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Thursday, November 30, 2000

My life in numbers; reminds me of MC Square in the Kabuki comics who does her daily count to infinity, exploring the importance of each number as she goes along.
  1. is me, alone, the way I like to be. It is also the number of guys I've kissed.
  2. is the number of pets I've had. Both cats. One called PC (for Pussy Cat), who ran away, the ungrateful mog. The other called Sooty, who is a lovely old maid who misses me when I'm not home, which is frequently.
  3. is the number of times I've had an X-ray. One was an Ultrasound for suspected appendicitis. The second was after I swallowed one of the teeth the dentist ripped out (well, he dropped it on the back of my tongue. It was a reflex mechanism). The third was a dental X-ray, to see what my wisdom teeth were doing. They didn't exist.
  4. is the number of best friends I've had. Annette, pre-school and primary, and I were very different, but very similar. Nardia, high school, and I were amazingly similar in our quirks and perks. Gemma, first year of uni, and I were a relationship of extremes. Kr and I are quiet kindred spirits, non demanding, always easy.
  5. is my usual numerology number. I don't know why.
  6. is the number of times I've seen Braveheart. Which means I've used 18 hours of my life on that movie.
  7. is a movie I didn't see on principle because it had Brad Pitt in it. (I later watched it, despite that condemning fact, and loved it.)
  8. was how old I was when I got my first Babysitters Club book. I was the first person in the school to get into them, through a birthday present. Pretty soon everyone was into them, but I was the trendsetter. :-)
  9. is the number of glasses of wine I can drink before I start getting really drunk.
  10. was my age when I flew around the world with my parents, and experienced the wonderful smells. Durian in Singapore, glorious flowers in England, sulpher springs in Yellowstone National Park, and the subtle mustiness of fog in San Francisco.

And that's my life in numbers.

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