Five Weird Things About Me
I’ve been asked to share five weird things about me and pass the request on to five others in chainletter fashion.
Okay, here goes:
- School officials decided to make me take an IQ test in the fifth grade. As I wanted to avoid attracting to much attention, I cheated to get my score down to 138.
- My eyes look brown when casually inspected. When you look closer, though, you’ll see the iris of each is a set of concentric rings of brown, gold and green. Also, when I’m majorly angry, they’ve been said to turn pitch black. I’ve never verified that last part, though.
- I’m an occasional, dilettantish student of magick (hermetic magick and chaos magick, specifically) and consider Aleister Crowley an underappreciated, misunderstood genius. I should add that I consider myself a rationalist and don’t believe in the supernatural. Rather, magick to me is a form of mental technology that involves use of tools (such as symbols and ritual) to take control of one’s own subconscious for purposes of boosting human potential — “hacking yourself”, so to speak.
- I’ve always had a sort of mild fetish for redheads. I’ve traced the origin of this back to my first playmate as a very small child being a little redheaded girl my own age who later went on to shoot me with my own sister’s BB gun — on purpose.
- As a teenager, I once got pulled over for speeding because the low-slung frame and narrow windows of my Mustang prevented me from noticing that the white van beside me on the interstate, which I thought was acting like it wanted to race, was actually a paddy wagon. The cop had a sense of humor about it, didn’t pull me over until we both hit something like — oh, I don’t know, maybe 90 mph — and let me off with a warning.
Who to pass this on to seems a bit problematic. Kirsten has already been tagged, and Tom Knapp would undoubtedly have extraordinary difficulty narrowing it down to just five items…
I pick the following: RadGeek, Faeriebell, Luka, Little Iguanodon and Caffeine Sparks. Nominees can send hate mail to my usual address.
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