compile a 100-things-about-me list

39. In hindsight, the rest of this list is horrible and I am extremely ashamed of myself.
38. It took me a long time to learn to like art, but suddenly it hit me and now I’m hooked.
37. I only watch TV about once a week, but occasionally have soap opera binges with my friends and feel wonderful afterwards.
36. I seem to break things/make things dirty a lot more quickly than other people.
35. The characters I identify with (when feeling honest) always seem to be vile or doomed – Isabel Archer in The Portrait of a Lady, Veruca Salt in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Elliot in Scrubs.
34. I love music but have to listen to it actively – I can’t read and listen or work and listen, I sit there and take it in.
33. I used to write awful poetry and send it to a boy. But he was 21 and I was 16 and he was writing awful poetry too, so I think I had the upper hand.
32. Sitting alone drinking coffee or wandering in London alone are two of my favourite hobbies; I love the peace and quiet of a crowd.
31. Bristol is my favourite city.

49. I find it difficult to maintain eye contact.
48. I am five foot ten and a half.
47. My favourite fruit is raspberries.
46. I study english but have poor grammar and spelling.
45. I cope terribly with sleep deprivation – my body stops working.
44. I think I’m an agnostic.
43. I’ve never broken a bone. I have one filling. It’s white.
42. One thing I’ve learnt from my parents is never to marry a musician.
41. I hoard. The pot in front of me on my desk contains filter tips, old button, curtain rail hoop, badges, a googley eye, receipts, a sweet, a broken shoe horn.
40. I run away from everything I have about once every two years and start again.

69. I had a religious experience after a hideous mushroom trip. I will never take shrooms again and I have a lot more respect for religion.
68. I haven’t smoked properly for years but always end up smoking on the rare occasions that I see my friends from college.
67. I am in love with Tony Curtis in Some Like it Hot.
65. I have always had a disturbing interest in older men. Like Leslie Nielson. I hope I am never drunk/desperate enough to indulge this interest.
64. I had sex with my friend’s boyfried before they met. I don’t think she knows this.
63. I hate someone who used to be my best friend. The only thing that pleases me about leaving university is the thought I will never have to see her again.
62. I am terrible with money.
61. I like tall skinny boys, or tall stocky boys with hairy chests, but not tall skinny boys with hairy chests or tall stocky boys with smooth chests.
60. I have cheated in a relationship more than once, but confessed and ended the relationship.
59. I have messy handwriting unless I write in felt-tips.
58. I have been to Reading, Glastonbury, T in the Park, The Glade and Bestival. I love festivals and am at my happiest when I realise that I can do whatever I want.
57. I get nervous when I forget my mobile phone.
56. I photograph terribly, I did two modelling shoots and was terrible in both – in unposed photos I’m always laughing manically, in posed ones I look like a dead fish.
54. My favourite films are Goodfellas, Taxi Driver and Dr. Strangelove.
53. I read magazines as if they are homework, forcing myself to read every section, regardless of whether I am interested.
52. I love good theatre but always start looking forward to the ending about 3/4 of the way through.
51. I often drool on my pillow.
50. I don’t wear clothes, I dress up.

89. I was head girl of my primary school; I was chosen by teachers and had no say in the matter. It was more of an honourary title.
88. I find anagrams extremely difficult but enjoy crosswords.
87. Games like Connect4 make me nervous.
86. I like to quit when I’m winning.
85. I have only ever dared to sunbathe topless once.
84. I nearly had a fight with someone about pole dancing.
83. My last gig was Laura Viers.
82. I adore olives. Big green juicy babies.
81. My favourite icecream is pistachio, eaten on the beach in Italy (the full combo was strawberry, amaretto and pistachio, it was a revelation. Don’t think I could ever eat Hagen Daaz again!)
80. I’ve never had a pet but always stroke animals in the street, especially cats.
79. Until I got to university I was a straight-A student.
78. I often think I’m sexy when I dance.
77. I lost my virginity at 16.
76. Raw tomatoes make me retch but I enjoy them cooked.
75. I was a Brownie and a Guide, although I kept being a Guide under wraps.
74. I’ve swapped ‘I love you’s’ with three boyfriends. I regret two of these.
73. I have had four proper long relationships, two of these lasted nearly two years each. I think this makes me a serial monogamist.
72. I love cleaning my ears with cotton buds.
71. I have never eaten meat or fish, except for half a sausage, an accidental bite of ham omelette, and probably lots of gelatine in sweets.
70. I have an entirely irrational hatred for PJ Harvey.

100. a gorilla pelted me and my mother with pooh at London Zoo
99. I have a scar under my chin from doing cartwheels on gravel
98. I was obsessed with books about boarding school when I was a child, especially boarding schools in Austria
97. I am afraid I will break if I climb trees so I never have
96. I find grey clothing comforting when I am depressed
95. I have a gold chain necklace with a diamante-encrusted stereo pendant. It is so hideous it crosses over and becomes beautiful
94. I love old and broken things – furniture, clothes, books
93. I drink Shiraz and Rioja, but dream of Pinno
92. I told a childhood friend that I had an older brother and younger sister, then told her they’d died when she started asking too many questions
91. I have excellent eyesight and questionable hearing
90. My first concert (that I chose to go to) was Green Day at Wembley in about 2000.