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Olly got me: "The object of the game is to reveal 5 things about you, which most readers probably don't know, then nominate 5 friends to do the same."
So then, here's five things you might not know about me:
- My first ever proper job was as a dispensing optician for Haine and Smith. At the time I had no idea what I wanted to do career-wise but I knew I didn’t really want to go college or university. In fact this experience has made me a bit of a champion of going on to further education a little later in life - why get saddled with a huge amount of debt if you don’t really know what you want to do? Wait a year or so and work it out before comitting to three years of study, drinking and overdrafts. <climbs down from soapbox>
- I once spent a week in a hospital for rhuematic diseases as a patient. I was 19 and the youngest person on the ward by at least 45 years. It was the most boring week of my life, mainly becaue I didn’t want to talk about the war or gardening, made slightly more interesting by the two attractive nurses and having a Bergström Muscle Biopsy Needle stuck in my leg.
- One of my childhood friends, Simon Rigby, had a father (surprisingly) who came up with the nickname of Ogwin Clog for me. To this day my Dad still calls me Ogwin or Og.
- I read comics. I know it’s not a particularly cool thing to do but I don’t care! I currently subscribe to Ultimate X-Men and Ultimate Spider-man. I have always liked comics, right from reading The Beano as a kid (I think it cost 8p when I first bought it) through to graphic novels like Watchmen. I also used to like reading the Commando comic books all about the war - maybe I was attracted by the notions of heroism. I suspect they are terribly politically incorrect now.
- I have quite a short attention span when it comes to jobs and hobbies. I suspect that in 5 years time I will be doing something completely different to graphic design (which in itself is my fourth career path to date). I also haven’t used my archery kit in over a year. I have only recently really got back into mountain biking and I’m not quite as enthusiastic about photography as I was a while ago (although that Canon 20D still rates as one of my best purchases ever). As far as hobbies go, I find it much easier to keep up with them if I have a friend to do them with. When I was riding on my own I lost interest but now I have a wide group of people to ride with it’s much more rewarding (although sometimes it feels like I’m the one who has to organise every ride).
So that’s me in a nutshell (almost). Feel free to leave a comment telling me that I’m a freak or that you have a similar experience or memory.
I now tag NaiT, Nae Lippett, Mudz, Tim Wright and Sara.
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:-O u got me!! Now I have to think of 5 things… xx
January 16th, 2007 at 2:29 pmOWEN!! hey!! I will be seeing you 2morrow! ya i replied your tag on my blog early coz i knew i would have never done it!! Man that needle thing looks crazy!! Must have been so sore!!
January 16th, 2007 at 3:29 pmHey Mudz - I had a local aenesthetic so there was no pain. That is until they pushed it so far into my thigh that it went beyond the range of the pain killer. At that point it hurt a tad.
January 16th, 2007 at 8:13 pmOuch that hurt!
January 17th, 2007 at 9:57 am[...] now what? It was good fun reminiscing about that lot. Good times. And with that I tag you Weon, Matt, Simon, Rich and other SimonAndy.
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January 18th, 2007 at 10:24 amchoc bunny good, couldnt get up in time for XC ride
let me know when your going next and ill come along.
Cheers
January 22nd, 2007 at 8:42 amBrett.
Will do chap - it’ll probably be next weekend - not sure what day though.
Glad you liked the bunny.
January 22nd, 2007 at 9:08 am[...] t would be pretty hard for me to think of 5 things I wanted to talk about. But leave it to Weon to get me just when I thought I was safe in my little hidey hole. If you are a close friend of [...]
January 28th, 2007 at 5:52 pmHello Owen! You are absolutely normal guy indeed. Or we both are freaks
July 19th, 2007 at 9:01 amFirstly, I’m young girl and I have 8 workplaces in my experience already. There are some very strange ones among them
Secondly, every year I went to Texas to visit my grandma. She lived amid retirees, and I had to mix with them only - The youngest person was 51
And finally, I adore comics!