YOUR TURN. Gimme 14, 15, and 17
14) whats your most bizarre pet peeve
When drivers stop and wave me across the road.
Look, pal, there are two possibilities here. Either you’re the only car on the road, in which case if you’d just kept going I could already have crossed behind you by now; or you’re not the only car on the road, in which case no I am not going to cross when neither you nor I have any idea what the other cars are planning.
Please spare us both this excruciating moment of awkwardly hesitating and gesticulating at each other, and just keep driving. Please.
15) what is your favorite memory
I’ve never really thought about it before, but...probably the night of my first President’s Dinner at the QM. It would have been an amazing night with my friends either way, but I also got given the President’s Award for that year, which I really was not expecting (I thought I wasn’t eligible, for reasons not particularly worth getting into). I did lights for the last time as the head of tech team.
More than that, I didn’t attend my graduation, so President’s Dinner ended up being my last hurrah at university. I had my masters and a good graduate job lined up, I was going to be moving to another country...it was all this huge exciting unknown back then. A lot of my friends graduated that year too. There was a lot of hugging and happy tears.
17) what ‘small things’ things terrify you
Wasps. Hypodermic needles. Less literally, the sound of lapping water intensely freaks me out. As does the smell of a dental surgery.