choice as to whether I went. He gave me three options. I could move to another ordinary school; he could sign me off as unfit to attend, and I'd never have to go again; or he could place me at a special school, one where if I didn't want to go, I didn't have to. I chose the last option, because although I didn't like school, I loved learning. It worked because he gave me the choice: I made my own decisions, and effectively became responsible for my own schooling.
So I went, and after a few more years ended up with a first class honours degree, a dislike of schooling in general - and a feeling that I was dreadfully lucky to be around at a point when schools like the one I ended up at were well funded. In today's school system, I doubt very much that I'd have had the option.
Oh, and favourite subject? All of them. I always was a renaissance man.
What albums are in heavy rotation for you right now?
What's your morning beverage of choice? Coffee, tea, juice? Homemade or store-bought?
Coffee, naturally. I get up and make it, because my lovely other half refuses to move without caffeine in her system.
