lizblackdog | Oh no, not again

james_the_evil1 tagged me, because he is an utter, utter bastard - and he knew I'd do as I was told even if I didn't want to.

Write 20 random facts about yourself then tag the same amount of people as minutes it takes you to write the facts. If you're tagged its your turn.

Start: 11.18

1. Most of my issues in life come from a lack of self-discipline. I nicked this one shamelessly from James.

2. The only thing in this world that frightens me is myself.

3. I never fight with other people; not because I'm naturally placid - I'm really not - but because all my combative energy is constantly taken up fighting myself. Every day that you see me not smoking crack, not staying in bed all day unwashed while the dogs piss on the floor, not weighing forty stone and welded to my couch living exclusively on junk food, not living in a roach-infested filthy stinking slum, not having unsafe sex with forty men at a time in the back room of some dive bar, not phoning up everyone I know and whining their ears off about how nobody loves me, not in prison for stealing anything that takes my fancy or taking out my neighbours with a high powered rifle, is another day I've won.

4. Luckily, I've been consistently winning for a good five years now. I'm tough as boiled leather and I pick my battles wisely.

5. Exposing myself, physically and mentally, has become something of a fetish. I do it to provide myself with a constant running reality check. As long as people aren't turning away in disgust I know I'm winning.

6. Despite everything I've said, I actually have a bloody high opinion of myself. Sometimes I wonder if that's evidence of my capacity for self-delusion.

7. I'm very flexible and can touch my ears with my ankles.

8. None of my teeth are real.

9. Most of my favourite books are about parallel universes, and I still cherish a secret hope that one day I'll find myself able to walk into them.

10. I've just run out of coffee and I really don't feel like going shopping.

11. I'm having serious trouble thinking of any more. You can tell, can't you?

12. It gives me a huge thrill when people add me to their friends lists or give me karma points at TK. It's an even bigger thrill if they do it without me doing it first.

13. The biggest sexual turn-on in the world for me is simply to be desired.

14. Before I fucked up my life with drugs and stupidity, I was a competent falconer. I had a beautiful redtailed hawk named Camilla whose manners and hunting skills were envied by people I considered better falconers than I was. Her hunting ability was all her own but I was proud of her manners. I wish I still had any of the photographs of us together. My mother has one photograph of her on the lawn on her ring-perch, but nothing else of our eight-year relationship exists now except in my memory.

15. All my IMs are permanently set to stealth mode. I can't imagine a bigger annoyance and waste of time than being messaged by people I don't already know from message boards and LJ.

16. I keep all sounds and emoticons disabled on IM.

17. I'll be 39 in nine days' time.

18. According to Chinese astrology, I am a Fire Horse: http://www.asiaflash.com/rao/repon-06.shtml

Also: http://www.io.com/~cortese/hinoeuma/

I feel that explains a great deal.

19. I'm quite capable of falling in love with six impossible people before breakfast.

20. All my pets have always been named for fictional characters.

It's now 12.13 and according to the rules I should now be tagging 55 other people to do this meme. Bollocks to that. Let's try six:

huntingdon,

that_darn_troll,

kiss_kass,

hellfire82,

wuzit2u and

mandrakescreams.