Hi! Share 10 random facts about yourself, then send to 10 lovely followers :)
1. I have a scar on my left forearm, about three inches down from my elbow, which I got accidentally cutting open my arm on a broken SoBe bottle my freshman year of college. I was, and am, so enamoured of the angle of the scar against my freckles, that I will occasionally put a fresh cut there. Like re-inking a tattoo.
2. The first paying job I ever had was as an art teacher. From the ages of fourteen to sixteen, I taught beginning students at a tiny private art school about positive and negative space, and how to use pen and ink, and watercolour, and the difference between different qualities of colour when mixing paints, and so on.
3. During the gender crisis I had in my early teens, I occasionally attempted packing with a rolled-up sock shoved down my knickers. It always moved around too much for me to dare going out in public.
4. When I was ten years old, my teacher read the first Harry Potter book aloud to my class. By that point, I must have reread it six times, and would correct not only her pronunciation, but if she accidentally mixed up the words when reading a sentence. My classmates took to calling me Hermione. The resemblance was not mitigated by my hair as wide as my shoulders, and my tendency to raise my hand with such energy that it lifted me out of my seat.
5. My breakout role in my high school theatre department was that of Captain Also in the bizarre little play, Still Life with Iris. A one-scene villain, I played her as a Cockney pirate-cum-biker chick.
6. Being a theatrical person and also a linguist, I have a particular focus on, and talent for, accents. Frequently, when I’m out in public, I will pick a random accent and, if I end up talking to somebody, make up an identity to go with it.
7. Once upon a time, when I was about twelve, I was a massive Tolkien purist, and was absolutely righteously horrified by the idea of slash fiction. I thought it was a slap in the face to the text. I quickly got over that notion.
8. I only very rarely smoke pot, but on one occasion, the highest I have ever been, I was convinced that I could see the Time Vortex in one of those velvet blacklight posters.
9. I am one of those rare true contraltos; on a good day, my range reaches all the way down to the A below the C below Middle C. Which is… A2, I believe. I am also, despite being pretty ridiculously musical, rubbish at notation and musical theory.
10. I have very dexterous toes.
