{"id":3256,"date":"2007-12-18T12:38:46","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T12:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/12\/7-things-you-probably-didnt-need-to-know-about-me\/"},"modified":"2007-12-18T12:38:46","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T12:38:46","slug":"7-things-you-probably-didnt-need-to-know-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/12\/7-things-you-probably-didnt-need-to-know-about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"7 things you probably didn’t need to know about me"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I’m going through a memetic phase, Julia tagged me<\/a> with a 7 things meme last week (Update<\/b>: through the magic of post scheduling, Bob also tagged me<\/a> after I wrote this but before it appeared) . Here goes:
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  1. Despite being a fan of hills and mountains, I always manage to end up living in places which can only be describe as ‘topographically challenged’:East Anglia, Southampton, and now Johannesburg, which is parked smack in the middle of the Highveld (although admittedly, having to drive down<\/em>hill to get to the mountains is a bit of a novelty).<\/LI>
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  2. I did at one stage flirt with the idea at taking A-levels in English, History, Latin and Greek rather than Sciences and Maths – partly encouraged by teachers who were seemingly horrified by the idea that I might become a scientist out of choice rather than necessity (i.e. you were no good at humanities). Needless to say, I have no regrets, but I do sometimes wonder where that path would have taken me.<\/LI>
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  3. Despite having held a UK driver’s license for 12 years, I have done far more driving in New Zealand and now South Africa than I have in the mother country.<\/LI>
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  4. My family has provided me with a lovely control experiment in the (non-)efficacy of astrology: my birthday is the day after my older brother’s. I love science, he hates it. I’m pretty indifferent to religion, he’s ordained in the church of England. I love travelling, he’s left the UK once on a day-trip to Belgium. He considers reading thrillers by John Grisham relaxation, I consider it to be torture. Case closed.<\/LI>
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  5. I can speak French and Spanish, but I wouldn’t claim great conversational powers in either, especially since I have a habit of mixing the two together into a strange hybrid. Last time I was in France, I was asked a couple of times if I was from Spain – given my complexion, quite an achievment in mistaken identity.<\/LI>
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  6. I have had the questionable honour of appearing in The Sun<\/i>. On page 5, to be precise.<\/LI>
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  7. Cumulative equipment losses on geology field trips: 1 Mahindra, 1 hammer, 2 compass-clinometers, too many pens and pencils to count.<\/LI>
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    \nI now tag     sciencewoman<\/a>, Alessia<\/a>, Kim<\/a>, Brian<\/a>, John<\/a>, Katie<\/a>, and Saxifraga<\/a>. Any readers wanting to divest of dark secrets may also do so below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    As I’m going through a memetic phase, Julia tagged me with a 7 things meme last week (Update: through the magic of post scheduling, Bob also tagged me after I wrote this but before it appeared) . Here goes: Despite … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}