pmsumner

Thanks to suzylou for the meme idea...

1) What skill or talent that you lack do you most wish you had, and why?
This question is hard, I'll get back to you on this....

2) What is your biggest regret?
My biggest current actual regret, that I regret the most and feel most strongly about?

I have two that spring to mind immediately. Number one is my degree. I coulda done better, everyone knew it. Me, my professors, my project supervisor. If I'd have put in the hours from the beginning of year 3 I could have dragged my average from a high 2:2 or low 2:1 up to a first, instead of dragging it down to a 3rd. This had dire consequences on my subsequent employment, an offer conditional on a 2:2.

So - my biggest regret there is my laziness while at uni.

Another regret I have, which I do feel very strongly about, is getting involved at such an "early age" in a relationship that could and would not go anywhere. I was too "blinded by love" at the time to see beyond my hopes and dreams. Because of this, I spent the years between about 18 and 21 in a relationless, sexless, emotionless state. I coulda been doing so much, I could have experienced so much then, during that time which I can't go back to.

Oh, and that I did it again, after that. At least I realised what I was doing soon enough there... *shakes head sadly*

3) What is your most prized posession and why?
It used to be my digital camera, because it was my most expensive purchase and I was very proud to have got such a good deal on it :) Nowadays that's changed slightly, having become a full member of the capitalist pig society, I have so many posessions that are worth something in terms of memories and in terms of money.

I don't have one. I don't have one thing that I would rescue over anything else if the flat was burning. I'd probably just let it all burn. Almost everything can be replaced. And the things that can't? I have my memories.

4) Given the chance to be on the first manned space mission to Mars, would you take it?
Probably not. It's not that I wouldn't want to. It's the distance thing. It's the time thing. It's not the risk, the danger or anything. I've spent enough of my time away from people I care about, I want to be as close as I can.

Trust me, I would love to go into space, never mind land on a martian planet and walk around and experience it first hand. I've been fascinated by space for a long time. But I couldn't leave this all behind.

5) If you had one day to live, what would you do with it?
I'd drive down south, and spend it with some of the people I was with last weekend. If I'm gonna die, I'm gonna go out laughing and hugging happily, not crying.