Number 9, Number 9...

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first seen in isomeme's journal



Nine things I'm afraid of:
1. My seizures.
2. Coming out of remission
3. Being left alone
4. Deep water
5. Failure
6. Needles
7. Cooking
8. Hurting others
9. Letting others down

Nine things that make me laugh:
1. South Park
2. ESPN's Sportscenter
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
4. Kirsten
5. Joking around with Rose and Kiri
6. Finding Easter Eggs
7. The hallucination messages in Nethack
8. Slapstick humor
9. The Traveller Mailing List

Nine things that make me cry:
1. The ending of Field of Dreams
2. Seizing
3. Seeing my name in print
4. "Rent"
5. Overcoming a great obstruction
6. Bad blood draws
7. Migraine headaches
8. Prednisone
9. Hayfever

Nine things I don't understand:
1. Deliberate ignorance
2. Any math beyond algebra
3. How my bloody computer works
4. Obsessive geekness
5. People who hurt those weaker than themselves
6. Scuba diving
7. George W Bush
8. Salad-bar Christianity
9. Why I can learn just fin on my own but fail miserably when in school.

Nine things in the room I'm in now:
1. Bookshelves packed with SF novels and military works.
2. Just about everything ever published for Traveller
3. A week's worth of the San Francisco Chronicle
4. A plush cow, mouse, otter, and Squirtle
5. A couple of empty Coke cans
6. A purple leather rose, with the stem wrapped in white lace
7. Printout of the Sokoban solution for Nethack 3.4.0
8. "Losing Memories" The only art I've ever purchased at a con art show.
9. My latest royalty statement from Steve Jackson Games

Nine facts about me:
1. I have Stage IV-B Hodgkin's Disease
2. I can't sing to save my life, though I wish I could
3. To this day, I don't know how to tie a neck tie
4. I'm a little hard of hearing from machine-gun fire and loud music
5. I once had sex in a very public place
6. I'm a complete suck for back-rubs
7. I don't like being touched unexpectedly
8. I lost my virginity at 14
9. I am my own worst critic

Nine things I'd like to do before I die:
1. Visit a penguin rookery in Antarctica
2. Throw out the first pitch at a Giants game
3. Go to the Black Hills Classic
4. Get published in Analog
5. See the Giants win the World Series
6. Visit Great Britain
7. Compete in a Worldcon masquerade
8. Touch the great pyramid
9. Visit Kiluea while it is erupting

Nine music groups/musicians I really like:
1. The Grateful Dead
2. Metallica
3. The Kinks
4. Bob Dylan
5. Ozzy/Black Sabbath
6. Janis Joplin
7. Pink Floyd
8. Marillion
9. Aerosmith

Nine movies I love:
1. The American President
2. Aliens
3. Major League
4. Patton
5. Midway
6. A Bridge Too Far
7. Ran
8. Romancing The Stone
9. The Rocky Horror Picture Show