Kapitano Challenge

Ric has challenged several bloggers, including me, to write about themselves. Well, this is me.

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I have no patience at all with superstitions about an afterlife, creator gods, engrams, alien abduction, memory of water, clairvoyance or stepping on the cracks. However, I have been fascinated all my life by the strange things people do and believe, and the even stranger ways they justify them.

In other words, I know what people believe, what they really believe, why they believe it, and why they're wrong, but not how to make them stop.

I started training for the catholic pristhood, but didn't finish.

My boyfriend is a christian. He has seen most of the world, while I have never been further abroad than the Latin Quarter of Paris.

I think about sex all the time, but don't enjoy it. I eat chocolate when I'm feeling miserable, but don't enjoy it.

I have two degrees (BA and MA) in art, but I can't draw and don't understand how to look at paintings. There's two related reasons I don't work in the art world - I regard 99% of it's people as frauds and imbiciles, and I never pretened to think otherwise. The art business works on sychophancy and lies, and I'm extraordinarily bad at both.

I spent most of my 10+ years in university reading about linguistics and philosophy. The only non-native languages I can use with fluency are artificial - in particular Esperanto.

I've never read anything by Tolkein. I think Terry Pratchett is pretentious, John Le Carre perceptive, and Samuel Beckett wonderful.

I am 34 and live with my parents because I can't afford to live anywhere else. Other people tell their parents they love them, and feel loved by them. This surprised me when I found out, last year.

I have tendonitis, and have always had trouble walking.

I frequently forget which direction is left, and which is right.

I once spent six months in jail. My parents told everyone I was in a mental institution.

I am a Trotskyist.

My first career was programming computers. I left it in 1994 because I hated the corporate culture that was creeping into it. However, my technical skills are constantly needed by comrades who understand world history in minute detail, but can't install a firewall on their computers.

I want to be a science teacher, because I want to do something useful, and also because I need a steady career.

I love almost all kinds of music, but never had the patience to learn how to read it, or play any instruments properly. I write songs, and electronic music to go with them. This is what I really want to do with my life.