Memory lane

I was tagged by Clair almost a week ago (a week is a long time in blogging), so I shall do my best to fulfil the meme. (Long live the Meme.)

Ten years ago

Ten years ago was the year we moved into our present house. I was a wee nine-year-old and had just finished Year 5, during the course of which I learned French vocabulary for stationery, how to calculate the area of a triangle, the fact that light travels in straight lines, and what the ratio of the diameter to the circumference of a circle was. And I was a Munchkin in our year's production of The Wizard Of Oz.

Five years ago

Five years ago I was transitioning between the two years of GCSEs, and also changing schools (as was the rest of my school — our struggling-for-finances all-girls school had been bought by the all-boys school down the road, and we all had to move to their site). This was also the year that I discovered the Internet and I transformed from a Terry Pratchett fan into a member of Pratchett fandom. Geeky joy.

One year ago

Last year I was (can we all do the simple maths? Yes, very good, I was:) eighteen and in full-time work as a 'casual web author' under the employ of an MoD agency. About half-way through the year I graduated from simply putting up new notices on the intranet to being given a whole new intranet website for a large new project to design and code. The only thing on the whole intranet that was CSS-based, and accessible. I hope they've done okay maintaining it ;-)

If we're going by academic years (September-August), it was also the year I fell in love.

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

(Yes, I cheated and squashed those three in together.) Mostly everything's revolving around Kevin and me moving to Coventry in four weeks and two days' time. Sorting out utilities and furniture that we need to organise or acquire, let alone sorting out what to pack of what we already have. For instance, there probably won't be room in the flat for all my books. Maybe I'd better just take the fifty or sixty currently in my reading queue. The weekend before we move we're going to Clarecraft, so hopefully that should de-stress us a little bit before the event.

Five snacks I enjoy

Ooh. Chocolate raisins, pretzels (even the chocolate-covered ones), paprika-flavoured Pringles, Dairy Milk (especially the type with Crunchie bits), and biscuits.

Five songs I know all the words to

Oh my. Hundreds. In fact, given that my MP3 collection comprises 1500 songs, I'd say about a thousand as a conservative estimate. Songs of note that I could happily sing along with all the way through include:

• One Week by Barenaked Ladies (though some of it I still find too fast to sing!)
• Kaze Wo Atsumete from the Lost In Translation soundtrack
• Karl Jenkins' first Adiemus album
• Anything by Silverman, Shannon Campbell, Fiona Apple, Oasis, *cough*RobbieWilliams*cough*
• Virtually anything by The Beatles

Five things I would do with $100,000,000

• Give half of it to charities
• Travel the world for a year or two
• Commission another few series of Firefly
• Hire out the Odeon cinema in Leicester Square for a few weeks (or maybe a number of weekends over a year or so) to show some of my favourite films that I would love to see on a big screen (Fight Club, The Godfather, Blade Runner, etc)
• Lay on some more buses on the direct route from our flat to uni (five minutes' journey) so I don't have to go the long way round via two separate buses (forty minutes' journey)

Five locations I would love to run away to

• Cornwall
• New Zealand
• Canada
• Some parts of America (I'm going for stunning scenery)
• Hmm... can I say New Zealand again? Okay then, Brittany.

Five things I like doing

• Reading
• Watching a good film
• CSSing
• Coding (once I have a specific target in mind)
• Being with Kevin

Five things I would never wear

I'm going to have to borrow many of Clair's choices, because they were so apt! Burberry, real fur, stilettoes, leopard print... and dungarees (reeeeally wouldn't suit, I think).

Five recently seen movies I like

• Batman Begins
• Dead Poets Society
• Lost In Translation
• American History X
• Moulin Rouge

Five famous people I'd like to meet

Stephen Hawking, Edward Norton, Joss Whedon, Kevin Spacey, Douglas Adams (would have liked to, at least).

Five biggest joys of the moment

• The prospect of moving in with Kevin after almost two years together
• The lovely kitchen at the new flat :-)
• The, dare I say it, exciting process of acquiring new (to us) bits of furniture and furnishings which will be ours (we may forgo the £45 spice rack that Kevin liked the look of though ;-)
• Not having to go to lectures or do coursework for another almost three months
• Being able to spend more time with Kevin than two days a week

Five favourite toys

My iPod (even though I use it little these days... that'll change with getting the bus to uni next year), my computer, Wikipedia, IMDB, my Dad's new super Canon photo printer, which is providing me with lovely prints :-)

Taggage

I shall pass this onto... Kevin, Aquarion, David, Gert and Simon.