Thursday, January 20, 2005

The Saint Confesses, aka The Shifty Fifty

1. I’m British.
2. I’m Canadian as well.
3. I’m Agnostic.
4. I’m bisexual.
5. I’m 30.
6. I’m single.
7. I’m a bit fucked up about how that came to be.
8. For work, I have dressed as Barney.
9. For work, I have apprenticed as a tattooist.
10. For work, I spent 5 years working the night shift at a gas station.
11. I was robbed once there, with a knife at my throat.
12. I hate my current job passionately.
13. I live alone.
14. I have almost ½ my body tattooed.
15. I have ½ more to go.
16. I have a cat.
17. My favourite place is Manhattan.
18. My second favourite place is Vienna.
19. I live in Toronto.
20. I have been gaybashed twice.
21. I won both times.
22. I was wearing prissy white boots both times.
23. I have been mistaken for a woman on more than one occasion.
24. I have been called a ‘Dyke.’
25. I value my friends more than life itself.
26. Sometimes I fear that I’m mentally retarded, and just don’t know it.
27. I can play the guitar.
28. I can play the bass.
29. I can play the piano.
30. I can’t sing, but I do.
31. I have shot a rifle.
32. I have shot a rifle at an animal, but I had a good reason.
33. I wanted to be a helicopter pilot.
34. I have idiopathic seizures.
35. I can’t become a pilot because of the seizures.
36. I was expelled from high school while tutoring university level chemistry.
37. I never went to college or university.
38. I compensate by trying to sound intelligent and reading big books.
39. I have two sisters and a brother.
40. I am the eldest.
41. My parents have been married for over 32 years.
42. I don’t do drugs, but most people don’t believe me.
43. I like gin and beer, but not together.
44. I laugh at my own misfortunes.
45. I believe this gives me the right to laugh at others’ misfortunes.
46. Beneath my cold façade, I do care.
47. I’m a capitalist.
48. Even when I was poor, I was a capitalist.
49. I refuse to marry a woman until gay marriage is legal, not that it’s currently an issue.
50. I am surprised that I didn't have to lie to come up with fifty.