I've been tagged by
1. Post these rules
2. Each person tagged must post 10 random (hopefully interesting) facts about themselves
3. Tags should write a blogpost of these facts
4. At the end of the post, 8 more bloggers are tagged and named
5. Go to their blog and leave a comment telling them they're tagged

Erm, right. Okay, so . . . Here goes, I guess.

1. I spend wayyyyy too much time on the Internet. Seriously, it's just occured to me now. It's not like I'm a house-hatcher or anything, quite the opposite, ak-sher-lee, but whenever I am indoors, I'm generally wired to the computer. I've barely watched TV once since I got my home IE - the sparkly web stuff distracts me! Now if only stuff would stop HAPPENING, so I could do something productive with my time online . . .

2. I hate my religion. Well, no, I don't HATE it, I'm just very . . . very very ambivalent towards it. Catholicism is just . . . meh. I've no interest in it; I've never read the bible; I find it rather contradictary of itself and just . . . muddled. It makes good and evil seem very . . . clear cut - which is silly, because the world - and its people - cannot be divided into black and white just like that. I enjoy Christmas just as much as the next person, of course, and the spirit of the holiday, but that's the thing Catholicism/Christianity/Whatever seems to be lacking. Heart. It's not . . . personal enough for me, if that makes any sense at all. I think the "God" we really should be paying homage to is the planet that sustains us to be frank, the one we're currently poisoning to death.

3. I adooooore White Tea. It beats the pants out of even Green Tea, quite frankly. I'm beginning to think it's addictive, actually. Hmm. Hold on just a sec . . . *gets up to boil the kettle*

4. I'm Irish. As in: born here, live here Irish. Irish Irish. And yet, I find it kind of funny when people go into raptures about the place. It's not that great, you know. Actually, it's kinda difficult here. Bloody expensive, let me tell you. At least Dublin is, anyway. Don't come here if you want the really Gaelic experience . . . I recommend the Westcountry for that. Kilkenny is lovely, 'specially in the Summer. Although, from personal experience, most people seem to come here just to hear the Dublin accent. Srsly, they seem to go ecstatic over it . . . It's so cute.

5. I like to think I'm smarter than I really am. Meh, leave me be with my sorry delusions . . . My ego needs it.

6. I'm a size 8. [US size 6] I NEED TO START DRESSING LIKE ONE.

7. I love the paranormal. Spirits, Faeries, Ghosts, you name it . . . And yet I am a TOTAL WUSS. DX I scare really easy. I was like fourteen or fifteen before I got over my fear of the dark. I couldn't even bring myself to face the Haunted Mansion in DISNEYLAND PARIS, for crying out loud. I hear weird noises at night, and I turn into the wibbly wobbly wonder. Oh, the SHAME . . .

8. I adore plants and trees and grass and green stuff. I want to be a botanist. Or to work with animals somehow, now that would be awesome.

9. The hardest book I've ever had to read was The Silmarillion [J.R.R. Tolkien]. I couldn't get past page three. The three Lord of the Rings books, those were fine. Enormously fun, actually. Shogun [James Clavell], awesome. His Dark Materials [Philip Pullman], epic. The K-PAX Trilogy [Gene Brewer], phenomenal. The Black Jewels [Anne Bishop], utterly gorgeous. Austen, Dickens (Charles AND Emily), wonderful [Mansfield Park = ]. But never, NEVAH, shall I ever conquer The Silmarillion. IT has conquered me. *hangs head in defeat*

10. I just spent the last ten minutes [prior to being tagged] chasing a daddy-long-legs around the room with a magazine. Then I felt guilt for killing it [but I just couldn't sleep with it in the room :sad:]. Then I read the latest chapter of Inuyasha, freshly posted on freelance-manga, and omg, I feel like a balloon with half its air let out. I waited two weeks for THIS?? Enough with the bloody cliffhangers already!! For a chapter entitled The Death of Naraku, I was seriously expecting more emotion! And omg, somebody get RID of Kohaku please! Or at least poke him over into his sister's panel. HE IS STANDING BETWEEN RIN AND SESSHOMARU!!

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Okay, I'm done. Er, it says tag eight other people and let them know, but I've hardly been on this site in months and I don't think anyone's been onto my profile in ages, so I don't wanna go bothering people . . . I'll tag 'em here, and if they stop by, they can accept it or not, whatever they feel like . . .

'Kay, here goes:










How's that?