pauln1964 | IanA's "quiz"

1) What do you prefer to be known as, primarily? Online ID, nickname, name, etc.
Paul, PaulN.
Have in the past been known as Nosher, Bep (big-eared Paul, the shame), and Nobby

2) Why?
It's my name. The "N" is an online distinguisher from other Pauls (am I being too literal?)

3) What do you get out of a LiveJournal?
Amusement; feedback on my feelings and thought; insight into my friends' lives; space to vent harmlessly. It's also nice to look back after a period of time and remind myself of my earlier thoughts.

4) Do you post privately? (i.e., do you put posts up for only yourself to read)
Very occasionally. Most frequently I post for friends only.

5) If so, why? If not, why?
Sometimes there are things that are nobody's business but mine, but which I need to write out - partially to help me think through them.

6) What's your earliest, coherent memory as a human being?
Being stood in our back garden in Worcester, watching the diggers prepare the ground for the next part of the new estate. I'd have been about 3.

7) What emotion do you primarily associate with that memory?
Inquisitiveness

8) How often do you think of or about that memory?
A couple of times a year, maybe?

9) Can you remember what you were doing last thursday evening?
Slobbing in front of the TV/playstation/PC. Chatting to Herself on phone.

10) How long did it take you to recall that? :-P
Seconds - it's what I do many evenings.

11) What was your first coherent thought this morning?
"How bloody early?"

12) Did you dream, that you recall, last night? If so, of what?
I can recall dreaming, but not of what (which is frequently the case).

13) What's your view on giant squid?
Alright in their place. Which is far away from me.

14) Dread or despair - which is worse? Why?
Despair. Dread is externally caused and can be faced down.

15) Picture a doll. What's your instinctive reaction?
"That's Rebecca's" (my 6 year old adorable niece)

16) Now picture a clown. Again, what's your instinctive reaction?
"Ronald McDonald! Die! Die! Die!"

Word Association: First thing (word or image) that leaps to mind for the words...
17) Self
My

18) Home
Ours

19) Love
Herself

20) Sex
It's good

21) Death
It's bad

22) Do you imagine yourself famous?
No

23) What for, and why?
N/A

24) Have you ever considered acting?
25) ... directing?
I'll take these two together. I did a little directing in 6th Form and failed miserably at it.
I acted through school and realised in the first year of my Drama degree that most others were a lot better at it than I, so re-directed my energies into the techie side.

26) ... professional writing?
Other than that I do a lot of writing in my profession, no. Not for paid publication.

27) What does the word "plot" mean?
Something to interact with.

28) What does the word "story" mean?
"Begin at the beginning. Go on until you reach the end. Then stop." The Queen of Hearts
"Where is the beginning?" Neil Gaiman in Sandman.

29) Loud and brazen, or subtle and unnoticed?
Subtle. noticed after the event

More Word Association.

30) Friend
Fun

31) Enemy
Avoid

32) Bliss
Herself

33) Torment
Losing Herself

34) What's missing?
Children.

35) Why have you answered these questions?
Seemed like a good idea at the time/procrastinating at work
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