In no particular order of importance…
- I’m a Scorpio born in the Year of the Sheep.
- I’ve been married for about six and a half glorious years
- +1 will be two in a few weeks, and she’ll be a big sister by May of next year.
- I have four brothers, one brother in law, and two sisters in law.
- Despite what I like to think and how I like to pretend, I’m from Dunboyne, Co. Meath.
- I went to UCD where I did a BA in History and Greek & Roman Civilisation.
- Previous jobs include selling runners and sports gear, stickering and tagging CDs and DVDs in a stockroom for the Christmas season, timeshare telesales, market researching, and door-to-door “advertising”.
- I have a mild but insatiable addiction to cured pork products.
- I first arrived in Korea on March 16, 2005.
- I first started writing while sitting on a big rock on the side of a mountain in my first neighbourhood in Korea, Sinnae-dong.
- My nickname is Conzie but I won’t tell you how I got it (you could buy me a few drinks to encourage me otherwise).
- For all my complaints about people and what they do, I think I’m a bit of hypocrite.
- While there are many things that bother me, people who stop in busy doorways or at the bottom of escalators really do deserve the kick I am going to eventually give them.
- I got a D2 in English in the Leaving Cert.
- I have a Masters in 20th and 21st Century Literature from the University of Southampton, and next year I’ll be starting a Doctor of Education in the University of Glasgow.
- I should really be applying for a job right now and not writing blog posts.
- I started writing a memoir about my life in Korea back in August, but I’ve struggled to get by the third chapter.
- Of all the people I’ve met in my life there is only one person in the world I hope that I never ever see or speak to again. I honestly think that is one too many.
- I’m prone to feeling sorry for myself despite my life and decisions always being in my own hands.
- In theory myself and herself have three wedding anniversaries.
- I don’t think I’ve ever won anything based on my own ability.
- I like to be alone just as much as I enjoy company.
- I think I found out more about myself in my first six months of living in Korea than I had from my life before.
- I am addicted to looking at my smartphone.
- Jealousy is something I struggle to manage.
- Writing and photography are so bloody subjective it drives me crazy, but I still can’t get enough of them.
- As creepy as the idea of internet friends might sound, I have established some very good relationships and connections through the internet.
- When I was younger, I never ever saw myself as a teacher.
- When I was starting out in university I wanted to be a writer, or a journalist, without ever having written anything.
- My favourite thing about teaching is meeting mew people and hearing their story.
- I really can’t for the life of me comprehend why English is the most important language in the world.
- Racism appalls me.
- Despite any regrets I may hold over decisions I made or failed to make, I couldn’t be happier with my life right now. A lot of this has to do with Herself and +1.
- I miss Korea a lot.
- Dublin is a city I never knew until now.
- I find idealism and negativity serious turn offs.
- With the right attitude a lot in life can be achieved.
- Setting myself realisable goals has made me so much more productive.
- For someone as disorganised and messy as me my obsession with order and aesthetic is a serious eyebrow raiser.
- The first poem I had published was in Wordlegs, and I wrote it while on our honeymoon in Turkey.
- I got paid for a poem I had published in Southword and I still have to cash the cheque. I might never actually do this.
- I promised Herself I’d win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- I really want to be recognised for who I am and what I’ve done. The answer to this, I know, is “well then, do more, and do it better”.
- I used to play and take an interest in a lot of sport, but now I have little to no interest.
- I bit my nails, often down to the nub.
- I am often dishonest with people close to me, but quite up front to strangers.
- There is no greater feeling than getting a big, meaningful hung from my wife and daughter.
- I’m quite lazy and forgetful and this is the one single characteristic I would change about myself.
- I can’t understand the people who spell my first name wrong, even though it is spelled correctly right in front of them – like in an email or on Facebook or whatever.
- My number one priority, despite everything I’ve said here, is providing unconditionally for my family.
This was a pretty difficult list to come up with, but despite the challenge I found it quite therapuetic as it gave me a chance to understand myself a little better – or at least to put my understanding of myself onto paper.
I should add that I got this idea from the Irish Blogger’s Facebook Group, and specifically from the blog A Modnern Mommy’s World, a blog I probably never would have found myself wandering on to, but such is the beauty of such blogger groups on the Buke of Faces. If you’re a blogger from Ireland I’d recommend joining this group.
So, now it’s your turn. What are your fifty things?
51. You are self absorbed and narcissistic
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That would true.
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