To have and to have not . . . times 5.

[zotz]

Annoying survey meme thing, courtesy of swisstone who got it from major_clanger, and jinty's done one too . . .



Order reversed to fit the wanky title.

Five things I have done :

1. Dismembered a human corpse


2. Held in my bare hands an eight-inch ball of raw opium


3. Sequenced your genes - and consequently been listed as a contributor in three research papers in Nature


4. Run, with friends, several series of club nights - all of which I'm proud of and most of which were financially self-supprting


5. Helped run the first SF con in (IIRC) 27 years to have Michael Moorcock as a Guest of Honour

And five things I haven't done and want to (with estimated chance) :

1. Get more exercise and be fitter(2/5)


2. Move out of Cambridge (5/5)


3. Learn something kulcherul - like a language or playing an instrument (2/5)


4. Do some decent non-factory-style research, and get it published(3/5)


5. Dance on Margaret Thatcher's Grave(5/5)

Comments

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

Hey my real goal is to be an under achiever. Seriously. I have spent my life trying to be more dissolute (apparently with recent startling success which is also a mixed blessing, ask swisstone..)

zotz reminds me that I should have put on mine that Terry Pratchett bought me strawberry daiquiris in New Orleans in 1988 and I helped run the first con to invite Neil Gaiman and Clive Barker as GoHs (Mexicon 2, god knows when.) Pah, anothet opportunity to show off wasted.

So you're in Canbridge?? (Zotz that is.) I know lots of cambridge sciencey types. (God I probably know you.) We should meet up some time when I'm down,, Were you ever in CUSFS or Jomsborg??

[zotz]

I am a very serious underachiever. I got into medicine but bombed out. It was interesting, but not in the same way that "proper" science turned out to be - too much rote learning and not enough attempt at deep understanding (whatever that is). My current job I'm actually very average at, and currently I'm finding it very easy to dodge potential promotion opportunities.

You met Pratchett in '88? We had him as a guest in Edinburgh around then (the royal we- i was in no way involved in organising this). Lovely bloke.

Cambridge. Yes. For my sins - and bloody excellent sins I hope they were. I deserve them to have been.
I wasn't ever involved with anything Universityish, though - I moved down here from Edinburgh a few years back. I know some Uni & CUSFS people, though.
Meet up? Yes - let me know if you'r in town.