That six random facts about me meme.

[apocalypsos]

1. When I graduated high school, I told my father I didn't think I was ready for college and wanted to take time off first. He told me I was going now or else I'd never go, and I ended up getting so stressed out I flunked out after three years. So, yeah, that turned out well.

2. I hardly ever completely finish a meal, no matter how good it tastes. It could be my favorite food on the planet, and I'd still not be able to finish. No, no matter how small I make the portions. It continues to drive my entire family nuts to this day.

3. I've never had any trouble tying a cherry stem in a knot with my tongue.

4. I haven't seen my real hair color since I was in ninth grade, and I hope never to see it again. I make far too good a redhead, thankyouverymuch. :)

5. I have a long very visible scar across one cheek, much like the ones on Inigo Montoya, but no one in my family including me knows how the hell it got there.

6. I used to be so afraid of heights I wouldn't even go up in the Statue of Liberty, but over the years I've gotten better about it. However, my fear of rising water (floods, tsunamis, breaking dams, etc.) gets worse every year.

Comments

[astrothsknot.livejournal.com]

In the UK, it's unusual to go straight from school to college. Most people take a gap year and travel or do charity work

I'm astounded that you don't know how your scar got there!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I could have used the year off. In retrospect, I was too damn naive to go off to college. I'd never been anywhere, I'd never done anything. It's no wonder I was so weird in college.

And yeah, I can't remember, my parents don't know, and you can't really tell when I got it from photos because after a certain point, I thought I looked like a dork and avoided getting my picture taken.

[annalazarus.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen my real hair color since I was in ninth grade, and I hope never to see it again. I make far too good a redhead, thankyouverymuch. :)

Me too! All through high school, my mother told me everytime I dyed my hair that "It's all going to fall out!" At this point I look at pictures and can tell when they were taken by the shade of red in my hair.

[mutelorelei.livejournal.com]

I can certainly sympathize. I should have taken a year off myself. I ended up going to straight off to an expensive out-of-state private university, since I was so desperate to get away from my parents, who I never got along with. But I also still felt very pressured by them, I started out college pre-med, because that was what they wanted me to do. But I figured out really soon that it wasn't right for me at all, and struggled to figure out what I wanted to do instead. And at the end of my freshman year, my mom had a heart attack. Then when I went home, we fought all summer, and I packed up and left to live with a friend halfway though, and that ended up going horribly too.

Anyway, I won't bore you anymore with the next couple of years, but my stress levels and financial situation got worse and worse, and I myself dropped out after 3 and a half years, with a subpar GPA, and such bad debt that I couldn't go back to school and I lost everything I owned when I couldn't pay back rent and storage fees owed. I'm 26 now, never went back, with just about 5 more classes or so needed for my B.A., but I have no idea when I'll ever get to go back, because I haven't been able to get anything better than a minimum-wage job, I'm defaulted on my $40,000 in student loans, and my whole family is in terrible financial shape and struggling to eat.

I wish that high schools gave a more accurate picture of what college is like, how to deal with money, practical things like that. When I first went to college I was terribly naive and stupid about a lot of things.

[budclare.livejournal.com]

I have a long very visible scar across one cheek, much like the ones on Inigo Montoya, but no one in my family including me knows how the hell it got there.

In that case, I have to suggest "Five ways that Troll Princess might have gotten her scar (but probably didn't)".

[risen-daemon.livejournal.com]

I have a long very visible scar across one cheek, much like the ones on Inigo Montoya, but no one in my family including me knows how the hell it got there.

Wow, that's so cool. I would like a Yagyu Jubei scar, myself, but I rather much want to keep my eye. >.>

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know why I believed that if I didn't go straight to uni I would never go. I had a disastrous first year at uni. It took a year of aimlessness, minimum wage and intense boredom to put me into the right fame of mind to face tertiary education.